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<h2>A Voice In The Wilderness Holy Scriptures</h2> - English translation of the Bible from the Masoretic and Textus Receptus Hebrew/Greek texts. <p/> A 'literal' translation with the readability of a NKJV or MKJV, 2003


# introductions

introduction:
<h2>Holy Scriptures</h2>  About this Edition  <h3>Preface:</h3>


'Forever, O Jehovah, Your Word stands firm in the heavens.' (Ps119:89) 'Every Word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His Words, that He not judge you, and you be found a liar.' (Pr30:5-6)  because '..all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.' (Rev21:8)

<p>

What is our perspective of the Scriptures?  Many theologies proclaim that they 'interpret' (view) the Scriptures through the 'lens' of X, Y, or Z 'viewpoint'.  Even if one reads 2Pet1:20 as it has been mistranslated in most Bibles all these years, anyone who 'names the name of Christ' (2Tim2:19) should know better than to maintain any 'private interpretation'. Which comes first?  Theological prospectus, or the Scriptures? If a person boasts of viewing the Scriptures through any kind of 'lens', for them, their theology comes first, and the Scriptures must then often be 'twisted' (2Pt3:16) in order to support their viewpoint.  When such entities produce translations, the translations are also often tainted by their personal prospectus.

<p> 

According to the Scriptures, Paul says '..the Holy Scriptures' are that 'which are able to make you wise for salvation..' (2Tim3:15) Wisdom comes, not from seminaries, great men of God and theological viewpoints, but from Scripture. Scripture is 'profitable for doctrine'. (vs16)  But if a person leans on the historical 'great men' or the 'church fathers', they are basing their faith on man's wisdom, not God.

<p>

However, the Scriptures did not originate from human scholarship.
'..knowing this first, that not any of the prophecies of Scripture came
into being from personal exposition, for prophecy was not formerly
brought forth by man's choice, but holy men of God spoke as they were
propelled along by the Holy Spirit.' (2Pt1:20-21)

<p>

The trouble is, the English translations that have existed to date were done under the shadows of 'theological viewpoints'; Alexandria, Rome, Reformation, the Ecumenical movement, etc. As this VW-edition is coming into being, the process that has brought it about has been rather illuminating in terms of how utterly clear some things are in God's Word, but the English translations we have become accustomed to have not given us God's clear Word regarding certain issues and doctrines.  The questions are not regarding linguistic scholarship, nor of 'subtleties'. Some of the errors appear to be 'blatant'; things seemingly changed 'deliberately'. As such, the so-called 'scholars' who produced them are due God's promised judgments. (Rev22:18-19, Pr30:6, 2Pt3:16b)  As Jesus pronounced, 'Woe to you lawyers! (The scholars who know and wrangle about precise words) For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.' (Lk11:52) When Scripture has been deliberately mistranslated, those passages become a source of stumbling. 'It is impossible but that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to him through whom they do come!' (Lk17:1)

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<u>What is the VW-edition</u>?
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<p>
First of all, one thing that it is 'not' is a 'new translation'. No new
translation work has been done. No new manuscripts have been found. No
new scholarship has been invented. No new theories on textual criticism
have been laid out.

<p>

What it 'is' is a concerted, diligent effort to provide an English edition that actually says 'what' God said. It is compiled from out of the NKJV, LITV and KJV texts, Proof-Reading, CORRECTING the ERRORS the unGodly have put into the English versions, with the aid of the tools that scholarship has already provided to anyone who desires to use them. In some cases all three of these versions are in error. How often have you heard a Bible teacher proclaim something like, 'Our Bibles say X, Y or Z, but in the Hebrew/Greek it REALLY MEANS, A, B or C'?  My question has always been, 'If the Hebrew/Greek REALLY MEAN something else, then 'why' don't our English versions say so?' Thus, the VW-Edition seeks to provide a work that presents 'A, B & C'. Other than some cases where some words can have many optional meanings, or subtle shadings of means such that a word-study might enhance one's understanding; for the most part, if one reads from the VW-Edition, word-studies into the Hebrew/Greek should not be necessary.

<p>

The method by which the VW-Edition has been compiled is that of Proof-Reading. Reading from the English texts in parallel, comparing word-by-word to the linguistic study tools to verify whether or not the English says what it is supposed to; and when errors are found, correcting them. Scrutinizing: Is that the best word to convey the correct meaning? And, accounting for the complexities in going from an eastern language to western, is the verb tense the closest possible for correct understanding? As anyone who knows more than their own native tongue is aware, translating from one tongue to another is not always an 'exact' science, and the VW-Edition is not an 'amplified' version, where all the various options are presented. But it has been the diligent goal to present the MOST CORRECT words; current English words that are 'closest' in meaning to the texts.

<p>

Where the NKJV and KJV supporters usually boast of the academic credentials of their scholarship, this editor does not have ties to any denomination or theological militance, whether the church of Rome, or any of the splinters that Protested against Rome. This editor is 'with Jesus' (Acts4:13) and the same Holy Spirit who 'propelled along' the original 'holy men of God' who wrote, is the same One who has guided this edition.


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The KJV is of Rome. NKJV is of Rome, plus the modern liberal apostasy. LITV is of Calvinism and Reformed theology.  But these have been the 'best' available today, coming from the proper Masoretic and Textus Receptus texts.
And they are available in print.

<p>

But for those who like to read from their computer, or are of a mind to print this out on their own printers <font size='2' face='arial'>(now also available <a href='print.htm' target='_blank'>in print</a>)</font>; the VW-edition basically maintains the KJV/NKJV verbal, grammatical compositional structure. In other words, if the reader is used to the KJV/NKJV/MKJV family of translations, the VW-edition will have a similar 'feel'; and in many cases the reader will be able to find what they are looking for while doing word/phrase searches by remembering quotes from the KJV/NKJV. Thus, if accuracy could be maintained by retaining KJV/NKJV-type word orders, things were left unchanged.  But when errors were found, words were changed in whatever manner was necessary to make the VW-edition say what God's Word says.

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<u>Generic Global Corrections</u>:
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<p>
In addition to some serious doctrinal issues which were corrected
(which will be addressed further into this Preface), many 'smaller'
generic, global issues are being addressed.

<p>

Since there is such widespread misunderstanding regarding
'tribulation', this has been changed to 'affliction', which more
closely represents modern understanding of its actual definition and
meaning.  Scripture nowhere teaches a doctrine of a 'seven year' period
called, 'Tribulation'. Tribulation (affliction) is not a 'period of
time', but a definition of suffering... 'whenever' it occurs; past,
present, or future.

<p>

In the N.T. there are about four different words used for different
kinds of sexual issues. But the KJV/LITV tend to call them all,
'fornication'. And others, 'immorality' or 'sexual immorality'. The
VW-edition distinguishes between 1) sexual perversion (which includes
adultery, fornication, sodomy, bestiality, incest, etc),
2) prostitution, 3) adultery, 4) immorality.

<p>
Many instances of 'lest' have been changed to variations of 'that..
not'. Many cases where the exhortation is so that a person 'not'
commit sin and stray from God; 'Lest' softens such injunctions into an
idea like, 'perhaps it would be best if you didn't sin..hmmm..maybe??'

<p>

Many things have been capitalized, including: Word, Law, Prophets,
Heaven, Hosts; where they refer to the Word/Law of God, Heaven as God's
habitat, and Jehovah of Hosts (God's name).

<p>

Baptism/Baptize  has been corrected to 'immersion/immerse'.  'Immerse' corrects away from the Roman notions of 'baptism' being the dabbing of some water on one's head, or other pagan practices of flinging water outwards upon congregations of people, to its true meaning: To 'dip, immerse, submerge'. When the Believer has been 'immersed into Christ' (Rom6:3, Gal3:27) it is a 'total' sacrifice of ourselves to Christ. Even the way the world speaks of things, a person who is totally committed to their career is not spoken of as being 'baptized in their work'. No, they are 'immersed' in their work.  And, 'immerse' helps complete the connection from the O.T. water-washing cleansing rituals, to the symbolism of Christ's fulfillment of the Law (Mt5:17), where salvation is 'the washing of regeneration..' (Tit3:5) And also: just as Peter was not the 'first pope', neither was John the first 'baptist'. He was 'John the Immerser'

<p>

Distinction has been made in the O.T. between Trumpet, Ram's Horn and
Shofar. Many translations just render them all as 'trumpet'. In Numbers
ch10 they specifically made 'trumpets' out of 'silver'.  These
'trumpets' were used to direct the encampment of the Children of Israel 
as they traveled. But when Joshua led Israel in conquering Jericho they 
blew the 'shofar'. (Joshua ch6) And the 300 who followed Gideon blew 
'shofars'. (Judges ch7) The typical Sunday school stories and pictures 
have had Gideon's men carrying cavalry-type 'bugle' looking devices.  
But if you know the sound of a brass trumpet/bugle, and then have heard 
a shofar, you know the sounds are totally different, and completely 
changes our aural imagery of these O.T. accounts. And in many cases, 
mentions of 'shofar' are couched in the phrase, '<i>SOUND</i> of the
shofar' (e.g. Jer4:19); because the shofar has one of the most unique
sounds in existence. And to illustrate the difference between trumpet
and shofar, they are both listed together as different instruments in
1Chr15:28, 2Chr15:14, Ps98:6. When KJV says 'cornet' (e.g. Ps98:6),
that is in error. A trumpet and cornet are very similar to each other
(and an untrained ear might not tell them apart); but a silver trumpet,
and (ram's horn) shofar are NOT; they are <i>VERY</i> different,
sonically not even in the same class with each other.

<p>

A few names have been corrected. In the N.T. James has been corrected
to Jacob, and Jude to Judas.

<p>
And in the O.T. the Hebrew 'YHWH' has been distinguished from 'Adonay', 
and rendered as 'Jehovah'. Most translations render both YHWH and 
Adonay as 'Lord'.   Some render YHWH as all-caps; 'LORD'. Others get 
them mixed up and are not consistent.  And in cases where the text 
says, 'YHWH Adonay', they will render YHWH as 'GOD'. But they are
different Hebrew words.

<p>

A brief explanation of this might be in order. As many will be aware, at one time the VW website hosted online Jay Green's LITV (Literal), and I was helping him update and proofread it.  There were many objections from several quarters to its use of 'Jehovah'. The more fundamentalist folk thought it seemed awfully 'cultish' like from the JWs. And those from the more Hebrew Roots persuasions complained that it wasn't something like 'YHWH', as their correspondence would also blank out 'G-D' and 'L-RD'.  Thinking of these things, I had considered the possibility of going with 'Yahweh', the closest English equivalent to 'YHWH'. However, the very morning of the day I was to implement this change, the Lord made it -quite- clear that it should be 'Jehovah'.  Jehovah is the 'classic' English understanding of His name.  There are classical choral works that proclaim, 'Great is Jehovah, the Lord!' And fundamentalists have had in their hymnals for decades the song, 'Guide me O Thou great Jehovah'.  If this were a Jewish work, then 'Yahweh' might be appropriate. But it is an English work, for predominantly Gentile English-speaking people.  God's classical name in English has been, 'Jehovah'. And, thus it is in this edition. The fact that today's apostasy has been swooningly mantracizing 'Jesus, Jesus, Jeeeezzzus' at the expense of any recognition of the Father, does not render the Father's name obsolete.  It is high time we got back to knowing who our Father in Heaven is! He is the 'Existing One', the 'I AM' (Ex3:14), 'Jehovah of Hosts'. He proclaims, 'I am Jehovah, that is My name..' (Is42:8)

<p>

There is also another form of God's name that KJV uses scarcely once in
Ps68:4, but it is all over the place, particularly in the Psalms; His
name 'YAH'. Most versions simply render it as 'Lord'. e.g. Ps150:6 ends
with, 'Praise YAH!' This name has been restored every place it exists.

<p>

Also, 'God' has two different Hebrew words, 'Elohyim' and 'El'. Pretty
much all translations lump these together as 'God'. But again, they are
different. Elohyim is the basic word for 'God'. But El also includes
the meanings, 'mighty, strength, power', as illustrated in the context
of passages like Ps18:2 where Jehovah is a fortress, rock wall and
stronghold; the word 'God' there is 'El'. It is the 'Mighty God' who
'avenges' and 'brings down'. (2Sam22:48) Thus, to differentiate the two, El
is being rendered as 'Mighty God'.

<p>

<a href='faq.htm#god' target='_blank'>FAQ: 'Names of God'</a>

<p>

Many translations lump Save, Deliver and Rescue into the one word, 
'save'.  The VW-Edition seeks to sort out those differences, too. While 
Paul quotes Joel2:32 regarding 'calling upon the name of Jehovah' for 
salvation (Rom10:13), the actual word used in Joel means 'escape'; 
which, in the context of the earth shuddering under earthquakes, 
volcanoes, asteroid bombardments, 'escape' suggests a 'physical' 
security and refuge from all that is happening. David cries out to God
much for 'deliverance' from his enemies. (Ps7:1) Many people often
confuse David's prayers in the Psalms as being 'salvation' passages;
but when he was on the run from Saul, he was crying out to God for
safety/deliverance from physical death at the hand of Saul.  Hopefully
these distinctions will help sort out those confusions.

<p>

In keeping with God's 'eternal' character, in the typical O.T.
expression 'for His mercy <i> endures</i> forever', the word 'endures'
is not in the texts; and 'forever' is more accurately rendered,
'eternal'; thus, it is being corrected to, 'for His mercy is eternal'.

<p>

Throughout the Psalms there are the typical verses like Ps147:7 where
one wonders, How does one 'sing praise upon the harp'? One doesn't. One
'plays' instruments, and indeed, the text is different there; and is
thus being rendered, 'make music upon the harp'.

<p>

2Sam22:50 properly says, 'I will give thanks...' and yet, in many
places in the Psalms the traditional translators have changed those
very same words into, 'I will praise You...' Those types of things are
being corrected from 'praise' to 'thanks'

<p>

The words 'Sheol', 'Hades' and 'Tartarus' are likely to cause consternation for some, as
being from 'pagan mythology'; and 'Gehenna', the reference to the garbage dump outside Jerusalem whose flame burned continually; as having removed mentions of 'hell'.  While we know from Scripture that the
death of a Believer is blessed in God's presence and the unbeliever is
damned; exactly where/what is 'Abraham's bosom' or 'Hades'
(Lk16:22-23)? For all the speculations by many, this is one of those
'mysteries' that God doesn't reveal to us, until we travel that path.
There are some cases where the context makes it clear that the 'body'
is in relationship to the 'grave'. (Ps141:7) But in so many more places
where it speaks of the person's essence, their soul, departing this
life; rather than make the Scripture say something that we don't really
know, and thus inserting our own interpretation, the actual Hebrew and
Greek words are being transliterated. When Jesus spoke of the flames of Gehenna, that was a different context from those in Tartarus. Using the (blanket) 'hell' for everything does not render the proper distinctions the speakers and writers used. We may not yet fully understand them (1Co13:9,12), but we should at least acknowledge that they -are- 'different' words.

<p>

In the O.T. levitical worship, most translations speak of 'showbread'.
However, there are actually three different renderings of those 12
loaves, arranged into two rows. The 'Bread of the Presence' (Ex25:30),
the 'Bread in Rows' (1Chr9:32); and the N.T. reference to it, the
'Bread of Presentation'. (Mt12:4) These have been distinguished in each
place they appear, as appropriate.

