Genesis

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1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening and there was morning, a first day.

6And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7And God made the expanse and divided the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8And God called the expanse "heaven." And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. 10And God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of the waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind, in which is their seed, on the earth." And it was so. 12And the earth produced vegetation: plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. 15And let them be for lights in the expanse of heaven to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars also. 17And God set them in the expanse of heaven to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the expanse of heaven." 21And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, livestock, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kind." And it was so. 25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

28And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 29And God said, "Behold, I have given you* every plant yielding seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; to you* it will be for food. 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, [I have given] every green plant for food." And it was so. 31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host. 2And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had made. 3And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work that God had created and made.

4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

5And no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to work the ground; 6but a stream*or, "spring" would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground. 7And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. 8And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided, and became four headstreams*literally, "heads". 11The name of the first is Pishon: it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13And the name of the second river is Gihon: it is the one that winds through the whole land of Cush. 14And the name of the third river is the Tigris: it is the one that goes east of Assyria*or, "the city Asshur". And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it. 16And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

18And Jehovah God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." 19And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20And the man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam no helper suitable for him was found. 21And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs*or, "sides" and closed up the flesh in its place. 22And the rib*or, "side", which Jehovah God had taken from the man, he made*literally, "built" into a woman, and brought her to the man.

24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will hold fast to his wife; and they will become one flesh. 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You* shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?" 2And the woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, 3but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You* shall not eat of it, nor shall you* touch it, or you* will die.'" 4And the serpent said to the woman, "You* will not surely die, 5for God knows that in the day you* eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you* will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves loincloths. 8And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden.

9And Jehovah God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" 10And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." 11And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you not to eat?" 12And the man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." 13And Jehovah God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

20And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. 21And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife tunics of skins and clothed them.

22And Jehovah God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, in knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—" 23therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken. 24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flame of a sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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1And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain and said, "I have gotten a man with [the help of] Jehovah." 2And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a worker of the ground. 3And in the course of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah. 4And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And Jehovah had regard for Abel and for his offering, 5but for Cain and for his offering he had no regard. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6And Jehovah said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7If you do well, will it not be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire will be for you, but you must rule over it." 8And Cain spoke to Abel his brother.*Samaritan Pentateuch, LXX, and Vulgate add, "Let us go out to the field." And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.

9And Jehovah said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?" 10And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. 11And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand; 12when you work the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer you shall be on the earth." 13And Cain said to Jehovah, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground, and from your face I will be hidden. And I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and it will come to pass that whoever finds me will kill me." 15And Jehovah said to him, "Therefore*LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read "Not so" whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain so that no one who found him would strike him. 16And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

17And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. 18And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. 19And Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents and [have] livestock. 21And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all who play the harp and pipe. 22And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every instrument of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for [she said], "God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, for Cain killed him." 26And to Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of Jehovah.

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1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God he made him; 2male and female he created them, and blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day when they were created. 3And Adam lived 130 years and fathered [a son] in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth. 4And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 5And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

6And Seth lived 105 years and fathered Enosh. 7And Seth lived 807 years after he fathered Enosh, and fathered sons and daughters. 8And all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

9And Enosh lived 90 years and fathered Kenan. 10And Enosh lived 815 years after he fathered Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. 11And all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

12And Kenan lived 70 years and fathered Mahalalel. 13And Kenan lived 840 years after he fathered Mahalalel, and fathered sons and daughters. 14And all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.

15And Mahalalel lived 65 years and fathered Jared. 16And Mahalalel lived 830 years after he fathered Jared, and fathered sons and daughters. 17And all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.

18And Jared lived 162 years and fathered Enoch. 19And Jared lived 800 years after he fathered Enoch, and fathered sons and daughters. 20And all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

21And Enoch lived 65 years and fathered Methuselah. 22And Enoch walked with God for 300 years after he fathered Methuselah, and fathered sons and daughters. 23And all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

25And Methuselah lived 187 years and fathered Lamech. 26And Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and fathered sons and daughters. 27And all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

28And Lamech lived 182 years and fathered a son. 29And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us relief from our work and from the pain of our hands, [which comes] because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed." 30And Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and fathered sons and daughters. 31And all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

32And Noah was 500 years old, and Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves from any they chose. 3And Jehovah said, "My spirit shall not strive*or, "abide" with man forever, for he indeed is flesh; yet his days shall be 120 years." 4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And Jehovah regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was grieved to his heart. 7And Jehovah said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground—man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens—for I regret that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, [and] blameless in his generations; Noah walked with God. 10And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. 15And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16You shall make a window*literally, "a light"; or, "a roof" for the ark, and to a cubit you shall finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in its side. With lower, second, and third decks you shall make it. 17And I, behold, I am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth will die. 18But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they will be male and female. 20Of the birds according to their kind, and of the livestock according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive. 21And as for you, take of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

22Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

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1And Jehovah said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your house, for I have seen you righteous before me in this generation. 2Of every clean animal you shall take seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, the male and his female; 3of the birds of the heavens also, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth. 4For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." 5And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.

6And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was on the earth. 7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9two and two, male and female, went in to Noah into the ark, as God commanded Noah. 10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

11In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13On the very same day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark; 14they, and every beast according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every winged creature. 15And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16And those who went in, male and female of all flesh, went in as God commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

17And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the face of the waters. 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered. 20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. 21And all flesh died that moved on the earth—birds, and livestock, and beasts, and every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, and every man: 22all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 23And he blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground: man, and livestock, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens. And they were blotted out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

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1And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided; 2the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3and the waters returned from the earth continually, and after the end of 150 days the waters decreased. 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made. 7And he sent out a raven, and it went out to and fro, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8And he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the face of the ground; 9but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he stretched out his hand, and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark. 10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark; 11and the dove came in to him at evening, and behold, in her mouth [was] a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. 12And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.

13And it came to pass in the 601st year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried out.

15And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16"Go out of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh: birds, and livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." 18And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

20And Noah built an altar to Jehovah, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And Jehovah smelled the soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living thing, as I have done.

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1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2And the fear of you* and the dread of you* will be on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens; with all that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, they are delivered into your hand. 3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you*; as the green plant I have given you* all. 4But flesh with its life, [which is] its blood, you* shall not eat. 5And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require; at the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

7And you*, be fruitful and multiply; swarm on the earth, and multiply in it."

8And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9"And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you*, and with your seed after you*; 10and with every living creature that is with you*, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you*, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. 11And I will establish my covenant with you*: all flesh will never again be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." 12And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you* and every living creature that is with you*, for perpetual generations: 13I have set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14And it will come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 15and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you* and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters will no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16And the bow will be in the cloud; and I will look on it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." 17And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

18And the sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was scattered.

20And Noah began to be a man of the ground and planted a vineyard. 21And he drank of the wine, and became drunk. And he uncovered himself within his tent. 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

28And Noah lived after the flood 350 years. 29And all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

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1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5Of these the coastlands of the nations were divided in their lands, each one according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.

6And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 8And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah." 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11Out of that land he went out into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, 12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is, the great city). 13And Mizraim fathered Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom the Philistines went out), and Caphtorim.

15And Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 17and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. 19And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha. 20These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

21And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born to him also. 22The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. 23And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24And Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan. 26And Joktan fathered Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations.

32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and of these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

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1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar. 4And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven, and let us make ourselves a name so we are not scattered on the face of the whole earth." 5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men had built. 6And Jehovah said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they plan to do. 7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8So Jehovah scattered them from there on the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9Therefore its name was called Babel, because Jehovah there confounded the language of all the earth. And from there Jehovah scattered them on the face of all the earth.

10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and fathered sons and daughters.

12And Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah. 13And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and fathered sons and daughters.

14And Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber. 15And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and fathered sons and daughters.

16And Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg. 17And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and fathered sons and daughters.

18And Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu. 19And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and fathered sons and daughters.

20And Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug. 21And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and fathered sons and daughters.

22And Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor. 23And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and fathered sons and daughters.

24And Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah. 25And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and fathered sons and daughters.

26And Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. 28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30And Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran, and dwelt there. 32And the days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

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1Now Jehovah said to Abram, "Go out from your country, and from your relatives and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you will be a blessing; 3and I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

4So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. 6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, "To your seed I will give this land." And there he built an altar to Jehovah, who appeared to him. 8And he moved on from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah. 9And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the Negeb.

10And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman. 12And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13Please say that you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you." 14And it came to pass that, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15And Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16And he dealt well with Abram for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and maidservants, and female donkeys, and camels. 17And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18And Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore here is your wife, take her, and go your way." 20And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they sent him on his way, and his wife, and all that he had.

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1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. 2And Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 3And he went on his journeys from the Negeb to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 4to the place of the altar, which he had previously made there; and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

5And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together. 7And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock, and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8And Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. 9Is not the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If [you will take] the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if [you take] the right hand, then I will go to the left." 10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that all the Plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. 11So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated themselves the one from the other. 12Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Jehovah.

14And Jehovah said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15for all the land which you see, to you I will give it, and to your seed forever. 16And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may your seed also be numbered. 17Arise, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for to you I will give it." 18And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar to Jehovah.

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1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). 3All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). 4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer, and the kings who were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 7And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar. 8And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the Valley of Siddim; 9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five. 10Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain. 11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way. 12And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

13And there came one who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were in a covenant with Abram. 14And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318, and pursued as far as Dan. 15And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is north of Damascus. 16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he came back from striking down Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). 18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine, and he was priest of God Most High. 19And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. 20And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tenth of all. 21And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself." 22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 23that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so you will not say, 'I have made Abram rich.' 24Save only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."

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1After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram: I am your shield, [and] your exceedingly great reward." 2And Abram said, "O Lord Jehovah, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3And Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed. And behold, one born in my house is my heir." 4And behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own inward parts will be your heir." 5And he brought him forth abroad and said, "Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." And he said to him, "So will your seed be." 6And he believed in Jehovah, and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

7And he said to him, "I am Jehovah who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it." 8And he said, "O Lord Jehovah, how will I know that I will inherit it?" 9And he said to him, "Take me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 10And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not divide. 11And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and behold, a horror of great darkness fell on him. 13And he said to Abram, "Know for certain that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them; and they will afflict them four hundred years; 14and also that nation, whom they will serve, I will judge; and afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15But you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16And in the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." 17And it came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, [there was] a smoking furnace and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite."

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1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, Jehovah has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid; it may be that I will obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5And Sarai said to Abram, "My wrong be on you: I gave my handmaid into your bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and you." 6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes." And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

7And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, from where did you come? And where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai." 9And the angel of Jehovah said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands." 10And the angel of Jehovah said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that it will not be numbered for multitude." 11And the angel of Jehovah said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has heard your affliction. 12And he will be [as] a wild donkey among men; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he will dwell over against all his brothers." 13And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even here looked after him who sees me?" 14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

15And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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1And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. 2And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly." 3And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying, 4"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for the father of a multitude of nations I have made you. 6And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come out of you. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

9And God said to Abraham, "And as for you, you shall keep my covenant, you, and your seed after you throughout their generations. 10This is my covenant, which you* will keep, between me and you* and your seed after you: every male among you* will be circumcised. 11And you* will be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and you*. 12And he who is eight days old will be circumcised among you*, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of your seed. 13He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and my covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."

15And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah will her name be. 16And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son of her: yes, I will bless her, and she will be [a mother of] nations; kings of peoples will be of her." 17Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? And will Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?" 18And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" 19And God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son; and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. 20And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; he will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. 21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."

22And he stopped talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the very same day, as God had said to him. 24And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26On the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

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1And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood facing him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself to the earth 3and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass away from your servant. 4Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 5And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen your heart; afterward you* will pass on: since you* have come to your servant." And they said, "So do, as you have said." 6And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make cakes." 7And Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it to the servant; and he hastened to dress it. 8And he took curds, and milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

9And they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "Behold, in the tent." 10And he said, "I will certainly return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 13And Jehovah said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I indeed bear a child, who am old?' 14Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son." 15Then Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. And he said, "No; but you laughed."

16And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on their way. 17And Jehovah said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do; 18since Abraham had surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? 19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring on Abraham what he has spoken of him." 20And Jehovah said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to its cry, which has come to me; and if not, I will know."

22And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah. 23And Abraham drew near and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? 24Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it? 25That be far from you to do after this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be like the wicked; that be far from you. Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?" 26And Jehovah said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." 27And Abraham answered and said, "Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. 28Suppose there will lack five of the fifty righteous; will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five." 29And he spoke to him yet again and said, "Suppose there will be forty found there." And he said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake." 30And he said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak: suppose there will thirty be found there." And he said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there." 31And he said, "Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to the Lord: suppose there will be twenty found there." And he said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake." 32And he said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: suppose ten will be found there." And he said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake." 33And Jehovah went his way, as soon as he had stopped speaking with Abraham. And Abraham returned to his place.

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1And the two angels came to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 2And he said, "Behold now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and remain all night, and wash your feet, and you* will rise up early, and go on your way." And they said, "No; but we will abide in the street all night." 3And he urged them greatly, and they turned aside to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; 5and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them." 6And Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. 7And he said, "Please, my brothers, do not so wickedly. 8Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; please let me bring them out to you*, and do* to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men do nothing, since they have come under the shadow of my roof." 9And they said, "Stand back." And they said, "This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he acts like a judge. Now we will deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door." 10But the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11And they struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12And the men said to Lot, "Have you here any besides? Son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place, 13for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has grown great before Jehovah; and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it." 14And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, who married his daughters and said, "Up, get out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons in law as one who mocked. 15And when the morning arose, the angels hastened Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters that are here, so you are not consumed in the iniquity of the city." 16But he lingered. And the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city. 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, "Escape for your life; do not look behind you or stay in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, so you are not consumed." 18And Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord! 19Behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, or evil will overtake me, and I will die. 20Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my soul will live." 21And he said to him, "See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you be come there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24Then Jehovah rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah. 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt on the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. 32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." 33And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34And it came to pass the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." 35And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

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1And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negeb, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar. 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, "Behold, you are but a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife." 4Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? 5Did he not say himself to me, 'She is my sister'? And she, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this." 6And God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you has done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. 7Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. And if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours."

8And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. And the men were very afraid. 9Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And in what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that should not be done." 10And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?" 11And Abraham said, "Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place. And they will kill me for my wife's sake. 12And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. At every place where we will come, say of me, "He is my brother."'" 14And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and menservants and women servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. 15And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you." 16And to Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. And in respect of all you are righted." 17And Abraham prayed to God. And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants. And they bore children. 18For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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1And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5And Abraham was one hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him. 6And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." 7And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah should nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

8And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." 11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. 12And God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac will your seed be called. 13And also of the son of the handmaid I will make a nation, because he is your seed." 14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and [gave her] the child and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16And she went, and sat her down facing him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot. For she said, "Do not let me look on the death of the child." And she sat facing him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 17And God heard the voice of the boy. And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18Arise, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation." 19And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy a drink. 20And God was with the boy, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. 21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do. 23Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, or with my son, or with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned." 24And Abraham said, "I will swear." 25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26And Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, but today." 27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. And they two made a covenant. 28And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What mean these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?" 30And he said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs of my hand, that it may be a witness to me that I have dug this well." 31Therefore he called that place Beersheba. Because there they both swore. 32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 33And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. 34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

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1And it came to pass after these things, that God proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, "Here am I." 2And he said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of." 3And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him. 4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5And Abraham said to his young men, "Abide you* here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go over there; and we will worship, and come again to you*." 6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And they went both of them together. 7And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father". And he said, "Here am I, my son." And he said," Behold, the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8And Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.

9And they came to the place that God had told him of. And Abraham built the altar there, and arranged the wood, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. 10And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. 11And the angel of Jehovah called to him out of heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham." And he said, "Here I am." 12And he said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." 13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind [him was] a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh. As it is said to this day, "On the mountain of Jehovah it will be provided." 15And the angel of Jehovah called to Abraham a second time out of heaven 16and said, "By myself I have sworn," declares Jehovah, "because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 18And in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because you have obeyed my voice." 19So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

20And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor. 21Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram. 22And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 23And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

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1And the life of Sarah was 127 years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. 2And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 4"I am a foreigner and a sojourner with you*. Give me a possession of a burying place with you*, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." 5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 6"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our graves bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his grave for burying your dead." 7And Abraham rose up and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 8And he spoke with them, saying, "If it is your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 9that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your midst as a possession for a burying place." 10Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and the cave that is in it, I give it to you. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." 12And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. 13And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it of me, and I will bury my dead there." 14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15"My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? Bury therefore your dead." 16And Abraham listened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.

17So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were within the border around it, were made sure 18to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 20And the field, and the cave that is in it, were made sure to Abraham as a possession for a burying place by the children of Heth.

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1And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age. And Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. 2And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh. 3And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." 5And the servant said to him, "Suppose the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring your son again to the land from which you came?" 6And Abraham said to him, "Beware you that you do not bring my son there again. 7Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'To your seed I will give this land. He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.' 8And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again." 9And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

10And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all sorts of good things from his master in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. 11And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. 12And he said, "O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, please send me good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. 13Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 14And let it come to pass that the damsel to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink.' And she will say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' Let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. 16And the damsel was very beautiful, a virgin, neither had any man known her. And she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17And the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink." 18And she said, "Drink, my lord." And she hastened, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink. 19And when she had done giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw for your camels also, until they have done drinking." 20And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 21And the man looked steadfastly on her, being silent, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not. 22And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, 23and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?" 24And she said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." 25She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and fodder enough, and room to lodge in." 26And the man bowed his head and worshipped Jehovah. 27And he said, "Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Jehovah has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers."

28And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. 29And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain. 30And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "Thus spoke the man to me." That he came to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain. 31And he said, "Come in, you blessed of Jehovah. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." 32And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels. And he gave straw and fodder for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. 33And food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat, until I have told my errand." And he said, "Speak on." 34And he said, "I am Abraham's servant. 35And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly. And he has become great. And he has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and menservants and maidservants, and camels and donkeys. 36And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And he has given to him all that he has. 37And my master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. 38But you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.' 39And I said to my master, 'Suppose the woman will not follow me.' 40And he said to me, 'Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. And you shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house. 41Then you shall be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. And if they do not give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.' 42And I came this day to the fountain and said, 'O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if now you prosper my way which I go. 43Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And let it come to pass that the maiden that comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink." 44And she will say to me, "Both drink you, and I will also draw for your camels." Let her be the woman whom Jehovah has appointed for my master's son.' 45And before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain, and drew. And I said to her, 'Please, let me drink.' 46And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' So I drank, and she watered the camels also. 47And I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' And I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. 48And I bowed my head, and worshipped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. 49And now if you* will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."

50Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing proceeds from Jehovah. We cannot speak to you bad or good. 51Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Jehovah has spoken." 52And it came to pass that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Jehovah. 53And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother precious things. 54And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master." 55And her brother and her mother said, "Let the damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten. Afterward she will go." 56And he said to them, "Do not hinder me, since Jehovah has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." 57And they said, "We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth." 58And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go." 59And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. 60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, be [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."

61And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi. For he dwelt in the land of the Negeb. 63And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming. 64And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. 65And she said to the servant, "What man is this that walks in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "It is my master." And she took her veil and covered herself. 66And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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1And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 2And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3And Jokshan fathered Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 4And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. 6But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country. 7And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, 175 years. 8And Abraham breathed his last, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years], and was gathered to his people. 9And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre. 10The field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife. 11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

12Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. 13And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments. Twelve princes according to their nations. 17And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years. And he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people. 18And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He abode over against all his brothers.

19And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham fathered Isaac. 20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. 21And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22And the children struggled together within her. And she said, "If it is so, why do I live?" And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

24And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment. And they called his name Esau. 26And afterward his brother came forth, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. And his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

27And the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. 28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob. 29And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. 30And Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red [pottage]. For I am faint." Therefore his name was called Edom. 31And Jacob said, "Sell me first your birthright." 32And Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. And what profit will the birthright do to me?" 33And Jacob said, "Swear to me first." And he swore to him. And he sold his birthright to Jacob. 34And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

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1And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 2And Jehovah appeared to him and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of. 3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 4And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these lands. And in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed. 5Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." 6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, "She is my sister." For he feared to say, "My wife". "Otherwise," [he said], "the men of the place will kill me for Rebekah." Because she was beautiful. 8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9And Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, indeed she is your wife. And how could you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'I will die because of her.'" 10And Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guiltiness on us." 11And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

12And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him. 13And the man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. 14And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him. 15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 16And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us. For you are much mightier than we." 17And Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. 21And they dug another well, and they strove for that also. And he called it Sitnah. 22And he moved on from there, and dug another well. And for that they did not strive. And he called it Rehoboth. And he said, "For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

23And he went up from there to Beersheba. 24And Jehovah appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake." 25And he built an altar there, and called on the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. 27And Isaac said to them, "Why are you* come to me, since you* hate me, and have sent me away from you*?" 28And they said, "We saw plainly that Jehovah was with you. And we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of Jehovah.'" 30And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31And they rose up early in the morning, and swore to one another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had dug and said to him, "We have found water." 33And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

34And when Esau was forty years old he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite as a wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.

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1And it came to pass that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son and said to him, "My son". And he said to him, "Here am I." 2And he said, "Behold now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death. 3Now therefore please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. 4And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat. That my soul may bless you before I die."

5And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Jehovah before my death.' 8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you. 9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. 10And you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death." 11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12My father perhaps will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver. And I will bring a curse on me, and not a blessing." 13And his mother said to him, "On me be your curse, my son. Only obey my voice, and go fetch me them." 14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 15And Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. 17And she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18And he came to his father and said, "My father". And he said, "Here am I. Who are you, my son?" 19And Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done according as you told me: please arise sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me." 20And Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Jehovah your God sent me good speed." 21And Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near that I may feel you, my son, whether you be my very son Esau or not." 22And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." 23And he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him. 24And he said, "Are you my very son Esau?" And he said, "I am." 25And he said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine, and he drank. 26And his father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

30And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31And he also made savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me." 32And Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." 33And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, "Who then is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, [and] he will be blessed." 34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father." 35And he said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing." 36And he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. And behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" 37And Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. And with grain and new wine I have sustained him. And what then will I do for you, my son?" 38And Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." 42And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau, concerning you, comforts himself, [purposing] to kill you. 43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. And arise, flee you to Laban my brother to Haran. 44And remain with him a few days, until your brother's fury turn away. 45Until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forget what you have done to him. Then I will send, and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you* both in one day?"

46And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

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1And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said to him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. 3And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples. 4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you. That you may inherit the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham." 5And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take a wife for himself from there. And that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan." 7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Paddan-aram. 8And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father. 9And Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

10And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11And he lighted on a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13And behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, "I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you I will give it, and to your seed. 14And your seed will be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed. 15And behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done what I have spoken to you of." 16And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Jehovah is in this place. And I did not know it." 17And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. 19And he called the name of that place Bethel. But the name of the city was previously Luz. 20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and garments to put on, 21so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Jehovah will be my God, 22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. And of all that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

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1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. 2And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone on the well's mouth was great. 3And there were all the flocks gathered. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place. 4And Jacob said to them, "My brothers, from where are you*?" And they said, "We are of Haran." 5And he said to them, "Do you* know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him." 6And he said to them, "Is it well with him?" And they said, "It is well. And behold, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep." 7And he said, "Behold, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the livestock should be gathered. Water you* the sheep, and go and feed them." 8And they said, "We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep." 9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep. For she kept them. 10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.

13And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. 14And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he abode with him for a month. 15And Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" 16And Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17And Leah's eyes were tender. But Rachel was beautiful and well favored. 18And Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter." 19And Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me." 20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

21And Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." 22And Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast. 23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. And he went in to her. 24And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 25And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" 26And Laban said, "It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years." 28And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter as a wife. 29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid. 30And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

31And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren. 32And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, "Because Jehovah has looked on my affliction. For now my husband will love me." 33And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this [son] also." And she called his name Simeon. 34And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi. 35And she conceived againa and bore a son, and she said, "This time I will praise Jehovah." Therefore she called his name Judah. And she stopped bearing.

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1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die." 2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, "Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" 3And she said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." 4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 6And Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan. 7And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8And Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." And she called his name Naphtali.

9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, "Fortunate!" And she called his name Gad. 12And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the daughters will call me happy." And she called his name Asher.

14And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me of your son's mandrakes." 15And she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? And would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" And Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you to night for your son's mandrakes." 16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with her that night. 17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18And Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." And she called his name Issachar. 19And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob. 20And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun. 21And afterwards she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah. 22And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach." 24And she called his name Joseph, saying, "Jehovah add to me another son."

25And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. 26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you." 27And Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, [remain]; [for] I have divined that Jehovah has blessed me for your sake." 28And he said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it." 29And he said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. 30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude; and Jehovah has blessed you wherever I turned. And now when will I provide for my own house also?" 31And he said, "What will I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. 32I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [of such] will be my wages. 33So will my righteousness answer for me later, when you shall come concerning my wages that is before you: each one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that [if found] with me, will be counted stolen." 34And Laban said, "Behold, I would it might be according to your word." 35And he removed that day the male goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, each one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons; 36and he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

37And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane tree. And peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear that was in the rods. 38And he set the rods that he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink. 39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted. 40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them to Laban's flock. 41And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; 42but when the flock were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 43And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

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1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; and he has gotten all this glory from what was our father's." 2And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as previously. 3And Jehovah said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives; and I will be with you." 4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock 5and said to them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as previously; but the God of my father has been with me. 6And you* know that with all my power I have served your father. 7And your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me. 8If he said thus, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus, 'The ringstreaked will be your wages,' then bore all the flock ringstreaked. 9Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father, and given them to me. 10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats that leaped on the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and dappled. 11And the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here am I.' 12And he said, 'Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the male goats that leap on the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and dappled; for I have seen all that Laban does to you. 13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'" 14And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money. 16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels; 18and he carried away all his livestock and all his possessions that he had gathered, the livestock of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan. 19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. 20And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled. 21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

22And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. 23And he took his brothers with him and pursued after him seven days' journey, and he overtook him on the mountain of Gilead. 24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you say nothing to Jacob either good or bad." 25And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain, and Laban with his brothers encamped on the mountain of Gilead. 26And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have stolen away without me knowing it, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword? 27Why did you flee secretly, and steal away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp; 28and did not let me kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. 29It is in the power of my hand to do you* hurt; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you say nothing to Jacob either good or bad.' 30And now, [though] you want to be gone, because you longed greatly after your father's house, [yet] why have you stolen my gods?" 31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid; for I said, 'Otherwise, you would take your daughters from me by force.' 32With whomever you find your gods, he will not live: before our brothers discern you what is yours with me, and take it to you." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. 34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before you, for the manner of women is on me." And he searched, but did not find the teraphim.

36And Jacob was angry and chode with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me? 37Whereas you have felt about all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us two. 38These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flocks I have not eaten. 39What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock; and you have changed my wages ten times. 42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? 44And now come, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness between me and you." 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his brothers, "Gather stones"; and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap. 47And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 48And Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was called Galeed. 49And Mizpah, for he said, "Jehovah watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50If you shall afflict my daughters and if you shall take wives besides my daughters, [although] no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and you." 51And Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread; and they ate bread, and stayed all night on the mountain. 55And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

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1And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2And Jacob said when he saw them, "This is God's camp." And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 4And he commanded them, saying, "Thus will you* say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now. 5And I have oxen, and donkeys, [and] flocks, and menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight."'" 6And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and moreover he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him." 7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; 8and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company that is left will escape." 9And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.' 10I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant, for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. 11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he may come and strike me, the mother with the children. 12And you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"

13And he lodged there that night, and took of what he had with him a present for Esau his brother: 14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 16And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove." 17And he commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you*, and asks you*, saying, 'Whose are you*? And where are you* going? And whose are these before you*?' 18then you shall say '[They are] your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.'" 19And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, "On this manner will you* speak to Esau, when you* find him; 20and you* will say, 'Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me." 21So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the company.

22And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. 23And he took them and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had. 24And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. 26And he said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." And he said, "I will not let you go, except you bless me." 27And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." 28And he said, "Your name will be no longer called Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed." 29And Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why is it that you ask after my name?" And he blessed him there. 30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, [he said], "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." 31And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped on his thigh. 32Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip that is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

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1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two handmaids. 2And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3And he himself passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. 5And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." 6Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7And Leah and her children also came near, and bowed themselves; and afterward Joseph near and Rachel came, and they bowed themselves. 8And he said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" And he said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord." 9And Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let what you have be yours." 10And Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand; since I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 11Please take my gift that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." And he urged him, and he took it. 12And he said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you." 13And he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14Please, let my lord pass over before his servant; and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir." 15And Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me." And he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord." 16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and encamped before the city. 19And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money. 20And he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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1And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. 3And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel. 4And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this damsel as a wife." 5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his livestock in the field. And Jacob was silent until they came. 6And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. 7And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter, which should not be done. 8And Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter: please give her to him as a wife. 9And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you*. 10And you* will dwell with us, and the land will be before you*; dwell and trade in it, and get possessions in it." 11And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and what you* will say to me I will give. 12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as you* will say to me; but give me the damsel as a wife." 13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. 14And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that were a reproach to us. 15Only on this condition will we consent to you*: if you* will be as we are, that every male of you* be circumcised; 16then we will give our daughters to you*, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you*, and we will become one people. 17But if you* will not listen to us, to be circumcised; then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."

18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. 19And the young man did not defer to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter; and he was the most honored of all the house of his father. 20And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying, 21"These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23Will not their livestock and their possessions and all their beasts be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us." 24And to Hamor and to Shechem his son listened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 25And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came on the city unexpectedly, and killed all the males. 26And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 27The sons of Jacob came on the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and what was in the city, and what was in the field; 29and all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, all that was in the house. 30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You* have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and strike me; and I will be destroyed, I and my house." 31And they said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

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1And God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother." 2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you*, and purify yourselves, and change your garments. 3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went." 4And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak that was by Shechem. 5And they journeyed; and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is, Bethel), he and all the people who were with him. 7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bethel*meaning "God of Bethel"; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was called Allon-bacuth.

9And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. 10And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob: your name will not be called any more Jacob, but Israel will be your name." And he called his name Israel. 11And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations will be of you, and kings will descend from you; 12and the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you I will give the land." 13And God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. 14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. 15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.

16And they journeyed from Bethel, and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath. And Rachel began to give birth, and she had hard labor. 17And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you shall have another son." 18And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. 19And Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. It is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. 21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

23The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun; 24the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; 26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram. 27And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28And the days of Isaac were 180 years. 29And Isaac breathed his last, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

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1Now these are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). 2Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 3and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 4And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; 5and Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. 6And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his livestock, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gather in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 7For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their livestock. 8And Esau dwelt on Mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

9And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites on Mount Seir: 10these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. 11And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 12And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. 13And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 14And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife; and she bore to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

15These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 16chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. 17And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 18And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 19These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: these are Edom.

20These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, 21and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 22And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. And Lotan's sister was Timna. 23And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. 24And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father. 25And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. 26And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. 27These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan. 28These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 29These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 30chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

31And these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. 32And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 33And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. 34And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. 35And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith. 36And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. 37And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead. 38And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. 39And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead. And the name of his city was Pau. And his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

40And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 41chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 42chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 43chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

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1And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. 2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and he was a boy with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought their evil report to their father. 3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a tunic of many colors. 4And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. 6And he said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright, and behold, your sheaves gathered around, and bowed down to my sheaf." 8And his brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?" And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his words. 9And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream. And behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me." 10And he told it to his father, and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?" 11And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

12And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 13And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here am I." 14And he said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 15And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, "What do you seek?" 16And he said, "I am seeking my brothers: please tell me where they are feeding [the flock]." 17And the man said, "They have departed from here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

18And they saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. 19And they said to one another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. 20Therefore, come now, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'A wild beast has devoured him,' and we will see what will become of his dreams." 21And Reuben heard it and delivered him out of their hand and said, "Let us not take his life." 22And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him," that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. 23And it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him; 24and they took him, and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

25And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26And Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and do not let our hand be on him, for he is our brother, our flesh." And his brothers listened to him. 28And there passed by Midianites, merchants; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

29And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes. 30And he returned to his brothers and said, "The child is not; and I, where will I go?" 31And they took Joseph's tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood; 32and they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, "This have we found: know now whether it is your son's tunic or not." 33And he knew it and said, "It is my son's tunic: a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces." 34And Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted; and he said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." And his father wept for him. 36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

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1And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he took her, and went in to her. 3And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er. 4And she conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. 5And she yet again bore a son, and called his name Shelah; and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. 6And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 7And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah killed him. 8And Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother." 9And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, so he would not give seed to his brother. 10And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and he killed him also. 11Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter in law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah my son be grown up," for he said, "Otherwise, he will also die, like his brothers." And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

12And in the course of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13And it was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father in law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep." 14And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she was not given to him as a wife. 15When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16And he turned to her by the way and said, "Come, please, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter in law. And she said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" 17And he said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." And she said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?" 18And he said, "What pledge will I give you?" And she said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." And he gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. 19And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 20And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand; but he did not find her. 21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the cult prostitute, that was at Enaim by the wayside?" And they said, "There has been no cult prostitute here." 22And he returned to Judah and said, "I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no cult prostitute here.'" 23And Judah said, "Let her take it to her, so we are not put to shame: behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her."

24And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter in law has played the whore; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution. And Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." 25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, am I with child." And she said, "Please discern whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff." 26And Judah acknowledged them and said, "She is more righteous than I; since I did not give her to Shelah my son." And he knew her again no more. 27And it came to pass in the time of her labor, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 28And it came to pass, when she labored, that one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, "This came out first." 29And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out; and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez. 30And afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand; and his name was called Zerah.

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1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 2And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did prosper in his hand. 4And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered to him; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had, in the house and in the field. 6And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he did not concern himself with anything except the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome, and attractive. 7And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me." 8But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. 9He is not greater in this house than I; nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" 10And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her. 11And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work; and there was none of the men of the house there within. 12And she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and went outside. 13And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and was fled forth, 14that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us: he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. 15And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and went outside." 16And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. 17And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me. 18And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled out."

19And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "After this manner did your servant to me"; that his wrath was kindled. 20And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison. 21But Jehovah was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatever they did there, it was he who did it. 23The keeper of the prison did not look to anything that was under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and what he did, Jehovah made it prosper.

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1And it came to pass after these things, that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. 2And Pharaoh was angry against his two officers, against the chief of the cupbearers, and against the chief of the bakers. 3And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered to them; and they continued a season in prison. 5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. 6And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and behold, they were sad. 7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in prison in his master's house, saying, "Why do you* look so sad today?" 8And they said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

9And the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 10and in the vine were three branches. And it was as though it budded, [and] its blossoms shot forth; [and] its clusters produced ripe grapes. 11And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand." 12And Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days; 13within yet three days will Pharaoh lift up your head, and restore you to your office; and you shall give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when you were his cupbearer. 14But have me in your remembrance when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house, 15for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. 17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head." 18And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days; 19within yet three days will Pharaoh lift up your head from you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh off you." 20And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand, 22but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. 23Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

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1And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. And behold, he stood by the river. 2And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, attractive and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed grass. 3And behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ugly and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cows on the brink of the river. 4And the ugly and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven attractive and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke. 5And he slept and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain came up on one stalk, rank and good. 6And behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 7And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. 8And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.

9Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults this day: 10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. 11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 12And a young man was with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he interpreted. 13And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored to my office, and him he hanged."

14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and he shaved himself, and changed his garments, and came in to Pharaoh. 15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." 16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river. 18And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and attractive; and they fed in the reed grass. 19And behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. 20And the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows. 21And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke. 22And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good. 23And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 24And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears, and I told it to the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me."

25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. 26The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 27And the seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. 28That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh. 29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. 30And there will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. And the famine will consume the land; 31and the plenty will not be known in the land because of that famine that follows, for it will be very grievous. 32And as for the dream being doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 33Now therefore let Pharaoh seek out a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36And the food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land will not perish through the famine."

37And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?" 39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all of this, there is none so discerning and wise as you. 40You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled: I will only be greater than you in the throne." 41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." 42And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43and he made him ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, "Bow the knee." And he set him over all the land of Egypt. 44And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you will no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." 45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

46And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47And in the seven plenteous years the earth yielded by handfuls. 48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. In each city he laid up the food from the fields around it. 49And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped numbering, for it was without number. 50And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. 51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: "For, [he said], God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house." 52And the name of the second he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." 53And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. 54And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you*, do." 56And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

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1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you* look at one another?" 2And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there, and buy for us from there, that we may live, and not die." 3And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. 4But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he said, "Or harm may befall him." 5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6And Joseph was the governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth. 7And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said to them. "From where do you* come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." 8And Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him. 9And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them and said to them, "You* are spies; to see the nakedness of the land you* have come." 10And they said to him, "No, my lord, but to buy food are your servants come. 11We are all one man's sons; we are true men, your servants are no spies." 12And he said to them, "No, but to see the nakedness of the land you* have come." 13And they said, "We your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not." 14And Joseph said to them, "That is it that I spoke to you*, saying, 'You* are spies.' 15By this you* will be proved: by the life of Pharaoh you* will not depart from here, except your youngest brother come here. 16Send one of you*, and let him fetch your brother, and you* will be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you*: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you* are spies." 17And he put them all together into prison three days.

18And Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God. 19If you* are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison house; but go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. 20And bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you* will not die." And they did so. 21And they said to one another, "We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear. Therefore is this distress come on us." 22And Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not speak to you*, saying, 'Do not sin against the child'; and you* would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." 23And they did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them. 24And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. 25Then Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way; and so was it done to them.

26And they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed from there. 27And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder in the lodging place, he saw his money; and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 28And he said to his brothers, "My money is restored; and behold, it is even in my sack." And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?" 29And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying, 30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31And we said to him, 'We are true men, and we are no spies. 32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.' 33And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you* are true men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take [grain for] the famine of your houses, and go your way; 34and bring your youngest brother to me: then I will know that you* are no spies, but that you* are true men; so will I deliver you* your brother, and you* will traffic in the land.'"

35And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 36And Jacob their father said to them, "You* have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you* will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." 37And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I do not bring him to you: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again." 38And he said, "My son will not go down with you*, for his brother is dead, and only he is left: if harm befall him by the way in which you* go, then you* will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

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1And the famine was severe in the land. 2And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food." 3And Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You* will not see my face, except your brother be with you*.' 4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food, 5but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You* will not see my face, except your brother be with you*.'" 6And Israel said, "Why did you* deal so ill with me, as to tell the man whether you* had yet a brother?" 7And they said, "The man asked carefully concerning ourselves and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father yet alive? Do you* have [another] brother?' and we told him according to the tenor of these words; could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?" 8And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, we, and you, and also our little ones. 9I will be a pledge for him; of my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever, 10for if we had not lingered, surely we had now returned a second time." 11And their father Israel said to them, "If it is so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, gum and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; 12and take double money in your hand, and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand; perhaps it was an oversight: 13take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man. 14And God Almighty give you* mercy before the man, that he may release to you* your other brother and Benjamin. And if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." 15And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and kill, and make ready, for the men will dine with me at noon." 17And the man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house. 18And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks previously we have been brought in; that he may seek opportunity against us, and fall on us, and take us for bondmen, and our donkeys." 19And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house 20and said, "Oh, my lord, we did indeed come down previously to buy food. 21And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it again in our hand. 22And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food: we do not know who put our money in our sacks." 23And he said, "Peace be to you*, do not be afraid: your God, and the God of your father, has given you* treasure in your sacks: I had your money." And he brought Simeon out to them. 24And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. And he gave their donkeys fodder. 25And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

26And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present that was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth. 27And he asked them of their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you* spoke? Is he yet alive?" 28And they said, "Your servant our father is well, he is yet alive." And they bowed the head, and paid homage. 29And he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you* spoke to me?" And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son." 30And Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned over his brother, and he sought where to weep. And he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 31And he washed his face, and came out; and he restrained himself and said, "Set on bread." 32And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. 33And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled with one another. 34And he took [and sent] portions to them from before him; but Benjamin's portion was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

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1And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money." And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 4[And] when they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you* rewarded evil for good? 5Is not this that in which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You* have done evil in so doing.'" 6And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words. 7And they said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing. 8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan; how then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold? 9With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen." 10And he said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondman; and you* will be blameless." 11Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 12And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and stopped at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.

14And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was yet there. And they fell before him on the ground. 15And Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you* have done? Do you* not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?" 16And Judah said, "What will we say to my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants: behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found." 17And he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondman; but as for you*, go up in peace to your father."

18Then Judah came near to him and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are even as Pharaoh. 19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you* have a father, or a brother?' 20And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.' 21And you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.' 22And we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' 23And you said to your servants, 'Except your youngest brother come down with you*, you* will see my face no more.' 24And it came to pass when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25And our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.' 26And we said, 'We cannot go down: if our youngest brother were with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face, expect our youngest brother be with us.' 27And your servant my father said to us, 'You* know that my wife bore me two sons; 28and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since." 29And if you* take this one also from me, and harm befall him, you* will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' 30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life; 31it will come to pass, when he sees that the boy is not [with us], that he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 32For your servant became a pledge for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.' 33Now therefore, please let your servant, abide instead of the boy a bondman to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that will come on my father."

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1Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood before him; and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me." And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; does my father yet live?" And his brothers could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. 4And Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come near to me." And they came near. And he said, "I am Joseph your brother, whom you* sold into Egypt. 5And now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you* sold me here; for God sent me before you* to preserve life. 6For these two years has the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7And God sent me before you* to preserve you* a remnant on the earth, and to save you* alive by a great deliverance. 8So now it was not you* that sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9Hurry, and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay; 10and you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you, and your children, and your children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have. 11And there I will nourish you, for there are yet five years of famine; so you will not come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."' 12And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you*. 13And you* will tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you* have seen; and you* will hurry and bring down my father here." 14And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept on his neck. 15And he kissed all his brothers, and wept on them; and afterward his brothers talked with him. 16And the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come," and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts, and go, come to the land of Canaan; 18and take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you* the good of the land of Egypt, and you* will eat the fat of the land. 19Now you are commanded, do this: take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20Also do not regard your stuff, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

21And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 22To all of them he gave each man changes of clothes; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothes. 23And to his father he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. 24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed; and he said to them, "See that you* do not quarrel along the way." 25And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father. 26And they told him, saying, "Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them. 27And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. 28And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die."

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1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I." 3And he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of you a great nation. 4I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again. And Joseph will put his hand on your eyes." 5And Jacob rose up from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6And they took their livestock and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

8And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 11And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron. 14And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. 16And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. 18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls. 19The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. 21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 23And the sons of Dan: Hushim. 24And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. 26All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that descended from him, besides Jacob's sons' wives, there were sixty-six souls. 27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.

28And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 30And Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are yet alive." 31And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; 32and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.' 33And it will come to pass, when Pharaoh calls you*, and says, 'What is your occupation?' 34that you* will say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth until now, both we, and our fathers,' that you* may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

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1Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh and said, "My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." 2And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh. 3And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." 4And they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." 5And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you: 6the land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and your brothers dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if you know any able men among them, then make them rulers over my livestock." 7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." 10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

13And there was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted because of the famine. 14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us bread; for why should we die in your presence? For [our] money fails." 16And Joseph said, "Give your livestock; and I will give you* for your livestock, if money fail." 17And they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. 18And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands. 19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land will not be desolate."

20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them; and the land became Pharaoh's. 21And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt to the other. 22Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land. 23Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you* this day and your land for Pharaoh: behold, here is seed for you*, and you* will sow the land. 24And it will come to pass at the harvests, that you* will give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." 25And they said, "You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants." 26And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they acquired possessions in it, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. 29And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: please do not bury me in Egypt; 30but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." And he said, "I will do as you have said." 31And he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.

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1And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And one told Jacob and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you." And Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me 4and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.' 5And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. 6And your offspring, that you father after them, will be yours; they will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 7And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath; and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

8And Israel saw Joseph's sons and said, "Who are these?" 9And Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11And Israel said to Joseph, "I had not thought to see your face. And behold, God has let me see your seed also." 12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him. 14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, 16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." 17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." 19And his father refused and said, "I know [it], my son, I know [it]. He also will become a people, and he also will be great; nevertheless his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations." 20And he blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'" And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I die; but God will be with you*, and bring you* again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover, I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."

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1And Jacob called to his sons and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you* what will befall you* in the latter days.

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke to them and blessed them; each one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29And he charged them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burying place. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah: 32the field and the cave that is in it, which was purchased from the children of Heth." 33And when Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

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1And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of embalming; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I die: in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'" 6And Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, according as he made you swear." 7And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9And both chariots and horsemen went up with him, and it was a very great company. 10And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and bitter lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." Therefore it was called Abel-mizraim*meaning "mourning of Egypt", which is beyond the Jordan. 12And his sons did to him according as he commanded them, 13for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully repay us all the evil which we did to him." 16And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying, 17'So will you* say to Joseph, "Please forgive the transgression of your brothers, and their sin, for they did to you evil."' And now, we pray you, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18And his brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." 19And Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid; for am I in the place of God? 20And as for you*, you* meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to keep many people alive. 21Now therefore do not be afraid: I will nourish you*, and your little ones." And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house. And Joseph lived 110 years. 23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children of Machir the son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees. 24And Joseph said to his brothers, "I die; but God will surely visit you*, and bring you* up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you*, and you* will carry up my bones from here." 26So Joseph died, being 110 years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus

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1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5And all the souls that descended from Jacob were seventy souls. And Joseph was in Egypt already. 6And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7And the children of Israel were fruitful, and swarmed, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10Come, let us deal wisely with them, otherwise they will multiply, and it come to pass that, when there falls out any war, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land." 11Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, which they made them serve with rigor.

15And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah. 16And he said, "When you* do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool. If it is a son, then you* will kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she will live." 17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, "Why have you* done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?" 19And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively, and are delivered before the midwife come to them." 20And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty. 21And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households. 22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "Every son that is born you* will cast into the river, and every daughter you* will save alive."

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1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took a daughter of Levi as a wife. 2And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. 3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with tar and with pitch; and she put the child in it, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walking along by the river side. And she saw the ark among the flags and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6And she opened it and saw the child. And behold, the infant wept. And she had compassion on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." 7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Will I go and call you a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?" 8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go". And the maiden went and called the child's mother. 9And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages." And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he struck the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13And he went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?" 14And he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you think to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses feared and said, "Surely the thing is known." 15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock. 18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, "How is it that you* have come so soon today?" 19And they said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock." 20And he said to his daughters, "And where is he? Why is it that you* have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." 21And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. 22And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."

23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge [of them].

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1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. 2And the angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3And Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." 4And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses". And he said, "Here am I." 5And he said, "Do not draw near here; put off your sandals from your feet, for the place whereon you stand is holy ground." 6Moreover, he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look on God. 7And Jehovah said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows; 8and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me: moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." 11And Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" 12And he said, "Certainly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you* will serve God on this mountain."

13And Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and will say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you*'; and they will say to me, 'What is his name?' What will I say to them?" 14And God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM." And he said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you*." 15And God said moreover to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you*: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.' 16Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, 'Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you*, and [seen] what is done to you* in Egypt. 17And I have said, I will bring you* up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."' 18And they will listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you* will say to him, 'Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.' 19And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you* leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20And I will stretch out my hand, and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst; and afterward he will let you* go. 21And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it will come to pass that, when you* go, you* will not go empty. 22But every woman will ask of her neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and garments; and you* will put them on your sons, and on your daughters. And you* will despoil the Egyptians."

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1And Moses answered and said, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice, for they will say, 'Jehovah has not appeared to you.'" 2And Jehovah said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A rod." 3And he said, "Cast in on the ground." And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4And Jehovah said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail."—and he stretched out his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand— 5"That they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." 6And Jehovah said furthermore to him, "Put now your hand into your bosom." And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as [white as] snow. 7And he said, "Put your hand into your bosom again." (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.) 8"And it will come to pass, if they will not believe you, neither listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9And it will come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land; and the water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

10And Moses said to Jehovah, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before, nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." 11And Jehovah said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes [a man] mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah? 12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak." 13And he said, "Oh, Lord, please send by the hand of him whom you will send." 14And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, "Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he comes forth to meet you; and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15And you shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you* what you* will do. 16And he will be your spokesman to the people; and it will come to pass that he will be a mouth to you, and you shall be to him as God. 17And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs." 18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." 19And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt, for all the men are dead that sought your life." 20And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21And Jehovah said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand; but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. 22And you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says Jehovah, "Israel is my son, my firstborn. 23And I have said to you, 'Let my son go, that he may serve me'; and you have refused to let him go: behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn."'" 24And it came to pass on the way at the lodging place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him. 25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." 26So he let him alone. Then she said, "A bridegroom of blood [are you]," because of the circumcision.

27And Jehovah said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." And he went, and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him. 28And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him. 29And Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel. 30And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31And the people believed; and when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

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1And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast for me in the wilderness.'" 2And Pharaoh said, "Who is Jehovah, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go." 3And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, or he will fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword." 4And the king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you*, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? Go to your burdens." 5And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you* make them rest from their burdens." 6And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7You* will no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8And the number of the bricks, which they made before, you* will lay on them. You* will not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, "Let us go and sacrifice to our God." 9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it; and do not let them regard lying words.

10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I will not give you* straw.' 11Go yourselves, get straw where you* can find it; for nothing of your work will be diminished." 12So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13And the taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw." 14And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why have you* not fulfilled your task both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal thus with your servants? 16There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, 'Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people." 17But he said, "You* are idle, you* are idle. Therefore you* say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.' 18Go therefore now, and work, for there will be no straw given to you*, yet will you* deliver the number of bricks." 19And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, when it was said, "You* will not diminish anything from your bricks, [your] daily tasks." 20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh. 21And they said to them, "Jehovah look on you*, and judge: because you* have made our scent foul in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

22And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, "Lord, why have you dealt ill with this people? Why is it that you have sent me? 23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt ill with this people; neither have you delivered your people at all."

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand will he let them go, and by a strong hand will he drive them out of his land."

2And God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am Jehovah. 3And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. 4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they sojourned. 5And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you* out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you* out of their bondage, and I will redeem you* with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments. 7And I will take you* to me for a people, and I will be a God to you*; and you* will know that I am Jehovah your God, who brings you* out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8And I will bring you* in to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you* for an inheritance: I am Jehovah." 9And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

10And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 11"Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land." 12And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?" 13And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

14These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. 15And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon. 16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were 137 years. 17The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. 18And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were 133 years. 19And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 20And Amram took Jochebed his father's sister as his wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were 137 years. 21And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. 25And Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites according to their families. 26These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts." 27These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

28And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29that Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Jehovah; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you." 30And Moses said before Jehovah, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how will Pharaoh listen to me?"

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. 2You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 3And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4But Pharaoh will not listen to you*, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them." 6And Moses and Aaron did so; as Jehovah commanded them, so they did. 7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 9"When Pharaoh speaks to you*, saying, 'Show a wonder for you*'; then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'" 10And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their enchantments. 12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. 13And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as Jehovah had spoken.

14And Jehovah said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuses to let the people go. 15Go to Pharaoh in the morning; behold, he goes out to the water. And you shall stand by the river's brink to meet him, and you shall take the rod that was turned to a serpent in your hand. 16And you shall say to him, 'Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness." And behold, so far you have not listened. 17Thus says Jehovah, "In this you shall know that I am Jehovah: behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters that are in the river, and they will be turned to blood. 18And the fish that are in the river will die, and the river will become foul; and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river."'" 19And Jehovah said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

20And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded. And he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants, and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. 21And the fish that were in the river died, and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. And the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 22And the magicians of Egypt did likewise with their enchantments. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken. 23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. 24And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river. 25And seven days were fulfilled, after Jehovah had struck the river.

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Jehovah, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will afflict all your borders with frogs. 3And the river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs. 4And the frogs will come up on you*, and on your people, and on all your servants."'" 5And Jehovah said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'" 6And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 7And the magicians did likewise with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

8Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Entreat Jehovah, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Jehovah." 9And Moses said to Pharaoh, "Have you this glory over me: against what time I will entreat for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only?" 10And he said, "Against tomorrow." And he said, "Be it according to your word; that you may know that there is none like Jehovah our God. 11And the frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people; they will remain in the river only." 12And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Jehovah concerning the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh. 13And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. 14And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. 15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.

16And Jehovah said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that is may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'" 17And they did so. And Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on beast. All the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 18And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not; and there were lice on man, and on beast. 19Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as Jehovah had spoken.

20And Jehovah said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water. And say to him, 'Thus says Jehovah, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21Or, if you* will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you*, and on they servants, and on your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 22And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies will be there; to the end you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth. 23And I will put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow will this sign be."'" 24And Jehovah did so, and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses. And in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by the swarms of flies.

25And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land." 26And Moses said, "It is not right to do so, for we will sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: behold, will we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 27We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he will command us." 28And Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you* may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only you* will not go very far away: entreat for me." 29And Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people, tomorrow: only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah." 30And Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated Jehovah. 31And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people. Not one remained. 32And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.

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1Then Jehovah said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still, 3behold, the hand of Jehovah is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks: [there will be] a very grievous murrain. 4And Jehovah will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and there will nothing die of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'" 5And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the land." 6And Jehovah did that thing the next day. And all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the children of Israel, none died. 7And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.