<p>

Often, there are doubled words, which have been traditionally rendered,
'unto all generations' (Ex3:15), but the text actually has the word
'generations' twice. Such places are being rendered, 'from generation
to generation'. Other places that have 'die die' (Jer26:8) typically
rendered, 'You shall surely die'; are being rendered 'You shall die the
death', 'shall be executed to death', etc.  as appropriate.  This type
of thing also appears with 'daily' (Ps68:19), when it really should be
more like, 'day by day'. Where KJV says, 'will abundantly bless'
(Ps132:15), the double word is more correctly rendered, 'will bless,
<i>will</i> bless...'  And many other things like these...

<p>

In the O.T. commands regarding animal sacrifices in Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and the end of Ezekiel the phrase 'without blemish' is the
typical expression we have been used to. Indeed, it is used of Christ's
fulfillment of those sacrifices as He is called the Lamb/sacrifice who
was 'without blemish' and 'without spot'. (Heb9:14, 1Pet1:19) But in
the O.T. the word actually means: 'complete, whole, entire, sound,
healthy, having integrity'. The word does not contain a definitional
element of being 'without' something, nor any reference to 'blemish'.
While a person could examine something that was 'complete' and 'whole'
and deduce that it was 'without' any flaws, the word itself is not such
a word. In fact, the KJV translators, when faced with a verse that has
both this word and one that actually speaks of 'blemish' (Num19:2) in
the same verse, changed 'without blemish' to 'without spot', to
accommodate the word that actually means 'without blemish'.  The actual
word 'blemish' appears in other places (Job11:15, 2Sam14:25, Dan1:4,
Pr9:7) where it has nothing to do with sacrifices. Thus, the former
expression 'without blemish' is being rendered, '<i>that is</i> whole'.

<p>

In the O.T. there are distinctions that have typically been mangled 
regarding the tabernacle. In Ex25:9 'tabernacle' in the Hebrew speaks 
of 'dwelling place'; and in Ex27:21 'tent of meeting', 'tent' by
definition is a 'nomad's tent'. And also in Ex26:7 there was the 'tent
over the tabernacle'. Two 'different' words, that often both get
rendered as 'tabernacle'.  Also, the typical expression has been
'tabernacle of congregation'.  The word 'congregation' is typically
understood as being a 'group of people', whereas, in 'tent of meeting',
'meeting' (which is more correct) is the communion between God and man;
the place where God's presence was represented, as He would speak with
Moses, and others. The whole 'congregation' did not meet in the 'tent
of meeting'.  Only Moses and the priests did so; those properly
consecrated.

<p>

Many things about the levitical service has traditionally been called
'most holy'. (Ex29:37) This is another case of a 'doubled' word, 'holy,
holy'. In many instances it is being rendered, 'set apart, holy' when
addressing objects or places other than the 'Holy of Holies' where the
ark resided.

<p>

Many of the levitical burnt offerings are typically rendered as 'burnt 
sacrifice' where the Hebrew word actually indicates that they should
'smoke it' or to 'make it smoke' (Lev1:9,13,etc)... like -incense-. To
accommodate the fact that the word 'smoke' needs to be there, and also
keep it grammatically English, the expression 'with smoke' is being
included where appropriate. Perhaps this will help explain how those
burnt offerings were a 'soothing aroma' to God.

<p>

Traditionally, the word 'worship' proliferates the Scriptures in other
English translations. However, in Hebrew the word thus-rendered
actually means 'to bow down' and/or 'bow down and prostrate'. In the
Greek, it is more correctly rendered, 'do homage'. This matter is
addressed in detail in an online commentary:

<p>
<a href='../main/bow-down.htm' target='_blank'>
Worship? No. Bow Down - Do Homage</a>

<p>

Just a word about 'Aram' vs 'Syria'. Throughout the O.T. the most
technically correct name is Aram/Aramean, which is how the NASB 
renders it throughout. The KJV renders it Syria/Syrian. Most people 
who are not scholars would not know who the 'Arameans' are, but readily recognize 'Syria'. But the language they speak is commonly known as 
Aramaic, from its ancient roots; it is not usually referred to as the 'Syrian' language. Thus, to try to maintain a sense of literal and historical accuracy, the VW-Edition has rendered it as Aram/Aramean throughout the Pentateuch, where it is more 'ancient' history. And then beginning with Joshua, where Israel begins having interaction with its surrounding nations as a national entity, the more familiar Syria/Syrian 
is used. But the language is rendered as 'Aramaic'.

<p>
And then, there are so many hundreds/thousands of other more minor
corrections that it would be unnecessarily exhaustive to try to
document them all. Most of them have to do with articles, prepositions,
conjunctions, etc.  like: in, unto, and, by, through, etc. But there
are also more significant words/phrases that have been adjusted to seek
to be as more exactly precise as possible. 

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<u>Catholic Errors Corrected</u>:
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<p>
There are some pivotal passages upon which the church of Rome hangs all 
their doctrine regarding apostolic succession and the authority of 'the 
church'. (And for that matter, charismania hangs on these, too) Mt16:19
& 18:18, Jn20:23  If you compare the VW-edition (similar to the LITV)
to what you have been used to, you will notice how the proper verb
tenses and punctuation change their meanings entirely. What a Believer 
does, when led by the Holy Spirit, 'is' from Heaven. It is not that the 
Believer 'decides' something, and now as a result of man's 'edict', God 
is now complying with man.  But rather, when a Believer makes some 
earthly decision, if he does so by the Holy Spirit, that decision was 
'already' made in Heaven first.  Decisions originate in Heaven and come 
'to' the Believer through the Holy Spirit (Jn16:13-14), not the other
way around. Remember that Jesus said, 'I will build My church'.  We do
not build, and 'then' ask God to bless 'our' endeavors after we are
already underway by our own wisdom.  We order our lives by 'Lord, what
do You have in mind for me to do?' (Ac9:6)

<p>
And also, in Ac12:4 'Easter' has  been corrected to 'Passover'.
And Lk11:28 corrects the seeds of Marialotry.

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<u>Protestant Errors Corrected</u>:
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<p>
This becomes more complex, but again, involves mostly verb tense issues.

<p>
'..but was raised..' (Lk24:6 LITV) -compared-to- '..but is risen..'
(KJV/VW) If Jesus' resurrection is only a past-tense event, the Jewish
rulers would not have been so upset that the early Church proclaimed
Christ's resurrection. (Acts4:2)  But His resurrection was a 'present'
reality to the Believers, and it was observed that they were 'with
Jesus'. (Acts4:13)

<p>
'..as the Father LOVED Me, I also LOVED you..' (Jn15:9 LIT) KJV adds 
'hath/have' to the tenses. The tenses here are 'aorist/active'. By 
definition, according to American Heritage Dictionary, aorist is: A form of a verb in some languages, such as
Classical Greek, that expresses action without indicating its completion or
continuation. In other words: 'without regard for past, present or future 
time' and is something that English doesn't have. But quoting Online 
Bible, is 'generally rendered as a simple past tense in most 
translations.' However, I believe that what has been, as OLB says, 
'generally rendered' has been in error when rendered as a 'blanket'
application, without any thought to context.  ('Active' means that the
'subject' is performing the action)  Thus, think about this a minute...
Jesus is sitting in the upper room with His disciples and says, 'the
Father love[ED] Me...  (but doesn't anymore?), as I lov[ED] you... (but
I don't anymore?)'.  God's love can best be explained with, 'I have
loved you with an everlasting love' (Jer31:3).  Notice how He lov[ED] 
(paste tense), but the love also is 'everlasting' (going on into the 
future). There is no past, present, future, because it is 'eternally' 
existing, as is God's essence, 'I AM' (Ex3:14)  Thus, '..as the Father 
loves Me, I also love you..' (Jn15:9 VW)

<p>
This same issue can be found in Mary's 'Magnificat' (Lk1:46-55) and
many other passages. And if you see how this affects Romans ch1, you
see how the sinful state of the world is not for 'them' way-back-when,
in 'ancient times', but is also for 'today', for 'present' humanity.
God's Word is not a set of some 'ancient writings' and fairy tales, but
is 'timeless', and is for TODAY's lost humanity.

<p>
'..having believed..' (Eph1:13 NKJV) '..since you believed..' (Ac19:2
KJV) '..who believed..' (Ac11:17 KJV) '..they believed..' (Jn17:8
LITV)  While there are many places that speak of a certain 'time' at
which a person repented and converted, and such a time might be in the
past tense (historically); the Christian faith is not in the 'past
tense'. It is continuing and ongoing. It is the fountain of the Water
of Life '..springing up..' (Jn4:14)  It is praying 'without ceasing'.
(1Th5:17)

<p>
And so, let's finish this last reference, '..springing up into eternal
life.' (Jn4:14 VW) Others (including LITV and KJV) say, 'everlasting'
life. And the most 'famous' verse of all: '..but have everlasting
life..' (Jn3:16 NKJV/KJV/LITV) The word rendered over and over as
'everlasting', while containing components of 'never to cease'; it's
definition is actually, 'without beginning and end, that which always
has been and always will be'. 'Everlasting' conveys a notion that there
was some 'starting point', but now, from now on, there will never be
any end to it. But if 'this life is in His Son' (1Jn5:11), and God is
the eternal 'I AM', His life is also 'eternal'.  If God is without
beginning or ending, then, the life which He gives is also without
beginning or ending. Eternal. That which we contemplate is '..eternal 
in Heaven.' (2Cor5:1)

<p>
If all a person has is 'everlasting' life, it is not God's life...it is
something else. (Let us not misunderstand. Eternal includes
Everlasting, but is so much more.) And so we see the seeds of some of
the theologies which state things on the order of: God provid[ED]
salvation, and at some time in the past I can verify some date/time in
which I came to God in repentance, and so now, because of that past
event, I am guaranteed of a future life that continues on and on like
the Eveready 'Energizer' bunny.  But it misses the 'timelessness' of
God's existence, love, and salvation, etc.  Thus, OSAS is a different
doctrine, and is based on God 'lovED' us and we 'believED'.  God lovED
us some time in the past, and I '-got- saved' at some time I can mark
on the calendar (July 13, 1954), and because of that 'past' event, I am
now 'charged up' and Salvation will now 'keep going, and going, and
going', no-matter-what.  Yes, we can look at a past event when we
'first' believed (Acts8:12), but Salvation is a -state- of 'believing'
(Eph1:13). Israel is a prime example of how a 'one-time-faith' does not
work. Their one-time-faith killed the Passover lamb and got them out of
Egypt with Moses.  (1Cor10:1-4) But 'most of them' (vs5) ended up
scattered in the wilderness, and they did not receive the promise due
to 'unbelief'.  (Heb3:19)

<p>
Thus, '..everyone believing into Him should not perish but have eternal
life' (Jn3:16)

<p>
Thus, while these are merely a few examples, and there are many many
more, every effort is being made to ascertain correct verb tenses and
other word choices, where doctrine is under consideration.

<p>
<font size='4'>
<u>Other Verb Tense Issues</u>:
</font>

<p>
However, there are some issues that are being left well-enough alone.  
Within the parameters of this edition  'correcting errors', but also
remaining as much as possible in the form we have been used to in the
KJV/NKJV family tradition due to familiarity, the historical facts are
not altered if the passage says, alternately, 1) 'And leaving all,
rising up he followed Him.' (Lk5:28 LITV), or, 2) 'So he left all, rose
up, and followed Him.' (KJV/NKJV/VW)  The historical fact is that Levi
got up, left everything behind, and followed Jesus; and both of these
renderings say the same thing.  In this case, and many like it, the
VW-edition has kept the KJV and/or NKJV renditions.

<p>
Just a note: Even though the NKJV/MKJV are 'updates' to the KJV, there
are many things within them that are identical to the KJV. And thus,
this VW-edition also has many things that are identical to the
NKJV/KJV.  When the Word, originally, is God's Word, and we are merely
seeking to have an English translation of it, there is much for which
there is no better way to say it, than has already been said.  Such
things are not being changed, just for the sake of 'change'.


<p>
<font size='4'>
<u>Literalness</u>:
</font>

<p>

Every effort has been made to be sure that the English words actually mean what the original texts mean. Great pains have been taken to find the 'just right' word to convey subtle differences to complete the context correctly. While smoothness of reading has been one of the considerations, there are some places where there is simply no exact English equivalent, and rather than pick one of several renderings where a lot of words would need to be added, sometimes the words may be left as a 'dangler', and not necessarily rendered grammatically correctly.  e.g.  'It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh does not profit; not a thing.' (Jn6:63) Notice how 'not a thing', being an emphasis-providing phrase, sort of dangles off the end, after the semicolon.

<p>

Also, a lot of little things have been 'tweaked'. e.g. 'as you please' really means 'good in your eyes' (Gen16:6)  'at his instruction' is really 'at his mouth' (Jer36:17)  '..without first telling me..' should be '..will disclose it in my ear..' (1Sam20:2) There's a whole host of these kinds of things where the RICH COLOR and CHARACTER of the original languages has been lost by those 'generalizing' God's Word into 'smooth' English; which are being restored.


<p>
<font size='4'>
<u>Italics</u>:
</font>

<p>
In some places italicized words have been added when exact literalness 
leaves a 'hole' in proper English understanding. e.g. 'She hath done 
what she could' (Mk14:8 KJV). A precisely 'literal' rendering would 
give us something like, 'What this one held, she did.' (LITV)  But, 
'She has done what she <i>was in a position to do</i>' (VW), conveys a
little better the meaning of what LITV renders with the word, 'held';
or KJV with 'could'.

<p>

In some cases italics are used to help differentiate and give a fuller
meaning of a word. e.g. 1Tim6:20 the word 'knowledge' (gnosis) means,
'<i>general</i> intelligence or knowledge'. But 2Pt1:8 is rendered
'<i>full</i> true knowledge' The word 'knowledge' (epignosis) there
means, 'precise, correct, thorough knowledge..to know well'. Thus,
while the Greek in each case is one word, for proper understanding in
English the second has 'true' to indicate the 'precise/correct'
aspects, and '<i>full</i>' to indicate the 'thorough' aspect.

<p>

In other cases the 'literal' word, while being accurate, might not be 
properly understood in today's world and culture, and an added 
italicized word will explain the literal word, such as in Pr16:11 where 
the literal word is 'stones'; but from the times and culture it must be 
understood in the context of weighing scales, where selected stones 
were used as scale weights. Thus, the word 'weight' is included to 
define 'stones'.  (e.g. '..all the <i>weight</i> stones of the bag are 
His work.')

<p>
<font size='4'><a name='closing'></a>
<u>Closing Thoughts</u>:
</font>


<p>
This edition will not be for everyone. If this editor's lack of
'proper' scholarship bothers you, then, perhaps it's not for you. The
early scribes and synagogue rulers looked down upon the early Church
'fathers', too, that they were 'uneducated and untrained'. (Acts4:13)
But they were some of God's 'holy men of God' (2Pt1:21) who were
vessels for the Holy Spirit.