8And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a boil breaking forth with blains on man and on beast, throughout all the land of Egypt." 10And they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became a boil breaking forth with blains on man and on beast. 11And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians. 12And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken to Moses. 13And Jehovah said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14For I will this time send all my plagues on your heart, and on your servants, and on your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15For now I had stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you had been cut off from the earth, 16but in very deed for this reason I have made you stand, to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17Do you as yet exalt yourself against my people, that you will not let them go? 18Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. 19Now therefore send, hasten in your livestock and all that you have in the field; [for] every man and beast that will be found in the field, and will not be brought home, the hail will come down on them, and they will die."'" 20He who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses. 21And he who did not regard the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.

22And Jehovah said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on beast, and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt." 23And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven, and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24So there was hail, and fire mixed with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every plant of the field, and broke every tree of the field. 26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

27And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time: Jehovah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 28Entreat Jehovah, for there has been enough of [these] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you* go, and you* will stay no longer." 29And Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Jehovah. The thunders will cease, neither will there be any more hail, that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's. 30But as for you and your servants, I know that you* will not yet fear Jehovah God." 31And the flax and the barley were struck; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. 32But the wheat and the emmer were not struck, for they had not grown up. 33And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Jehovah; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. 34And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by Moses.

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them, 2and that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have performed in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you* may know that I am Jehovah." 3And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4Or, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your border. 5And they will cover the face of the earth, so that one will not be able to see the earth; and they will eat the rest of what has survived, which remains to you* from the hail, and will eat every tree that grows for you* out of the field. 6And your houses will be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh. 7And Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God; do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?" 8And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh. And he said to them, "Go, serve Jehovah your God; but who are those who will go?" 9And Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast for Jehovah." 10And he said to them, "So be Jehovah with you*, as I will let you* go, and your little ones; look to it, for evil is before you*. 11Not so. Go now you* that are men, and serve Jehovah, for that is what you* have been asking." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

12And Jehovah said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left." 13And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. Very grievous were they. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such. 15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and nothing green remained, either tree or plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, "I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you*. 17Now therefore please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah your God that he may take away from me this death only." 18And he went out from Pharaoh and entreated Jehovah. 19And Jehovah turned an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained in all the border of Egypt. 20But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

21And Jehovah said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." 22And Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven. And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23they did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, "Go, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you*." 25And Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. 26Our livestock also will go with us. There will not a hoof be left behind, for of it must we take to serve Jehovah our God. And we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come there." 27But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. 28And Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me, take heed to yourself, see my face no more, for in the day you see my face you shall die." 29And Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt. Afterwards he will let you* go from here; when he lets you* go, he will surely thrust you* out from here altogether. 2Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." 3And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

4And Moses said, "Thus says Jehovah, 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt. 5And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock. 6And there will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more. 7But against any of the children of Israel will not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that you* may know that Jehovah makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.' 8And all these your servants will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you,' and afterward I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

9And Jehovah said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you*; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." 10And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2"This month will be to you* the beginning of months: it will be the first month of the year to you*. 3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth [day] of this month they will take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.' 4And if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house will take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating you* will make your count for the lamb. 5Your lamb will be without blemish, a male a year old. You* will take it from the sheep, or from the goats. 6And you* will keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it at evening. 7And they will take of the blood, and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they will eat it. 8And they will eat the flesh on that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they will eat it. 9Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with its entrails. 10And you* will let nothing of it remain until the morning, but what remains of it until the morning you* will burn with fire. 11And this is how will you* eat it: with your waists girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you* will eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's Passover. 12For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah. 13And the blood will be a sign for you* on the houses where you* are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you*, and there will no plague be on you* to destroy you*, when I strike the land of Egypt. 14And this day will be a memorial for you*, and you* will keep it a feast for Jehovah: throughout your generations you* will keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

15Seven days will you* eat unleavened bread. Even the first day you* will put away leaven out of your houses; for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel. 16And on the first day there will be to you* a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work will be done in them, except what every man must eat, that is all you* may do. 17And you* will observe the [feast of] unleavened bread, for in this very day I have brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you* will observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. 18In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you* will eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19Seven days will there be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one who is born in the land. 20You* will eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations will you* eat unleavened bread."

21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover. 22And you* will take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you* will go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23For Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you*. 24And you* will observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. 25And it will come to pass, when you* have come to the land which Jehovah will give you*, according as he has promised, that you* will keep this service. 26And it will come to pass, when your children say to you*, 'What do you* mean by this service?' 27that you* will say, 'It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.'" And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 28And the children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock. 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Rise up, go out from among my people, both you* and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as you* have said. 32Take both your flocks and your herds, as you* have said, and be gone; and bless me also." 33And the Egyptians were urgent on the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." 34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. 35And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and garments. 36And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.

37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children. 38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much livestock. 39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not delay, nor had they prepared for themselves any provisions. 40Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was 430 years. 41And it came to pass at the end of 430 years—the very same day it came to pass—that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt. 42It is a night to be much observed to Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

43And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: there will no foreigner eat of it; 44but every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he will eat of it. 45A sojourner and a hired servant will not eat of it. 46In one house will it be eaten. You shall not carry anything of the flesh abroad out of the house, nor will you* break a bone of it. 47All the congregation of Israel will keep it. 48And when a foreigner sojourns with you, and keeps the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. And he will be like one who is born in the land, but no uncircumcised person will eat of it. 49One law will be to him who is native-born, and to the foreigner that sojourns among you*." 50Thus all the children of Israel did; as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51And it came to pass the very same day, that Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast; it is mine."

3And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you* came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand Jehovah brought you* out from this place: there will no leavened bread be eaten. 4This day you* go out in the month Abib. 5And it will be, when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. 6Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day will be a feast for Jehovah. 7Unleavened bread will be eaten throughout the seven days; and there will no leavened bread be seen with you, nor will there be leaven seen with you, in all your borders. 8And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.' 9And it will be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand has Jehovah brought you out of Egypt. 10You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

11And it will be, when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you, 12that you shall set apart to Jehovah all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes of a beast; the males will be Jehovah's. 13And every firstborn of an donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. 14And it will be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall say to him, 'By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. 15And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' 16And it will be for a sign on your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes; for by strength of hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt."

17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near, for God said, "Or the people may repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt." 18But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had strictly sworn the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you*. And you* will carry up my bones away from here with you*." 20And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: 22the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, did not depart from before the people.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: opposite it will you* encamp by the sea. 3And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in.' 4And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them. And I will get me honor on Pharaoh, and on all his army; and the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah." And they did so. 5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" 6And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him. 7And he took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and captains of all of them. 8And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. 9And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

10And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to Jehovah. 11And they said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 12Is not this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians'? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness." 13And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you* today; for the Egyptians whom you* have seen today, you* will no longer see them again forever. 14Jehovah will fight for you*, and you* will be silent."

15And Jehovah said to Moses, "Why do you cry out to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. 16And lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel will go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them; and I will get me honor on Pharaoh, and on all his army, on his chariots, and on his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten me honor on Pharaoh, on his chariots, and on his horsemen." 19And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them. 20And it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel, and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. And the one did not come near the other all the night.

21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all the night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left. 23And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the army of the Egyptians. 25And he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah fights for them against the Egyptians."

26And Jehovah said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." 27And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. And Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained. 29But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left. 30Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea shore. 31And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did on the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah; and they believed in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.

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19For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

22And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore it was called Marah. 24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What will we drink?" 25An he cried to Jehovah. And Jehovah showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them; 26and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and will do what is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who heals you." 27And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

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1And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness. 3And the children of Israel said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we ate bread to the full, for you* have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

4Then Jehovah said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you*; and the people will go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. 5And it will come to pass on the sixth day, that they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather daily." 6And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you* will know that Jehovah has brought you* out from the land of Egypt; 7and in the morning, then you* will see the glory of Jehovah, for he hears your murmurings against Jehovah; and what are we, that you* murmur against us?" 8And Moses said, [This will be], when Jehovah gives you* in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full, for Jehovah hears your murmurings which you* murmur against him; and what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. 9And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Jehovah, for he has heard your murmurings.'" 10And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud. 11And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12"I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you* will eat flesh, and in the morning you* will be filled with bread. And you* will know that I am Jehovah your God.'"

13And it came to pass at evening, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. 14And when the dew that lay had gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness [was] a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. 15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Jehovah has given you* to eat." 16This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, "Gather you* of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your people, will you* take it, every man for those who are in his tent." 17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. 18And when they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. 19And Moses said to them, "Let no man leave of it until the morning." 20Notwithstanding they did not listen to Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul. And Moses was angry with them. 21And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun grew hot, it melted. 22And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23And he said to them, "This is what Jehovah has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Jehovah: bake what you* will bake, and boil what you* will boil; and all that remains over lay up for you* to be kept until the morning.'" 24And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not become foul, nor was there any worm in it. 25And Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Jehovah: today you* will not find it in the field. 26Six days you* will gather it; but on the seventh day is the Sabbath, in it there will be none." 27And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none. 28And Jehovah said to Moses, "How long do you* refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See, for Jehovah has given you* the Sabbath, therefore he gives you* on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide you* every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." 30So the people rested on the seventh day.

31And the house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers [made] with honey. 32And Moses said, "This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, 'Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you* in the wilderness, when I brought you* forth from the land of Egypt.'" 33And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna in it, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations." 34As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they ate the manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. 36Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.

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1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the command of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore the people strove with Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you* strive with me? Why do you* test Jehovah?" 3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?" 4And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, "What will I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me." 5And Jehovah said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your rod, with which you struck the river, take in your hand, and go. 6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and there will come water out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, "Is Jehovah among us, or not?"

8Then Amalek came, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand." 10So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12But Moses's hands were heavy, and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14And Jehovah said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." 15And Moses built an altar and called it Jehovah-nissi. 16And he said, "Jehovah has sworn: Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."

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1Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses's father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2And Jethro, Moses's father in law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, after he had sent her away, 3and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom (for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land"), 4and the name of the other was Eliezer (for [he said], "The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh"). 5And Jethro, Moses's father in law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mountain of God. 6And he said to Moses, "I, your father in law Jethro, have come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her." 7And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and bowed down, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. 8And Moses told his father in law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come on them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them. 9And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10And Jethro said, "Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you* out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yes, in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them." 12And Jethro, Moses's father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses's father in law before God.

13And it came to pass the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood about Moses from the morning to the evening. 14And when Moses's father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do to the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand about you from morning to evening?" 15And Moses said to his father in law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God, 16when they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws." 17And Moses's father in law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good. 18You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone. 19Listen now to my voice, I will give you counsel, and God be with you: be for the people toward God, and bring the causes to God. 20And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21Moreover, you shall provide out of all the people able men, those who fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 22And let them judge the people at all times. And it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge themselves; so will it be easier for yourself, and they will bear [the burden] with you. 23If you shall do this thing, and God command you so, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace." 24So Moses listened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26And they judged the people at all times: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27And Moses let his father in law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

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1In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2And when they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. 3And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 4'You* have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you* on eagles' wings, and brought you* to myself. 5Now therefore, if you* will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you* will be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine. 6And you* will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

7And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Jehovah commanded him. 8And all the people answered together and said, "All that Jehovah has spoken we will do." And Moses reported the words of the people to Jehovah. 9And Jehovah said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah. 10And Jehovah said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, 11and be ready against the third day, for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. 12And you shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves, that you* do not go up onto the mountain, or touch its border: whoever touches the mountain will be surely put to death.' 13No hand will touch him, but he will surely be stoned, or shot through. Whether it is beast or man, he will not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they will come up to the mountain." 14And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments. 15And he said to the people, "Be ready against the third day; do not come near a woman."

16And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a trumpet exceedingly loud; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. 18And Mount Sinai, all of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 19And when the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 20And Jehovah came down to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21And Jehovah said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, so they do not break through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish." 22And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, so Jehovah will not break forth on them. 23And Moses said to Jehovah, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for you charged us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'" 24And Jehovah said to him, "Go, go down. And you shall come up, you, and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to Jehovah, so he will not break forth on them." 25So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

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1And God spoke all these words, saying, 2"I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3You shall have no other gods before me.

4"You shall not make for yourselves a graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7"You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

8"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your livestock, nor your foreigner that is within your gates, 11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it.

12"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

13"You shall not kill.

14"You shall not commit adultery.

15"You shall not steal.

16"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17"You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

18And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. 19And they said to Moses, "Speak with us, and we will hear; but do not let God speak with us, or we will die." 20And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come to test you*, and that his fear may be before you*, that you* do not sin." 21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

22And Jehovah said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'You* yourselves have seen that I have talked with you* from heaven. 23You* will not make [other gods] with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, you* will not make for yourselves. 24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice your burnt offerings on it, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. 25And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. 26Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness will not be uncovered on it.'

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1"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

2"If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he will serve; and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing. 3If he comes in by himself, he will go out by himself: if he is married, then his wife will go out with him. 4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters; the wife and her children will be her master's, and he will go out by himself. 5But if the servant will plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' 6then his master will bring him to God, and will bring him to the door, or to the doorpost; and his master will bore his ear through with an awl, and he will serve him forever.

7"And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she will not go out as the menservants do. 8If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he will let her be redeemed: to sell her to a foreign people he will have no power, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9And if he espouse her to his son, he will deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10If he takes another [wife] for himself; her food, her garments, and her duty of marriage, he will not diminish. 11And if he do not these three things to her, then will she go out free of charge, without money.

12"He who strikes a man, so that he dies, will surely be put to death. 13And if a man does not lay in wait, but God delivers [him] into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he will flee. 14And if a man comes presumptuously on his neighbor, to kill him with deceit; you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15"And he who strikes his father, or his mother, will be surely put to death.

16"And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he will surely be put to death.

17"And he who curses his father or his mother, will surely be put to death.

18"And if men contend, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to [his] bed; 19if he rises again and walks abroad on his staff, then he who struck him will be free: only he will pay for the loss of his time, and will cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20"And if a man strikes his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand; he will surely be punished. 21Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he will not be punished; for he is his money.

22"And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he will be surely fined, according as the woman's husband will lay on him. And he will pay as the judges determine. 23But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burning for burning, wound for wound, lash for lash.

26"And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it; he will let him go free for his eye's sake. 27And if he strikes out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he will let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28"And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox will be surely stoned, and its flesh will not be eaten; but the owner of the ox will be free. 29"But if the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned, and its owner also will be put to death. 30If there is laid on him a ransom, then he will give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. 31Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment will it be done to him. 32If the ox gore a manservant or a maidservant, there will be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox will be stoned.

33"And if a man will open a pit, or if a man will dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an donkey fall in it, 34the owner of the pit will make it good; he will give money to its owner, and the dead [beast] will be his.

35"And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox, and divide its price; and the dead they also will divide. 36Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has not kept it in, he will surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] will be his own.

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1"If a man will steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he will pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2If the thief is found breaking in, and be struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness for him. 3If the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness for him; he will make restitution: if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft. 4If the theft is found in his hand alive, whether it is an ox, or donkey, or sheep, he will pay double.

5"If a man will cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and will let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, will he make restitution.

6"If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire will surely make restitution.

7"If a man will deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he will pay double. 8If the thief is not found, then the master of the house will come near to God, [to see] whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods. 9"For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, [or] for any manner of lost thing, of which one says, 'This is it,' the cause of both parties will come before God; he whom God will condemn will pay double to his neighbor.

10"If a man delivers to his neighbor an donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it dies, or is hurt, or is driven away, no man seeing it: 11the oath of Jehovah will be between them both, whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner will accept it, and he will not make restitution. 12But if it is stolen from him, he will make restitution to its owner. 13If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness. He will not make good what was torn.

14"And if a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, its owner not being with it, he will surely make restitution. 15If its owner is with it, he will not make it good: if it is a hired thing, it came for its fee.

16"And if a man entices a virgin that is not betrothed, and lies with her, he will surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. 17If her father utterly refuse to give her to him, he will pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

19"Whoever lies with a beast will surely be put to death.

20"He who sacrifices to any god, other than to Jehovah alone, will be utterly destroyed. 21And a sojourner you* shall not wrong, nor shall you* oppress him; for you* were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22You* will not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23If you* afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24and my wrath will burn hot, and I will kill you* with the sword; and your wives will be widows, and your children fatherless.

25"If you lend money to any of my people with you that is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; nor will you* lay on him interest. 26If you at all take your neighbor's garment to pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, 27for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: in what will he sleep? And it will come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

28"You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people. 29You shall not delay to offer of your harvest, and of the outflow of your presses. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. 30Likewise you* shall do with your oxen, [and] with your sheep: seven days it will be with its dam; on the eighth day you* shall give it to me. 31And you* will be holy men to me. Therefore you* shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you* will cast it to the dogs.

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1"You shall not take up a false report; do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; nor shall you speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest [justice]: 3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

4"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under his burden, you shall refrain from leaving him, you shall surely release [it] with him.

6"You shall not wrest the justice [due] to your poor in his cause. 7Keep far from a false matter; and do not kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked. 8And you shall take no bribe; for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous. 9And a sojourner you shall not oppress; for you* know the heart of a sojourner, since you* were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10"And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, 11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave the beast of the field will eat. Likewise you shall deal with your vineyard, [and] with your oliveyard. 12Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed. 13And in all things that I have said to you*, take heed; and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard out of your mouth.

14"Three times you shall keep a feast for me in the year. 15You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt); and none will appear before me empty. 16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field. 17Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord Jehovah.

18"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor will the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. 19You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your ground into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

20"Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21Take heed before him, and listen to his voice. Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him. 22But if you shall indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. 23For my angel will go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. And I will cut them off. 24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them, and shatter their pillars. 25And you* will serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from your midst. 26There will none cast her young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days I will fulfill. 27I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28And I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land will become desolate, and the beasts of the field will multiply against you. 30By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land. 31And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand. And you shall drive them out before you. 32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33They will not dwell in your land, or they will make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

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1And he said to Moses, "Come up to Jehovah, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship you* afar off. 2And Moses alone will come near to Jehovah, but they will not come near, nor will the people go up with him." 3And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do." 4And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Jehovah. 6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people; and they said, "All that Jehovah has spoken we will do, and be obedient." 8And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Here is the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah has made with you* concerning all these words."

9Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. 10And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet something like a paved work of sapphire stone, and something like the very heaven for clearness. 11And on the nobles of the children of Israel he did not lay his hand; and they saw God, and ate and drank.

12And Jehovah said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and be there; and I will give you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that you may teach them." 13And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister. And Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14And he said to the elders, "Remain here for us, until we come again to you*. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you*: whoever has a cause, let him come near to them." 15And Moses went up onto the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16And the glory of Jehovah abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for me an offering: of every man whose heart makes him willing you* will take my offering. 3And this is the offering which you* will take of them: gold, and silver, and bronze, 4and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], 5and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood, 6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense, 7onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 8And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its furniture, even so will you* make it.

10And they will make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half will be its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. 11And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and shall make on it a molding of gold around it. 12And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet; and two rings will be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 14And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, with which to bear the ark. 15The poles will be in the rings of the ark; they will not be taken from it. 16And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I will give you. 17And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half [will be] its length and a cubit and a half its width. 18And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work you shall make them, at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy seat will you* make the cherubim on its two ends. 20And the cherubim will spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces to one another; toward the mercy seat will the faces of the cherubim be. 21And you shall put the mercy seat above on the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

23"And you shall make a table of acacia wood: two cubits [will be] its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. 24And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold around it. 25And you shall make a border for it of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a molding of gold for the rim around it. 26And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. 27Close by the border will the rings be, for places for the poles to bear the table. 28And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29And you shall make its dishes, and its spoons, and its flagons, and its bowls, with which to pour out: of pure gold you shall make them. 30And you shall set on the table showbread before me always.

31"And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold: of beaten work will the lampstand be made, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, will be of one piece with it. 32And there will be six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side: 33three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand, 34and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its knops, and its flowers; 35and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 36Their knops and their branches will be of one piece with it; the whole thing one beaten work of pure gold. 37And you shall make its lamps, seven; and they will light its lamps, to give light opposite it. 38And its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, will be of pure gold. 39Of a talent of pure gold will it be made, with all these vessels. 40And see that you make them according to their pattern, which has been showed you on the mountain.

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1"Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skillful workman you shall make them. 2The length of each curtain will be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains will have one measure. 3Five curtains will be coupled together to one another, and [the other] five curtains will be coupled to one another. 4And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling, and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. 5Fifty loops you shall make in the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops will be opposite to one another. 6And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps; and the tabernacle will be one [whole].

7"And you shall make curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains you shall make them. 8The length of each curtain will be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains will have one measure. 9And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. 10And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is [outmost in] the second coupling. 11And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12And the overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, will hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, will hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of sealskins above.

15"And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. 16Ten cubits will be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 17Two tenons will there be in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side. 19And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 20And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, 21and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards. 23And you shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 24And they will be double beneath, and likewise they will be entire to its top to one ring: thus will it be for them both; they will be for the two corners. 25And there will be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

26"And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, at the rear westward. 28And the middle bar in the midst of the boards will pass through from end to end. 29And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold. 30And you shall rear up the tabernacle according to its fashion which has been showed you on the mountain.

31"And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skillful workman will it be made. 32And you shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks [will be] of gold, on four sockets of silver. 33And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in there within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil will separate to you* between the holy place and the most holy. 34And you shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

36"And you shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. 37And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks will be of gold; and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

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1"And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad. The altar will be square, and its height will be three cubits. 2And you shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns will be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. 3And you shall make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh hooks, and its firepans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze. 4And you shall make a grating for it, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. 5And you shall put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. 6And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7And its poles will be put into the rings, and the poles will be on the two sides of the altar, in bearing it. 8Hollow with planks you shall make it: as it has been showed you on the mountain, so will they make it.

9"And you shall make the court of the tabernacle; for the south side there will be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side. 10And its pillars will be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [will be] of silver. 11And likewise for the north side in length there will be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12And for the breadth of the court on the west side will be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 13And the breadth of the court on the east side will be fifty cubits. 14The hangings for the one side [of the gate] will be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15And for the other side will be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16And for the gate of the court will be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. 17All the pillars of the court all around will be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver and their sockets of bronze. 18The length of the court will be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze. 19All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, will be of bronze.

20"And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah: it will be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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1"And bring you near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. 2And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3And you shall speak to all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. 4And these are the garments which they will make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a tunic of checker work, a turban, and a sash; and they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. 5And they will take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

6"And they will make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman. 7It will have two shoulder pieces joined to its two ends, that it may be joined together. 8And the skillfully woven band, which is on it, with which to gird it on, will be like its work [and] of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth. 11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold. 12And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron will bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders for a memorial. 13And you shall make settings of gold, 14and two chains of pure gold; like cords you shall make them, of wreathen work. And you shall put the wreathen chains on the settings.

15"And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman. Like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it. 16It will be square [and] double; a span will be its length and a span its width. 17And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle will be the first row; 18and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 19and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 20and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they will be enclosed in gold in their settings. 21And the stones will be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, each one according to his name, they will be for the twelve tribes. 22And you shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. 23And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24And you shall put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. 25And you shall put the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod in its forepart. 26And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the inside of the ephod. 27And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 28And they will bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate will not be loosed from the ephod. 29And Aaron will bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually. 30And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they will be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Jehovah. And Aaron will bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Jehovah continually.

31"And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32And it will have a hole for the head in its midst: it will have a binding of woven work all around its hole, something like the hole of a coat of mail, that it will not be torn. 33And on its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its skirts; and bells of gold between them all around: 34a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the skirts of the robe all around. 35And it will be on Aaron to minister; and its sound will be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Jehovah, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.

36"And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO JEHOVAH'. 37And you shall put it on a lace of blue, and it will be on the turban; on the forefront of the turban it will be. 38And it will be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel will consecrate in all their holy gifts; and it will be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah. 39And you shall weave the tunic in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

40"And for Aaron's sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make for them sashes, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty. 41"And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and ordain them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. 42And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist to the thighs they will reach. 43And they will be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they do not bear iniquity, and die: it will be a statute forever to him and to his seed after him.

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1"And this is the thing that you shall do to them to consecrate them, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mixed with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour you shall make them. 3And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. 4And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. 5And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; 6and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. 7Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him. 8And you shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them. 9And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them; and they will have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. And you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

10"And you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11And you shall kill the bull before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12And you shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. 13And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 14But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and it dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

15"You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. 16And you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and throw it against the altar all around. 17And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. 18And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to Jehovah; it is a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.

19"And you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. 20Then you shall kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot, and throw the blood against the altar all around. 21And you shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he will be consecrated, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 22Also you shall take of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination), 23and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah. 24And you shall put the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 25And you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before Jehovah. It is an offering made by fire to Jehovah.

26"And you shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of ordination, and wave it for a wave offering before Jehovah; and it will be your portion. 27And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the contribution, which is waved, and which is lifted up, of the ram of ordination, even of what is for Aaron, and of what is for his sons. 28And it will be for Aaron and his sons as [their] portion forever from the children of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it will be a contribution from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their contribution to Jehovah.

29"And the holy garments of Aaron will be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and ordained in them. 30Seven days will the son that is priest in his stead put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

31"And you shall take the ram of ordination, and boil its flesh in a holy place. 32And Aaron and his sons will eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. 33And they will eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain [and] to sanctify them; but a foreigner will not eat of it, because they are holy. 34And if anything of the flesh of the ordination, or of the bread, remain to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it will not be eaten, because it is holy.

35"And this is what you shall do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you: seven days you shall ordain them. 36And every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. 37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it. And the altar will be most holy. Whatever touches the altar will be holy.

38"Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 39You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening. 40And with the one lamb a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41And you shall offer the other lamb at evening, and shall do to it according to the grain offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 42It will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you*, to speak there to you. 43And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the Tent] will be sanctified by my glory. 44And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar: Aaron and his sons I will also sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office. 45And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46And they will know that I am Jehovah their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Jehovah their God.

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1"And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of acacia wood you shall make it. 2A cubit will be its length and a cubit its width; it will be square; and two cubits its height: its horns will be of one piece with it. 3And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and around its sides, and its horns; and you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4And you shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them. And they will be for places for poles with which to bear it. 5And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 6And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. 7And Aaron will burn incense of sweet spices on it: every morning, when he dresses the lamps, he will burn it. 8And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he will burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations. 9You* will offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor grain offering; and you* will pour no drink offering on it. 10And Aaron will make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year will he make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah."

11And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12"When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then will they give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them. 13This they will give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah. 14Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, will give the offering of Jehovah. 15The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. 16And you shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls."

17And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 18"You shall also make a laver of bronze, and its base of bronze, whereat to wash. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. 19And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet from it: 20when they go into the tent of meeting, they will wash with water, so that they do not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 21So they will wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die; and it will be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations."

22Moreover, Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 23"Take also the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, 250, and of sweet calamus 250, 24and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. 25And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the are of the perfumer: it will be a holy anointing oil. 26And you shall anoint the tent of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony, 27and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense, 28and the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base. 29And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever touches them will be holy. 30And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. 31And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This will be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. 32On the flesh of man will it not be poured, nor will you* make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy, [and] it will be holy to you*. 33Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a foreigner, he will be cut off from his people.'"

34And Jehovah said to Moses, "Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each will there be a like weight; 35and you shall make of it incense, a perfume after the are of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure [and] holy. 36And you shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you: it will be to you* most holy. 37And the incense which you shall make, according to its composition you* will not make for yourselves: it will be to you holy for Jehovah. 38Whoever will make like that, to smell of it, he will be cut off from his people."

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 3And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, 4to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, 5and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. 6And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: 7the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the Tent, 8and the table and its vessels, and the pure lampstand with all its vessels, and the altar of incense, 9and the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base, 10and the finely made garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office, 11and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you will they do."

12And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 13"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Indeed you* will keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you* throughout your generations, that you* may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*. 14You* will keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you*: everyone who profanes it will surely be put to death, for whoever does any work on it, that soul will be cut off from among his people. 15Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he will surely be put to death. 16Therefore the children of Israel will keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.' 17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."

18And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

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1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods, which will go before us, for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." 2And Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me." 3And all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt." 5And when Aaron saw [this], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow will be a feast for Jehovah." 6And they rose up early the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7And Jehovah said to Moses, "Go, go down, for your people, that you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'" 9And Jehovah said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people. 10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation." 11And Moses pleaded with Jehovah his God and said, "Jehovah, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'For evil he brought them forth, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they will inherit it forever.'" 14And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

15And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand, tables that were written on both their sides. On the one side and on the other were they written. 16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraven on the tables. 17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a noise of war in the camp." 18And he said, "It is not the voice of those who shout for victory, nor is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing do I hear." 19And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses's anger burned hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

21And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?" 22And Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn hot: you know the people, that they are [set] on evil. 23For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which will go before us, for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' 24And I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf."

25And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies,) 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, "Whoever is on Jehovah's side, [let him come] to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27And he said to them, "Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, 'Put you* every man his sword on his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29And Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Jehovah, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you* a blessing this day."

30And it came to pass the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You* have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah. Perhaps I will make atonement for your sin." 31And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, "Oh, this people has sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32Yet now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written." 33And Jehovah said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him I will blot out of my book. 34And now go, lead the people to [the place] of which I have spoken to you: behold, my angel will go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin on them." 35And Jehovah struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'To your seed I will give it.' 2And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stiffnecked people, and I would consume you in the way." 4And when the people heard these evil news, they mourned; and no man put on him his ornaments. 5And Jehovah said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, 'You* are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into your midst for one moment, I will consume you. Therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do to you.'" 6And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.

7Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. 8And it came to pass, when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. 9And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and [Jehovah] spoke with Moses. 10And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent; and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door. 11And Jehovah spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again into the camp; but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the Tent.

12And Moses said to Jehovah, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.' 13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, to the end that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people." 14And he said, "My presence will go [with you], and I will give you rest." 15And he said to him, "If your presence does not go [with me], do not carry us up from here. 16For where now will it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?"

17And Jehovah said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name." 18And he said, "Please show me your glory." 19And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." 20And he said, "You cannot see my face, for man will not see me and live." 21And Jehovah said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22And it will come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23And I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face will not be seen."

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Hew you two tables of stone like the first; and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke. 2And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. 3And no man will come up with you; neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain." 4And he hewed two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone. 5And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. 6And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth, 7keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation." 8And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. 9And he said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please go in the midst of us, for it is a stiffnecked people. And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

10And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been performed in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among which you are will see the work of Jehovah, for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. 11Observe you what I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12Take heed to yourself, and do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, or it will be a snare in your midst, 13but you* will break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you* will cut down their Asherim; 14for you shall worship no other god; for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 15otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would play the whore after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one might call you and you eat of his sacrifice; 16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the whore after their gods, and make your sons play the whore after their gods. 17You shall make you no molten gods.

18You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. 20And the firstborn of an donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none will appear before me empty.

21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22And you shall observe the feast of weeks, [that is] of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 23Three times in the year will all your males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. 24For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither will any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.

25You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor will the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning. 26You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your ground to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk." 27And Jehovah said to Moses, "Write you these words; for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 28And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses's hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with him. 30And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. 31And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him. And Moses spoke to them. 32And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 34But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded. 35And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses's face shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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1And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel and said to them, "These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, that you* should do them. 2Six days will work be done; but on the seventh day there will be to you* a holy day, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whoever does any work on it will be put to death. 3You* will kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day."

4And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Jehovah commanded, saying, 5'Take from among you* an offering to Jehovah; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Jehovah's offering: gold, and silver, and bronze, 6and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], 7and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood, 8and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense, 9and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

10And let every wise-hearted man among you* come, and make all that Jehovah has commanded: 11the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; 12the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen; 13the table, and its poles, and all its vessels, and the showbread; 14the lampstand also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light; 15and the altar of incense, and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 16the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, it poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its base; 17the hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; 18the pegs of the tabernacle, and the pegs of the court, and their cords; 19the finely made garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"

20And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, [and] brought Jehovah's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, [and] brought brooches, and earrings, and signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Jehovah. 23And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them. 24Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Jehovah's offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. 25And all the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. 26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' [hair]. 27And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; 28and the spice, and the oil, for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 29The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Jehovah; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded to be made by Moses.

30And Moses said to the children of Israel, "See, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 31And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 32and to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, 33and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skillful workmanship. 34And he has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 35He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who devise skillful works.

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1"And Bezalel and Oholiab will work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah has commanded."

2And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it. 3And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. And they brought yet to him freewill offerings every morning. 4And all the wise men, who were performing all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they were performing. 5And they spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make." 6And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing. 7For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

8And all the wise-hearted men among those who were performing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, [Bezalel] made them. 9The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure. 10And he coupled five curtains to one another, and [the other] five curtains he coupled to one another. 11And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling. 12Fifty loops he made in the one curtain, and fifty loops he made in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling: the loops were opposite to one another. 13And he made fifty clasps of gold and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps, so the tabernacle was one.

14And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one measure. 16And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain that was [outmost in] the second coupling. 18And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be one. 19And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of sealskins above.

20And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up. 21Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 22Each board had two tenons, joined to one another: thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side. 24And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, 26and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 27And for the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28And two boards he made for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 29And they were double beneath; and likewise they were entire to its top to one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners. 30And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.

31And he made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 32and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 33And he made the middle bar pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other. 34And he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

35And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, did he make it. 36And he made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold. And he cast for them four sockets of silver. 37And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; 38and its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of bronze.

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1And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood: its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth was a cubit and a half, and its height was a cubit and a half. 2And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside and made a molding of gold around it. 3And he cast for it four rings of gold, in its four feet; even two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it. 4And he made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 6And he made a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] its length and a cubit and a half its width. 7And he made two cherubim of gold. Of beaten work he made them, at the two ends of the mercy seat; 8one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim at its two ends. 9And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces to one another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.

10And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits [was] its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. 11And he overlaid it with pure gold and made a molding of gold around it. 12And he made to it a border of a handbreadth all around and made a molding of gold for the rim around it. 13And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet. 14Close by the border were the rings, the places for the poles to bear the table. 15And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table. 16And he made the vessels that were on the table, its dishes, and its spoons, and its bowls, and its flagons, with which to pour out, of pure gold.

17And he made the lampstand of pure gold: of beaten work he made the lampstand, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, it knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it. 18And there were six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side: 19three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 20And in the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its knops, and its flowers; 21and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it. 22Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. 23And he made its lamps, seven, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, of pure gold. 24Of a talent of pure gold did he make it, and all its vessels.

25And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was its length and a cubit its width, square, and two cubits its height; its horns were of one piece with it. 26And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and all around the sides, and its horns; and he made to it a molding of gold around it. 27And he made for it two golden rings under its molding, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to bear it. 28And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the are of the perfumer.

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1And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: five cubits was its length and five cubits its width, square, and three cubits its height. 2And he made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it. And he overlaid it with bronze. 3And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the flesh hooks, and the firepans: all its vessels he made of bronze. 4And he made for the altar a grating of network of bronze, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up. 5And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of bronze, to be places for the poles. 6And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze. 7And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.

8And he made the laver of bronze, and its base of bronze, of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.

9And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; 10their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11And for the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 13And for the east side fifty cubits. 14The hangings for the one side [of the gate] were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three; 15and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16All the hangings of the court all around were of fine twined linen. 17And the sockets for the pillars were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 18And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court. 19And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver. 20And all the pegs of the tabernacle, and of the court all around, were of bronze.

21This is the sum of [the things for] the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. 22And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses. 23And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen.

24All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 25And the silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was 100 talents, and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary: 26a beka a head, [that is], half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men. 27And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 28And of the 1,775 [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. 29And the bronze of the offering was seventy talents, and 2,400 shekels. 30And with it he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar, and the bronze grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar, 31and the sockets of the court all around, and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs of the court all around.

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1And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made finely made garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 3And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. 4They made shoulder pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together. 5And the skillfully woven band, that was on it, with which to gird it on, was of the same piece [and] like its work; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

6And they worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel. 7And he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

8And he made the breastplate, the work of the skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9It was square; they made the breastplate double: a span was its length and a span its width, being double. 10And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 11and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 12and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 13and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jaspar; they were enclosed in inclosings of gold in their settings. 14And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. 15And they made on the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. 16And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 17And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. 18And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, in its forepart. 19And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the inside of the ephod. 20And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 21And they bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. 23And the hole of the robe in its midst, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its hole, that it should not be torn. 24And they made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen]. 25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the skirts of the robe all around, between the pomegranates; 26a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, on the skirts of the robe all around, to minister in; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

27And they made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, 28and the turban of fine linen, and the decorated caps of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, 29and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

30And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, "HOLY TO JEHOVAH". 31And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

32Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they did. 33And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and it sockets; 34and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen; 35the ark of the testimony, and its poles, and the mercy seat; 36the table, all its vessels, and the showbread; 37the pure lampstand, its lamps (the lamps set in order), and all its vessels, and the oil for the light; 38and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door of the Tent; 39the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its base; 40the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 41the finely made garments for ministering in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. 42According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. 43And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as Jehovah had commanded, even so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"On the first day of the first month you shall rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. 4And you shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps. 5And you shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. 6And you shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 7And you shall set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water in it. 8And you shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. 9And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it, and all its furniture; and it will be holy. 10And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar; and the altar will be most holy. 11And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it. 12And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. 13And you shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. 14And you shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them; 15and you shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office; and their anointing will be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." 16Thus Moses did: according to all that Jehovah commanded him, so he did.

17And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. 18And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and reared up its pillars. 19And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above on it; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 20And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. 21And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 22And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil. 23And he set the bread in order on it before Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 24And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 25And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 26And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil. 27And he burnt incense of sweet spices on it; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 28And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. 29And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 30And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it, with which to wash. 31And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet from it; 32when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 33And he reared up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. 35And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode on it, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. 36And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys, 37but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey until the day that it was taken up. 38For the cloud of Jehovah was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

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1And Jehovah called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man of you* brings an offering to Jehovah, you* will bring your offering of the livestock, of the herd and of the flock.

3'If his offering is a burnt offering of the herd, he shall offer it, a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah. 4And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5And he shall kill the bull before Jehovah; and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood, and throw the blood against the altar all around that is at the door of the tent of meeting. 6And he shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into its pieces. 7And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and arrange wood on the fire; 8and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the suet on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar, 9but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water; and the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

10'And if his offering is of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer it, a male without blemish. 11And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah; and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall throw its blood against the altar all around. 12And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its suet; and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar, 13but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water; and the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

14'And if his offering to Jehovah is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. 15And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and twist off its head, and burn it on the altar. And its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; 16and he shall take away its crop with its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. 17And he shall tear it by its wings, [but] shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

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1'And when anyone brings an offering of a grain offering to Jehovah, his offering will be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. 2And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests, and he shall take from it his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense. And the priest shall burn its memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 3And what is left of the grain offering will be Aaron's and his sons'; [it is] a thing most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire.

4'And when you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in the oven, it will be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5And if your offering is a grain offering baked on the griddle, it will be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil. 6You shall part it in pieces, and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. 7And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it will be made of fine flour with oil. 8And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to Jehovah; and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. 9And the priest shall take up from the grain offering its memorial portion, and will burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 10And what is left of the grain offering will be Aaron's and his sons'; [it is] a thing most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire.

11'No grain offering, which you* will offer to Jehovah, will be made with leaven, for you* will burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 12As an offering of firstfruits you* will offer them to Jehovah, but they shall not come up for a soothing aroma on the altar. 13And you shall season every offering of your grain offering with salt; neither shall you let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your grain offering: with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

14'And if you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to Jehovah, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. 15And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. 16And the priest shall burn its memorial portion, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Jehovah.

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1'And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Jehovah. 2And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. And Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar all around. 3And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Jehovah; the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, 4and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys. 5And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire. It is an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

6'And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah is of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Jehovah; 8and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting. And Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the altar all around. 9And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Jehovah; its fat, the entire fat tail, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, 10and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys. 11And the priest shall burn it on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to Jehovah.

12'And if his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Jehovah. 13And he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron will throw its blood against the altar all around. 14And he shall offer of it his offering, [that is], an offering made by fire to Jehovah; the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, 15and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys. 16And the priest shall burn them on the altar, the food of the offering made by fire, for a soothing aroma. All the fat is Jehovah's. 17It will be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you* will eat neither fat nor blood.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, and does any of them: 3if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Jehovah for a sin offering. 4And he shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Jehovah. 5And the anointed priest will take of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the tent of meeting. 6And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of the sanctuary. 7And the priest shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 8And he shall remove all the fat of the bull of the sin offering; the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, 9and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys, 10as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 11And the skin of the bull, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its entrails, and its dung, 12the whole bull he shall carry out of the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire: it shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.

13'And if the whole congregation of Israel errs, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, and are guilty; 14when the sin in which they have sinned is known, the assembly will offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the tent of meeting. 15And the elders of the congregation will lay their hands on the head of the bull before Jehovah, and the bull shall be killed before Jehovah. 16And the anointed priest will bring of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting. 17And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil. 18And he shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 19And he shall remove all its fat, and burn it on the altar. 20And he shall do with the bull as he did with the bull of the sin offering; so he shall do with it. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven. 21And he shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

22'When a ruler sins, and unintentionally does any of all the things which Jehovah his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 23if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a male without blemish. 24And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Jehovah; it is a sin offering. 25And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering. 26And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.

27'And if any of the common people sins unintentionally, in doing any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 28if his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. 29And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. 30And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. 31And all its fat he shall take away, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a soothing aroma to Jehovah. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

32'And if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it, a female without blemish. 33And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. 34And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. 35And all its fat he shall take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. And the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

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1'And if anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 2Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he will be guilty. 3Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness may be with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he knows of it, then he will be guilty. 4Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man will utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, when he knows of it, then he will be guilty in one of these [things]. 5And it will be, when he is guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that in which he has sinned. 6And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

7'And if his means do not suffice for a lamb, then he shall bring his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Jehovah; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8And he shall bring them to the priest, who will offer what is for the sin offering first, and twist its head at the front of its neck, but will not sever it. 9And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. 10And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

11'But if his means do not suffice for two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor will he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. It is a sin offering. 13And the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and [the rest] will be the priest's, as the grain offering.'"

14And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 15"If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally, in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 16And he shall make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing, and will add a fifth to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

17"And if anyone sins, and does any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and will bear his iniquity. 18And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation, for a guilt offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he erred unintentionally and did not know it, and he will be forgiven. 19It is a guilt offering: he is certainly guilty before Jehovah."

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Jehovah, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor, 3or has found what was lost, and deals falsely in it, and swears to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning in it; 4then it will be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit that was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 5or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it in full, and will add a fifth more to it: to him to whom it appertains will he give it, in the day of his being found guilty. 6And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation, for a guilt offering, to the priest. 7And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever thing he does so as to be guilty."

8And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 9"Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering will be on the hearth on the altar all night to the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 10And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches will he put on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes whereto the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 12And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it, and will burn the fat of the peace offerings on it. 13Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

14'And this is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron will offer it before Jehovah, before the altar. 15And from there he shall take up his handful, of the fine flour of the grain offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and will burn it on the altar for a soothing aroma, as its memorial portion, to Jehovah. 16And what is left of it will Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. 17It will not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the guilt offering. 18Every male among the children of Aaron will eat it, as [his] portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: whoever touches them will be holy.'"

19And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 20"This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Jehovah in the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. 21On a griddle it will be made with oil; when it is soaked, you shall bring it in: in baked pieces you shall offer the grain offering for a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 22And the anointed priest that will be in his stead from among his sons will offer it: by a statute forever it shall be wholly burnt to Jehovah. 23And every grain offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten."

24And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 25"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed will the sin offering be killed before Jehovah. It is most holy. 26The priest that offers it for sin will eat it: in a holy place will it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. 27Whatever will touch its flesh will be holy; and when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place. 28But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. 29Every male among the priests will eat it; it is most holy. 30And no sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt with fire.

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1'And this is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. 2In the place where they kill the burnt offering will they kill the guilt offering, and its blood will he throw against the altar all around. 3And he shall offer of it all its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, 4and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the lobe on the liver, with the kidneys, will he take away; 5and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Jehovah; it is a guilt offering. 6Every male among the priests will eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 7As is the sin offering, so is the guilt offering; there is one law for them: the priest that makes atonement with it, he will have it. 8And the priest that offers any man's burnt offering, that priest will have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 9And every grain offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is cooked in the pan, and on the griddle, will be the priest's that offers it. 10And every grain offering, mixed with oil, or dry, will all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.

11'And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one will offer to Jehovah. 12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil, of fine flour soaked. 13With cakes of leavened bread he shall bring his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving. 14And of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a contribution to Jehovah; it will be the priest's that throws the blood of the peace offerings.

15'And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and the next day what remains of it shall be eaten, 17but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. 18And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, nor will it be imputed to him who offers it: it will be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it will bear his iniquity.

19'And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, everyone who is clean will eat it, 20but the soul that eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain to Jehovah, having his uncleanness on him, that soul will be cut off from his people. 21And when anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain to Jehovah, that soul will be cut off from his people.'"

22And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 23"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You* will eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. 24And the fat of what dies of itself, and the fat of what is torn by beasts, may be used for any other service; but you* will by no means eat it. 25For whoever eats the fat of the beast of which men bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah, that soul who eats it will be cut off from his people. 26And you* will eat no manner of blood, whether it is of bird or beast, in any of your dwellings. 27Whoever it is that eats any blood, that soul will be cut off from his people.'"

28And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 29"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Jehovah will bring his offering to Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings: 30his own hands will bring the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; the fat with the breast will he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Jehovah. 31And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will be Aaron's and his sons'. 32And the right thigh will you* give to the priest for a contribution out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33He among the sons of Aaron that offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, will have the right thigh for a portion. 34For the wave breast and the heave thigh I have taken of the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as [their] portion forever from the children of Israel.

35'This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Jehovah in the priest's office; 36which Jehovah commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is [their] statute forever throughout their generations.'"

37This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, and of the sin offering, and of the guilt offering, and of the ordination, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; 38which Jehovah commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to bring their offerings to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 3and assemble you all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting." 4And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting. 5And Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded to be done."

6And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. 7And he put on him the tunic, and girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it to him with it. 8And he placed the breastplate on him, and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9And he set the turban on his head. And on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

10And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 11And he sprinkled of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them. 12And he poured of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him, to sanctify him. 13And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with sashes, and bound caps on them; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

14And he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 15And he killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 16And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar. 17But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burnt with fire outside the camp; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

18And he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 19And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the altar all around. 20And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the suet. 21And he washed the entrails and the legs with water. And Moses burnt the whole ram on the altar: it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma: it was an offering made by fire to Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

22And he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 23And he killed it; and Moses took of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. 24And he brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot. And Moses threw the blood against the altar all around. 25And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh. 26And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh. 27And he put the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and waved them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 28And Moses took them from their hands, and burnt them on the altar on the burnt offering; they were an ordination for a soothing aroma: it was an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 29And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before Jehovah: it was Moses's portion of the ram of ordination; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

30And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

31And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting; and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.' 32And what remains of the flesh and of the bread will you* burn with fire. 33And you* will not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your ordination be fulfilled; for he will ordain you* seven days. 34As has been done this day, so Jehovah has commanded to do, to make atonement for you*. 35And at the door of the tent of meeting will you* abide day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, so that you* do not die; for so I am commanded." 36And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Jehovah commanded by Moses.

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1And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; 2and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Jehovah. 3And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering; 4and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today Jehovah appears to you*.'" 5And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah. 6And Moses said, "This is the thing which Jehovah commanded that you* should do; and the glory of Jehovah will appear to you*." 7And Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people. And bring the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Jehovah commanded."

8So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, 10but the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe from the liver of the sin offering, he burnt on the altar; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 11And the flesh and the skin he burnt with fire outside the camp.

12And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, and he threw it against the altar all around. 13And they delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head; and he burnt them on the altar. 14And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burnt them on the burnt offering on the altar.

15And he presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, as the first. 16And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance. 17And he presented the grain offering, and filled his hand from it, and burnt it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

18He killed also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he threw against the altar all around, 19and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and what covers [the entrails], and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver. 20And they put the fat on the breasts, and he burnt the fat on the altar. 21And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Jehovah; as Moses commanded.

22And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. 23And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people. 24And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed on the altar the burnt offering and the fat; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

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1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them. 2And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah. 3Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is it that Jehovah spoke, saying, 'I will be sanctified in those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron was silent. 4And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp." 5So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said. 6And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Do not let the hair of your heads go loose or tear your clothes; so that you* do not die, and that he is not angry with all the congregation. But let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, weep over the burning which Jehovah has kindled. 7And you* will not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, or you* will die, for the anointing oil of Jehovah is on you*." And they did according to the word of Moses.

8And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying, 9"Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you* go into the tent of meeting, so that you* do not die—it will be a statute forever throughout your generations— 10and that you* may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 11and that you* may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by Moses."

12And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, for it is most holy; 13and you* will eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; for so I am commanded. 14And the wave breast and the heave thigh will you* eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you; for they are given as your portion and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15The heave thigh and the wave breast will they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Jehovah. And it will be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever, as Jehovah has commanded."

16And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burnt; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying, 17"Why have you* not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you* to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah? 18Behold, its blood was not brought into the sanctuary within: you* should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded." 19And Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah, and there have befallen me such things as these. And if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Jehovah?" 20And when Moses heard [that], it was pleasing in his sight.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you* may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3Whatever parts the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat. 4Nevertheless these you* shall not eat of those who chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you*. 5And the coney, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you*. 6And the hare, because she chews the cud but does not part the hoof, she is unclean to you*. 7And the swine, because he parts the hoof, and is clovenfooted, but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*. 8Of their flesh you* shall not eat, and their carcasses you* will not touch; they are unclean to you*.

9'These may you* eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may you* eat. 10And all that do not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you*, 11and they will be an abomination to you*; you* shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you* will have in abomination. 12Whatever has no fins or scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you*.

13'And these you* will have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the ospray, 14and the kite, and the falcon according to its kind, 15every raven according to its kind, 16and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk according to its kind, 17and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, 18and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture, 19and the stork, the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

20'All winged creeping things that go on all fours are an abomination to you*. 21Yet these may you* eat of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth. 22Even these of them you* may eat: the locust according to its kind, and the bald locust according to its kind, and the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind. 23But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you*.

24'And by these you* will become unclean: whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening. 25And whoever bears [anything] of their carcasses will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. 26Every beast that parts the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you*: everyone who touches them will be unclean. 27And whatever goes on its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean to you*: whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening. 28And he who bears their carcasses will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you*.

29'And these are those who are unclean to you* among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard according to its kind, 30and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and the chameleon. 31These are those who are unclean to you* among all that creep: whoever touches them, when they are dead, will be unclean until the evening. 32And on whatever any of them, when they are dead, falls, it will be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening. Then will it be clean. 33And every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatever is in it will be unclean, and it you* will break. 34All food [in it] which may be eaten, that on which water comes, will be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every [such] vessel will be unclean. 35And every thing on which [any part] of their carcass falls will be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and will be unclean to you*. 36Nevertheless a fountain or a pit in which is a gathering of water will be clean, but what touches their carcass will be unclean. 37And if [anything] of their carcass falls on any sowing seed that is to be sown, it is clean. 38But if water is put on the seed, and [anything] of their carcass fall on it, it is unclean to you*.

39'And if any beast, of which you* may eat, die; he who touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening. 40And he who eats of its carcass will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: he also that bears its carcass will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

41'And every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten. 42Whatever goes on the belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, all swarming things that swarm on the earth, them you* shall not eat, for they are an abomination. 43You* will not make yourselves abominable with any swarming thing that swarms, nor will you* make yourselves unclean with them, that you* should be defiled by them. 44For I am Jehovah your God. Therefore, sanctify yourselves, and be holy, for I am holy: neither will you* defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves on the earth. 45For I am Jehovah who brought you* up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; you* will therefore be holy, for I am holy.'"

46This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms on the earth; 47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceive seed, and bear a boy, then she will be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness will she be unclean. 3And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4And she shall continue in the blood of [her] purifying thirty-three days; she shall touch no consecrated thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. 5But if she bears a maid child, then she will be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of [her] purifying for sixty-six days.

6'And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest. 7And he shall offer it before Jehovah, and make atonement for her; and she will be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that bears, whether a male or a female. 8And if her means do not suffice for a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2"When a man has in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. 3And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh; and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. 4And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up [him who has] the plague seven days. 5And the priest shall look on him the seventh day. And behold, if in his eyes the plague is at a stay, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more. 6And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and behold, if the plague is dim, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 7But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. 8And the priest shall look; and behold, if the scab is spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.

9"When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; 10and the priest shall look; and behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, 11it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. 12And if the leprosy breaks out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of [him who has] the plague from his head to his feet, as far as appears to the priest; 13then the priest shall look; and behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] clean [that has] the plague. It is all turned white; he is clean. 14But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he will be unclean. 15And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy. 16Or if the raw flesh turn again and be changed to white, then he shall come to the priest; 17and the priest shall look on him; and behold, if the plague is turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean [that has] the plague: he is clean.

18"And when the flesh has a boil in the skin, and it is healed, 19and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then is shall be showed to the priest; 20and the priest shall look; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy; it has broken out in the boil. 21But if the priest looks on it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not lower than the skin, but is dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 22And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a plague. 23But if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24"Or when the flesh has on its skin a burning by fire, and the quick [flesh] of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white; 25then the priest shall look on it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burning. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy. 26But if the priest looks on it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no lower than the skin, but is dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 27And the priest shall look on him the seventh day. If it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy. 28And if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but is dim; it is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burning.