<p>
To repeat: No 'new' scholarship is needed. What is needed is to rightly
sort out what the scholars have already provided. '..rightly
dividing..' (2Tm2:15); in this case meaning, 'to proceed on straight
paths', and not 'twist'. (2Pt3:16)  Any of the scholars, who are either 
unbelievers, or of various theological viewpoints; when they see things 
they either don't like, or don't agree with, have 'changed' what God 
gave. NO WONDER the Roman paternity didn't want the common folk to be 
reading the Scriptures all those years!  But when they began to allow 
it, by then, they had changed some key passages to reflect their 
teaching; and if anyone were to point out the mistranslations, they 
could be taunted for their lack of mastering linguistic scholarship...  
after all, 'this is what the 'scholars' say it means' (so therefore it
must be so!).  Thus also, NO WONDER there were complaints when it was
announced that this VW-edition was going to be produced. When we know
what God actually said, not hiding behind twisted translations, the
various doctrinal errors become exposed.  They, the 'scholars', become
exposed.

<p>
This VW-edition is only merely seeking, through the Holy Spirit, to
correct/unravel ('straighten') what they have done.

<p>
After all, that was one of the ministries of the original 'voice in the
wilderness' as John proclaimed, 'Make His paths straight'. (Mt3:3)

<p>
Amen!


# verses

text:
And the earth was without form, and void, with darkness on the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.


text:
God called the light, Day; and the darkness He called, Night. Thus, the evening and the morning: Day One.


text:
Then God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, separating the waters from the waters.


text:
And God made the firmament, and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: thus.


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Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: thus.


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And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters He called, Seas. And God saw that it was good.


text:
And God said, Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth: thus.


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And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to its kind, and the tree producing fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


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Then God said, Let there be luminaries in the firmament of the heavens, to distinguish the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;


text:
And God made two great luminaries: the greater luminary to rule the day, and the lesser luminary to rule the night, and also the stars.


text:
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.


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Then God said, Let the waters swarm with swarming living creatures, and let flying creatures fly to and fro above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.


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So God created great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, that swarmed in the waters according to their kind, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


text:
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the flying creatures multiply on the earth.


text:
Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: beasts, creeping things and living things of the earth, each according to its kind: thus.


text:
And God made the living things of the earth according to its kind, beasts according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


text:
Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the heavens, and over the beasts, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that moves on the earth.


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So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.


text:
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.


text:
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.


text:
Also, to every living thing of the earth, to every flying creature of the heavens, and to everything that moves on the earth, living creatures, I have given the green plants for food: thus.


text:
And God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was extremely good. Thus, the evening and the morning: Day Six.


text:
And on the seventh day God completed His work which He had made, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.


text:
And God blessed the seventh day and consecrated it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.


text:
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God was making the earth and the heavens,


text:
before any shrub of the field was on the earth and before any green plant of the field had sprouted; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;


text:
And 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.


text:
And out of the ground Jehovah God made to sprout every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.


text:
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which circles around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold;


text:
The name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one going toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is Euphrates.


text:
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die the death.


text:
And Jehovah God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper to complement him.


text:
Out of the ground Jehovah God formed every living thing of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.


text:
So the man gave names to all the animals, to the flying creatures of the heavens, and to every living thing of the field. But for the man there was not found a helper to complement him.


text:
And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.


text:
And the rib which Jehovah God had taken out of the man He rebuilt into a woman, and He brought her to the man.


text:
And the man said: This now at last is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.


text:
Now the serpent was more cunning than any living thing of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?


text:
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.


text:
For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be as God, knowing good and evil.


text:
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.


text:
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.


text:
And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking around in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden.


text:
And he said, I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.


text:
And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?


text:
And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she has given to me of the tree, and I ate.


text:
And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.


text:
So Jehovah God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all beasts, and more than every living thing of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.


text:
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.


text:
To the woman He said: I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.


text:
And to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.


text:
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.


text:
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become as one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, that he not put forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever;


text:
therefore Jehovah God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.


text:
So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword turning this way and that, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.


text:
And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man from Jehovah.


text:
And at the end of so many days it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground unto Jehovah.


text:
Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And Jehovah had regard for Abel and his offering,


text:
but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. And Cain's anger burned greatly, and his countenance fell.


text:
If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.


text:
Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.


text:
And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? He said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?


text:
So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.


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When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.


text:
Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.


text:
And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken upon him sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, so that anyone finding him should not kill him.


text:
And 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.


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To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.


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And Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.


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And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain: One hammering in every craft of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.


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And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah: Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech, listen to my speech! For I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for striking me.


text:
And the man knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name: Seth, for God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel; because Cain killed him.


text:
And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then they began to call upon the name of Jehovah.


text:
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.


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He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Mankind in the day when they were created.


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And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.


text:
After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.


text:
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.


text:
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,


text:
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were pleasing; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.


text:
And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not continually strive with man, for indeed it is in flesh to sin; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.


text:
There were giants on the earth in those days. And also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them, these were the mighty men from antiquity, men of renown.


text:
And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.


text:
And Jehovah said, I will obliterate man whom I have created from off the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and flying creatures of the heavens, for I regret having made them.


text:
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God.


text:
And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.


text:
And 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 along with the earth.


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And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.


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You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.


text:
And behold I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy from under the heavens all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.


text:
And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark; you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.


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And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.


text:
Of flying creatures after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come in to you, to keep them alive.


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And take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.


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And Jehovah said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and all your house, for I have seen you as being righteous before Me in this generation.


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You shall take unto you of every clean animal seven and seven, a male and his female; and two each of animals that are not clean, a male and his female;


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also seven and seven of the flying creatures of the heavens, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.


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For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will obliterate from off the face of the earth all living substance that I have made.


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So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.


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Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of flying creatures, and of everything that moves upon the earth,


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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.


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On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark;


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they and every living thing after its kind, all animals after their kind, every creeping thing that moves on the earth after its kind, and every flying creature after its kind, every bird of every wing.


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So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.


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And the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it was high above the earth.


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The waters prevailed and greatly increased upon the earth, and the ark moved about upon the surface of the waters.


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And the waters prevailed with abundant force upon the earth, and all the high hills under the heavens were covered.


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And all flesh died that moved on the earth: flying creatures and animals and living things and every creeping thing that moves on the earth, and every man.


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So He obliterated all living substance which was on the face of the ground: both man and animal, creeping thing and flying creatures of the heavens. They were obliterated from off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark were left alive.


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And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.


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The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were also stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.


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And the waters receded from the earth, going out and coming back. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were decreased.


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And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.


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And the waters continued to go and decrease until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.


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And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.


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And he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from off the earth.


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He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from off the face of the ground.


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But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.


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And the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; so Noah knew that the waters had receded from off the earth.


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So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.


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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dry.


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Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: flying creatures and animals and every creeping thing that moves on the earth, so that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.


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Every living thing, every creeping thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth, according to their kind, went out of the ark.


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And Noah built an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


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And Jehovah smelled a soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again smite every living thing as I have done.


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While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.


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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every living thing of the earth, upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. They have been entrusted into your hand.


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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have designated all things for you, even as the green plants.


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Surely the blood of your souls will I require; at the hand of every living thing will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother I will require the soul of man.


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and with every living creature that is with you: the flying creatures, the animals, and every living thing of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every living thing of the earth.


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Thus I have established My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.


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And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:


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I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.


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and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.


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The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.


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And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.


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Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.


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But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backward, and they did not see the nakedness of their father.


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God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.


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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.


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From these the regions of the nations were separated into their lands, everyone according to their tongue, according to their families, into their nations.


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The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.


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He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.


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the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were scattered.


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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.


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These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands and in their nations.


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To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.


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These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations.


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


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And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a level valley in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.


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Then they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them with burning. They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.


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And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.


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And Jehovah said, Behold, the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they devise to do will be withheld from them.


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Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they cannot understand one another's speech.


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So Jehovah scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.


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Therefore its name is called Babel, because there Jehovah confused the language of all the earth; and from there Jehovah scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.


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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.


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And Abram and Nahor took wives: 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.


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And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.


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Now Jehovah said to Abram: Depart from your land, from your kindred and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.


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I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.


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I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who despises you; and in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.


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So Abram departed as Jehovah had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.


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And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had collected, and the souls they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go into the land of Canaan. So they came into the land of Canaan.


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And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.


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And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, To your seed I will give this land. And there he built an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared to him.


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And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Ai on the east. There he built an altar unto Jehovah and called upon the name of Jehovah.


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Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was heavy in the land.


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And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.


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And it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.


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Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and my soul shall live because of you.


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And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.


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The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.


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He dealt well with Abram because of her; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.


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And Jehovah struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of the matter of Sarai, Abram's wife.


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And Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?


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Why did you say, She is my sister? And so I took her to be my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and depart.


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And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.


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And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.


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And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,


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to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called upon the name of Jehovah.


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And the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.


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And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.


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And Abram said to Lot, Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we men are brothers.


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Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.


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And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the area around Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.


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Then Lot chose for himself all the area around Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated each from the other.


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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt around the cities, and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.


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And after Lot had separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram: Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward, and westward;


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And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be numbered.


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Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the plain of Mamre in Hebron, and built an altar there unto Jehovah.


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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations,


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that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).


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In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kirjathaim,


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Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat (which is Kadesh), and struck all the land of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazezon Tamar.


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And the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar) went out and set in battle array in the Valley of Siddim


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against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against five.


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Now the Valley of Siddim was pitted with asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.


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They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his possessions, and departed.


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And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.


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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led out his trained three hundred and eighteen who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.


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And they split up by night, he and his servants, and struck them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.


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And he brought back all the property, and also brought back his brother Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the people.


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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (which is the King's Valley), after his return from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.


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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; and he was the priest of the Most High God.


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and blessed is the Most High God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him a tithe of all.


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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have raised my hand to Jehovah the Most High God, possessor of the heavens and earth,


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that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, that you may not say, I have made Abram rich;


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except 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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After these things the Word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.


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And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the son of the inheritance of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?


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And behold, the Word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This one shall not inherit from you, but one who shall come forth from your own body shall inherit from you.


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And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said unto him, So shall your seed be.


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And He said unto him, I am Jehovah, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.


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And He said unto him, Take for Me a three year old heifer, a three year old female goat, a three year old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.


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And he took all these for Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and put each piece against each other; but he did not cut the birds in two.


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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.


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And He said to Abram: Consider to know that your seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.


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And I will also judge the nation whom they serve; and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.


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But in the fourth generation they shall return here; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.


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And it came to pass, when the sun had gone down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.


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On 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;


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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.


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And Sarai said to Abram, See now, Jehovah has restrained me from bearing. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall build up a family by her. And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.


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And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maidservant, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.


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And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.


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And Sarai said to Abram, My injustice be upon you! I gave my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and you.


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But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to her as is good in your eyes. And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.


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And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.


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And He said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, where have you come from, and where are you going? She said, I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.


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And the Angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly, so that they shall not be numbered for multitude.


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And the Angel of Jehovah said unto her: Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has heard your affliction.


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He shall be a wild ass of a man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.


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And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, God-Who-Sees; for she said, Have I also here looked upon Him who sees me?


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And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect;


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No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.


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I will make you abundantly exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you.


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And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.


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Also I have given unto you and your seed after you the land in which you sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an enduring possession; and I will be their God.


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And God said to Abraham: As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.


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This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised;


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and you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you.


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He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male in your generations, he who is born in the house or bought with money from any son of a foreigner who is not your seed.


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He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.


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And the uncircumcised male, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.


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Then God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.


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And I have blessed her and have given you a son by her; yea, I have blessed her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.


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Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall one be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?


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And God said: Truly, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, with his seed after him.


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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly abundantly. He shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.


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But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.


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And Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins the same day, as God had spoken unto him.


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and all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money from the son of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.


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And Jehovah appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent opening in the heat of the day.


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And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent opening to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,


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And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may strengthen your hearts. After that you may pass on, for this is why you have passed along by your servant. They said, Do as you have said.


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So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.


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And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.


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And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree. And they ate.


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And He said, I will come back to return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening from the tent opening which was behind him.


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Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and it had ceased to be after the manner of women with Sarah.


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Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, Being worn out, shall I be delighted, my lord, having also become old?


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And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why has Sarah laughed, saying, Shall I surely give birth, I who have become old?


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Is anything beyond the power of Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.


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But Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And He said, No, but you did laugh.


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And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.


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since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?


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For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his house after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken to him.


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And Jehovah said, The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceedingly heavy.


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I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.


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Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?


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Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?


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And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.


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Then Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:


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Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous; would You destroy all of the city for lack of five? And He said, If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.


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And he spoke to Him yet again and said, Suppose there should be forty found there? And He said, I will not do it for the sake of forty.


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Then he said, Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose thirty should be found there? And He said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.


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And he said, Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found there? And He said, I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.


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And he said, Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there? And He said, I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.


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And Jehovah went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.


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And the two angels came to Sodom at evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.


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And he said, Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will spend the night in the open square.


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But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.


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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.


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And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them.


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See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.


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And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to sojourn, and he acts as a judge to condemn; now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.


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And they struck the men who were at the entrance of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.


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And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city; bring them out of this place!


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For we are destroying this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.


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And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place; for Jehovah is destroying this city! But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.


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And when dawn had risen, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are found here, that you not be consumed in the punishment of the city.


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And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him down outside the city.


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And it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for your lives! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.


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Behold now, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.


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See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.


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And he said to him, See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.


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Hurry, escape there! For I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.


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And He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and the plants of the ground.


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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.


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And 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 had dwelt.


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And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.


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And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the manner of all the earth.


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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may keep alive the seed of our father.


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And 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 or when she arose.


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And it happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may keep alive the seed of our father.


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And 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 or when she arose.


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And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.


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And the younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.


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And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.


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And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.


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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married to a husband.


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Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this.


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And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.


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Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall die the death, you and all who are yours.


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So Abimelech rose early in the morning, summoned all his servants, and told all these things in their ears; and the men were greatly afraid.


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And Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? How have I offended you, that you have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.


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And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife.


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And yet she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.


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And 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 do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.


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And Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.


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And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; indeed this vindicates you before all who are with you and before everybody. Thus she was rebuked.


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So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they gave birth;


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for Jehovah had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.


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For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.


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She also said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle a son? For I have borne him a son in his old age.


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And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.


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Therefore she said to Abraham, Drive away this maidservant and her son; for the son of this maidservant shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac.


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And God said to Abraham, Do not let your eyes quiver because of the lad or because of your maidservant. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your Seed shall be called.


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And Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.


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And she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, Let me not see the death of the boy. So she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.


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And God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God called to Hagar out of the heavens, and said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.


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And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad to drink.


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And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.


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And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.


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Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.


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And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today.


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And he said, You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that they may be my witness that I have dug this well.


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Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. So Abimelech rose with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.


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And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called upon the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God.


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And it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.


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And He said, Take now your son, your only one Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.


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And 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 arose and went to the place of which God had told him.


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And Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey; and the lad and I will go over there and do homage, and we will come back to you.


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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.


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And 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?


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And Abraham said, My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering. So the two of them went together.


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And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.


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And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here am I.


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And He said, Do not lay your hand upon the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one from Me.


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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.


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And Abraham called the name of the place, Jehovah Jireh; as it is said to this day, In the Mount of Jehovah it shall be seen.


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and said: By Myself I have sworn, says Jehovah, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only one;


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that in blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.


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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.


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And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:


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And Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.


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I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead from before my face.


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Hear us, my lord: You are a Godly prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place, that you may bury your dead.