29"And when a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, 30then the priest shall look on the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and there is in it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scale; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31And if the priest looks on the plague of the scale, and behold, its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up [him who has] the plague of the scale seven days: 32"And on the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and behold, if the scale has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the scale is not deeper than the skin, 33then he shall be shaven, but the scale he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him who has] the scale seven days more. 34And on the seventh day the priest shall look on the scale; and behold, if the scale has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 35But if the scale spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, 36then the priest shall look on him; and behold, if the scale is spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean. 37But if in his eyes the scale is at a stay, and black hair has grown up in it; the scale is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

38"And when a man or a woman has in the skin of the flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; 39then the priest shall look; and behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh is of a dull white, it is a tetter, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

40"And if a man's hair has fallen off his head, he is bald; [yet] is he clean. 41And if his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; [yet] is he clean. 42But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 43Then the priest shall look on him; and behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh; 44he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.

45"And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head will go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and will cry, Unclean, unclean. 46All the days that the plague is in him he will be unclean; he is unclean. He shall dwell alone; outside the camp will his dwelling be.

47"The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woollen garment, or a linen garment; 48whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; 49if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be showed to the priest. 50And the priest shall look on the plague, and shut up [what has] the plague seven days. 51And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague is spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for; the plague is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean. 52And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is; for it is a malignant leprosy. It shall be burnt in the fire.

53"And if the priest shall look, and behold, the plague is not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; 54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more. 55And the priest shall look, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague has not changed its color, and the plague is not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is corrosive, whether the bareness be inside or outside.

56"And if the priest looks, and behold, the plague is dim after its washing, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. 57And if it appears still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is breaking out. You shall burn that in which the plague is with fire. 58And the garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and will be clean."

59This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"This will be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought to the priest. 3And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and behold, if the plague of leprosy has healed in the leper, 4then will the priest command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 5And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 6As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and will dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. 7And he shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and will pronounce him clean, and will let go the living bird into the open field. 8And he who is to be cleansed will wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he will be clean; and afterward he shall come into the camp, but will dwell outside his tent seven days. 9And it will be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, all his hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he will be clean.

10"And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 11And the priest that cleanses him will set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12And the priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 13And he shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the guilt offering. It is most holy. 14And the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. 15And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand; 16and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and will sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah. 17And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand will the priest put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering. 18And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah. 19And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; 20and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

21"And if he is poor, and cannot get so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; 22and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one will be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. 23And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah. 24And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 25And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. 26And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 27and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah. 28And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. 29And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah. 30And he shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to get, 31even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the grain offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Jehovah. 32This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to get [what pertains] to his cleansing."

33And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 34"When you* have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you* for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35then he who owns the house will come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be something like a plague in the house.' 36And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to see the plague, that all that is in the house is not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house. 37And he shall look on the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and its appearance be lower than the wall; 38then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 39And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and will look; and behold, if the plague is spread in the walls of the house; 40then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place outside the city. 41And he shall cause the house to be scraped within all around, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off, outside the city into an unclean place. 42And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and will plaster the house.

43"And if the plague comes again and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered; 44then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague is spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean. 45And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. 46Moreover, he who goes into the house all the while it is shut up will be unclean until the evening. 47And he who lies in the house will wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house will wash his clothes.

48"And if the priest shall come in, and look, and behold, the plague has not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 49And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 50And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 51And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 52And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet, 53but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field; so will he make atonement for the house; and it will be clean."

54This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scale, 55and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house, 56and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 57to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3And this will be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4Every bed whereon he who has the issue lies will be unclean, and everything whereon he sits will be unclean. 5And whoever touches his bed will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 6And he who sits on anything whereon he who has the issue sat will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 7And he who touches the flesh of him who has the issue will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 8And if he who has the issue spit on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 9And whatever saddle he who has the issue rides on will be unclean. 10And whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until the evening; and he who bears those things will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 11And whomever he who has the issue touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 12And the earthen vessel, which he who has the issue touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

13'And when he who has an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and will be clean. 14And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah to the door of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest. 15And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah for his issue.

16'And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. 17And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. 18The woman also with whom a man will lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

19'And if a woman has an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she will be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her will be unclean until the evening. 20And everything that she lies on in her impurity will be unclean: everything also that she sits on will be unclean. 21And whoever touches her bed will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 22And whoever touches anything that she sits on will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 23And if it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he will be unclean until the evening. 24And if any man lies with her, and her impurity is on him, he will be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies will be unclean.

25'And if a woman has an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she will be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean. 26Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her issue will be to her as the bed of her impurity; and everything whereon she sits will be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 27And whoever touches those things will be unclean, and will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 28But if she is cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean. 29And on the eighth day she shall take to her two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. 30And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness.'

31"Thus will you* separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them."

32This is the law of him who has an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goes from him, so that he is unclean by it; 33and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of him who has an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him who lies with her that is unclean.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah, and died; 2and Jehovah said to Moses, "Speak to Aaron your brother, that he does not come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; so that he does not die, for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat. 3Herewith will Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. 4He will put on the holy linen tunic, and he will have the linen breeches on his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen sash, and he shall be attired with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. And he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. 5And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

6"And Aaron will present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house. 7And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting. 8And Aaron will cast lots on the two goats; one lot for Jehovah, and the other lot for Azazel. 9And Aaron will present the goat on which the lot fell for Jehovah, and offer him for a sin offering. 10But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.

11"And Aaron will present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and will make atonement for himself, and for his house, and will kill the bull of the sin offering that is for himself. 12And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of fragrant incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. 13And he shall put the incense on the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he does not die. 14And he shall take of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat will he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

15"Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat. 16And he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so will he do for the tent of meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. 17And there will be no man in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. 18And he shall go out to the altar that is before Jehovah, and make atonement for it, and will take of the blood of the bull, and of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. 19And he shall sprinkle of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.

20"And when he has finished atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. 21And Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and will send him away by the hand of a man who is in readiness into the wilderness. 22And the goat will bear on him all their iniquities to a solitary land, and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

23"And Aaron will come into the tent of meeting, and will put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and will leave them there. 24And he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. 25And the fat of the sin offering will he burn on the altar. 26And he who lets go the goat for Azazel will wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. 27And the bull of the sin offering, and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. 28And he who burns them will wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

29"And it will be a statute forever to you*: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you* will afflict your souls, and will do no manner of work, the native-born, or the foreigner that sojourns among you*, 30for on this day will atonement be made for you*, to cleanse you*; from all your sins will you* be clean before Jehovah. 31It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you*, and you* will afflict your souls; it is a statute forever. 32And the priest, who will be anointed and who will be ordained to be priest in his father's stead, will make the atonement, and will put on the linen garments, the holy garments. 33And he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. 34And this will be an everlasting statute to you*, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year." And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, saying, 3"Whatever man there be of the house of Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills it outside the camp, 4and has not brought it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an offering to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah: blood will be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. And that man will be cut off from among his people: 5To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Jehovah. 6And the priest shall throw the blood against the altar of Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 7And they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the male goats, after which they play the whore. This will be a statute forever to them throughout their generations."'

8And you shall say to them, 'Whatever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners that sojourn among them, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to Jehovah; that man will be cut off from his people.

10'And whatever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners that sojourn among them, that eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you* on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement because of the life.' 12Therefore I said to the children of Israel, 'No soul of you* will eat blood, nor will any foreigner that sojourns among you* eat blood.' 13And whatever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the foreigners that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

14"For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is [all one] with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, 'You* will eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood: whoever eats it will be cut off.' 15And every soul that eats what dies of itself, or what is torn by beasts, whether he be native-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he will be clean. 16But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity."

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am Jehovah your God. 3After the deeds of the land of Egypt, in which you* dwelt, you* will not do; and after the deeds of the land of Canaan, where I bring you*, you* will not do; nor will you* walk in their statutes. 4My ordinances will you* do, and my statutes will you* keep, to walk in it: I am Jehovah your God. 5You* will therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man do, he will live in them: I am Jehovah.

6'None of you* will approach to any who are related to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Jehovah. 7The nakedness of your father—that is, the nakedness of your mother—you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness. 9The nakedness of your sister, either the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover. 10The nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover, for theirs is your own nakedness. 11The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born of your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near relative. 13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relative. 14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt. 15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. 17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near relatives; it is wickedness. 18And you shall not take a wife as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime.

19'And you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. 20And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. 21And you shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am Jehovah. 22You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination. 23And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; nor will any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it. It is confusion.

24'Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you*. 25And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its iniquity on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants. 26You* therefore will keep my statutes and my ordinances, and will not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the foreigner that sojourns among you*; 27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you*, and the land is defiled); 28so that the land does not vomit you* out also, when you* defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you*. 29For whoever will do any of these abominations, those souls who do them will be cut off from among their people. 30Therefore you* will keep my charge, so that you* do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you*, and so that you* do not defile yourselves in it: I am Jehovah your God.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, 'You* will be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy. 3You* will fear every man his mother and his father; and you* will keep my Sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God. 4Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.

5'And when you* offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you* will offer it that you* may be accepted. 6It shall be eaten the same day you* offer it, and the next day; and if anything remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire. 7And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be accepted, 8but everyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Jehovah; and that soul will be cut off from his people.

9'And when you* reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest. 10And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.

11'You* will not steal; neither will you* deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12And you* will not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God: I am Jehovah.

13'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant will not abide with you all night until the morning. 14You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God: I am Jehovah.

15'You* will do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the mighty; but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor. 16You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor: I am Jehovah.

17'You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Jehovah.

19'You* will keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock gender with a different kind: you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed: neither will there come on you a garment of two kinds of stuff mixed together. 20And whoever lies carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given to her; they shall be punished. They will not be put to death, because she was not free. 21And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a guilt offering. 22And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned, and the sin which he has sinned will be forgiven him. 23And when you* come into the land, and have planted all manner of trees for food, you* will count its fruit as their uncircumcision: three years will they be as uncircumcised to you*; it shall not be eaten. 24But in the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, for giving praise to Jehovah. 25And in the fifth year will you* eat its fruit, that it may yield to you* its increase: I am Jehovah your God.

26'You* will not eat anything with the blood: neither will you* use enchantments, nor practice fortune telling. 27You* will not round off [the hair at] the sides your heads, nor shall you mar the edges of your beard. 28You* will not make any cuts in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you*: I am Jehovah.

29'Do not profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; or the land will fall to prostitution, and the land will become full of wickedness. 30You* will keep my Sabbaths, and revere my sanctuary; I am Jehovah.

31'Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits or to the wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God.

32'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of the old man, and you shall fear your God: I am Jehovah.

33'And if a foreigner sojourns with you in your land, you* will not do him wrong. 34The foreigner that sojourns with you* will be to you* as the native-born among you*, and you shall love him as yourself, for you* were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

35'You* will do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, will you* have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you* out of the land of Egypt. 37And you* will observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Moreover, you shall say to the children of Israel, 'Whoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the foreigners that sojourn in Israel, that gives of his seed to Molech; he will surely be put to death: the people of the land will stone him with stones. 3I also will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given [some] of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not put him to death; 5then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the whore after him, to play the whore with Molech, from among their people.

6'And the soul that turns to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards, to play the whore after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7Therefore, sanctify yourselves, and be holy, for I am Jehovah your God. 8And you* will keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*. 9For everyone who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood will be on him.

10'And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress will surely be put to death. 11And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them will surely be put to death; their blood will be on them. 12And if a man lies with his daughter in law, both of them will surely be put to death; they have wrought confusion; their blood will be on them. 13And if a man lies with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood will be on them. 14And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you*. 15And if a man lies with a beast, he will surely be put to death; and you* will kill the beast. 16And if a woman approaches to any beast, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood will be on them.

17'And if a man will take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 18And if a man will lie with a woman having her sickness, and will uncover her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; and both of them will be cut off from among their people. 19'And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for he has made naked his near kin; they will bear their iniquity. 20And if a man will lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they will bear their sin; they will die childless. 21And if a man will take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.

22'You* will therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land in which I bring you* to dwell, may not vomit you* out. 23And you* will not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you*; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said to you*, You* will inherit their land, and I will give it to you* to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who has separated you* from the peoples. 25You* will therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you* will not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground, which I have separated from you* as unclean. 26And you* will be holy to me; for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you* apart from the peoples, that you* should be mine.

27'A man also or a woman who has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, will surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood will be on them.'"

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1And Jehovah said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'There will none defile himself for the dead among his people; 2except for his kin, that is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3and for his sister a virgin, that is near to him, that has had no husband, for her may he defile himself. 4He will not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5They will not make baldness on their head, neither will they shave off the edge of their beard, nor make any cuts in their flesh. 6They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they offer. Therefore they shall be holy. 7They will not take a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; nor will they take a woman put away from her husband, for he is holy to his God. 8You shall sanctify him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God. He will be holy to you; for I Jehovah, who sanctify you*, am holy. 9And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

10'And he who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is ordained to put on the garments, will not let the hair of his head go loose, nor tear his clothes; 11neither will he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12neither will he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am Jehovah. 13And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a prostitute, these he shall not take; but a virgin of his own people will he take as a wife. 15And he shall not profane his seed among his people, for I am Jehovah who sanctifies him.'"

16And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 17"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'Whoever he be of your seed throughout their generations that has a blemish, do not let him approach to offer the bread of his God. 18For whatever man he be that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous, 19or a man who has a broken foot, or a broken hand, 20or a crooked back, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or has his testicles broken; 21no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, will come near to bring the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22He will eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy: 23only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; so that he does not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.'" 24So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they consecrate to me, and so that they do not profane my holy name: I am Jehovah. 3Say to them, 'Whoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approaches to the holy things, which the children of Israel consecrate to Jehovah, having his uncleanness on him, that soul will be cut off from before me: I am Jehovah. 4Whatever man of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him; 5or whoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has; 6the soul that touches any such will be unclean until the evening, and will not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water. 7And when the sun is down, he will be clean; and afterward he will eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. 8What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am Jehovah. 9They shall therefore keep my charge, or they will bear sin for it, and die in it, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.

10'No foreigner will eat the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, will not eat the holy thing. 11But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money, he will eat of it; and those who are born in his house, they will eat of his bread. 12And if a priest's daughter is married to a foreigner, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things. 13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she will eat of her father's bread; but there will no foreigner eat of it. 14And if a man eats the holy thing unintentionally, then he shall put its fifth part to it, and will give to the priest the holy thing. 15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Jehovah, 16and [so] cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.'"

17And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 18"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, that brings his offering, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Jehovah for a burnt offering; 19that you* may be accepted, [you* will offer] a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20But whatever has a blemish, that you* shall not offer; for it will not be acceptable for you*. 21And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish in it. 22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, you* will not offer these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Jehovah. 23Either a bull or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that may you offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it will not be accepted. 24What has its testicles bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, you* will not offer to Jehovah; nor will you* do [thus] in your land. 25Neither from the hand of a foreigner will you* offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them. They will not be accepted for you*.'"

26And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 27"When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it will be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and from then on it will be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 28And if it is cow or ewe, you* will not kill it and its young both in one day. 29And when you* sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, you* will sacrifice it that you* may be accepted. 30On the same day it shall be eaten; you* will leave none of it until the morning: I am Jehovah. 31Therefore you* will keep my commandments, and do them: I am Jehovah. 32And you* will not profane my holy name; but I will be sanctified among the children of Israel: I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*, 33who brought you* out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah."

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'The set feasts of Jehovah, which you* will proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my set feasts. 3Six days will work be done; but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You* will do no manner of work; it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

4These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which you* will proclaim in their appointed season. 5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is Jehovah's Passover. 6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Jehovah: seven days you* will eat unleavened bread. 7On the first day you* will have a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work. 8But you* will bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah seven days: on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work.'"

9And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* have come into the land which I give to you*, and will reap its harvest, then you* will bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you*: on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12And in the day when you* wave the sheaf, you* will offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Jehovah. 13And its grain offering will be two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Jehovah for a soothing aroma; and its drink offering will be of wine, a fourth of a hin. 14And you* will eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this very day, until you* have brought the offering of your God. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

15'And you* will count to you* from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you* brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths will there be complete: 16even to the day after the seventh Sabbath will you* number fifty days, and you* will offer a new grain offering to Jehovah. 17You* will bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth parts [of an ephah]; they will be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for firstfruits to Jehovah. 18And you* will present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bull, and two rams; they will be a burnt offering to Jehovah, with their grain offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 19And you* will offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs; they will be holy to Jehovah for the priest. 21And you* will make proclamation on the very same day. There will be a holy convocation to you*. You* will do no servile work; it is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

22'And when you* reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.'"

23And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 24"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, will be a solemn rest to you*, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25You* will do no servile work, and you* will bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah.'"

26And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 27"Nevertheless on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it will be a holy convocation to you*, and you* will afflict your souls; and you* will bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 28And you* will do no manner of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you* before Jehovah your God. 29For whatever soul it is that will not be afflicted in that same day; he will be cut off from his people. 30And whatever soul it is that does any manner of work in that same day, that soul I will destroy from among his people. 31You* will do no manner of work; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32It will be to you* a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you* will afflict your souls: on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, will you* keep your Sabbath."

33And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 34"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days to Jehovah. 35On the first day will be a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work. 36Seven days you* will bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah. On the eighth day will be a holy convocation to you*. And you* will bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah; it is a solemn assembly. You* will do no servile work.

37'These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which you* will proclaim to be holy convocations, to bring an offering made by fire to Jehovah, a burnt offering, and a grain offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; 38besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you* give to Jehovah.

39'Nevertheless on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you* have gathered in the fruits of the land, you* will keep the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day will be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day will be a solemn rest. 40And you* will take on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you* will rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. 41And you* will keep it a feast for Jehovah seven days in the year; it is a statute forever throughout your generations. You* will keep it in the seventh month. 42You* will dwell in booths seven days. All that are native-born in Israel will dwell in booths; 43that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.'" 44And Moses declared to the children of Israel the set feasts of Jehovah.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, will Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it will be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4He will keep in order the lamps on the pure lampstand before Jehovah continually.

5"And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts [of an ephah] will be in one cake. 6And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before Jehovah. 7And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial portion, even an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 8Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. 9And it will be for Aaron and his sons. And they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute."

10And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. 11And the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12And they put him in prison, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of Jehovah.

13And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 14"Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God will bear his sin. 16And he who blasphemes the name of Jehovah, he will surely be put to death; all the congregation will certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the native-born, when he blasphemes the name [of Jehovah], will be put to death. 17And he who strikes any man mortally will surely be put to death. 18And he who strikes a beast mortally will make it good, life for life. 19And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so will it be done to him: 20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in a man, so will it be rendered to him. 21And he who kills a beast will make it good, and he who kills a man will be put to death. 22You* will have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the native-born; for I am Jehovah your God.'" 23And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* come into the land which I give you*, then will the land keep a Sabbath to Jehovah. 3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; 4but in the seventh year will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah. You shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. 5What grows of itself of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather: it will be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6And the Sabbath of the land will be for food for you*, for you, and for your servant and for your maid, and for your hired servant and for your foreigner, who sojourns with you. 7And for your livestock, and for the beasts that are in your land, will all its produce be for food.

8'And you shall number seven Sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and there will be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years. 9Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement will you* send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. 10And you* will consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants: it will be a jubilee to you*; and you* will return every man to his possession, and you* will return every man to his family. 11A jubilee will that fiftieth year be to you*; you* will not sow, neither reap what grows of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of the undressed vines. 12For it is a jubilee; it will be holy to you*: you* will eat its produce out of the field.

13'In this year of jubilee you* will return every man to his possession. 14And if you* sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor's hand, you* will not wrong one another. 15According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, [and] according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. 16According to the multitude of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for the number of the crops does he sell to you. 17And you* will not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am Jehovah your God.

18'Therefore you* will do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you* will dwell in the land in safety. 19And the land will yield its fruit, and you* will eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety. 20And if you* will say, What will we eat the seventh year? Behold, we will not sow, nor gather in our increase; 21then I will command my blessing on you* in the sixth year, and it will yield fruit for the three years. 22And you* will sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you* will eat the old store.

23'And the land will not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you* are foreigners and sojourners with me. 24And in all the land of your possession you* will grant a redemption for the land. 25If your brother becomes poor, and sell some of his possession, then will his relative that is next to him come, and will redeem what his brother has sold. 26And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and find sufficient to redeem it; 27then let him reckon the years of its sale, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his possession. 28But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold will remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it will go out, and he shall return to his possession.

29'And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold, for a full year will he have the right of redemption. 30And if it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city will be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. 31But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they will go out in the jubilee. 32Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, will go out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34But the pastureland of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

35'And if your brother becomes poor, and his hand fail with you; then you shall uphold him. [As] a foreigner and a sojourner will he live with you. 36Take no interest of him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. 37You shall not give him your money on interest, nor give him your provisions for increase. 38I am Jehovah your God, who brought you* forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you* the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.

39'And if your brother becomes poor with you, and sell himself to you; you shall not make him serve as a bond servant. 40As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he will be with you; he shall serve with you to the year of jubilee: 41then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and will return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers will he return. 42'For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God. 44And as for your bondmen and your bondmaids, whom you shall have; of the nations that are all around you*, of them will you* buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45'Moreover, of the children of the foreigners that sojourn among you*, of them will you* buy, and of their families that are with you*, which they have begotten in your land; and they will be your possession. 46And you* will make them an inheritance for your children after you*, to hold for a possession. Of them will you* take your bondmen forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel you will not rule, one over another, with rigor.

47'And if a foreigner or sojourner with you has become rich, and your brother has become poor beside him, and sells himself to the foreigner [or] sojourner with you, or to the stock of the foreigner's family; 48after he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brothers may redeem him; 49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is related to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has become rich, he may redeem himself. 50And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale will be according to the number of years. He will be with him according to the time of a hired servant. 51If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years will he give back the price of his redemption. 53He will be with him as a servant hired yearly. He shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight. 54And if he is not redeemed by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him. 55For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

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1'You* will make you* no idols, nor will you* rear you* up a carved image, or a pillar, nor will you* place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God. 2You* will keep my Sabbaths, and revere my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.

3'If you* walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4then I will give your rains in their season, and the land will yield its increase, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. 5And your threshing will reach to the vintage, and the vintage will reach to the sowing time; and you* will eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6And I will give peace in the land, and you* will lie down, and none will make you* afraid; and I will cause wild beasts to cease out of the land, neither will the sword go through your land. 7And you* will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you* by the sword. 8And five of you* will chase one hundred, and one hundred of you* will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you* by the sword. 9And I will turn toward you*, and make you* fruitful and multiply you*, and will establish my covenant with you*. 10And you* will eat old store long kept, and you* will bring forth the old because of the new. 11And I will set my tabernacle among you*, and my soul will not abhor you*. 12And I will walk among you*, and will be your God, and you* will be my people. 13I am Jehovah your God, who brought you* forth out of the land of Egypt, that you* should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you* go upright.

14'But if you* will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15and if you* will reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my ordinances so that you* will not do all my commandments but break my covenant, 16I also will do this to you*: I will appoint terror over you*, even consumption and fever, that will consume the eyes, and make the soul pine away; and you* will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. 17And I will set my face against you*, and you* will be struck before your enemies: those who hate you* will rule over you*; and you* will flee when none pursues you*. 18And if you* will not yet for these things listen to me, then I will chastise you* seven times more for your sins. 19And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze; 20and your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21'And if you* walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you* according to your sins. 22And I will send the beast of the field among you*, which will rob you* of your children, and destroy your livestock, and make you* few in number; and your ways will become desolate. 23And if by these things you* will not be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; 24then I will also walk contrary to you*; and I will strike you*, even I, seven times for your sins. 25And I will bring a sword on you*, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you* will be gathered within your cities. And I will send the pestilence among you*, and you* will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26When I break your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will deliver your bread again by weight; and you* will eat, and not be satisfied.

27And if you* will not for all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me; 28then I will walk contrary to you* in wrath, and I will also chastise you* seven times for your sins. 29And you* will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters will you* eat. 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies on the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you*. 31And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your pleasing aromas. 32And I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it. 33And I will scatter you* among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you*; and your land will be a desolation, and your cities will be a waste.

34'Then will the land enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you* are in your enemies' land; even then will the land rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35As long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest which it had not in your Sabbaths when you* dwelt on it. 36And as for those who are left of you*, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and they will fall when none pursues. 37And they will stumble on one another, as it were before the sword, when none pursues; and you* will have no power to stand before your enemies. 38And you* will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you* up. 39And those who are left of you* will rot away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands, and also in the iniquities of their fathers will they rot away with them.

40'And they will confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me, 41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; 42then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land. 43The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths, while it lies desolate without them. And they will accept of the punishment of their iniquity; precisely because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God; 45but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.'"

46These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man accomplishes a vow, the people will be for Jehovah by your estimation. 3And your estimation will be of the male from twenty years old to sixty years old, even your estimation will be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4And if it is a female, then your estimation will be thirty shekels. 5And if it is from five years old to twenty years old, then your estimation will be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6And if it is from a month old to five years old, then your estimation will be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your estimation will be three shekels of silver. 7And if it is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your estimation will be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8But if he is poorer than your estimation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed will the priest value him.

9'And if it is a beast, of which men bring an offering to Jehovah, all that any man gives of such to Jehovah will be holy. 10He will not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he will at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy. 11And if it is any unclean animal, of which they do not bring an offering to Jehovah, then he shall set the beast before the priest; 12and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad: as you the priest value it, so will it be. 13But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add its fifth part to your estimation.

14'And when a man sanctifies his house to be holy to Jehovah, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so will it stand. 15And if he who sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of the money of your estimation to it, and it will be his.

16'And if a man will sanctify to Jehovah part of the field of his possession, then your estimation will be according to its sowing: the sowing of a homer of barley [will be valued] at fifty shekels of silver. 17If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to your estimation it will stand. 18But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the year of jubilee; and an abatement will be made from your estimation. 19And if he who sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the money of your estimation to it, and it will be assured to him. 20And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more, 21but the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, will be holy to Jehovah, as a field devoted; its possession will be the priest's. 22And if he sanctify to Jehovah a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession; 23then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your estimation to the year of jubilee; and he shall give your estimation in that day, as a holy thing to Jehovah. 24In the year of jubilee the field will return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs. 25And all your estimations will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs will be the shekel.

26'Only the firstborn among beasts, which is made a firstborn to Jehovah, no man will sanctify it; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is Jehovah's. 27And if it is of an unclean animal, then he shall ransom it according to your estimation, and will add to it its fifth part: or if it is not redeemed, then it will be sold according to your estimation.

28'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man will devote to Jehovah of all that he has, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, will be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Jehovah. 29No one devoted, that will be devoted from among men, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death.

30'And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's; it is holy to Jehovah. 31And if a man will redeem anything of his tithe, he shall add to it its fifth part. 32And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy to Jehovah. 33He will not search whether it is good or bad, nor will he change it. And if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy. It will not be redeemed.'"

34These are the commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.

Numbers

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2"Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls; 3from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron will number them by their hosts. 4And with you* there will be a man of every tribe; each one head of his fathers' house. 5And these are the names of the men who will stand with you*. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 8Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar. 9Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. 10Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 11Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 13Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. 14Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan. 16These are those who were called from the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel." 17And Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. 18And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees according to their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20And the children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 21those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were 46,500.

22Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 23those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were 59,300.

24Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 25those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were 45,650. 26Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 27those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were 74,600.

28Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 29those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were 54,400.

30Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 31those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were 57,400.

32Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 33those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were 40,500.

34Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 35those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were 32,200.

36Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 37those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were 35,400.

38Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 39those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were 62,700.

40Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 41those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were 41,500.

42Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war; 43those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were 53,400.

44These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; they were each one for his fathers' house. 45So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war in Israel; 46even all those who were numbered were 603,550.

47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48For Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 49"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take their sum among the children of Israel; 50but appoint you the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furniture, and over all that belongs to it. They will bear the tabernacle, and all its furniture, and they will minister to it, and will encamp around the tabernacle. 51And when the tabernacle sets forward, the Levites will take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites will set it up. And the foreigner that comes near will be put to death. 52And the children of Israel will pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts. 53But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites will keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony." 54Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they did.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2"The children of Israel will encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses: opposite the tent of meeting will they encamp all around. 3And those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise will be those of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts; and the prince of the children of Judah will be Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 4And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 74,600. 5And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar, and the prince of the children of Issachar will be Nethanel the son of Zuar. 6And his army, and those who were numbered of it, were 54,400. 7[And] the tribe of Zebulun, and the prince of the children of Zebulun will be Eliab the son of Helon. 8And his army, and those who were numbered of it, were 57,400. 9All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were 186,400, according to their hosts. They will set forth first.

10"On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts, and the prince of the children of Reuben will be Elizur the son of Shedeur. 11And his army, and those who were numbered of it, were 46,500. 12And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Simeon, and the prince of the children of Simeon will be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 13And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 59,300. 14And the tribe of Gad, and the prince of the children of Gad will be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 15And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 45,650. 16All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were 151,450, according to their hosts. And they will set forth second.

17"Then the tent of meeting will set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so will they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.

18"On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts, and the prince of the children of Ephraim will be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 40,500. 20And next to him will be the tribe of Manasseh, and the prince of the children of Manasseh will be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 21And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 32,200. 22And the tribe of Benjamin, and the prince of the children of Benjamin will be Abidan the son of Gideoni. 23And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 35,400. 24All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were 108,100, according to their hosts. And they will set forth third.

25"On the north side will be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their hosts, and the prince of the children of Dan will be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 62,700. 27And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Asher, and the prince of the children of Asher will be Pagiel the son of Ochran. 28And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 41,500. 29And the tribe of Naphtali, and the prince of the children of Naphtali will be Ahira the son of Enan. 30And his army, and those who were numbered of them, were 53,400. 31All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were 157,600. They will set forth last by their standards."

32These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were 603,550. 33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 34Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, each one by their families, according to their fathers' houses.

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1Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he ordained to minister in the priest's office. 4And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

5And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 6"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. 7And they will keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. 8And they will keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. 9And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. 10And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will keep their priesthood; and the foreigner that comes near will be put to death."

11And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12"And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that opens the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites will be mine, 13for all the firstborn are mine; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated to myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast; mine they will be: I am Jehovah."

14And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward you shall number them." 16And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded. 17And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 22Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were 7,500. 23The families of the Gershonites will encamp behind the tabernacle westward. 24And the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites will be Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting will be the tabernacle, and the Tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, 26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar all around, and its cords for all its service.

27And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. 28According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. 29The families of the sons of Kohath will encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward. 30And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites will be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. 31And their charge will be the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service. 32And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will be prince of the princes of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.

33Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. 34And those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were 6,200. 35And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail; they will encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward. 36And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari will be the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its instruments, and all its service, 37and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords.

38And those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, will be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the foreigner that comes near will be put to death. 39All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

40And Jehovah said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41And you shall take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel": 42and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43And all the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were 22,273.

44And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 45"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites will be mine: I am Jehovah. 46And for the redemption of the 273 of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that are over and above [the number of] the Levites, 47you shall take five shekels apiece by the poll; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs). 48And you shall give the money, with which the odd number of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons." 49And Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those who were redeemed by the Levites; 50from the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money, 1,365 [shekels], according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 51And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2"Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 3from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old, all that enter on the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. 4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, [about] the most holy things: 5when the camp sets forward, Aaron will go in, and his sons, and they will take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it, 6and will put a covering of sealskin on it, and will spread over it a cloth all of blue, and will put in its poles. 7And on the table of showbread they will spread a cloth of blue, and put the dishes on it, and the spoons, and the bowls and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread will be on it. 8And they will spread on them a cloth of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and will put in its poles. 9And they will take a cloth of blue, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. 10And they will put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and will put it on the frame. 11And on the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and will put in its poles. 12And they will take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and will put them on the frame. 13And they will take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. 14And they will put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the firepans, the flesh hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they will spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. 15And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward; afterward, the sons of Kohath will come to bear it; but they will not touch the sanctuary, or they will die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting. 16And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will be the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furniture."

17And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 18"Do* not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons will go in, and appoint them each one to his service and to his burden; 20but they will not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, or they will die."

21And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 22"Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; 23from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old you shall number them; all that enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. 24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: 25they will bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, 26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever will be done with them: in this will they serve. 27At the commandment of Aaron and his sons will be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you* will appoint to them in charge all their burden. 28This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their charge will be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

29"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; 30from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall number them, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting. 31And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, 32and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service; and by name you* will appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden. 33This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."

34And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 35from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered on the service, for work in the tent of meeting. 36And those who were numbered of them by their families were 2,750. 37These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of Jehovah by Moses. 38And those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses, 39from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered on the service, for work in the tent of meeting, 40even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were 2,630. 41These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of Jehovah.

42And those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 43from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered on the service, for work in the tent of meeting, 44even those who were numbered of them by their families, were 3,200. 45These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of Jehovah by Moses.

46All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 47from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting, 48even those who were numbered of them, were 8,580. 49According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead: 3both male and female will you* put out, outside the camp will you* put them; so that they do not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell." 4And the children of Israel did so, and put them out outside the camp; as Jehovah spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

5And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 6"Speak to the children of Israel, 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah, and that soul will be guilty; 7then he will confess his sin which he has done; and he will make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it its fifth part, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty. 8But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt that is made to Jehovah will be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement will be made for him. 9And every contribution of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, will be his. 10And every man's sacred things will be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it will be his.'"

11And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13and a man lie with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act; 14and the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled: 15then will the man bring his wife to the priest, and will bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he will pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

16'And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah. 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. 18And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the grain offering of memorial in her hands, that is, the grain offering of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causes the curse. 19And the priest shall cause her to swear, and will say to the woman, "If no man have lain with you and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that causes the curse. 20But if you have gone aside, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man have lain with you besides your husband," 21(then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman), "Jehovah make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Jehovah makes your thigh fall away, and your body swell; 22and this water that causes the curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." And the woman will say, "Amen, Amen."

23'And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he will blot them out into the water of bitterness. 24And he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse, and the water that causes the curse will enter into her [and become] bitter. 25And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and will wave the grain offering before Jehovah, and bring it to the altar. 26And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward will make the woman drink the water. 27And when he has made her drink the water, it will come to pass, if she is defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her [and become] bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people. 28And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she will be free, and will conceive seed.

29'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes aside, and is defiled; 30or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he will set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. 31And the man will be free from iniquity, and that woman will bear her iniquity.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When either man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Jehovah, 3he will separate himself from wine and strong drink; he will drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither will he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 4All the days of his separation will he eat nothing that is made of the grape vine, from the kernels to the husk.

5All the days of his vow of separation there will no razor come on his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Jehovah, he will be holy; he will let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

6All the days that he separates himself to Jehovah he will not come near to a dead body. 7He will not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head. 8All the days of his separation he is holy to Jehovah.

9And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he will shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day will he shave it. 10And on the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. 11And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, for he sinned because of the dead, and will consecrate his head that same day. 12And he will separate to Jehovah the days of his separation, and will bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void, because his separation was defiled.

13'And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he will be brought to the door of the tent of meeting. 14And he will bring his offering to Jehovah, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 15and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their grain offering, and their drink offerings. 16And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and will offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering. 17And he will offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also its grain offering, and its drink offering. 18And the Nazirite will shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and will take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. 19And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and will put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven [the head of] his separation; 20and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. This is holy for the priest, together with the wave breast and heave thigh; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.'

21"This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, [and of] his offering to Jehovah for his separation, besides what he is able to get: according to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation."

22And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 23"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'In this way you* will bless the children of Israel: you* will say to them,

24"Jehovah bless you, and keep you:

25"Jehovah make his face shine on you, and be gracious to you:

26"Jehovah lift up his countenance on you, and give you peace."'

27So will they put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them."

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1And it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it and all its furniture and the altar and all its vessels, and had anointed them and sanctified them; 2that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are those who were over those who were numbered. 3And they brought their offering before Jehovah, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle. 4And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 5"Take it of them, that they may be [used] in doing the service of the tent of meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service." 6And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. 7Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service. 8And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 9But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they bore it on their shoulders. 10And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, and the princes offered their offering before the altar. 11And Jehovah said to Moses, "They will bring their offering, each leader on his day, for the dedication of the altar."

12And he who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. 13And his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 14one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 15one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 16one male of the goats for a sin offering; 17and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

18On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, offered: 19he offered for his offering one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 20one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 21one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 22one male of the goats for a sin offering; 23and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

24On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun.: 25his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 26one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 27one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 28one male of the goats for a sin offering; 29and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

30On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben: 31his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 32one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 33one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 34one male of the goats for a sin offering; 35and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

36On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon: 37his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 38one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 39one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 40one male of the goats for a sin offering; 41and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

42On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad: 43his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 44one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 45one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 46one male of the goats for a sin offering; 47and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

48On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim: 49his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 50one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 51one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 52one male of the goats for a sin offering; 53and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

54On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: 55his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 56one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 57one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 58one male of the goats for a sin offering; 59and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

60On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin: 61his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 62one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 63one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 64one male of the goats for a sin offering; 65and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

66On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan: 67his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 68one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 69one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 70one male of the goats for a sin offering; 71and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

72On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher: 73his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 74one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 75one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 76one male of the goats for a sin offering; 77and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

78On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali: 79his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred a thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 80one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; 81one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 82one male of the goats for a sin offering; 83and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

84This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons; 85each silver platter [weighing] 130 [shekels], and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels 2,400 [shekels], according to the shekel of the sanctuary; 86the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons 120 [shekels]; 87all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their grain offering; and the males of the goats for a sin offering twelve; 88and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.

89And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, he heard the Voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to Aaron, and say to him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the lampstand.'" 3And Aaron did so; he lighted its lamps [so as to give light] in front of the lampstand, as Jehovah commanded Moses. 4And this was the work of the lampstand, beaten work of gold; to its base, [and] to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Jehovah had showed Moses, so he made the lampstand.

5And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 6"Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7And this is what you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation on them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. 8Then let them take a young bull, and its grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and you shall take another young bull for a sin offering. 9And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting, and you shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel. 10And you shall present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of Israel will lay their hands on the Levites. 11And Aaron will offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Jehovah. 12And the Levites will lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; and offer you the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, to Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites. 13And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave offering to Jehovah.

14"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine. 15And afterward will the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting; and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for a wave offering. 16For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that opens the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me. 17For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. 18And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 19And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."

20Thus Moses did, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites: according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel to them. 21And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes. And Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Jehovah, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. 22And afterward the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

23And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 24"This is what belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they will go in to wait on the service in the work of the tent of meeting. 25And from the age of fifty years they will cease waiting on the work, and will serve no more, 26but will minister with their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and will do no service. Thus you shall do to the Levites concerning their charges."

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2"Moreover, let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. 3On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you* will keep it in its appointed season: according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances will you* keep it." 4And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. 5And they kept the Passover in the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. 6And there were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 7And those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man; why are we kept back, that we may not bring the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?" 8And Moses said to them, "Stay, that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you*."

9And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If any man of you* or your generations will be unclean because of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he will keep the Passover to Jehovah. 11In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening they will keep it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs: 12they will leave none of it to the morning, nor break a bone of it: according to all the statute of the Passover they will keep it. 13But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and refrains from keeping the Passover, that soul will be cut off from his people; because he did not offer the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man will bear his sin. 14And if a foreigner will sojourn among you*, and will keep the Passover to Jehovah; according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance so will he do: you* will have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him who is born in the land.'"

15And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at evening it was on the tabernacle something like the appearance of fire, until morning. 16So it was always: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 17And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then afterward the children of Israel journeyed; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. 18At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped: as long as the cloud abode on the tabernacle they remained encamped. 19And when the cloud remained on the tabernacle many days, the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and did not journey. 20And sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the command of Jehovah they remained encamped, and according to the command of Jehovah they journeyed. 21And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or [if it continued] by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 22Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud remained on the tabernacle, abiding on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and did not journey; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. 23At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed; they kept the charge of Jehovah, at the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Make two trumpets of silver. Of beaten work you shall make them, and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. 3And when they blow them, all the congregation will gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting. 4And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will gather themselves to you. 5And when you* blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side will take their journey. 6And when you* blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side will take their journey; they will blow an alarm for their journeys. 7But when the assembly is to be gathered, you* will blow, but you* will not sound an alarm. 8And the sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow the trumpets; and they will be a statute for you* forever throughout your generations. 9And when you* go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresses you*, you* will sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you* will be remembered before Jehovah your God, and you* will be saved from your enemies. 10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you* will blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they will be a memorial for you* before your God: I am Jehovah your God."

11And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 12And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. 13And they first took their journey according to the command of Jehovah by Moses. 14And in the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts, and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15And over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. 16And over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 17And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, set forward. 18And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts, and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19And over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20And over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

21And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary; and [the others] set up the tabernacle against their coming. 22And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their hosts, and over his army was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23And over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 24And over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

25And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts; and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26And over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. 27And over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. 28Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts, and they set forward.

29And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses's father in law, "We are journeying to the place of which Jehovah said, 'I will give it to you*.' Come with us, and we will do you good, for Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel." 30And he said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives." 31And he said, "Please do not leave us; since you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes. 32And it will be, if you go with us, yes, it will be, that whatever good Jehovah will do to us, we will do the same to you."

33And they set forward from the mountain of Jehovah three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. 34And the cloud of Jehovah was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. 35And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, O Jehovah, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you." 36And when it rested, he said, "Return, O Jehovah, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."

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1And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Jehovah; and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled. And the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. 2And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah, and the fire abated. 3And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.

4And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat? 5We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt free of charge; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, 6but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all except this manna to look on." 7And the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. 8The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and its taste was as the taste of fresh oil. 9And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. 10And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased. 11And Moses said to Jehovah, "Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father carries the nursing child, to the land which you swore to their fathers'? 13From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us flesh, that we may eat.' 14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15And if you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and do not let me see my wretchedness."

16And Jehovah said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. 17And I will come down and talk with you there, and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they will bear the burden of the people with you, that you do not bear it yourself alone. 18And say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you* will eat flesh, for you* have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Jehovah will give you* flesh, and you* will eat. 19You* will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 20but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you*; because you* have rejected Jehovah who is among you*, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come forth out of Egypt?"'" 21And Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh,' that they may eat a whole month. 22Will flocks and herds be killed for them, to suffice them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered for them, to suffice them?" 23And Jehovah said to Moses, "Has Jehovah's hand grown short? Now you shall see whether my word will come to pass to you or not."

24And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. 25And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders; and it came to pass that, when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

26But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. And they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 27And a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp." 28And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, "My lord Moses, forbid them." 29And Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish all Jehovah's people were prophets, and Jehovah would put his Spirit on them!" 30And Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

31And there went out a wind from Jehovah, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. 32And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. 33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very great plague. 34And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted. 35From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they abode at Hazeroth.

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1And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. 2And they said, "Has Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? Has he not spoken also with us?" And Jehovah heard it. 3Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all the men who were on the face of the earth.

4And Jehovah spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, "Come out you* three to the tent of meeting." And they three came out. 5And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. 6And he said, "Hear now my words: if there is a prophet among you*, I Jehovah will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. 7My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house: 8with him I will speak mouth to mouth, even clearly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah will he behold, why then were you* not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"

9And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them, and he departed. 10And the cloud removed from over the Tent, and behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow; and Aaron looked on Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please do not lay sin on us, for we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. 12Do not let her, I pray, be like one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb." 13And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, "Heal her, O God, I beg of you." 14And Jehovah said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and afterward she will be brought in again." 15And Miriam was shut up outside the camp seven days, and the people did not journey until Miriam was brought in again.

16And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers will you* send a man, each one a prince among them." 3And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the command of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. 4And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up this way by the Negeb, and go up into the hill country. 18And see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 19and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; 20and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood in it, or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to Lebo-hamath. 22And they went up by the Negeb, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24That place was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

25And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. 26And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27And they told him and said, "We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. And this is its fruit. 28Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great; and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29Amalek dwells in the land of the Negeb; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."

30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once, and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it." 31But the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." 32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

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1And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3And why does Jehovah bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?"

4And they said to one another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes. 7And they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. 8If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land that flows with milk and honey. 9Only do not rebel against Jehovah, nor fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us; do not fear them." 10But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.

11And Jehovah said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have performed among them? 12I will afflict them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

13And Moses said to Jehovah, "Then the Egyptians will hear it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them; 14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Jehovah are in the midst of this people, for you Jehovah are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16'Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has killed them in the wilderness.' 17And now, please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, 18'Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.' 19Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your lovingkindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."

20And Jehovah said, "I have pardoned according to your word, 21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth will be filled with the glory of Jehovah; 22because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; 23surely they will not see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor will any of those who despised me see it, 24but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went; and his seed will possess it. 25Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and set out to the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

26And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27"How long [will I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28Say to them, 'As I live,' declares Jehovah, 'surely as you* have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you*: 29your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you*, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, 30surely you* will not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you* dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31But your little ones, that you* said should be a prey, them I will bring in, and they will know the land which you* have rejected. 32But as for you*, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33And your children will be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and will bear your prostitutions, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 34After the number of the days in which you* spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, will you* bear your iniquities, forty years, and you* will know my alienation. 35I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation, that are gathered against me: in this wilderness they will be consumed, and there they will die.'"

36And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, 37even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah. 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

39And Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. 40And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Jehovah has promised; for we have sinned." 41And Moses said, "Why do you* now transgress the commandment of Jehovah, since it will not prosper? 42Do not go up, for Jehovah is not among you*; that you* will not be struck down before your enemies. 43For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you*, and you* will fall by the sword: because you* are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you*." 44But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart out of the camp. 45Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain, and defeated them and beat them down, to Hormah.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you*, 3and will make an offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a soothing aroma to Jehovah, of the herd, or of the flock; 4then will he who brings his offering offer to Jehovah a grain offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil. 5And you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 6Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a grain offering two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. 7And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 8And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Jehovah; 9then he will offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil. 10And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

11'Thus will it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the kids. 12According to the number that you* will prepare, so will you* do to each one according to their number. 13All that are native-born will do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 14And if a foreigner sojourns with you*, or whoever may be among you* throughout your generations, and will bring an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah; as you* do, so he will do. 15For the assembly, there will be one statute for you*, and for the foreigner that sojourns [with you*], a statute forever throughout your generations: as you* are, so will the sojourner be before Jehovah. 16One law and one ordinance will be for you*, and for the foreigner that sojourns with you*.'"

17And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 18"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* come into the land where I bring you*, 19then it will be, that, when you* eat of the bread of the land, you* will offer up a contribution to Jehovah. 20Of the first of your dough you* will offer up a cake for a contribution: as the contribution of the threshing floor, so will you* offer it up. 21Of the first of your dough you* will give to Jehovah a contribution throughout your generations.

22'And when you* err, and do not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah has spoken to Moses, 23even all that Jehovah has commanded you* by Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 24then it will be, if it is done unintentionally, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation will offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma to Jehovah, with its grain offering, and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. 25And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they will be forgiven, for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Jehovah, and their sin offering before Jehovah, for their error. 26And all the congregation of the children of Israel will be forgiven, and the foreigner that sojourns among them, for in respect of all the people it was done unintentionally.

27'And if one person sins unintentionally, then he will offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 28And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins unintentionally, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he will be forgiven. 29You* will have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the foreigner that sojourns among them. 30But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be native-born or a sojourner, he blasphemes Jehovah; and that soul will be cut off from among his people. 31Because he has despised the word of Jehovah, and has broken his commandment, that soul will utterly be cut off; his iniquity will be on him.'"

32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 34And they put him in prison, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. 35And Jehovah said to Moses, "The man will surely be put to death: all the congregation will stone him with stones outside the camp." 36And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

37And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 38"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue. 39And it will be a fringe for you*, that you* may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that you* do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you* use to play the whore; 40that you* may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. 41I am Jehovah your God, who brought you* out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah your God."

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1Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]. 2And they rose up before Moses, with certain men of the children of Israel, 250 princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; 3and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You* take too much on you*, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Jehovah is among them; why then do you* lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?"

4And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face. 5And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he will choose will he cause to come near to him. 6Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company; 7and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Jehovah tomorrow; and it will be that the man whom Jehovah chooses, he [will be] holy: you* take too much on you*, you* sons of Levi." 8And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you* sons of Levi: 9[it seems but] a small thing to you*, that the God of Israel has separated you* from the congregation of Israel, to bring you* near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; 10and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And do you* seek the priesthood also? 11Therefore you and all your company are gathered against Jehovah; and Aaron, what is he who you* murmur against him?"

12And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We will not come up. 13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also make yourself also a prince over us? 14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up."

15And Moses was very angry and said to Jehovah, "Do not respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them." 16And Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company be present before Jehovah, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. 17And take every man his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you* before Jehovah every man his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer." 18And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. 19And Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of meeting, and the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the congregation.

20And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 21"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." 22And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?" 23And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 24"Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Go up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'"

25And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 26And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Please depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, so you* are not consumed in all their sins." 27So they went up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. 28And Moses said, "By this you* will know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind. 29If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah has not sent me. 30But if Jehovah makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you* will understand that these men have despised Jehovah."

31And it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 32and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. 33So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34And all Israel that were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "So the earth will not swallow us up." 35And fire came forth from Jehovah and devoured the 250 men who offered the incense.

36And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 37"Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire far away, for they are holy, 38even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates as a covering for the altar; for they offered them before Jehovah. Therefore they are holy; and they will be a sign to the children of Israel." 39And Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out as a covering for the altar, 40to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no foreigner, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he will not be like Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah spoke to him by Moses.

41But the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You* have killed the people of Jehovah." 42And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Jehovah appeared. 43And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. 44And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 45"Go up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces. 46And Moses said to Aaron, "Take they censer, and put fire in it from the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah. The plague is begun." 47And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague was begun among the people. And he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. 48And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stayed. 49Now those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides those who died about the matter of Korah. 50And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stayed.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's name on his rod. 3And you* shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi, for there will be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses. 4And you shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. 5And it will come to pass that the rod of the man whom I will choose will bud; and I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel cease from me, which they murmur against you." 6And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him rods, for each leader one, according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. 7And Moses laid up the rods before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.

8And it came to pass the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. 9And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel; and they looked, and took every man his rod. 10And Jehovah said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a sign against the children of rebellion; that you* may put an end to their murmurings against me, so that they do not die." 11Thus Moses did: as Jehovah commanded him, so he did.

12And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 13Everyone who comes near, that comes near to the tabernacle of Jehovah, dies; will we perish all of us?"

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1And Jehovah said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you will bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you will bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2And your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you will be before the tent of the testimony. 3And they will keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they will not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, so that they do not die, neither they, nor you*. 4And they will be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent; and a foreigner will not come near to you*. 5And you* will keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there will no longer be wrath on the children of Israel. 6And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you* they are a gift, given to Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 7And you and your sons with you will keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you* will serve: I give you* the priesthood as a service of gift. And the foreigner that comes near will be put to death."

8And Jehovah said to Aaron, "And I, behold, I have given you the charge of my contributions, all the consecrated things of the children of Israel; to you I have given them as a consecrated portion, and to your sons, as a portion forever. 9This will be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every guilt offering of theirs, which they will render to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons. 10As the most holy things you shall eat it; every male will eat it: it will be holy to you. 11And this is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house will eat it. 12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, their firstfruits which they give to Jehovah, to you I have given them. 13The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Jehovah, will be yours; everyone who is clean in your house will eat it. 14Everything devoted in Israel will be yours. 15Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Jehovah, both of man and beast will be yours; nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals. 16And you shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall throw their blood against the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a soothing aroma to Jehovah. 18And their flesh will be yours, as the wave breast and as the right thigh, it will be yours. 19All the contributions of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Jehovah, I have given to you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to you and to your seed with you." 20And Jehovah said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

21"And to the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they serve, the service of the tent of meeting. 22And the children of Israel will no longer come near the tent of meeting, or they will bear sin, and die. 23But the Levites will do the service of the tent of meeting, and they will bear their iniquity: it will be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no inheritance. 24For the tithe from the children of Israel, which they offer as a contribution to Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no inheritance."

25And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 26"Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites, and say to them, 'When you* take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you* from them for your inheritance, then you* will offer up a contribution of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe. 27And your contribution will be reckoned to you*, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. 28Thus you* also will offer a contribution to Jehovah of all your tithes, which you* receive from the children of Israel; and of it you* will give Jehovah's contribution to Aaron the priest. 29Out of all your gifts you* will offer every contribution of Jehovah, of all its best, its consecrated part out of it.' 30Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you* heave its best from it, then it will be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31And you* will eat it in every place, you* and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32And you* will bear no sin because of it, when you* have heaved from it its best; and you* will not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, so that you* do not die.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2"This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke. 3And you* will give her to Eleazar the priest, and he will bring her forth outside the camp, and one will kill her before his face. 4And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5And one will burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, will he burn. 6And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he will bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he will come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. 8And he who burns her will wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and will be unclean until the evening. 9And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place; and it will be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering. 10And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; and it will be to the children of Israel, and to the foreigner that sojourns among them, for a statute forever.

11'He who touches the dead body of any man will be unclean seven days: 12he will purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he will not be clean. 13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul will be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he will be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

14'This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean seven days. 15And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. 16And whoever in the open field touches one who is killed with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. 17And for the unclean they will take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and running water will be put with it in a vessel. 18And a clean person will take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the people who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. 19And the clean person will sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he will purify him. And he will wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and will be clean at evening.