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And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your wish that I bury my dead from before my face, hear me, and entreat Ephron the son of Zohar for me,


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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me at the full price, as property for a burial place among you.


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And Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying,


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No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and the cave that is in it; I give it to you before the eyes of the sons of my people. I give it to you. Bury your dead.


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and he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, If you will give it, please hear me. I will give you money for the field; take it from me and I will bury my dead there.


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My lord, listen to me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead.


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And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out the silver to Ephron which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currency of the merchants.


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And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, which were within all the surrounding borders, were deeded


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to Abraham as a possession before the eyes of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.


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And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (which is Hebron) in the land of Canaan.


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And the field and the cave that is in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as property for a burial place.


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And Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Please, put your hand under my thigh,


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and I will make you swear by Jehovah the God of the Heavens and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;


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And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land; must I take your son back to the land from which you came?


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Jehovah the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He will send His Angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.


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And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you have been released from this oath; only, do not take my son back there.


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So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.


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And the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, for all his master's goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.


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And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw.


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And he said, O Jehovah the God of my master Abraham, please cause the meeting before me this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.


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Behold, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.


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Now let it be that the young woman to whom I shall say, Please let down your pitcher that I may drink, and she says, Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink; let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I shall know that You have shown kindness to my master.


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And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her pitcher on her shoulder.


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And the young woman was of a very pleasant appearance, a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the well, filled her pitcher, and came up.


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And she said, Drink, my lord. Then she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand, and gave him a drink.


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And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.


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And she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.


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And the man, gazing at her, remained silent so as to know whether Jehovah had prospered his journey or not.


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And it came to pass, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her hands weighing ten shekels of gold,


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and said, Whose daughter are you? Tell me, please, is there room in your father's house for us to lodge?


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And he said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His goodness and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, Jehovah has led me to the house of my master's brethren.


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And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, saying, Thus the man spoke to me, that he went to the man. And there he stood by the camels at the well.


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And he said, Come in, O blessed of Jehovah! Why do you stand outside? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.


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And the man came into the house. And he unloaded the camels, and provided straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.


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And food was set before him to eat, but he said, I will not eat until I have spoken my business. And he said, Speak.


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Jehovah has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.


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And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.


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And my master made me swear, saying, You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;


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And 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 from my family and from my father's house.


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Then you shall be free from this oath when you come to my family; and if they will not give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.


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And this day I came to the well and said, O Jehovah the God of my master Abraham, if You will now prosper the way in which I go,


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behold, I am standing by the well of water; and it shall come to pass that when the virgin comes out to draw water, and I say to her, Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,


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and she says to me, Drink, and I will draw for your camels also; let her be the woman whom Jehovah has appointed for my master's son.


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And before I had finished speaking in my heart, there was Rebekah, coming out with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, Please let me drink.


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And she made haste and let her pitcher down from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give your camels water also. So I drank, and she gave the camels water also.


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Then 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.


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And I bowed and prostrated myself before Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the way of truth to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.


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And 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.


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Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come forth from Jehovah; we cannot speak to you either bad or good.


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Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Jehovah has spoken.


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And it came to pass, when Abraham's servant heard their words, that he prostrated himself to the earth before Jehovah.


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And the servant brought out articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.


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And he and the men who were with him ate and drank and stayed the night. And they arose in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.


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And her brother and her mother said, Let the girl stay with us perhaps ten days; after that she may go.


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And he said to them, Do not delay me, since Jehovah has prospered my way; send me away so that I may go to my master.


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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her: Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your seed possess the gates of those who hate them.


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And Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.


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And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, the camels were coming.


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for she had said to the servant, Who is this man walking in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. Therefore she took a veil and covered herself.


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And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.


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And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.


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But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the lands to the east.


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These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years.


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Then Abraham expired and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.


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And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,


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the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.


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And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer Lahai Roi.


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Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham.


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And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,


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These were the sons of Ishmael and these were their names, by their villages and their encampments, twelve chiefs according to their nations.


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And these were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.


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They settled from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He settled in the presence of all his brethren.


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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as wife.


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And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.


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But the sons struggled together within her; and she said, If all is right, why am I like this? So she went to inquire of Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to her: Two nations are in your womb, two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.


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Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.


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So the boys grew: And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.


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And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me gulp down some of that red, red stew, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.


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And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; and he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.


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And 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.


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And Jehovah appeared to him and said: Do not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.


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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your seed I give all these lands. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father.


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And I will make your seed multiply as the stars of the heavens; I will give to your seed all these lands; and in your Seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;


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And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife, thinking, Lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, because she was of a pleasant appearance.


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And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.


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And Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, Behold, surely she is your wife; so why have you said, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought, Lest I die on account of her.


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And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.


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And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall die the death.


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for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. And the Philistines envied him.


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Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with dirt.


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And Isaac re-dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them.


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But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had contended with him.


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And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, For now Jehovah has made a large place for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.


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And Jehovah appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake.


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So he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.


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And Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol the commander of his army.


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And they said, We have certainly seen that Jehovah is with you. So we said, Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you,


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that you will do us no evil, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace; you being now the blessed of Jehovah.


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And they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.


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And it came to pass on the same day that Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.


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And Esau was forty years old when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.


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And it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he summoned Esau his older son and said to him, My son. And he answered him, Here am I.


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Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.


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And 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.


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And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.


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And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,


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Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of Jehovah before my death.


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Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.


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And you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death.


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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.


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Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.


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And his mother said to him, Let your curse be upon me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.


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And he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.


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And Rebekah took the good clothes of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.


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And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done just as you have spoken to me; please arise, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.


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But Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God brought it to me.


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And Isaac said to Jacob, Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are my very son Esau or not.


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And 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.


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And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.


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And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.


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And he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said: Surely, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which Jehovah has blessed.


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Therefore, God give you of the dew of the heavens, of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and wine.


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Let nations serve you, and people bow down to you. Be lord over your brethren, and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed is everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!


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And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.


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And he also had made savory food, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that your soul may bless me.


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And Isaac trembled with a very great trembling, and said, Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him; and moreover, he shall be blessed.


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And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me; me also, O my father!


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And Esau said, Is he not rightly called by the name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now behold, he has taken away my blessing! And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?


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Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brethren I have given to him as servants; with grain and wine I have sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?


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And Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me; me also, O my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.


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And Isaac his father answered and said to him: Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the heavens from above.


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By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you become restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.


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And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had 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.


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And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and summoned Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you.


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until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved also of you both in one day?


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And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what kind of life is that to me?


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And Isaac summoned Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.


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Arise, go to Paddan, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.


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May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become an assembly of peoples;


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and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your seed with you, that you may inherit the land in which you are a sojourner, which God has given to Abraham.


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And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.


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And when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,


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that Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife along with the wives he had.


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And he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.


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And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens; and behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.


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And behold, Jehovah stood above it and said: I am Jehovah the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I give to you and your seed.


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And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.


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Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I am not forsaking you until I have done what I have spoken to you.


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And 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!


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And Jacob arose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.


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And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on,


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And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God's house, and of all that You give me I will tithe to give a tithe to You.


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And he looked, and behold a well in the field; and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. And a large stone was on the well's mouth.


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And all the flocks would be gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the well's mouth, water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well's mouth.


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And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well. And behold, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.


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And he said, Behold, it is still high day; it is not the time for cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.


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But they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.


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And while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.


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And 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.


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And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's relative and that he was Rebekah's son. So she ran and told her father.


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And it came to pass, when Laban heard the report about Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. So he told Laban all these things.


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And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?


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Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.


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And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.


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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were only a day in his eyes because of the love he had for her.


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And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him; and he went in to her.


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And 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? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?


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Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me yet another seven years.


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And Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.


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And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Jehovah has surely looked upon my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.


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And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, He has therefore given me this one also. And she called his name Simeon.


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And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.


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And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped giving birth.


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Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel was jealous of her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me sons, or if not I shall die!


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And Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?


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And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall give birth on my knees, that I also may be built up by her.


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And Rachel said, God has judged my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.


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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Naphtali.


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And when Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.


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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.


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And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.


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When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come in to me, for hiring I have hired you with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.


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And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Issachar.


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And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good endowment; this time my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. So she called his name Zebulun.


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And 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 own land.


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Give 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.


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And Laban said to him, Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have observed the signs that Jehovah has blessed me because of you.


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For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased into a multitude; Jehovah has blessed you since I stepped foot here. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?


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So he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will turn back to feed and keep your flocks:


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Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.


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So my righteousness shall testify for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.


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So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.


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And Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and plane trees, peeled white strips in them, and laid bare the white which was in the rods.


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And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the troughs, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should come into heat when they came to drink.


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And Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban's flock.


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And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock were in heat, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the troughs, that they might mate among the rods.


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And when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.


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And the man increased exceedingly greatly, and had many cattle, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.


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Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has acquired all this wealth.


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And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.


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and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.


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Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to do evil to me.


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If he said thus: The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: The streaked shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore streaked.


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And it happened, at the time when the flocks were in heat, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which mounted the flocks were streaked, speckled, and spotted.


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And He said, Lift up your eyes now and see, all the rams which mount the flocks are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.


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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your kindred.


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And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?


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Are we not considered foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and also devoured and consumed our money.


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For all these riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our sons'. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.


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And he drove away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Paddan, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.


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And Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father's.


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And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he was fleeing.


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So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and set his face toward the mountains of Gilead.


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And he took his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilead.


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And God come to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, Beware that you not speak to Jacob from good to evil.


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So Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.


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And Laban said to Jacob: What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and led away my daughters like captives of the sword?


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Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and not tell me; for I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp?


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It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you not speak to Jacob from good to evil.


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And now you have proceeded to depart because you have longed for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?


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And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest you would take your daughters from me by force.


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With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.


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And Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.


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Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. And Laban groped all about the tent but did not find them.


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And she said to her father, Let it not burn in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is with me. And he searched but did not find the household idols.


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And Jacob was furious and complained to Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?


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Although you have searched all my things, what of your household articles have you found? Set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both!


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These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.


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That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.


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There I was: In the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.


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Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.


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Unless 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 toil of my hands, and rebuked you last night.


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And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?


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Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and me, and let it be a witness between you and me.


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And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.


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And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;


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also, Mizpah; because he said, May Jehovah watch between you and me when we are hidden (being absent) one from another.


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If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; consider that God is witness between you and me.


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This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a testimony, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for evil.


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The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.


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And Jacob slaughtered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.


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And early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.


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And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is the camp of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.


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And Jacob sent messengers before his face to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the land of Edom.


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And he commanded them, saying, Speak thus to my lord Esau, Thus your servant Jacob says: I have sojourned with Laban and stayed there until now.


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And I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.


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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.


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And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.


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For he thought, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then the other company which is left shall escape.


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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who said to me, Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you:


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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the faithfulness which You have done for Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.


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Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers to the children.


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For You said, I will do good to deal well with you, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.


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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put some space from drove to drove.


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And he commanded the first one, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these before you?


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then 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.


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And he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, You shall speak these words to Esau when you find him;


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and also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he thought, I will propitiate before his face with the present that goes before me, and afterward when I shall see his face, perhaps he will forgive me.


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And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.


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And when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him.


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And He said, Let Me go, for the dawn has risen. But he said, I will not let You go unless You bless me!


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And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have persevered with God and with men, and have prevailed.


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And Jacob asked, saying, Please tell me Your name. And He said, Why is it that you ask about My name? And He blessed him there.


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And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel: For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered.


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Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle tendon which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the muscle tendon.


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And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.


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And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.


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And he crossed over in front of them and prostrated himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.


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And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.


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And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down.


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And Esau said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the eyes of my lord.


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And Jacob said, No, please, if I have now found favor in your eyes, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me.


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Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I need. So he urged him, and he took it.


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But Jacob said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die.


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Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on gently according to the pace of the livestock that go before me, and the feet of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.


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And Esau said, Now let me leave with you some of the people who are with me. But he said, What need is there? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.


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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.


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And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan; and he pitched his tent before the city.


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And he bought the parcel of land where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.


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Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.


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And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and humbled her.


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And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke to the heart of the girl.


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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.


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And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and extremely furious, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, a thing which ought not to be done.


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And Hamor spoke with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.


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And you shall dwell with us, and the land is before you. Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions in it.


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And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.


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Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the girl as a wife.


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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister;


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and they said to them: We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.


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But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised,


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then 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.


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And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. He was more honorable than all the house of his father.


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And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying:


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These men are peaceable with us. Therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it. For indeed the land is wide of hands before them. Let us take their daughters to us as wives, and let us give our daughters to them.


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Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us, to be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.


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Shall not their livestock, their property, and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.


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And all those going out of the gate of his city heeded Hamor and Shechem his son; every male was circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.


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And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city in its security and killed every male.


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And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and fetched Dinah from Shechem's house, and went out.


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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.


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They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field.


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All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives they took captive; and they plundered even all that was in the houses.


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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my house and I.


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And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to the Mighty God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.


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And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.


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Let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to the Mighty God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.


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So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.


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And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.


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And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from the face of his brother.


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Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.


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And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name. And He called his name Israel.


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God also said to him: I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come forth from your loins.


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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.


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And they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was still some ground to cover to arrive at Ephrath, Rachel was giving birth, and she had hard labor.


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And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear; you shall have this son also.


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And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.


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And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:


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and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan.


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And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, to the city of Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.


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And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and fulfilled in days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.


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Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;


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And Aholibamah bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.


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And Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the souls of his house, his cattle and all his animals, and all his possessions which he had gained in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from the presence of his brother Jacob.


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For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not support them because of their livestock.


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These were the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, and Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.


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And Timna was a concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.


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These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.


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These were the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon. And she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah.


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These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau: The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, were Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,


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Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, and Chief Amalek. These were the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These were the sons of Adah.


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These were the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.


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And these were the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife: Chief Jeush, Chief Jaalam, and Chief Korah. These were the chiefs from Aholibamah, Esau's wife, the daughter of Anah.


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Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.


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These were the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon.


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Chief Dishon, Chief Ezer, and Chief Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.


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Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel:


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And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.


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And Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau; his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.


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And these were the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their places, by their names: Chief Timnah, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth,


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Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. Esau was the father of the Edomites.


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These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an evil report of them to his father.


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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a tunic reaching to the soles of his feet.


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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.


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For behold, we were binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.


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And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed become king over us? Or shall you indeed rule over us? So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.


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Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: and behold, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.


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And he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall it come to pass that your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to prostrate ourselves to the earth before you?


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And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.


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And he said to him, Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.


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And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What are you seeking?


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And the man said, They have departed from here, for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.


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Now when they saw him from a distance, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.


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Come now therefore, let us kill him and cast him into a pit; and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams!


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And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.


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So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet.


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And they sat down to eat food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, going and bringing them down to Egypt.


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Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers agreed.


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Then some Midianite traders passed by; and the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.


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And they sent the tunic reaching to the soles of the feet, and they brought it to their father and said, We have found this. Do you recognize whether it is your son's tunic or not?


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And he recognized it and said, It is my son's tunic. An evil beast has devoured him. Joseph has been rent and torn to pieces.


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And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, I will go down into Sheol mourning for my son. Thus his father wept for him.


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Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.


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It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.


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And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he took her and went in to her.


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And she did so again and bore a son, and called his name Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.


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And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother.


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But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spoiled it on the ground, so as not to give seed to his brother.


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Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house till my son Shelah is grown. For he thought, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.