20'But the man who will be unclean, and will not purify himself, that soul will be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity has not been thrown on him; he is unclean. 21And it will be a perpetual statute to them; and he who sprinkles the water for impurity will wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening. 22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the soul that touches it will be unclean until evening.'"

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1And the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people abode in Kadesh. And Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2And there was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "If only we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah! 4And why have you* brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? 5And why have you* made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink." 6And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to them. 7And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 8"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock, so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink." 9And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him.

10And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you* rebels; will we bring you* forth water out of this rock?" 11And Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock. 12And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you* did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you* will not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." 13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

14And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "Thus says your brother Israel, 'You know all the hardship that has befallen us: 15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers. 16And when we cried to Jehovah, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us forth out of Egypt. And behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border. 17Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, nor will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.'" 18And Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, or I will come out with the sword against you." 19And the children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway. And if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price; let me only pass through on my feet, nothing more." 20And he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. 21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him.

22And they journeyed from Kadesh; and the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. 23And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron on Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, 24"Aaron will be gathered to his people, for he will not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you* rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. 25Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; 26and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron will be gathered [to his people], and will die there." 27And Moses did as Jehovah commanded, and they went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 29And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.

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1And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 2And Israel vowed a vow to Jehovah and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." 3And Jehovah listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. And the name of the place was called Hormah.

4And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to circle the land of Edom; and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you* brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread." 6And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah, and against you; pray to Jehovah, that he take away the serpents from us." And Moses prayed for the people. 8And Jehovah said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it will come to pass that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, will live." 9And Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the standard; and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of bronze, he lived.

10And the children of Israel journeyed and encamped in Oboth. 11And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, to the east. 12From there they journeyed and encamped in the valley of Zered. 13From there they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

16And from there [they journeyed] to Beer: that is the well of which Jehovah said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah;

19and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

21And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22"Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border." 23And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. But Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel. 24And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25And Israel took all these cities. And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

31Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 32And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

33And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 34And Jehovah said to Moses, "Do not fear him; for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon." 35So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land.

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1And the children of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. And Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now will this multitude lick up all that is all around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. 5And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide opposite me. 6Therefore, come now, please curse me this people, for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I will prevail, that we may defeat them, and that I may drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. 8And he said to them, "Lodge here tonight, and I will bring you* word again, as Jehovah will speak to me; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam." 9And God came to Balaam and said, "What men are these with you?" 10And Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying], 11'Behold, the people who have come out of Egypt, it covers the face of the earth. Now, come curse me them; perhaps I will be able to fight against them, and will drive them out.'" 12And God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed." 13And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to Balak's officials, "Go to your land, for Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you*." 14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they. 16And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me, 17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Therefore please curse me this people.'" 18And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more. 19Now therefore, please remain also here tonight, that I may know what Jehovah will speak to me more." 20And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

21And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. 22And God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of Jehovah placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23And the donkey saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. 24Then the angel of Jehovah stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. 25And the donkey saw the angel of Jehovah, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and he struck her again. 26And the angel of Jehovah went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. 27And the donkey saw the angel of Jehovah, and she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff. 28And Jehovah opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?" 29And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you." 30And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you?" And he said, "No."

31Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. 32And the angel of Jehovah said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me. 33And the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even killed you and saved her alive." 34And Balaam said to the angel of Jehovah, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again." 35And the angel of Jehovah said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I will speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with Balak's officials.

36And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. 37And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?" 38And Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you; have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, I will speak it." 39And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth. 40And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep and sent [some] to Balaam and to the princes that were with him.

41And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

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1And Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams." 2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram. 3And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height. 4And God met Balaam; and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar." 5And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this is how you shall speak." 6And he returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

11And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether." 12And he answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak what Jehovah puts in my mouth?"

13And Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse me them from there." 14And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 15And he said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Jehovah] over there." 16And Jehovah met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this is how you shall speak." 17And he came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Jehovah spoken?"

25And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." 26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'All that Jehovah speaks, that I must do'?" 27And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there." 28And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. 29And Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams." 30And Balak did as Balaam had said and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

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1And when Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, he did not go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 2And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

10And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. 11Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Jehovah has kept you back from honor." 12And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak also to your messengers that you sent to me, saying, 13'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Jehovah speaks, I will speak it'? 14And now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days."

25And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

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1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the whore with the daughters of Moab, 2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. 3And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor, and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel. 4And Jehovah said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel." 5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you* kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor."

6And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. 7And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9And those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

10And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 11"Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace. 13And it will be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"

14Now the name of the man of Israel that was killed, who was killed with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a father's house among the Simeonites. 15And the name of the Midianitish woman who was killed was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a father's house in Midian.

16And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 17"Vex the Midianites, and destroy them; 18for they vex you* with their schemes, with which they have deceived you* in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."

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1And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2"Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go out to war in Israel." 3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 4"[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt."

5Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 6of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were 43,730. 8And the sons of Pallu: Eliab. 9And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called from the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Jehovah, 10and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a sign. 11Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah did not die.

12The sons of Simeon according to their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; 13of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. 14These are the families of the Simeonites, 20,200.

15The sons of Gad according to their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; 16of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; 17of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites. 18These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, 40,500.

19The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 20And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. 21And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. 22These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, 76,500.

23The sons of Issachar according to their families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; 24of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 25These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, 64,300.

26The sons of Zebulun according to their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 27These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, 60,500.

28The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. 29The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. 30These are the sons of Gilead: [of] Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; 31and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 32and [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 33And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 34These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were 52,700.

35These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. 36And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. 37These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

38The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 39of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. 40And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. 41These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600.

42These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families. 43All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were 64,400.

44The sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites. 45Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. 46And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. 47These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, 53,400.

48The sons of Naphtali according to their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 49of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. 50These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,400.

51These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, 601,730.

52And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 53"To these the land will be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. 54To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to each one according to those who were numbered of him will his inheritance be given. 55Notwithstanding, the land will be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they will inherit. 56According to the lot will their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer."

57And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 58These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath fathered Amram. 59And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. 60And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 61And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah. 62And those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Israel.

63These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 64But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65For Jehovah had said of them, "They will surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun."

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1Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, 3"Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons. 4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father." 5And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.

6And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 7"The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. 8And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you* will cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. 9And if he have no daughter, then you* will give his inheritance to his brothers. 10And if he have no brothers, then you* will give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 11And if his father have no brothers, then you* will give his inheritance to his relative that is next to him of his family, and he will possess it; and it will be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.'"

12And Jehovah said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and look at the land which I have given to the children of Israel. 13And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered; 14because you* rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) 15And Moses spoke to Jehovah, saying, 16"Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, 17who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Jehovah will not be like sheep that have no shepherd." 18And Jehovah said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; 19and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. 20And you shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. 21And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah: at his word will they go out, and at his word they will come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, all the congregation." 22And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation. 23And he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Jehovah spoke by Moses.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Command the children of Israel, and say to them, 'My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, a soothing aroma to me, will you* observe to offer to me in their due season.' 3And you shall say to them, 'This is the offering made by fire which you* will offer to Jehovah: male lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 4You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening; 5and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil. 6It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained on Mount Sinai for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 7And its drink offering will be a fourth of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Jehovah. 8And you shall offer the other lamb at evening: as the grain offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

9And on the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering: 10this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.

11'And in the beginnings of your months you* will offer a burnt offering to Jehovah: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 12and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering to every lamb, for a burnt offering a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 14And their drink offerings will be half a hin of wine for a bull, and a third of a hin for the ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. 15And one male goat for a sin offering to Jehovah; it will be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.

16'And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Jehovah's Passover. 17And on the fifteenth day of this month will be a feast: seven days will unleavened bread be eaten. 18On the first day will be a holy convocation: you* will do no servile work; 19but you* will bring an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Jehovah: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they will be to you* without blemish; 20and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenth parts will you* offer for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram; 21you shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 22and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you*. 23You* will offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24After this manner you* will offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah: it will be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 25And on the seventh day you* will have a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work.

26'Also in the day of the firstfruits, when you* offer a new grain offering to Jehovah in your [feast of] weeks, you* will have a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work; 27but you* will offer a burnt offering for a soothing aroma to Jehovah: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 28and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 29a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 30one male goat, to make atonement for you*. 31Besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, you* will offer them (they will be to you* without blemish), and their drink offerings.

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1'And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you* will have a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you*. 2And you* will offer a burnt offering for a soothing aroma to Jehovah: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 3and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, 4and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 5and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you*; 6besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.

7'And on the tenth day of this seventh month you* will have a holy convocation; and you* will afflict your souls: you* will do no manner of work; 8but you* will offer a burnt offering to Jehovah for a soothing aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they will be to you* without blemish; 9and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 10a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: 11one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.

12'And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you* will have a holy convocation; you* will do no servile work, and you* will keep a feast for Jehovah seven days. 13And you* will offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they will be without blemish; 14and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, 15and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; 16and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

17'And on the second day [you* will offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 18and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 19and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.

20And on the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 21and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 22and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and its drink offering.

23'And on the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 24their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 25and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

26'And on the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 27and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 28and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and its drink offering.

29'And on the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 30and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 31and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offerings.

32'And on the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 33and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 34and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

35'On the eighth day you* will have a solemn assembly: you* will do no servile work; 36but you* will offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 37their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, will be according to their number, after the ordinance, 38and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and its drink offering.

39'These you* will offer to Jehovah in your set feasts, besides your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.'" 40And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses.

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1And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded. 2When a man vows a vow to Jehovah, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he will not break his word; he will do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. 3Also when a woman vows a vow to Jehovah, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, 4and her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows will stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul will stand. 5But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, will stand; and Jehovah will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

6"And if she is [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, 7and her husband hear it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows will stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul will stand. 8But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he will make void her vow that is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. And Jehovah will forgive her. 9But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, will stand against her. 10And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 11and her husband heard it and said nothing to her and did not disallow her; then all her vows will stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul will stand. 12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, will not stand: her husband has made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her.

13"Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 14But if her husband altogether says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them. 15But if he will make them null and void after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity." 16These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people." 3And Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm you* men from among you* for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah's vengeance on Midian. 4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, will you* send to the war." 5So there were selected, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. 7And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they killed every male. 8And they killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword. 9And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. 10And all their cities in the places in which they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. 11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast. 12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

13And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside the camp. 14And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. 15And Moses said to them, "Have you* saved all the women alive? 16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah. 17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19And encamp you* outside the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you* and your captives. 20And as for every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you* will purify yourselves."

21And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded Moses. 22Nevertheless, the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23everything that may abide the fire, you* will put through the fire, and it will be clean. Nevertheless, it will be purified with the water for impurity, and all that does not abide the fire you* will put through the water. 24And you* will wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you* will be clean, and afterward you* will come into the camp."

25And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 26"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation; 27and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation. 28And levy a tribute to Jehovah of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the people, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks: 29take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah's contribution. 30And of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah." 31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was 675,000 sheep, 33and 72,000 oxen, 34and 71,000 donkeys, 35and 32,000 people in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. 36And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number 337,500 sheep. 37And Jehovah's tribute of the sheep was 675. 38And the oxen were 36,000; of which Jehovah's tribute was 72. 39And the donkeys were 30,500; of which Jehovah's tribute was 71. 40And the people were sixteen thousand; of whom Jehovah's tribute was thirty-two people. 41And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah's contribution, to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

42And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred 43(now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep, 44and thirty-six thousand oxen, 45and 30,500 donkeys, 46and sixteen thousand people), 47even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

48And the officers that were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; 49and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there does not lack one man of us. 50And we have brought Jehovah's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, anklets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and armlets to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah." 51And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, all wrought jewels. 52And all the gold of the contribution that they offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels. 53([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) 54And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.

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1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for livestock; 2the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, 3"Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4the land which Jehovah struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock." 5And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over the Jordan."

6And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to the war, and will you* sit here? 7And why do you* discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them? 8Thus your fathers did, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them. 10And Jehovah's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, 11'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, will see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 12except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Jehovah.' 13And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed. 14And behold, you* have risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. 15For if you* turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you* will destroy all this people".

16And they came near to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, 17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond; because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

20And Moses said to them, "If you* will do this thing, if you* will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war, 21and every armed man of you* will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, 22and the land is subdued before Jehovah; then afterward you* will return, and be guiltless toward Jehovah, and toward Israel. And this land will be a possession for you* before Jehovah. 23But if you* will not do so, behold, you* have sinned against Jehovah; and be sure your sin will find you* out. 24Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do what has proceeded out of your mouth."

25And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. 26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, will be there in the cities of Gilead; 27but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord says."

28So Moses gave orders concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel. 29And Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you* over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Jehovah, and the land will be subdued before you*; then you* will give them the land of Gilead for a possession, 30but if they will not pass over with you* armed, they will have possessions among you* in the land of Canaan." 31And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As Jehovah has said to your servants, so we will do. 32We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [will remain] with us beyond the Jordan."

33And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities with [their] borders, the cities of the land all around. 34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 35and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, 36and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, 38and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built. 39And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were in it. 40And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it. 41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns and called them Havvoth-jair. 42And Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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1These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah, and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 3And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, 4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Jehovah had struck among them: on their gods also Jehovah executed judgments.

5And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses and encamped in Succoth. 6And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they encamped before Migdol. 8And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. 9And they journeyed from Marah, and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. 10And they journeyed from Elim and encamped by the Red Sea. 11And they journeyed from the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. 12And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin and encamped in Dophkah. 13And they journeyed from Dophkah and encamped in Alush. 14And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 15And they journeyed from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. 16And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah. 17And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah and encamped in Hazeroth. 18And they journeyed from Hazeroth and encamped in Rithmah. 19And they journeyed from Rithmah and encamped in Rimmon-perez. 20And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez and encamped in Libnah. 21And they journeyed from Libnah and encamped in Rissah. 22And they journeyed from Rissah and encamped in Kehelathah. 23And they journeyed from Kehelathah and encamped on Mount Shepher. 24And they journeyed from Mount Shepher and encamped in Haradah. 25And they journeyed from Haradah and encamped in Makheloth. 26And they journeyed from Makheloth and encamped in Tahath. 27And they journeyed from Tahath and encamped in Terah. 28And they journeyed from Terah and encamped in Mithkah. 29And they journeyed from Mithkah and encamped in Hashmonah. 30And they journeyed from Hashmonah and encamped in Moseroth. 31And they journeyed from Moseroth and encamped in Bene-jaakan. 32And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan and encamped in Hor-haggidgad. 33And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad and encamped in Jotbathah. 34And they journeyed from Jotbathah and encamped in Abronah. 35And they journeyed from Abronah and encamped in Ezion-geber. 36And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). 37And they journeyed from Kadesh, and encamped on Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

38And Aaron the priest went up onto Mount Hor at the commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. 39And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

40And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

41And they journeyed from Mount Hor and encamped in Zalmonah. 42And they journeyed from Zalmonah and encamped in Punon. 43And they journeyed from Punon and encamped in Oboth. 44And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab. 45And they journeyed from Iyim and encamped in Dibon-gad. 46And they journeyed from Dibon-gad and encamped in Almon-diblathaim. 47And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 48And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 49And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

50And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52then you* will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you*, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. 53And you* will take possession of the land, and dwell in it, for I have given the land to you* to possess it. 54And you* will inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you* will give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that will be his; according to the tribes of your fathers will you* inherit. 55But if you* will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you*, then will those whom you* let remain of them be like pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they will vex you* in the land in which you* dwell. 56And it will come to pass that, as I planned to do to them, so I will do to you*.'"

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2"Command the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that will fall to you* for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its borders), 3then your south quarter will be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border will be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 4and your border will turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and its goings out will be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it will go out to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon; 5and the border will turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its goings out will be at the sea.

6'And for the western border, you* will have the Great Sea and the border [of it]: this will be your west border.

7'And this will be your north border: from the Great Sea you* will mark out for yourselves Mount Hor; 8from Mount Hor you* will mark out to Lebo-hamath; and the goings out of the border will be at Zedad; 9and the border will go out to Ziphron, and its goings out will be at Hazar-enan: this will be your north border.

10'And you* will mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; 11and the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border will go down, and will reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 12and the border will go down to the Jordan, and its goings out will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land according to its borders all around.'"

13And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you* will inherit by lot, which Jehovah has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe; 14for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance: 15the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

16And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 17"These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you* for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18And you* will take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. 19And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 21Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 22And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. 23Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 24And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 27And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud." 29These are they whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

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1And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 2"Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and pastureland for the cities around them will you* give to the Levites. 3And the cities will they have to dwell in; and their pastureland will be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their beasts. 4And the pastureland of the cities, which you* will give to the Levites, will be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around. 5And you* will measure outside the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This will be to them the pastureland of the cities. 6And the cities which you* will give to the Levites, they will be the six cities of refuge, which you* will give for the manslayer to flee to; and besides them you* will give forty-two cities. 7All the cities which you* will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities; them [will you* give] with their pastureland. 8And concerning the cities which you* will give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you* will take many; and from the few you* will take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits will give of his cities to the Levites."

9And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When you* pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11then you* will appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you*, that the manslayer that kills any person unintentionally may flee there. 12And the cities will be a refuge for you* from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die, until he stand before the congregation for judgment. 13And the cities which you* will give will be for you* six cities of refuge. 14You* will give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities will you* give in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge. 15For the children of Israel, and for the foreigner and for the sojourner among them, will these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unintentionally may flee there. 16But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer will surely be put to death. 17And if he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer will surely be put to death. 18Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer will surely be put to death. 19The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he will put him to death. 20And if he thrusts him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 21or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him will surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood will put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

22'But if he thrusts him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, 23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 24then the congregation will judge between the one who struck him and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 25and the congregation will deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation will restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled; and he will dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. 26But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, 27and the avenger of blood find him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he will not be guilty of blood, 28because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer will return into the land of his possession.

29'And these things will be for a statute [and] ordinance to you* throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30Whoever kills any person, the murderer will be killed at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness will not testify against any person that he die. 31Moreover, you* will take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he will surely be put to death. 32And you* will take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33So you* will not pollute the land in which you* are; for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. 34And you shall not defile the land which you* inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"

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1And the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel. 2And they said, "Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3And if they are married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they will belong; so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. 4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they will belong; so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

5And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right. 6This is the thing which Jehovah commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, 'Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father will they be married.' 7So will no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel will all hold to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8And every daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, will be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9So will no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe, for all the tribes of the children of Israel will hold to their own inheritance."

10Even as Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad, 11for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. 12They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Deuteronomy

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1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in commandment to them; 4after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6"Jehovah our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, 'You* have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 7turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near to it, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Negeb, and by the sea shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8Behold, I have set the land before you*; go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.'

9"And I spoke to you* at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear you* myself alone: 10Jehovah your God has multiplied you*, and behold, you* are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you* a thousand times as many as you* are, and bless you*, as he has promised you*! 12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13Take wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you*.' 14And you* answered me and said, 'The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.' 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you*, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him. 17You* will not be partial in judgment; you* will hear the small and the great alike; you* will not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you*, you* will bring to me, and I will hear it.' 18And I commanded you* at that time all the things which you* should do.

19"And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness which you* saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20And I said to you*, 'You* have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God gives to us. 21Behold, Jehovah your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not be afraid or be dismayed.' 22And all of you* came near to me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we will come.' 23And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you*, one man for every tribe. 24And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land which Jehovah our God gives to us.'

26"Yet you* would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God. 27And you* murmured in your tents and said, 'Because Jehovah hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."' 29Then I said to you*, 'Do not dread, nor be afraid of them. 30Jehovah your God who goes before you*, he will fight for you*, according to all that he did for you* in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how Jehovah your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you* went, until you* came to this place.' 32Yet in this thing you* did not believe Jehovah your God, 33who went before you* in the way, to seek you* out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you* by what way you* should go, and in the cloud by day.

34"And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 35'Surely there will not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 36except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he will see it; and to him I will give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Jehovah.' 37Also Jehovah was angry with me because of you*, saying, 'You also shall not go in there: 38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he will go in there: encourage you him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it. 39Moreover, your little ones, that you* said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go in there, and to them I will give it, and they will possess it. 40But as for you*, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'

41"Then you* answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.' And you* girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill country. 42And Jehovah said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not go up, nor fight, for I am not among you*; or you* will be struck before your enemies."' 43So I spoke to you*, and you* did not listen; but you* rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. 44And the Amorites, who dwelt in that hill country, came out against you*, and chased you*, as bees do, and beat you* down in Seir, to Hormah. 45And you* returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah did not listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you*. 46So you* abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you* abode [there].

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1"Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spoke to me; and we circled Mount Seir many days. 2And Jehovah spoke to me, saying, 3'You* have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward. 4And command the people, saying, "You* are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you*. Take good heed to yourselves therefore; 5do not contend with them, for I will not give you* of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. 6You* will purchase food of them for money, that you* may eat; and you* will also buy water of them for money, that you* may drink. 7For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing."' 8So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber.

"And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

9And Jehovah said to me, 'Do not vex Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.' 10(The Emim dwelt in it previously, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 11these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 12The Horites also dwelt in Seir previously, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave to them.) 13'Now rise up, and go over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.' 14And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them. 15Moreover, the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

16"So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17that Jehovah spoke to me, saying, 18'You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab. 19And when you come near opposite the children of Ammon, do not vex them or contend with them, for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.' 20(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt in it previously; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 21a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; 22as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even to this day. 23And the Avvim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24'Rise you* up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25This day I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who will hear the report of you, and will tremble, and be in anguish because of you.'

26"And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27'Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. 28You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet, 29as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God gives us.' 30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Jehovah your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day. 31And Jehovah said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.' 32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 33And Jehovah our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people. 34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: 35only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered up all before us: 37only to the land of the children of Ammon you did not come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Jehovah our God forbade us.

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1"Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2And Jehovah said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.' 3So Jehovah our God also delivered Og into our hand, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we struck him until none was left to him remaining. 4And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. 6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. 7But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; 9([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir); 10all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the cubit of a man.)

12"And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, all Bashan. (It is called the land of Rephaim. 14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, to this day.) 15And I gave Gilead to Machir. 16And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; 17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

18"And I commanded you* at that time, saying, 'Jehovah your God has given you* this land to possess it; you* will pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor. 19But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you* have much livestock,) will abide in your cities which I have given you*, 20until Jehovah give rest to your brothers, as to you*, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then you* will return every man to his possession, which I have given you*.' 21And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God has done to these two kings; so will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms where you go over. 22You* will not fear them, for Jehovah your God, it is he who fights for you*.'

23"And I pleaded with Jehovah at that time, saying, 24'O Lord Jehovah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth, that can do according to your works and according to your mighty acts? 25Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that beautiful mountain, and Lebanon.' 26But Jehovah was angry with me because of you*, and did not listen to me. And Jehovah said to me, 'Enough; speak no more to me of this matter. 27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan. 28But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will go over before this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.' 29So we abode in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

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1"And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I am teaching you*, to do them, that you* may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, gives you*. 2You* will not add to the word which I am commanding you*, nor will you* diminish from it, that you* may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you*. 3Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed them from among you. 4But you* that clove to Jehovah your God are alive everyone of you* this day. 5Behold, I have taught you* statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that you* should do so in the midst of the land where you* go in to possess it. 6Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that will hear all these statutes, and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 7For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Jehovah our God is whenever we call on him? 8And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you* this day?

9"Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, or you will forget the things which your eyes saw, and they will depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children; 10the day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, 'Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.' 11And you* came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 12And Jehovah spoke to you* out of the midst of the fire: you* heard the sound of words, but you* saw no form; only [you* heard] a voice. 13And he declared to you* his covenant, which he commanded you* to perform, the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone. 14And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you* statutes and ordinances, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it.

15"Take therefore good heed to yourselves, for you* saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you* in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. 16So you* will not corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, 18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; 19and so you will not lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20But Jehovah has taken you*, and brought you* forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day. 21Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me because of you*, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, 22but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you* will go over, and possess that good land. 23Take heed to yourselves, so you* do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you*, and make a carved image in the form of anything which Jehovah your God has forbidden you. 24For Jehovah your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

25"When you shall father children, and children's children, and you* will have been long in the land, and will corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and will do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, to provoke him to anger; 26I call heaven and earth to witness against you* this day, that you* will soon utterly perish from the land which you* go over the Jordan to possess; you* will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed. 27And Jehovah will scatter you* among the peoples, and you* will be left few in number among the nations, where Jehovah will lead you* away. 28And there you* will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29But from there you* will seek Jehovah your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Jehovah your God, and listen to his voice, 31for Jehovah your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

32"For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 33Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34Or has God tried to go and take for himself a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you* in Egypt before your eyes? 35To you it was shown, that you might know that Jehovah he is God; there is no other besides him. 36Out of heaven he made you hear his voice, that he might instruct you; and on earth he made you see his great fire. And you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 37And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 38to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. 39Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 40And you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, forever."

41Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan to the east; 42that the manslayer might flee there, that kills his neighbor unintentionally, and did not hate him previously; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 43[namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

44And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, 46beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt. 47And they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan to the east; 48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), 49and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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1And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you* may learn them, and be careful to do them. 2Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4Jehovah spoke with you* face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, 5(I stood between Jehovah and you* at that time, to show you* the word of Jehovah; for you* were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up onto the mountain) saying,

6'I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

7'You shall have no other gods before me.

8'You shall not make for yourselves a carved image, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, for I, Jehovah, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; 10and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

11'You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

12'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah your God commanded you. 13Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; 14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your foreigner that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you. 15And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Jehovah your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16'Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

17'You shall not kill.

18'Neither shall you commit adultery.

19'Neither shall you steal.

20'Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

21'Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'

22"These words Jehovah spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. 23And it came to pass, when you* heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you* came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders; 24and you* said, 'Behold, Jehovah our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God speaks with man, and he lives. 25Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we will die. 26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27Go near, and hear all that Jehovah our God will say; and speak to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to you. And we will hear it, and do it.'

28"And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, when you* spoke to me. And Jehovah said to me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have well said all that they have spoken. 29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever! 30Go say to them, "Return to your tents." 31But as for you, stand here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.' 32You* will be careful to do therefore as Jehovah your God has commanded you*; you* will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33You* will walk in all the way which Jehovah your God has commanded you*, that you* may live, and that it may be well with you*, and that you* may prolong your days in the land which you* will possess.

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1"Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you*, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it; 2that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 3Therefore, hear, Israel, and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you* may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4Hear, Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. 5And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6And these words, which I am commanding you this day, will be on your heart; 7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they will be for frontlets between your eyes. 9And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.

10"And it will be, when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and beautiful cities, which you did not build, 11and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full; 12then be careful you do not forget Jehovah, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13You shall fear Jehovah your God; and him you shall serve, and shall swear by his name. 14You* will not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are all around you*; 15for Jehovah your God in your midst is a jealous God; otherwise the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from the face of the earth.

16"You* will not test Jehovah your God, as you* tested him in Massah. 17You* will diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, 19to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.

20"When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you*?' 21then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 23and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.' 24And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 25And it will be righteousness to us, if we be careful to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he has commanded us.

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1"When Jehovah your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; 2and when Jehovah your God delivers them up before you, and you shall defeat them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; 3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter you shall take to your son. 4For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you*, and he will destroy you quickly. 5But thus will you* deal with them: you* will break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their carved images with fire.

6"For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God: Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are on the face of the earth. 7Jehovah did not set his love on you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples, 8but because Jehovah loves you*, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Jehovah brought you* out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that Jehovah your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face. 11You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I am commanding you this day, to do them.

12"And it will come to pass, because you* listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness which he swore to your fathers. 13And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed above all peoples: there will not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. 15And Jehovah will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16And you shall consume all the peoples that Jehovah your God will deliver to you; your eye will not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

17"If you shall say in your heart, 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' 18you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; 19the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Jehovah your God brought you out; so will Jehovah your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20Moreover, Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. 21You shall not be frightened by them, for Jehovah your God is in your midst, a great God and an awesome one. 22And Jehovah your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, so the beasts of the field will not increase on you. 23But Jehovah your God will deliver them up before you, and will vex them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed. 24And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven: there will no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them. 25The carved images of their gods will you* burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it, otherwise you be snared in it, for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. 26And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it; you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is a devoted thing.

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1"All the commandment which I command you this day you* will be careful to do, that you* may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers. 2And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3And he humbled you, and let you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make known to you that man does not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Jehovah man lives. 4Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell, these forty years. 5And you shall consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so Jehovah your God disciplines you. 6And you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 9a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 10And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which he has given you.

11"Be sure you do not forget Jehovah your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 12otherwise, when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt in them; 13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 15who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; 16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know; that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end. 17Otherwise you might say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.' 18But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. 19And it will be, if you shall forget Jehovah your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you* this day that you* will surely perish. 20As the nations that Jehovah makes to perish before you*, so will you* perish; because you* would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.

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1"Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 3Know therefore this day, that Jehovah your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as Jehovah has spoken to you. 4Do not speak in your heart, after Jehovah your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, 'For my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah drives them out from before you. 5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

6"Therefore, know that Jehovah your God does not give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness, for you are a stiffnecked people. 7Remember, do not forget, how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went out of the land of Egypt, until you* came to this place, you* have been rebellious against Jehovah. 8Also in Horeb you* provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you* to destroy you*. 9When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you*, then I abode on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. 10And Jehovah delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Jehovah speak with you* on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant. 12And Jehovah said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.' 13Furthermore Jehovah spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 14let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' 15So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16And I looked, and behold, you* had sinned against Jehovah your God; you* had made you* a molten calf: you* had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you*. 17And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18And I fell down before Jehovah, as previously, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you* sinned, in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. 19For I was afraid of the anger and wrath, with which Jehovah was angry against you* to destroy you*. But Jehovah listened to me that time also. 20And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him, and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21And I took your sin, the calf which you* had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

22"And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you* provoked Jehovah to wrath. 23And when Jehovah sent you* from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you*'; then you* rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and you* did not believe him, nor listened to his voice. 24You* have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you*.

25"So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you*. 26And I prayed to Jehovah and said, 'O Lord Jehovah, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or to their sin, 28so the land from which you brought us out does not say, "Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness." 29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.'

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1"At that time Jehovah said to me, 'Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. 2And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.' 3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. 4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spoke to you* on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And Jehovah gave them to me. 5And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Jehovah commanded me. 6(And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7From there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. 9Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah your God spoke to him.) 10And I stayed on the mountain, as previously, forty days and forty nights; and Jehovah listened to me that time also. Jehovah would not destroy you. 11And Jehovah said to me, 'Arise, take your journey before the people; and they will go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.'

12"And now, Israel, what does Jehovah your God require of you, but to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? 14Behold, to Jehovah your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is in it. 15Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you* above all peoples, as at this day. 16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stiffnecked any longer. 17For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who does not regard people, nor takes reward. 18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and clothing. 19Love you* therefore the sojourner, for you* were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20You shall fear Jehovah your God; him you shall serve; and to him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear. 21He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. 22Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people, and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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1"Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. 2And know this day; for [I speak] not with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 3and his signs and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued after you*, and how Jehovah has destroyed them to this day; 5and what he did to you* in the wilderness, until you* came to this place; 6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel, 7but your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he did.

8"Therefore you* will keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you* may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you* go over to possess it; 9and that you* may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which you* came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11but the land, where you* go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of heaven, 12a land which Jehovah your God cares for: the eyes of Jehovah your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

13"And it will come to pass, if you* will listen diligently to my commandments which I am commanding you* this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. 15And I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 16Take heed to yourselves, so your heart will not be deceived, and you* turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you*, and he shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will not yield its fruit; and you* perish quickly from the good land which Jehovah gives you*.

18"Therefore you* will lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you* will bind them for a sign on your hand, and they will be for frontlets between your eyes. 19And you* will teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates; 21that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. 22For if you* will diligently keep all this commandment which I command you*, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to hold fast to him; 23then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you*, and you* will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24Every place whereon the sole of your foot will tread will be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, to the hinder sea will be your border. 25There will no man be able to stand before you*: Jehovah your God will lay the fear of you* and the dread of you* on all the land that you* will tread on, as he has spoken to you*.

26"Behold, I set before you* this day a blessing and a curse: 27the blessing, if you* will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you* this day; 28and the curse, if you* will not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I am commanding you* this day, to go after other gods, which you* have not known. 29And it will come to pass, when Jehovah your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 31For you* are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God gives you*, and you* will possess it, and dwell in it. 32And you* will be careful to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you* this day.

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1"These are the statutes and the ordinances which you* will be careful to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you* live on the earth. 2You* will surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you* will dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 3And you* will break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you* will hew down the carved images of their gods. And you* will destroy their name out of that place. 4You* will not do so to Jehovah your God. 5But to the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation will you* seek, and there you shall come; 6and there you* will bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the contribution of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7And there you* will eat before Jehovah your God, and you* will rejoice in all that you* put your hand to, you* and your households, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you. 8You* will not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; 9for you* are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah your God gives you. 10But when you* go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God causes you* to inherit, and he gives you* rest from all your enemies all around, so that you* dwell in safety; 11then it will come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there will you* bring all that I command you*: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice vows which you* vow to Jehovah. 12And you* will rejoice before Jehovah your God, you*, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you*. 13Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14but in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15"Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer. 16Only you* shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. 17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand; 18but you shall eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to. 19Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20"When Jehovah your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, 'I will eat flesh,' because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. 21If the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. 22Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat it: the unclean and the clean may eat it alike. 23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. 25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah. 26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Jehovah will choose. 27And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Jehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar of Jehovah your God. And you shall eat the flesh. 28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.

29"When Jehovah your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; 30take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.' 31You shall not do so to Jehovah your God; for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hates, have they done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

32"Whatever thing I command you, that you* will be careful to do; you shall not add from it, nor diminish from it.

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1"If there arise in your midst a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, 2and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them'; 3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God proves you, to know whether you* love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4You* will walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you* will serve him, and hold fast to him. 5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, will be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Jehovah your God, who brought you* out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you* out of the house of bondage, to draw you* aside out of the way which Jehovah your God commanded you* to walk in. So you* shall put away the evil from among you*.

6"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, that is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7of the gods of the peoples that are all around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; 8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither will your eye pity him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you conceal him, 9but you shall surely kill him; your hand will be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10And you shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 11And all Israel will hear, and fear, and will not do more of such wickedness as this is in your midst.

12"If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Jehovah your God gives you to dwell there, saying, 13'Certain base fellows have gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods, which you* have not known"'; 14then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it is truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination has been performed in your midst, 15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it and its livestock, with the edge of the sword. 16And you shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Jehovah your God; and it will be a heap forever; it will not be built again. 17And there will remain nothing of the devoted thing in your hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 18when you shall listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.

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1"You* are the children of Jehovah your God; you* will not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are on the face of the earth.

3"You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4These are the beasts which you* may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5the deer, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois. 6And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat. 7Nevertheless these you* shall not eat of those who chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you*. 8And the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*: of their flesh you* shall not eat, and their carcasses you* will not touch.

9"These you* may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you* eat; 10and whatever does not have fins and scales you* shall not eat; it is unclean to you*.

11"Of all clean birds you* may eat. 12But these are those of which you* shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the ospray, 13and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite according to its kind, 14and every raven according to its kind, 15and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk according to its kind, 16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, 17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, 18and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19And all winged creeping things are unclean to you*; they will not be eaten. 20Of all clean birds you* may eat.

21"You* will not eat anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

22"You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, what comes forth from the field year after year. 23And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always. 24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah your God blesses you; 25then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose. 26And you shall spend the money on whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27And the Levite that is within your gates, you shall not forsake him, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

28"At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates. 29And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates, will come, and will eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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1"At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. 2And this is the manner of the release: every creditor will release what he has lent to his neighbor; he will not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's release has been proclaimed. 3Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand will release. 4Nevertheless there will be no poor with you; (for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) 5if only you diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to be careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day. 6For Jehovah your God will bless you, as he promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

7"If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; 8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he lacks. 9Beware that there is not a base thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry out to Jehovah against you, and it be sin to you. 10You shall surely give him, and your heart will not be grieved when you give to him; because for this thing Jehovah your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. 11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.'

12"If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty. 14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; you shall give to him as Jehovah your God has blessed you. 15And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. 16And it will be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; 17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he will be your servant forever. And also to your maidservant you shall do likewise. 18It will not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you, for to the double of the wages of a hired worker he has served you six years. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.

19"All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Jehovah your God; you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20You shall eat it before Jehovah your God year after year in the place which Jehovah will choose, you and your household. 21And if it have any blemish, [as if it is] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God. 22You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean [will eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer. 23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

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1"Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Jehovah your God, for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night. 2And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah will choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 3You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction, for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4And there will be no leaven seen with you in all your borders seven days; nor will any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. 5You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you; 6but at the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt. 7And you shall roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose; and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents. 8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God; you shall do no work [on it].

9"Seven weeks you shall number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks. 10And you shall keep the feast of weeks to Jehovah your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Jehovah your God blesses you. 11And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in your midst, in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 12And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and you shall observe and do these statutes.

13"You shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress. 14And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates. 15Seven days you shall keep a feast for Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah will choose; because Jehovah your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. 16Three times in a year will all your males appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he will choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they will not appear before Jehovah empty: 17every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you.

18"Judges and officers you shall make you in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they will judge the people with righteous judgment. 19You shall not wrest justice: you shall not be partial; nor shall you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20What is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

21"You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God, which you shall make you. 22Neither shall you set up a pillar; which Jehovah your God hates.

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1"You shall not sacrifice to Jehovah your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil, for that is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

2"If there is found in your midst, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, man or woman, that does what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, in transgressing his covenant, 3and has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4and it is told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination has been performed in Israel, 5then you shall bring forth that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, [that is,] the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. 6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, will he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he will not be put to death. 7The hand of the witnesses will be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

8"If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Jehovah your God will choose; 9and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that will be in those days; and you shall inquire, and they will show you the sentence of judgment. 10And you shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they will show you from that place which Jehovah will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they will teach you: 11according to the tenor of the law which they will teach you and according to the judgment which they will tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they will show you, to the right hand or to the left. 12And the man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest that stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man will die; and you shall put away the evil from Israel. 13And all the people will hear, and fear, and no longer do presumptuously.

14"When you have come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell in it, and shall say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are all around me'; 15you shall surely set him king over you, whom Jehovah your God will choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16Only he will not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; since Jehovah has said to you*, 'You* will no longer return that way.' 17Neither will he multiply wives to himself, that his heart does not turn away: neither will he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18"And it will be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he will write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [what is] before the priests the Levites. 19And it will be with him, and he will read from it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 20that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and that he does not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

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1"The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they will eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance. 2And they will have no inheritance among their brothers: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. 3And this will be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox or sheep, that they will give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5For Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons forever.

6"And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Jehovah will choose; 7then he will minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah. 8They will have like portions to eat, besides what comes of the sale of his patrimony. 9When you have come into the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10There will not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices fortune telling, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 11or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12For whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah, and because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you. 13You shall be blameless with Jehovah your God. 14For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice fortune telling, and to diviners; but as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.

15"Jehovah your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. To him you* will listen; 16according to all that you desired of Jehovah your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Do not let me hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, nor let me see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.' 17And Jehovah said to me, 'They have well said what they have spoken. 18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I will command him. 19And it will come to pass that whoever will not listen to my words which he will speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20But the prophet, that will speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that will speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet will die.' 21And if you say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which Jehovah has not spoken?' 22when a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, if the thing does not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

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1"When Jehovah your God cuts off the nations, whose land Jehovah your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 2you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it. 3You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Jehovah your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

4"And this is the case of the manslayer, that will flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and did not hate him previously; 5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he will flee to one of these cities and live: 6so the avenger of blood will not pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he did not hate him previously. 7Therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall set apart three cities for you.' 8And if Jehovah your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 9if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for you, besides these three: 10that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

11"But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; 12then the elders of his city will send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13Your eye will not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

14"You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they have set in times past, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Jehovah your God gives you to possess it.

15"One witness will not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, will a matter be established. 16If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong doing, 17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, will stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that will be in those days; 18and the judges will make diligent inquisition. And behold, if the witness is a false witness, and have testified falsely against his brother; 19then you* will do to him, as he had intended to do to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from your midst. 20And those who remain will hear, and fear, and will no longer commit any such evil in your midst. 21And your eyes will not pity; life [will go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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1"When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them, for Jehovah your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 2And it will be, when you* draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, 3and will say to them, 'Hear, Israel, you* draw near this day to battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart faint; do not be afraid or tremble or be frightened by them; 4for Jehovah your God is he who goes with you*, to fight for you* against your enemies, to save you*.' 5And the officers will speak to the people, saying, 'What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle, and another man would dedicate it. 6And what man is there that has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle, and another man might use its fruit. 7And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he die in the battle, and another man might take her.' 8And the officers will speak further to the people, and they will say, 'What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, so his brothers's heart will not melt as his heart.' 9And it will be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they will appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.

10"When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11And it will be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it will be, that all the people who are found in it will become tributary to you, and will serve you. 12And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword, 14but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you. 15Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah your God has commanded you; 18that they do not teach you* to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so you* would sin against Jehovah your God.

19"When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them, for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? 20Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

Chapter 21732 words

1"If one is found slain in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has struck him; 2then your elders and your judges will come forth, and they will measure [the distance] to the cities that are around him who is killed. 3And it will be that the city that is near to the slain man, the elders of that city will take a heifer of the herd, which has not been wrought with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 4and the elders of that city will bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and will break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 5And the priests the sons of Levi will come near, for them Jehovah your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word will every controversy and every stroke be. 6And all the elders of that city, who are near to the slain man, will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 7and they will answer and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. 8Forgive, O Jehovah, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.' And the blood will be forgiven them. 9So you shall put away the innocent blood from your midst, when you shall do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

10"When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, 11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and want to take her to be a wife; 12then you shall bring her home to your house; and she will shave her head, and pare her nails; 13and she will put the clothing of her captivity from her, and will remain in your house, and weep for her father and her mother a full month; and afterward you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she will be your wife. 14And it will be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

15"If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated; 16then it will be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn, 17but he will acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

18"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them; 19then will his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20and they will say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21And all the men of his city will stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from your midst. And all Israel will hear, and fear.

22"And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; 23his body will not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day, for he who is hanged is accursed by God; so that you do not defile your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

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1"You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely bring them again to your brother. 2And if your brother is not near to you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it will be with you until your brother seek it, and you shall restore it to him. 3And so you shall do with his donkey, and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. 4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

5"A woman will not wear what pertains to a man, nor will a man put on a woman's garment, for whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

6"If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young. 7You shall surely let the dam go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

8"When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you do not bring blood on your house, if any man falls from there.

9"You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or the whole fruit will be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. 10You shall not plow with an ox and an donkey together. 11You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.

12"You shall make you fringes on the four borders of your vesture, with which you cover yourself.

13"If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, 14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity; 15then will the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth evidence of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; 16and the damsel's father will say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her; 17and behold, he has charged [her] with shameful things, saying, I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity; and yet here is evidence of my daughter's virginity. And they will spread the garment before the elders of the city. 18And the elders of that city will take the man and chastise him; 19and they will fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel; and she will be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 20But if this thing is true, that evidence of virginity were not found in the damsel; 21then they will bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house; so you shall put away the evil from your midst.

22"If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they will both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

23"If there is a damsel that is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24then you* will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you* will stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she did not cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

25"But if the man finds the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then the man only that lay with her will die, 26but to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; 27for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

28"If a man finds a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found; 29then the man who lay with her will give to the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she will be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

30"A man will not take his father's wife, and will not uncover his father's skirt.

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1"He who is wounded in the genitals, or has his male organ cut off, will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

2"An illegitimate child will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation will none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

3"An Ammonite or a Moabite will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation will none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah forever: 4because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you* came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5Nevertheless Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam; but Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you. 6You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.

7"You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land. 8The children of the third generation that are born to them will enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

9"When you go out in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing. 10If there is among you any man, that is not clean because of what chances him by night, then he will go abroad out of the camp, he will not come within the camp, 11but it will be, when evening comes on, he will bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he will come within the camp. 12You shall have a place also outside the camp, where you shall go forth abroad. 13And you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it will be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover what comes from you, 14for Jehovah your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp will be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

15"You shall not deliver to his master a servant that has escaped from his master to you: 16he will dwell with you, in your midst, in the place which he will choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.

17"There will be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor will there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18You shall not bring the wages of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.

19"You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of provisions, interest of anything that is lent on interest: 20to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

21"When you shall vow a vow to Jehovah your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Jehovah your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. 22But if you refrain from vowing, it will be no sin in you. 23What has gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Jehovah your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

24"When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel. 25When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.

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1"When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it will be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found something unseemly in her, that he will write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2And when she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. 3And if the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; 4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled, for that is abomination before Jehovah; and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

5"When a man takes a new wife, he will not go out in the army, nor will he be charged with any business. He will be free at home one year, and will cheer his wife whom he has taken.

6"No man will take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

7"If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief will die. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

8"Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites will teach you*: as I commanded them, so you* will be careful to do. 9Remember what Jehovah your God did to Miriam, by the way as you* came forth out of Egypt.

10"When you lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend will bring forth the pledge without to you. 12And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; 13you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you; and it will be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.

14"You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your sojourners that are in your land within your gates: 15in his day you shall give him his wages, neither will the sun go down on it, for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: otherwise he will cry against you to Jehovah, and it be sin to you.

16"The fathers will not be put to death for the children, nor will the children be put to death for the fathers: every man will be put to death for his own sin.

17"You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's garment to pledge; 18but you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

19"When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it will be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it will be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it will be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

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1"If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they will justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 2and it will be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. 3Forty lashes he may give him, he will not exceed; otherwise, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many lashes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

4"You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

5"If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead will not be married without to a foreigner: her husband's brother will go in to her, and take her to him as a wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6And it will be, that the firstborn that she bears will succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name will not be blotted out of Israel. 7And if the man does not like to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife will go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' 8Then the elders of his city will call him, and speak to him; and if he stands, and says, 'I do not like to take her,' 9then will his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face; and she will answer and say, 'So will it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' 10And his name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him who has his sandal loosed.'

11"When men strive together with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the genitals; 12then you shall cut off her hand, your eye will have no pity.

13"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small. 14You shall not have in your house differing measures, a great and a small. 15A perfect and just weight you shall have; a perfect and just measure you shall have: that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you. 16For all that do such things, all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to Jehovah your God.

17"Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you* came forth out of Egypt; 18how he met you by the way, and struck the last of you, all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God. 19Therefore it will be, when Jehovah your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

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1"And it will be, when you have come in to the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell in it, 2that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 3And you shall come to the priest that will be in those days, and say to him, 'I profess this day to Jehovah your God that I have come to the land which Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us.' 4And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God. 5And you shall answer and say before Jehovah your God, 'A Syrian ready to perish was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage. 7And we cried to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 8and Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Jehovah, have given me.' And you shall set it down before Jehovah your God, and worship before Jehovah your God. 11And you shall rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in your midst.

12"When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. 13And you shall say before Jehovah your God, 'I have put away the consecrated things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them: 14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me. 15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'

16"This day Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances; you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. 17You have avouched Jehovah this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. 18And Jehovah has avouched you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 19and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken."

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1And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you* this day. 2And it will be on the day when you* pass over the Jordan to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, that you shall set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster. 3And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 4And it will be, when you* have passed over the Jordan, that you* will set up these stones, which I command you* this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. 5And there you shall build an altar to Jehovah your God, an altar of stones; you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them. 6You shall build the altar of Jehovah your God of unhewn stones, and you shall bring burnt offerings on it to Jehovah your God. 7And you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God. 8And you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."

9And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, "Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people of Jehovah your God. 10You shall therefore obey the voice of Jehovah your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I am commanding you this day."

11And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12"These will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you* have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 13And these will stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14And the Levites will answer, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

15'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people will answer and say, 'Amen'.

16'Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

17'Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

18'Cursed be he who makes the blind wander out of the way.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

19'Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

20'Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

21'Cursed be he who lies with any manner of beast.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

22'Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

23'Cursed be he who lies with his mother in law.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

24'Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

25'Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

26'Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law to do them.' And all the people will say, 'Amen'.

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1"And it will come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God, to be careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Jehovah your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings will come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Jehovah your God. 3Blessed you shall be in the city, and blessed you shall be in the field. 4Blessed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. 5Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough. 6Blessed you shall be when you come in, and blessed you shall be when you go out.

7"Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before you; they will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways. 8Jehovah will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you. 9Jehovah will establish you for a holy people to himself as he has sworn to you if you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in his ways. 10And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Jehovah, and they will be afraid of you. 11And Jehovah will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you. 12Jehovah will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. 13And Jehovah will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you this day, to observe and to do [them], 14and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you* this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15"But it will come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you. 16Cursed you shall be in the city, and cursed you shall be in the field. 17Cursed will be your basket and your kneading trough. 18Cursed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. 19Cursed you shall be when you come in, and cursed you shall be when you go out.

20"Jehovah will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to, to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken me. 21Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until he have consumed you from the land, where you go in to possess it. 22Jehovah will afflict you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish. 23And your heaven that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. 24Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven will it come down on you, until you be destroyed.

25"Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them; and you shall be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And your dead body will be food to all birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth; and there will be none to frighten them away. 27Jehovah will afflict you with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28Jehovah will afflict you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; 29and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there will be none to save you. 30You shall betroth a wife, and another man will lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit. 31Your ox will be killed before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you: your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. 32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people; and your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there will be nothing in the power of your hand. 33The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, will a nation which you do not know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; 34so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 35Jehovah will afflict you on the knees, and on the legs, with a terrible boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36"Jehovah will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone. 37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Jehovah will lead you away. 38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust will consume it. 39You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes], for the worm will eat them. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive will cast [its fruit]. 41You shall father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. 42All your trees and the fruit of your ground will the locust possess. 43The sojourner that is in your midst will mount up above you higher and higher, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44He will lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he will be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45And all these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you be destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. 46And they will be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.

47"Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart because of the abundance of all things; 48therefore you shall serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you. 49Jehovah will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand; 50a nation of fierce countenance, that will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 51and will eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you be destroyed; that also will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 52And they will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you. 53And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. 54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; 55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she will bear, for she will eat them for lack of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

58"If you will not be careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD; 59then Jehovah will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and terrible sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60And he will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring on you, until you be destroyed. 62And you* will be left few in number, whereas you* were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God. 63And it will come to pass that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you* to do you* good, and to multiply you*, so Jehovah will rejoice over you* to cause you* to perish, and to destroy you*; and you* will be plucked from the land where you go in to possess it. 64And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. 65And among these nations you shall find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Jehovah will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 66and your life will hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. 67In the morning you shall say, 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'Would it were morning!' for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 68And Jehovah will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, 'You shall no longer see it again.' And there you* will sell yourselves to your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man will buy you."

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1"These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2"And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You* have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders, 4but Jehovah has not given you* a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 5And I have led you* forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you*, and your sandal has not grown old on your foot. 6You* have not eaten bread, nor have you* drunk wine or strong drink; that you* may know that I am Jehovah your God. 7And when you* came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we defeated them. 8And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites. 9Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you* may prosper in all that you* do.

10"You* stand this day all of you* before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner that is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the drawer of your water; 12that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into his oath, which Jehovah your God makes with you this day; 13that he may establish you* this day to himself for a people, and that he may be a God to you*, as he spoke to you*, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14"Neither with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath, 15but with him who stands here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day 16(for you* know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you* passed; 17and you* have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18so there will not be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; otherwise there might be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 19and it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.' 20Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will lie on him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21And Jehovah will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

22"And the generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Jehovah has made it sick; 23'[and that] its whole land is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.' 24Even all the nations will say, 'Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?' 25Then men will say, 'Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they did not know, and that he had not given to them: 27therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; 28and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.' 29The secret things belong to Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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1"And it will come to pass, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Jehovah your God has driven you, 2and shall return to Jehovah your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3that then Jehovah your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Jehovah your God has scattered you. 4If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there will Jehovah your God gather you and from there will he fetch you. 5And Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 6And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 7And Jehovah your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, that persecuted you. 8And you shall return and obey the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I am commanding you this day. 9And Jehovah your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Jehovah will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 10if you shall obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

11"For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off. 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us hear it, that we may do it?' 13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us hear it, that we may do it?' 14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

15"See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 16in that I command you this day to love Jehovah your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Jehovah your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I denounce to you* this day, that you* will surely perish; you* will not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19I call heaven and earth to witness against you* this day that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; 20to love Jehovah your God, to obey his voice, and to hold fast to him, for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

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1And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2And he said to them, "I am 120 years old this day; I can no longer go out and come in. And Jehovah has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.' 3Jehovah your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them; [and] Joshua, he will go over before you, as Jehovah has spoken. 4And Jehovah will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. 5And Jehovah will deliver them up before you*, and you* will do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you*. 6Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid, nor be frightened by them; for Jehovah your God, it is he who goes with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you." 7And Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall go with this people into the land which Jehovah has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 8And Jehovah, it is he who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you. Do not be afraid or be dismayed."

9And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, that bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and to all the elders of Israel. 10And Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11when all Israel has come to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law; 13and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as you* live in the land where you* go over the Jordan to possess it."

14And Jehovah said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting." 15And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16And Jehovah said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the whore after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Are not these evils come on us because our God is not among us?' 18And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they will have performed, in that they are turned to other gods. 19Now therefore write you* this song for you*, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 21And it will come to pass, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness, for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their intention which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore." 22So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them; and I will be with you."

24And it came to pass, when Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, 26"Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. 27For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you* this day, you* have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death? 28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29For I know that after my death you* will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you*; and evil will befall you* in the latter days; because you* will do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."

30And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

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