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Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.


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And she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.


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And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, Please let me come in to you; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. So she said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?


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And he said, I will send a young goat from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge till you send it?


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And he said, What pledge shall I give you? So she said, Your signet ring and cord, and your staff that is in your hand. And he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.


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And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.


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Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot who was openly by the wayside? And they said, There was no harlot here.


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So he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot there.


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And Judah said, Let her take them for herself, that we not be held in contempt; for I sent this young goat and you have not found her.


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And it came to pass, after about three months, that Judah was told, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; furthermore she is with child by prostitution. So Judah said, Bring her out and let her be burned!


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When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man to whom these belong, I am with child. And she said, Please acknowledge whose these are; the signet ring and cord, and staff.


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And Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he never knew her again.


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And so it was, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, This one came out first.


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And it happened, as he drew back his hand, that his brother came forth; and she said, How have you broken through this breach for yourself? Therefore his name was called Perez.


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And afterward out came his brother who had the scarlet thread on his hand. And his name was called Zerah.


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Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hands of the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.


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And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.


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And his master saw that Jehovah was with him and that Jehovah made all he did to prosper in his hand.


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And Joseph found favor in his eyes, and served him. And he appointed him over his house, and all that he had he entrusted to his hand.


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And it came to pass, from the time that he had appointed him over his house and all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.


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Thus he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good looking.


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And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lie with me.


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But 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 entrusted all that he has into my hand.


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There is no one 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 evil, and sin against God?


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And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day after day, that he did not give heed to her, to lie with her or to be with her.


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And it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house were inside,


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that she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and went outside.


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that she summoned the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, Behold, he has brought in to us a Hebrew man to make sport of us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.


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And it happened, when he heard that I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went outside.


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And she spoke to him with words like these, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came in to me to make sport of me;


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and it happened, as I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me and fled outside.


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And it came to pass, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, Your servant did to me after this manner, that his anger burned.


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And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison house, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison house.


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But Jehovah was with Joseph and extended mercy to him, and He gave him favor in the eyes of the warden of the prison house.


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And the warden of the prison house entrusted into Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison house; whatever they did there, it was his doing.


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The warden of the prison house did not oversee anything that was under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and whatever he did, Jehovah made it prosper.


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And it came to pass after these things that the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt committed offense against their lord, the king of Egypt.


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And he put them into custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison house, the place where Joseph was confined.


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And the captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he served them; so they were in custody for a time.


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And the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream, both of them, each man's dream in one night and each man's dream with its own interpretation.


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And Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them, and behold they appeared to be troubled.


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So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in the custody of his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces sad today?


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And they said to him, We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter. So Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.


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And the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, Behold, in my dream a vine was before me,


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and in the vine were three branches; it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.


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And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


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Yet within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you shall put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to the former custom, when you were his cupbearer.


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But remember me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me; make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.


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For truly I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should have put me into the dungeon.


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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also in my dream saw three baskets of white bread on my head.


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And in the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.


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Yet within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.


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And it came to pass on 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 of the chief baker among his servants.


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And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing again, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


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Then it came to pass, at the end of two years of days, that Pharaoh was dreaming: And behold, he was standing by the river.


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And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fine looking and fat of flesh; and they fed in the marshes.


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And behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, bad looking and thin of flesh, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.


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And the bad looking and thin-fleshed cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.


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And he went to sleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, plump and good.


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And the seven thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads. And Pharaoh awoke, and lo, it was a dream.


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And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and summoned all the astrologers of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.


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When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me into custody in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker,


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we each dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.


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And there was a Hebrew lad with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his dream.


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And it came to pass, just as he interpreted for us, so it happened. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.


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Then Pharaoh sent and summoned Joseph, and they rushed him out of the dungeon; and he shaved, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream, to interpret it.


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And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is someone besides me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.


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And behold, seven cows came up out of the river, fat of flesh and fine looking; and they fed in the marshes.


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And behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very bad looking and thin of flesh, such badness as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt.


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And when they had entered their stomachs, it would not have been known that they had entered their stomachs, for they looked just as bad as at the beginning. So I awoke.


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And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads. And I told this to the astrologers, but no one could explain it to me.


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And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:


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And the seven thin and bad cows which came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty heads scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.


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and after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land.


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And the plenty will not be perceived in the land because of the famine following after, for it will be very severe.


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And the dream was repeated unto Pharaoh twice because the thing is determined by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.


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Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint deputies over the land, to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty.


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And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain for food in the cities under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them guard it.


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And that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine.


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And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.


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You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.


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And Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph's hand; and he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.


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And he made him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried out before him, Bow the knee! So he set him over all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh also said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without you no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.


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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.


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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.


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And Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.


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And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.


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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house.


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And the name of the second he called Ephraim: For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.


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and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. And the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.


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And when all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do.


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And the famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.


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Now when Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why are you looking at each other?


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And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down to that place and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die.


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But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, Lest he encounter some harm.


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And the sons of Israel went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.


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And Joseph was lord over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him, their faces to the earth.


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And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke harshly to them, and he said to them, Where have you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.


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And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!


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And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and lo, the youngest is with our father today, and one is not.


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In this manner you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.


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Send one of you, and let him bring your brother; and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proven to see whether there is any truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies!


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If you are honest, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house; but you, go and carry grain for the famine of your houses.


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And bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die. And they did so.


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And they said to one another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.


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And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the boy; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us.


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And he turned himself away from them and wept, and returned to them again, and talked with them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.


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And Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with grain, to restore every man's money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them.


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And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the lodging, he saw his money; and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.


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And he said to his brothers, My money has been restored, and lo, it is in my sack! And their hearts failed them and they were afraid, saying to one another, What is this that God has done to us?


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And they went to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had befallen them, saying:


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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with our father this day in the land of Canaan.


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And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I will know that you are honest: Leave one of your brothers here with me, take food for the famine of your houses, and go.


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And bring your youngest brother to me; so I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are honest. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.


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And it happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.


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And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me: Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and you would take Benjamin. All these things are against me.


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And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.


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But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any harm should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.


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And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, Go back, buy us a little food.


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And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly charged us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.


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But if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.


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And Israel said, Why did you deal so wickedly with me as to tell the man whether you had yet another brother?


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And they said, The man sought to ask us about ourselves and our kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Have you another brother? And we told him these words with our mouths. Could we possibly have known that he would say, Bring your brother down?


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And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.


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I myself will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then I shall bear the guilt forever.


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And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best fruits of the land in your vessels and carry down a present for the man; a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds.


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Take double money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.


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And may God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved, I am bereaved!


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So the men took this present and Benjamin, and they took double money in their hand, and arose and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.


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And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, Take these men to my house, and slaughter an animal and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.


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And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, It is because of the money, which was returned in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may roll against us and fall upon us, to take us as slaves with our donkeys.


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And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house and spoke with him at the entrance of the house,


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but it happened, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and behold, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it back in our hand.


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And we have brought down other money in our hands to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.


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And he said, Peace 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.


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So the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys feed.


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And they made the present ready for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they would eat bread there.


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And when Joseph came into the house, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and prostrated before him to the earth.


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And he asked after their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?


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And they answered, Your servant our father is in good health; he is still alive. And they bowed down and prostrated themselves.


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And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom you spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to you, my son.


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Now his compassions yearned for his brother; so Joseph made haste and sought somewhere to weep. And he went into his chamber and wept there.


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And they set him a place by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.


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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men were astonished at one another.


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And he took portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five hands greater than any of theirs. So they drank and were drunken with him.


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And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.


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And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money. So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.


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And when they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Arise and pursue the men; and when you have overtaken them, say to them, Why have you repaid evil for good?


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Is not this the one from which my lord drinks, and with which he indeed practices divination? You have done evil in so doing.


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And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing.


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Behold, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?


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And he said, Now also let it be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you shall be innocent.


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And he searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.


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And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there; and they prostrated before him on the ground.


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And Joseph said to them, What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?


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And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found.


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And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your father.


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Then Judah came near to him and said: O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.


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And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.


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And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.


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But you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.


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And it came to pass, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord.


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And we said, We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.


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and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn to pieces; and I have not seen him since.


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And if you take this one also from before me, and harm befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol.


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Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his soul is bound up in the lad's soul,


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it shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.


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For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the guilt before my father for all time.


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Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.


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For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would come upon my father?


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Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, Make everyone go out from me! So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; is my father still alive? But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come near to me. So they came near. And he said: I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.


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But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry in your eyes because you sold me here; for God has sent me before you to preserve life.


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For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.


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And God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.


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So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.


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Hurry 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.


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And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children, your children's children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.


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And I will nourish you there, so that you and your house, and all that you have, not come to poverty; for there are yet five years of famine.


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And behold, your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth that is speaking to you.


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And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father down here.


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Moreover he kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers talked with him.


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And the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have come. And it was well pleasing in the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: Load your animals and depart; go to the land of Canaan.


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And bring your father and your households and come to me; I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.


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Now you are commanded; do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives; bring your father and come.


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And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the mouth of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey.


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He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.


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And he sent to his father these things: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and food for his father for the journey.


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So he sent his brothers away, and they departed; and he said to them, See that you do not become perturbed along the way.


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And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is ruling over all the land of Egypt. And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.


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But when they told him all the words which Joseph had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.


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So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba. And he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.


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And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and called out, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here am I.


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And He said, I am the Mighty God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.


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I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will arise to bring you back. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes.


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And Jacob arose from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.


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So they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him.


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His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.


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And these were the names of the sons of Israel who went into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben was Jacob's firstborn.


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The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.


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The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.


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These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls, his sons and his daughters: thirty-three.


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The sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel.


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These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen souls.


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And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.


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These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven souls in all.


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All the souls who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came forth from his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six souls in all.


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And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob who went into Egypt were seventy.


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And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give directions before him to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.


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And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.


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And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.


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And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's house, I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and those of my fathers house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.


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And the men tend cattle, for they are men of livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.


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that you shall say, Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers; that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.


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And Joseph came and reported to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.


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And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.


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And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.


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The land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know any men with ability among them, make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.


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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty 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.


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And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.


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And Joseph sustained his father, his brothers, and all his father's house with food, according to the mouths of the children.


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And 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 languished because of the famine.


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And 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.


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And when the money failed 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 the money has failed.


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And Joseph said, Give your livestock, and I will give you bread for your livestock, if the money has failed.


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So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys. Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.


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When that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord that our money is gone; my lord also has our cattle and livestock. Nothing remains before my lord but our bodies and our lands.


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Why 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 of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land not be desolate.


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And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh's.


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And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.


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Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had portions prescribed to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their portions which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their lands.


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Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.


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And it shall come to pass in the harvest that you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh; and four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and for your food, for those of your houses and as food for your little ones.


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And they said, You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.


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And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except for the land of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh's.


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And Israel remained in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they settled on property they owned there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.


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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob's life was one hundred and forty-seven years.


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And the time drew near for Israel to die. And he called his son Joseph and said to him, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,


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but let me lie with my fathers. You shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place. And he said, I will do as you have said.


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And he said, Swear to me. And he swore to him. And Israel prostrated himself on the head of the bed.


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Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, Behold, your father is sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


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And Jacob was told, they said, Behold, your son Joseph is coming to you. And Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed.


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and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your seed after you as an enduring possession.


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And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.


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Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours; they shall be called according to the name of their brothers in their inheritance.


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But as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (which is Bethlehem).


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And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.


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Now the eyes of Israel had become dull with age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.


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And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face; but lo, God has also shown me your seed.


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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them to him.


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And 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, crossing his hands; for Manasseh was the firstborn.


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And he blessed Joseph, and said: God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born to this day,


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the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.


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Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it caused his eye to quiver; so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head onto Manasseh's head.


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And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.


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But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.


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And he blessed them that day, saying, In you Israel shall bless, saying, May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh! And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.


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Then Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.


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Moreover I have extended your shoulder above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.


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And Jacob summoned his sons and said, Gather around, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:


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Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.


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Like bubbling water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.


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Let not my soul enter their council; let not my honor be united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they have hamstrung an ox.


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Cursed is their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.


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Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.


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Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he crouches like a lion; and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?


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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the cleansing of the peoples.


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Binding His donkey to the vine, and His donkey's colt to the choice vine, He has washed His garments in wine, and His clothes in the blood of grapes;


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He saw that the resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant. He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a servant to forced labor.


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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider shall fall backward.


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But his bow remained steadfast, and the arms of his hands were made nimble by the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob; from the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,


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by the Mighty God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.


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The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounds of the enduring hills. They shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.


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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall distribute the spoils.


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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing.


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And he charged them and said to them: I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,


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in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.


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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.


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And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and expired, and was gathered to his people.


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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.


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Forty days were fulfilled for him, for such are the days fulfilled for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.


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And when the days of his weeping 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,


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My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and return.


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And 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,


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as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.


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And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the other side of Jordan, and they mourned there with great and heavy lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.


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And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a great mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is on the other side of Jordan.


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For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.


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And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.


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And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps Joseph will hold a grudge against us, and return and repay us for all the evil which we did unto him.


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Thus you shall say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you. Now, please, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.


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And his brothers also went and prostrated before his face, and they said, Behold, we are your slaves.


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As for you, you had devised evil against me; but God had planned it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.


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Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke to their hearts.


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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. Also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph's knees.


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And Joseph said to his brethren, I am dying; but God will attend to visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, God will attend to visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.


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So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.


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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; each man and his house came with Jacob:


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And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly numerous; and the land was filled with them.


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And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and vast than we.


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Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and thus go up out of the land.


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Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.


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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.


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And they made their lives bitter with hard labor; in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of labor in the field. All their labor in which they made them work was with harshness.


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And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah,


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and he said: When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.


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But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.


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And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?


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And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives come to them.


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Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly numerous.


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And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.


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And the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was good, she hid him three months.


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And when she could no longer hide him, she took a vessel of reeds for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river bank.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens were walking along the riverside; and when she saw the vessel among the reeds, she sent her maid to fetch it.


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And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.


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Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a wet nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed him.


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And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, Because I drew him out of the water.


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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.


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And he looked this way and that, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


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And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the guilty one, Why are you striking the other fellow?


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And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said, Surely this thing is known!


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And when Pharaoh heard of the matter, 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.


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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father's flock.


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And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and delivered them, and watered their flock.


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And they said, An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and proceeded to draw for us and watered the flock.


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And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Invite him, that he may eat bread.


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And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have become a sojourner in a foreign land.


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And it came to pass after many days that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.


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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


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Now Moses was with 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 Horeb, the mountain of God.


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And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.


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And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Here am I.


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And He said, Do not approach here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.


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Moreover He said, I am the God of your fathers; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.


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And Jehovah said: I have given attention to see the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I have acknowledged their pain.


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And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.


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Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come unto Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.


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Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.


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And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?


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And He said, I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.


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And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the sons of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? what shall I say to them?


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And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And He said, Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.


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Moreover God said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the sons 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 eternal name, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.


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Go 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, appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen what is being done to you in Egypt;


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and I intend to bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they will heed your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt; and you shall say to him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God.


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And I have taken into consideration that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not except by a mighty hand.


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So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.


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And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians; and it shall come to pass, when you go, that you shall not leave empty.


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But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, of her who sojourns in her house, articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. Thus you shall plunder the Egyptians.


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And Moses answered and said, But suppose they will not believe, nor listen to my voice; suppose they say, Jehovah has not appeared to you.


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And He said, Throw it on the ground. So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled before it.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand and take it by the tail; and he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand;


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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.


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Furthermore Jehovah said to him, Now put your hand into your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow.


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And He said, Put your hand back into your bosom. So he put his hand back into his bosom, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh.


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And it shall come to pass when they do not believe, nor heed the voice of the first sign, that perhaps they will believe the voice of the subsequent sign.


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And it shall come to pass when they do not believe even these two signs, nor listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. And the water which you take from the river shall become blood on the dry land.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, O my Lord, I am not a man of words, neither formerly in times past nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I have a heavy mouth and a dull tongue.


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And Jehovah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?


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And the anger of Jehovah burned against Moses, and He said: Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can form words to speak. And behold, he is also coming out to meet you; and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.


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And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.


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And he shall speak for you to the people. And he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.


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So Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.


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And Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. And I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.


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And I say unto you, Let My son go that he may serve Me. And if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.


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And Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely you are a husband of blood to me!


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And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him.


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And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.


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And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses. And he did the signs in the eyes of the people.


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And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel and that He had given attention to their affliction, they bowed down and prostrated themselves.


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Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.


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And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah; neither will I let Israel go.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now, let us go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, that He not fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.


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And the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why do you restrain the people from their work? Go to your burdens.


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And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are many now, and you have made them cease from their burdens.


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You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.


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And you shall lay on them the tally of bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish it. For they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.


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Let more labor be laid upon the men, that they may work in it, and let them not regard deceptive words.


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And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.


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So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.


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And the taskmasters were pressing upon them saying, Fulfill your work, the matter of each day, as when there was straw.


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And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, Why have you not completed the prescribed amount to make brick, both yesterday and today, as before?


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Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, Why are you dealing thus with your servants?


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There is no straw given to your slaves, and they say to us, Make brick! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.


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Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the amount of bricks.


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And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in a bad way after it was said, You shall not diminish any bricks from the matter day by day.


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And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, because you have made us abhorrent in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.


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And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Lord, why have You brought hurt upon this people? Why then have You sent me?


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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have You rescued to deliver Your people.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.


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I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Jehovah I have not been known to them.


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I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were sojourners.


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And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.


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Therefore say to the sons of Israel: I am Jehovah; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.


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I will take you to Myself as a people, and I will be God to you. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.


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And I will bring you into the land which I raised My hand and swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you for a possession. I am Jehovah.


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And Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.


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And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, The sons of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a command for the sons of Israel, and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


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These were the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These were the families of Reuben.


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And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the families of Simeon.


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These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven.


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And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three.


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The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the families of Levi according to their generations.


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Now Amram took for himself Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven.


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Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.


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These were the same Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.


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These were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These were the same Moses and Aaron.


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that Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto you.


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And Jehovah said to Moses: See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.


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You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.


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But Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may lay My hand upon Egypt and bring My hosts, My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt with great judgments.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.


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When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Show a sign for yourselves, then you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.


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And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as Jehovah commanded. And Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.


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And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. So the magicians of Egypt, they also did so with their enchantments.


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For every man threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.


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Go to Pharaoh in the morning, when he goes out to the water, and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the staff which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.


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And 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; but behold, until now you have not given heed.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah: By this you shall know that I am Jehovah. Behold, I will strike the waters in the river with the staff that is in my hand, and they shall be turned to blood.


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And the fish that are in the river shall die, the river shall stink, and the Egyptians shall weary themselves to drink the water of the river.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their bodies of water, that they may become blood. And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, in vessels of both wood and stone.


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And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the waters that were in the river, in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants. And all the waters in the river were turned to blood.


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And the fish in the river died, the river stunk, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river. So there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not heed them, as Jehovah had said.


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And all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the river.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, Thus says Jehovah: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.


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And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, into your bedroom, onto your bed, into the houses of your servants, onto your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.


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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat Jehovah that He may take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto Jehovah.


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And Moses said to Pharaoh, Be glorified: For when shall I make supplication for you, for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only?


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And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Let it be according to your word, that you may come to understand that there is no one like Jehovah our God.


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And the frogs shall depart from you, from your houses, from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.


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And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried out to Jehovah concerning the frogs which He had brought against Pharaoh.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courtyards, and out of the fields.


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But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, his heart was hardened and he did not heed them; as Jehovah had said.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your staff, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and it became lice upon man and beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And there were lice upon man and beast.


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Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as Jehovah had said.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.


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Or else, if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your servants, upon your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground where they are.


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And for that day I have set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people remain, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.


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And Jehovah did so. Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was spoiled because of the swarms of flies.


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And Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians unto Jehovah our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us?


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We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God as He will command us.


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And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice unto Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make supplication for me.


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And Moses said, Indeed I am going out from you, and I will entreat Jehovah, that the swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. But let Pharaoh not continue dealing deceitfully in not letting the people go to sacrifice unto Jehovah.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and speak to him, Thus says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.


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behold, the hand of Jehovah will be upon your cattle in the field, upon the horses, upon the donkeys, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep; a very heavy pestilence.


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And Jehovah will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.


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And Jehovah did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.


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And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not even one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.


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And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses toss it toward the heavens before Pharaoh's eyes.


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And it shall become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and it shall be an inflammation breaking out into boils upon man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses tossed them toward the heavens. And they became inflammations breaking out into boils upon man and beast.


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And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the inflammations, for the inflammations were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.


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And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh; and he did not heed them, as Jehovah had spoken to Moses.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise 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,


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for at this time I will send all My plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and upon your people, that you may come to understand that there is no one like Me in all the earth.


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For if I had stretched forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.


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And indeed for this purpose I have ordained you, to show My power in you, and to declare My name in all the earth.


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Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.


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Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down upon every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought into shelter; and they shall die.


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The ones who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee to the shelters.


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But the ones who did not set their heart upon the word of Jehovah left their servants and their livestock in the field.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward the heavens, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt; upon man, upon beast, and upon every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.


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And Moses stretched forth his staff toward the heavens; and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire went to the ground. And Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.


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So there was hail, and fire in the midst of the hail, so very heavy that there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.


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And the hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.


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And Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.


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Entreat Jehovah, that there be no more Divine thundering and hail, for it is enough. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.


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And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah. The thunder shall cease, and there shall be no more hail; that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's.


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And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to Jehovah. And the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.


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And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again, and hardened his heart; he and his servants.


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And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened; neither would he let the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by the hand of Moses.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, in order to perform these signs of Mine among them,


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and that you may recount in the ears of your son and your son's son how I have dealt ruthlessly in Egypt, and My signs which I have brought to pass among them, that you have come to know that I am Jehovah.


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And Moses and Aaron came 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.


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Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.


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And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they shall eat the rest of what is left, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.


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And they shall fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which 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.


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And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt has vanished?


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And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God. Who are the ones going?


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And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for it is a feast unto Jehovah.


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And he said to them, Jehovah be with you if ever I let you and your little ones go! Consider, for evil is before you!


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Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve Jehovah, for that is what you desired. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every plant of the land; all that the hail has left.


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And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.


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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt. Exceedingly numerous; previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.


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For they covered the eye 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. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.


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Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that He may take away from me this death only.


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And Jehovah turned a very strong wind from the west, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the territory of Egypt.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.


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And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.


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They 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.


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And Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you.


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And Moses said, You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may make offerings unto Jehovah our God.


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Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve Jehovah our God, and even we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah until we arrive there.


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And Pharaoh said to him, Depart from me! Take heed to yourself and do not see my face again! For in the day you see my face you shall die!


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And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will bring yet one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will be driving to drive you out from here.


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Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.


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And Jehovah gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants and in the eyes of the people.


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and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and every firstborn of the animals.


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And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again.


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But against the children of Israel shall not a single dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that Jehovah makes a separation between Egypt and Israel.


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And all these your servants shall come down to me and prostrate themselves to me, saying, Get out, you and all the people at your feet! After that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in burning anger.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not heed you, so that My signs may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses and Aaron did all these signs 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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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a house.


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And if the house is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of souls; according to each man's eating you shall reckon it for the lamb.


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Your lamb shall be whole, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.


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And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it within the evening.


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And they shall take some of the blood and put it upon the two doorposts and upon the lintel of the houses where they eat it.


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And they shall eat the flesh in that night; roasted with fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.


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Do not eat it raw, nor cooked with boiling in water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and its entrails.


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And you shall let none of it remain until morning; and whatever remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.


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And thus you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is Passover unto Jehovah.


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For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am Jehovah.


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And the blood shall be a sign unto you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.


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And this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast unto Jehovah throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by a perpetual ordinance.


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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.


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On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; except for each soul for eating; that only may be done by you.


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And you shall observe Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a perpetual ordinance.


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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening.


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For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.


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Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover.


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And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.


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For Jehovah will pass through to strike Egypt; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.


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And it shall come to pass when you come to the land which Jehovah shall give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service.


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that you shall say, It is the Passover sacrifice of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt and delivered our houses. So the people bowed down and prostrated themselves.


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And it came to pass at midnight that Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house, and every firstborn of livestock.


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And Pharaoh arose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great outcry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one who died.


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And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve Jehovah as you have said.


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And the Egyptians prevailed upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they thought, We shall all die!


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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.


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And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.


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And Jehovah had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that they granted their requests. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.


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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.


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And they baked unleavened cakes from the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared food for themselves.


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Now the time the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt remained there was four hundred and thirty years.


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And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on the same day it came to pass, that all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.


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It is a night of observance unto Jehovah for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of Jehovah, an observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.


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And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: No son of a foreigner shall eat of it.


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But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.


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In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its bones.


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And when a sojourner stays with you and wishes to keep the Passover unto Jehovah, let every male of his be circumcised, and then let him draw near to observe it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.


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And it came to pass on the same day, that Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.


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Consecrate unto Me every firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.


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And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Jehovah has brought you out from here. Nothing leavened shall be eaten.


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And it shall be, when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall do this service in this month.


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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast unto Jehovah.


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Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your territories.


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And you shall make known to your son in that day, saying, This is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came up out of Egypt.


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It shall be for a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Law of Jehovah may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Jehovah has brought you out of Egypt.


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And it shall be, when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,


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that you shall devote unto Jehovah all that open the womb: every firstborn offspring from an animal which you have; the males belong to Jehovah.


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But every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And every firstborn of man among your children you shall redeem.


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And it shall 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 of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that Jehovah killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice unto Jehovah every male that opens the womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.


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And it shall be for a sign on your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand Jehovah has brought us forth out of Egypt.


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And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God thought, Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.


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So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in battle array out of the land of Egypt.


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And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had sworn the sons of Israel to oath saying, God will attend to visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here with you.


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And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to shine on them, to go by day and night.


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Speak to the children of Israel, that they return and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.


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For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are perplexed by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will glorify Myself over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.


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And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?


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And he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with officers over every one of them.


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And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with a high hand.


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And the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.


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And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were pulling up after them. And they were greatly afraid, and the children of Israel cried out unto Jehovah.


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And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt so with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?


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Was this not the word we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid. Take your stand, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall not see again forever.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry out to Me? Speak to the children of Israel that they set out.


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And lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.


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And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. And I will glorify Myself over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have glorified Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.


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And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.


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So 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.


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And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked down upon the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He confused the camp of the Egyptians.


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And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.


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Then Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when it turned to daybreak, the sea returned to normal, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. And Jehovah shook out the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.


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And the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained.


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But the children of Israel had walked upon dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.


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And Israel saw the great hand which Jehovah had dealt against Egypt. And the people feared Jehovah, and believed Jehovah and His servant Moses.


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Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song unto Jehovah, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!


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Jehovah is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; He is my Mighty God, and I will adorn Him; my father's God, and I will exalt Him.


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Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; his chosen officers also are drowned in the Red Sea.


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Your right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power; Your right hand, O Jehovah, has dashed the enemy to pieces.


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And in the greatness of Your majesty You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.


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And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up; the flowing waters stood upright like a heap; the depths hardened in the heart of the sea.


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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; my desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.


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Who is like You, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?


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You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength unto Your holy habitation.


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Then the chiefs of Edom have been dismayed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling takes hold of them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.


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Fear and dread falls upon them; by the greatness of Your arm they are as still as a stone, till Your people pass over, O Jehovah, till the people whom You have redeemed pass over.


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You bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O Jehovah, which You have made for Your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which Your hands have established.


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For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel have walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.


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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.


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And Miriam answered them: Sing unto Jehovah, for He has risen up to be exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!


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And Moses brought Israel 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.


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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.


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And he cried out unto Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them,


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and said: If you diligently heed the voice of Jehovah your God and do what is right in His eyes, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought upon the Egyptians. For I am Jehovah who heals you.


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And they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.


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And they journeyed 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 they departed from the land of Egypt.


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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.


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And the children of Israel said to them, Oh, that we had died at the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather in this matter day by day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not.


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And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather day by day.


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And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening you shall know that Jehovah has brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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And in the morning you shall see the glory of Jehovah; for He hears your murmuring against Jehovah. But what are we, that you grumble against us?


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And Moses said, You shall see when Jehovah gives you flesh to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against Jehovah.


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And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before Jehovah, for He has heard your murmurings.


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And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they turned and looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.


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I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, At evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.


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And it came to pass that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.


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And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, were small flakes, as fine as frost on the ground.


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And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, Manna? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you for food.


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This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Let every man gather up food for each mouth, one omer per head; according to the number of souls let every man take for those in his tent.


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And when they measured it with the omer, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered according to the food for each mouth.


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Nevertheless they did not heed Moses; but some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stunk. And Moses was furious with them.


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So they gathered it every morning, every man the food for his mouth. And when the sun became hot, it melted.


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And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the leaders of the congregation came and reported to Moses.


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And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has said: Tomorrow is a rest, a holy Sabbath unto Jehovah. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.


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So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.


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Then Moses said, Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath unto Jehovah; today you will not find it in the field.


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Pay attention! For Jehovah has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.


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And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.


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Then Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations.


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And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came into the borders of the land of Canaan.


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And all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, at the mouth of Jehovah, and camped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.


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Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt Jehovah?


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And the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?


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And Moses cried out to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass over before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your staff with which you struck the river, and go.


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Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel.


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And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in our midst or not?


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And Moses said to Joshua, Choose some men and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.


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So Joshua did as Moses said to him, to fight against Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


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And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.


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But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.


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saying, Because Jehovah has sworn with His hand on the throne: Jehovah is at war with Amalek from generation to generation.


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And Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel; that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.


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with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom (for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land)


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and 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);


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and Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.


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And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.


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And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. And they asked each other about their welfare, and they went into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians on account of Israel, all the distress that they had encountered along the way, and how Jehovah had delivered them.


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And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which Jehovah had done for Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.


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And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


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Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all the gods; for in the very things in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.


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And so it was, on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood before Moses from morning until evening.


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And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?


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When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor; and I make known the statutes of God and His Laws.


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Both you and these people who are with you will droop to exhaustion. For this thing is too much of a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.


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Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you: Be before God for the people, so that you may bring the matters to God.


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And you shall teach them the statutes and the Laws, and show them the way in which they should walk and the work they should do.


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Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, who fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place these over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.


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And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, and they shall bear the burden with you.


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If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.


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And 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.


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And they judged the people at all times; the hard matters they brought to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.


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In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.


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For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. And Israel camped there before the mountain.


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And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him from the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:


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You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you unto Myself.


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Now therefore, if you will listen to obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.


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And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.


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And Moses came and summoned the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which Jehovah had commanded him.


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And all the people answered together and said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. So Moses brought back the words of the people unto Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I am coming to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses reported the words of the people unto Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.


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And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day Jehovah will come down upon Mount Sinai in the eyes of all the people.


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And you shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain nor touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be executed to death.


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Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned with stones or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live. When the ram's horn sounds long, they shall go up to the mountain.


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And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.


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And it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the shofar was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.


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And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.


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And Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because Jehovah had descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.


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And when the sound of the shofar continued its sound and became exceedingly loud, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.


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And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down and warn the people, that they not break through to gaze at Jehovah, and many of them be attacked.


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And let the priests who come near Jehovah sanctify themselves, that Jehovah not break forth against them.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for You have warned us, saying, Set bounds around the mountain and consecrate it.


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And Jehovah said to him, Away! Go down and then come up, you and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to Jehovah, lest He break forth against them.


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You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth;


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you shall not bow down to them nor serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous Mighty God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,


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You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not leave unpunished one who takes His name in vain.


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and the seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God. In it you shall not do any work; you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your sojourner who is within your gates.


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For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah has blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.


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Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.


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You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.


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And all the people saw the thunders, the lightning flashes, the sound of the shofar, and the smoking mountain; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.


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And they said unto Moses, You speak with us, and we will listen; but let not God speak with us, that we not die.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, that you not sin.


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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens.


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An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you, and I will bless you.


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And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you wield your tool upon it, you defile it.


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If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free without payment.


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If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.


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If his master gives him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.


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But if the servant answers to say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,


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then his master shall bring him to God. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him always.


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And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out.


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If she is disagreeable to the eye of her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.


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And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.


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However, if he did not lie in wait, but God allowed the meeting into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.


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But if a man comes presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him even from My altar, that he may die.


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If men strive with each other, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,


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if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted. He shall only pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for him to be healed of his injuries.


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And if a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, vengeance shall be taken to avenge.


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Nevertheless, if he continues a day or two, vengeance shall not be taken; for he is part of his assets.


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If men fight, and strike a pregnant woman, so that the child comes forth, without harm, he shall be punished to pay a fine as the woman's husband imposes upon him; and he shall pay according to the assessment.


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If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free in exchange for his eye.


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And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free for his tooth.


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If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall be stoned to death with stones, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.


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But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and the owner has been given warning, and he has not kept it restrained, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.


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If a ransom is imposed upon him, then he shall pay to redeem his life, whatever is imposed upon him.


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Whether it has gored a son or gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done unto him.


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If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.


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And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,


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the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to the owner, and the dead animal shall be his.


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If one man's ox strikes against the ox of his neighbor, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money; and the dead ox they shall also divide.


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Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in time past, and its owner has not kept it restrained, he shall make compensation to pay, ox for ox, and the dead shall be his.


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If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.


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If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no blood shed for him.


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If the sun has risen upon him, there shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He shall make compensation to pay; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.


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If the thing stolen is found in his possession alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.


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If a man causes a field or vineyard to be consumed, and lets loose his animal, and it consumes another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.


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If fire breaks out and lights upon thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain, or the field has been consumed, he who kindled the fire shall make compensation to pay.


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If a man delivers to his neighbor money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall restore double.


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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor's goods.


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For any kind of trespass, whether it be an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost item which another says is his, the matter of both of them shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges declare guilty shall restore double to his neighbor.


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If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, is hurt, or driven away, no one seeing it,


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then an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make it good.


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If it is rent and torn to pieces by a beast, then he shall bring it as evidence, and he shall not make good what was torn.


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And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it becomes injured or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall make compensation to pay.


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If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give a dowry, the purchase price for her to be his wife.


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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.


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You shall neither mistreat a sojourner nor oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.


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If you afflict them to humiliate them, and they make an outcry to cry out unto Me, I will hear and give heed to their cry;


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and My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.


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If you lend money to My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not lay interest on him.


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If you indeed take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him by the going down of the sun.


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For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries out to Me, I will give heed, for I am gracious.


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You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give unto Me.


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Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it unto Me.


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And you shall be holy men unto Me: you shall not eat flesh torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.


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You shall not follow the majority in doing evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after the majority to thrust aside justice.


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If you encounter your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to restore it to him.


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If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him; you shall help him set it free.


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Keep yourself far away from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.


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And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and perverts the words of the righteous.


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Also you shall not oppress a sojourner, for you know the soul of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.


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but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the needy of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.


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Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner may be refreshed.


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And in all that I have said to you, beware and make no mention of any other gods by name, nor let it be heard from your mouth.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I have commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; no one shall appear before Me empty);


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and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your produce from the field.


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You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened; nor shall the fat of My feast remain until morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.


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Behold, I am sending an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.


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Be on guard before Him and obey His voice; do not grieve Him, for He will not endure your transgressions; for My name is in Him.


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But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and will afflict those who besiege you.


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For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.


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You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall tear them down to overthrow them, and break and shatter their pillars.


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And you shall serve Jehovah your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.


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I will send My dread before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will give the neck of all your enemies to you.


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And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.


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I will not drive them out before you in one year, that the land not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.


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Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you are fruitful, and have taken possession of the land.


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And I have set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver up the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.


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They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.


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And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and prostrate yourselves from a distance.


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And Moses alone shall approach Jehovah, but they shall not approach; nor shall the people go up with him.


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And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do.


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And Moses wrote all the Words of Jehovah. And he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the base of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and slaughtered oxen for sacrifices of peace unto Jehovah.


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And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and obey.


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And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, This is the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has made with you according to all these words.


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and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the essence of the heavens in its clarity.


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And He did not let loose His hand against the nobles of the children of Israel. And they saw God, and they ate and drank.


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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the Law and commandments which I have written, to teach them.


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And he said to the elders, Wait here for us until we return to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur, who are rulers, are with you. Whoever has a matter, let him go to them.


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And the glory of Jehovah settled down upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He summoned Moses out of the midst of the cloud.


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The appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.


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And Moses went 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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Speak to the sons of Israel, that they take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart stirs him, you shall take My offering.


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According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its articles, even so you shall do.


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And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.


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And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and shall make on it a molding of gold all around.


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You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them on its four feet; two rings shall be on one side, and two rings on the other side.


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You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried with them.


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You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width.


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And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.


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Make one cherub at one end, and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it from one piece with the mercy seat.


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And the cherubim shall spread over their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces one toward another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.


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You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.


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And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, everything which I will command you concerning the children of Israel.


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You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.


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You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a gold molding for the rim all around.


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And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.


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And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.


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You shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitchers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.


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You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its bulbs, and flowers shall be one piece.


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And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side.


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Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, each with a bulb and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, each with a bulb and a flower; and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.


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And there shall be a bulb under the first two branches of it, a bulb under the second two branches of it, and a bulb under the third two branches of it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.


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Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be one hammered piece of pure gold.


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You shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it.


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Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen of violet, purple, and scarlet thread; with cherubim of quality workmanship you shall make them.


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The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measurement for all the curtains.


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Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.


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And you shall make loops of violet material on the edge of the one curtain on the extremity at the joint, and likewise you shall do on the outer edge of the other curtain at the second joint.


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Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is on the end of the second joint, that the loops may fit to one another.


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And you shall make fifty hooks of gold, and join the curtains together with the hooks, so that it may be one tabernacle.


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You shall also make curtains of goats' hair, to be a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.


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The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measurement for the eleven curtains.


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And you shall join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the face of the tent.


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You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost at the one joint, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain at the second joint.


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And you shall make fifty bronze hooks, put the hooks into the loops, and join the tent together, that it may be one.


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The remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.


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And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and on that side, to cover it.


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You shall also make a covering of ram skins dyed red for the tent, and a covering of badger skins above that.


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Two tenons shall be in each board to join one to another. Thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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You shall make forty sockets of silver for the twenty boards: two sockets for each of the boards for its two tenons.


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They shall be joined together at the bottom and they shall be joined together at the top by one ring. Thus it shall be for both of them. They shall be for the two corners.


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Thus there shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver; sixteen sockets; two sockets for each board.


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five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the side westward.


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You shall overlay the boards with gold, make their rings of gold as housings for the bars, and overlay the bars with gold.


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You shall make a veil of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen. It shall be done with cherubim of quality workmanship.


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You shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, upon four sockets of silver.


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And you shall hang the veil from the hooks. And you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, inside the veil. The veil shall divide for you between the holy and the Holy of Holies.


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And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand across from the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.


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And you shall make a screen for the opening of the tent, of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen, the product of skillful weaving.


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And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.


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And you shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square; and its height three cubits.


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And you shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze.


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Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.


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You shall make a grating for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.


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And the poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to carry it.


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You shall also make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side there shall be hangings for the court made of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits long for one side.


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And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver.


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Likewise along the length of the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, with its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.


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And along the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.


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The hangings on one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.


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And on the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.


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For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen, the product of skillful weaving; with four pillars and four sockets.


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All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silver; their hooks of silver and their sockets of bronze.


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The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, the width fifty to fifty, and the height five cubits, made of fine twisted linen, and its sockets of bronze.


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All the utensils of the tabernacle for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.


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And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to cause the flame of the lamp to ascend continually.


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In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall arrange it from evening until morning before Jehovah. It shall be a perpetual statute to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.


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Now take Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, that he may serve Me as priest, Aaron and Aaron's sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And you shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments, to consecrate him to serve as priest unto Me.


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And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a tunic of woven work, a turban, and a sash. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, to serve as priests unto Me.


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and they shall make the ephod of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen; the product of skillful work.


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And the intricately woven band of the ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen.


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With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall set them in settings of gold.


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And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Thus Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders as a memorial.


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and you shall make two chains of pure gold like the product of braiding, and fasten the braided chains to the settings.


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You shall make the breastplate of judgment. The product of skillful work, according to the workmanship of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen, you shall make it.


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And you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: The first row shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald; this the first row.


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And the stones shall have the names of the sons of Israel, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, each one with its own name, according to the twelve tribes.


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And you shall make two rings of gold for the breastplate, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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and the other two ends of the two cords you shall fasten to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod in the front.


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And you shall make two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, on the inner side of the ephod.


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And two rings of gold you shall make, and put them on the two shoulder pieces, underneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod.


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And they shall bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the ephod, with a violet cord, so that it is above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and so that the breastplate does not come loose from the ephod.


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And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment over his heart, when he goes into the holy place, as a memorial before Jehovah continually.


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And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron's heart when he goes in before Jehovah. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart before Jehovah continually.


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There shall be an opening for his head in the middle of it; it shall have an edge of woven work all around its opening, like the opening in a coat of mail, so that it does not tear.


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And on its hem you shall make pomegranates of violet, purple, and scarlet, all around its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:


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a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.


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And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before Jehovah and when he comes out, that he not die.


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You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO JEHOVAH.


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And you shall put it on a violet cord, that it may be on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban.


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Thus it shall be on Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel consecrate in all their holy gifts; and it shall be on his forehead continually, that they may be accepted before Jehovah.


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You shall weave the tunic of fine linen, you shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make the sash a product of skillful weaving.


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And for Aaron's sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make sashes for them. And you shall make turbans for them, for glory and beauty.


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Thus you shall clothe Aaron your brother with them, and his sons with him. You shall anoint them, confirm their hands, and consecrate them, that they may serve Me as priests.


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And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their naked flesh; they shall reach from the hips to the thighs.


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And they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place, that they not bear iniquity and die. It shall be a perpetual statute to him and his seed after him.


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And this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams that are whole,


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and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.


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And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tent of meeting, and you shall wash them with water.


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And you shall take the garments, put the tunic on Aaron, and the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the intricately woven band of the ephod.


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And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind the turbans on them. The priesthood shall be theirs for a perpetual statute. Thus you shall confirm the hands of Aaron and his sons.


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You shall also have the bull brought before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.


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You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.


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And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar like incense.


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But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.


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And you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.


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And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar like incense. It is a burnt offering unto Jehovah; it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire unto Jehovah.


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You shall also take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.


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And you shall kill the ram, and take some 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, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.


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And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar, and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him. Thus he and his garments shall be consecrated, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.


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Also you shall take the fat of the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),


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one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Jehovah;


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and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar like incense as a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma before Jehovah. It is an offering by fire unto Jehovah.


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And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah; and it shall be your portion.


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And from the ram of the ordination you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering which is waved, and the thigh of the heave offering which is raised, of that which is for Aaron and of that which is for his sons.


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It shall be for Aaron and his sons from the children of Israel as a perpetual statute; for it is a heave offering. It shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their heave offering unto Jehovah.


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And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed in them and to confirm their hands in them.


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That son who becomes priest in his place shall put them on for seven days, when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tent of meeting.


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They shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to confirm their hands and to consecrate; but a stranger shall not eat them, because they are holy.


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And if any of the flesh of ordination, or of the bread, remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.


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Thus you shall do to Aaron and his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days you shall confirm their hands.


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And you shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. You shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.


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Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. And the altar shall be set apart, holy. Whatever touches the altar is consecrated.


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With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering.


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And the other lamb you shall offer at evening; and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire unto Jehovah.


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This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet you to speak with you.


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Thus I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons unto Me as priests.


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And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am Jehovah their God.


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A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width; it shall be square; and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be from the same piece.


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And you shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.


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Two gold rings you shall make for it, under the molding on both its sides. You shall place them on its two sides, and they shall be housings for the poles with which to carry it.


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And you shall put it in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.


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And when Aaron stirs up the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.


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You shall not offer strange incense on it, nor a burnt offering, nor a grain offering; nor shall you pour out a drink offering upon it.


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And Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is set apart, holy, unto Jehovah.


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When you take a head count of the sons of Israel in numbering them, each man shall give a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.


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This is what everyone passing over to be numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an offering unto Jehovah.


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Everyone passing over to be numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto Jehovah.


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The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering unto Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.


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And you shall take the money of atonement from the sons of Israel, and shall designate it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.


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You shall also make a laver of bronze, its base also of bronze, with which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it,


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When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire like incense unto Jehovah, they shall wash with water, that they not die.


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Thus they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. And it shall be a perpetual statute to them; to him and his seed throughout their generations.


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Take for yourself choice spices; five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,


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And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compound the product of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil.


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And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations.


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It shall not be poured upon man's flesh; nor shall you make any other like it, according to its proportions. It is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.


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Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever gives any of it to a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.


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And Jehovah said to Moses: Take spices; stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense with these incense spices; part equal to part.


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You shall make of these an incense, a spice mixture the product of the perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.


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And you shall pulverize some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you. It shall be set apart, holy, unto you.


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And the incense which you make, you shall not make any for yourselves according to its proportions. It shall be holy unto you for Jehovah.


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and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,


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And I, behold I, have appointed with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have given wisdom into the hearts of all the wise-hearted, that they may produce all that I have commanded you:


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the tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the implements of the tent;


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the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests,


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and the anointing oil and spiced incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do.


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Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.


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You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who violates it shall be executed to death; for whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Work may be done six days, but the seventh is the the rest of Sabbath observance, holy unto Jehovah. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall be executed to death.


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Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.


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It is a perpetual sign between Me and the children of Israel; for in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.


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And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.


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Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, Arise, make us gods that shall 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.


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And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.


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So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.


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And he took up the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool after he had made a molten calf. And they said, This is your god, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!


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And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow is a feast unto Jehovah.


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And they arose early the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go! Get down! For your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.


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They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and bowed down to it and sacrificed to it, and said, This is your god, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!


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Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn against them, that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.


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And Moses entreated the face of Jehovah his God, and said: Jehovah, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?


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Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn away from Your burning wrath, and have compassion regarding this evil to Your people.


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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your seed, and they shall always possess it.


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And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.


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And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.


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And when Joshua heard the sound of the people of their shouting, he said to Moses, It is a sound of war in the camp.


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And he said: It is not the sound of the shout of victory, nor the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing I am hearing.


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And it came to pass, as soon as he came near the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses' anger was kindled, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the base of the mountain.


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And he took the calf which they had made, burned it with fire, and ground it fine, and scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.


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And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?


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And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord be kindled. You know the people, that they are set on evil.


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For they said to me, Make us gods that shall go before us; 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.


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And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.


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And when Moses saw that the people were lacking restraint (for Aaron had let them loose, to the derision of their enemies),


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that Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is for Jehovah, come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him.


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And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: Let every man put his sword on his side, and go and return from gate to gate throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.


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And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.


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And Moses said, Fulfill your hand today unto Jehovah, that He may bestow upon you a blessing this day, for every man has been against his son and his brother.


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And it came to pass on 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 can make atonement for your sin.


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And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Oh, these people have sinned a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold!


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Yet now, if You will, take away their sin; and if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.


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Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will punish them for their sin.


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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Depart and 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, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.


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And I will send an Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


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Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.


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For Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people. I should come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.


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And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and 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.


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And it came to pass, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tent.


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And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tent, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tent, and spoke with Moses.


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And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, and all the people arose and prostrated themselves, each man at the opening of his tent.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, and his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.


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And Moses said unto Jehovah, Consider how 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 eyes.


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Now therefore, I pray, if I have found favor in Your eyes, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find favor in Your eyes. And consider that this nation is Your people.


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For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your eyes, except You go with us? So we shall be distinct, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.


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And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found favor in My eyes, and I know you by name.


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And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.


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So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.


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And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself next to Me there on the top of the mountain.


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And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.


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And he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. And Moses arose early in the morning and went up into Mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.


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And Jehovah passed before him and proclaimed: Jehovah, Jehovah Mighty God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth,


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keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and the sons' sons to the third and the fourth generation.


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And he said, If now I have found favor in Your eyes, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your possession.


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And He said: Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do extraordinary things such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Jehovah. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.


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Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


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Take heed to yourself, that you not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, that it not be a snare in your midst.


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(for you shall bow down to no other god, for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous Mighty God),


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that you not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and you go whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you and you eat of their sacrifices,


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and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.


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The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.


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Everything that opens the womb is Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep.


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But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And no one shall appear before Me empty.


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Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.


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And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.


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For I will dispossess the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.


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You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring unto the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words; according to these words at My mouth, I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.


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And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.


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And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (the two tablets of the Testimony being in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while He spoke with him.


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And 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.


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And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke with them.


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And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he commanded them with all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.


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But whenever 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 whatever he was commanded.


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And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.


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And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded you to do:


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Work shall be done six days, but the seventh day shall be holy for you, a rest of Sabbath observance unto Jehovah. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.


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And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, saying:


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Take from among you an offering unto Jehovah. Everyone of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering of Jehovah: gold, silver, and bronze;


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the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;


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the incense altar, its poles, the anointing oil, the spiced incense, and the screen for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;


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the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles, all its utensils, and the laver and its base;


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the woven garments for service in the holy place; the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests.


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And everyone came whose heart was raised up, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they brought the offering of Jehovah for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.


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And they came, both men and women, everyone of a willing heart, and brought bracelets and nose rings, rings and ornaments, all sorts of gold articles, everyone who made an offering of gold unto Jehovah.


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And everyone with whom was found violet, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats' hair, red skins of rams, and badger skins, brought them.


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Everyone who offered an offering of silver or bronze brought the offering of Jehovah. And everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.


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And all the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, of violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.


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The children of Israel brought a freewill offering unto Jehovah, every man and woman whose heart was willing to bring for all the work which Jehovah, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.


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And Moses said to the children of Israel, Behold, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;


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and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and understanding, in knowledge and all manner of workmanship,


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He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver; those who do every work and those who devise designs.


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And Bezalel and Aholiab, and everyone of wise heart in whom Jehovah has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that Jehovah has commanded.


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And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted one in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, everyone whose heart was raised up to come and do the work.


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And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. And they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.


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And all the wise men who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing,


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and they spoke to Moses, saying, The people are bringing more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah has commanded us to do.


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And Moses commanded, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. And the people were restrained from bringing,


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And all the wise-hearted among them who worked on the tabernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of violet, purple, and scarlet thread; with cherubim of quality workmanship they made them.


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The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all of one measurement.


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He made loops of violet on the edge of the curtain on the end at one joint; likewise he did on the outer edge of the other curtain at the second joint.


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Fifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain at the end of the second joint; the loops fit one curtain to another.


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And he made fifty hooks of gold, and joined the curtains one to another with the hooks, that it might be one tabernacle.


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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were of one measurement.


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And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost at the one joint, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain at the second joint.


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And he made a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of badger skins above that.


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Each board had two tenons for joining one to another. Thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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Forty sockets of silver he made to go under the twenty boards: two sockets under each board for its two tenons.


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And they were joined at the bottom and joined together at the top by one ring. Thus he made both of them for the two corners.


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And there were eight boards and their sockets; sixteen sockets of silver; two sockets under each board.


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five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the side westward.


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He overlaid the boards with gold, made their rings of gold as housings for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.


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And he made a veil of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen; it was done with cherubim of quality workmanship.


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He made for it four pillars of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.


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He also made a screen for the opening of the tent, of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen, the product of skillful weaving,


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and its five pillars with their hooks. And he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold, and their five sockets were bronze.


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And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits was its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold to be set in its four feet: two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side of it.


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He also made the mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width.


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one cherub at one end on this side, and the other cherub at the other end on that side. He made the cherubim at the two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.


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The cherubim spread out their wings above, and covered the mercy seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.


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He made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.


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He also made a rim of a handbreadth all around it, and made a molding of gold for the rim all around it.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.


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He made of pure gold the utensils which were on the table: its dishes, its pans, its bowls, and its pitchers for pouring.


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He also made the lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work he made the lampstand. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its bulbs, and its flowers were one piece.


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And six branches came out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side.


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There were three bowls made like almond blossoms on one branch, with a bulb and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with a bulb and a flower; and thus for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.


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And on the lampstand itself were four bowls made like almond blossoms, each with its bulb and flower.


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There was a bulb under the first two branches of it, a bulb under the second two branches of it, and a bulb under the third two branches of it, according to the six branches extending from it.


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He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit and its width a cubit; it was square; and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it.


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And he overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides all around, and its horns. He also made for it a molding of gold all around it.


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He made two rings of gold for it under its molding, by its two corners on both sides, as housings for the poles with which to carry it.


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He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length and five cubits its width; it was square; and its height was three cubits.


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He made its horns on its four corners; the horns were of one piece with it. And he overlaid it with bronze.


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He made all the utensils for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.


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And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow with boards.


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He made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the serving women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And he made the court on the south side; the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits long.


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There were twenty pillars for them, with twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.


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On the north side the hangings were one hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars and their twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.


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And on the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and their ten sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.


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The hangings of one side of the gate were fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and their three sockets,


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and the same for the other side of the court gate; on this side and that were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.


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The sockets for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their tops was silver; and all the pillars of the court were banded with silver.


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The screen for the gate of the court was the product of skillful weaving of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine twisted linen. The length was twenty cubits, and the height along its width was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.


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And there were four pillars with their four sockets of bronze; their hooks were silver, and the overlay of their tops and their bands was silver.


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This is the reckoning of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.


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Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And with him was Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer, a skillful weaver of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine linen.


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All the gold that was used in all the work of the holy place, that is, the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And the silver from those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:


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a bekah per head (that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone passing over to be numbered from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.


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And from the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil: one hundred sockets from the hundred talents, one talent per socket.


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And from the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their tops, and banded them.


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And with it he made the sockets for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils for the altar,


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the sockets for the court all around, the bases for the court gate, all the pegs for the tabernacle, and all the pegs for the court all around.


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Of the violet, purple, and scarlet thread they made woven garments, to serve in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into threads, to work it in with the violet, purple, and scarlet thread and the fine linen, products of skillful designs.


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And the intricately woven band of his ephod that was on it was of the same workmanship, woven of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine twisted linen, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And they set onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold; they were engraved, as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel.


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He put them on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he made the breastplate, the product of skillful work, like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine twisted linen.


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They made the breastplate square by folding it; a span was its length and a span its width when folded.


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And they set in it four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald was the first row;


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the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold in their mountings.


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There were twelve stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes.


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They also made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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The two ends of the two braided cords they fastened in the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod in the front.


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And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was on the inward side of the ephod.


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They made two other gold rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces, underneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod.


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And they bound the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord, so that it would be above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate would not come loose from the ephod, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And there was an opening in the middle of the robe, like the opening in a coat of mail, with an edge around the opening, so that it would not tear.


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They made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of violet, purple, and scarlet, and of fine twisted linen.


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And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates:


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a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to serve in, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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and a sash of fine twisted linen with violet, purple, and scarlet thread, the product of a skillful weaver, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO JEHOVAH.


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Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses; thus they did.


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And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent and all its articles: its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;


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the pure gold lampstand with its lamps (the lamps set in order), all its utensils, and the oil for light;


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the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pegs; all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;


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and the woven garments, to serve in the holy place: the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to serve as priests.


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And Moses inspected all the work, and indeed they had done it; as Jehovah had commanded, thus they had done it. And Moses blessed them.


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You shall bring in the table and arrange the things that are to be set in order upon it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.


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You shall also set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.


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And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.


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And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it; and you shall consecrate it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy.


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You shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. The altar shall be set apart, holy.


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You shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve Me as priest.


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You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, and they shall serve Me as priests; for their anointing shall be a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.


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And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.


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And Moses raised up the tabernacle, set its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.


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And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he took the Testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on the ark from above.


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And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil of the covering, and screened the ark of the Testimony, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, across from the table, on the south side of the tabernacle;


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And he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Whenever they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen of the court gate. Thus Moses finished the work.


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And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud had settled down upon it, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.


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Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel would set out in all their journeys.


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For the cloud of Jehovah was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the eyes of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: If any one of you brings an offering unto Jehovah, you shall bring your offering of the livestock; of the herd and of the flock.


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If his offering is a burnt offering of the herd, let him offer a male that is whole; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah.


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And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement for him.


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He shall kill the young bull before Jehovah; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tent of meeting.


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And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;


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but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar with smoke as a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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If his offering is of the flocks, of the sheep or of the goats, as a burnt offering, he shall bring a male that is whole.


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He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Jehovah; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle its blood all around upon the altar.


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And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;


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but he shall wash the entrails and the legs with water. And the priest shall bring it all and burn it upon the altar with smoke; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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And if the burnt offering of his offering unto Jehovah is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or young pigeons.


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The priest shall bring it to the altar, nip off its head, and burn it on the altar with smoke; its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar.


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And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.


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And he shall cleave it at its wings, but shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar with smoke, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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When anyone offers a grain offering unto Jehovah, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.


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He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, one of whom shall take from it a full handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the altar with smoke, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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The rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons. Of the offerings unto Jehovah by fire, it is set apart, holy.


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And if you bring as an offering a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.


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And if your offering is a grain offering baked in a pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil.


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You shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things unto Jehovah. And when it has been presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.


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And the priest shall take from the grain offering a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar with smoke. It is an offering by fire, a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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And what is left of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons. Of the offerings unto Jehovah by fire, it is set apart, holy.


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No grain offering which you bring to Jehovah shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey with smoke in any offering unto Jehovah by fire.


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As for the offering of the firstfruits, you shall offer them unto Jehovah, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a soothing aroma.


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And every offering of your grain offerings you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offerings. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.


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If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits unto Jehovah, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted with fire, grain beaten out from full heads.


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And the priest shall burn the memorial portion with smoke: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering by fire unto Jehovah.


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And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer one that is whole before Jehovah.


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And 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 sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall offer from the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering by fire unto Jehovah. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,


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the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove;


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and Aaron's sons shall burn it with smoke on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire, as an offering by fire, a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offerings unto Jehovah is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer one that is whole.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall offer from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as an offering by fire unto Jehovah, its fat and the whole fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone. And the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,


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He shall lay his hand on its head and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall offer from it his offering, as an offering by fire unto Jehovah. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,


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and the priest shall burn them on the altar with smoke as a food offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all the fat is Jehovah's.


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This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying: If a soul sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of Jehovah in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,


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if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt upon the people, then let him present unto Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned a young bull that is whole, as a sin offering.


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He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, lay his hand on the bull's head, and kill the bull before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Jehovah, in front of the veil of the holy place.


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And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of spiced incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood of the bull at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.


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He shall take from it all the fat of the bull as the sin offering. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat which is on the entrails,


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the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove,


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as it was taken from the bull of the sacrifice of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn them with smoke upon the altar of the burnt offering.


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the whole bull he shall bring outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.


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And if the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done something against any of the commandments of Jehovah in anything which should not be done, and are guilty;


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when the sin which they have sinned becomes known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the tent of meeting.


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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Jehovah, and the bull shall be killed before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, in front of the veil.


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And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And he shall do with the bull as he did with the bull of the sin offering; thus he shall do with it. Thus the priest shall make atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.


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And he shall bring the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the assembly.


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When a ruler has sinned, and done something unintentionally against any of the commandments of Jehovah his God in anything which should not be done, and is guilty,


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or if his sin which he has sinned comes to his knowledge, he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a male that is whole.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it at the place where they kill the burnt offering before Jehovah. It is a sin offering.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.


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And he shall burn all its fat on the altar with smoke, like the fat of the sacrifice of the peace offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.


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If any soul of the people of the land sins unintentionally by doing something against any of the commandments of Jehovah in anything which ought not to be done, and is guilty,


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or if his sin which he has sinned comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female that is whole, for his sin which he has sinned.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.


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He shall remove all its fat, as fat is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar with smoke for a soothing aroma unto Jehovah. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it as a sin offering at the place where they kill the burnt offering.


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The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.


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He shall remove all its fat, as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offering. And the priest shall burn it on the altar with smoke, according to the offerings by fire unto Jehovah. Thus the priest shall make atonement for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.


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If a soul sins and has heard the utterance of an oath, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of the matter; if he does not report it, he bears guilt.


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Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and he is unaware of it, he also shall be unclean and guilty.


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Or if he touches human uncleanness; whatever uncleanness with which a man may be defiled, and he is unaware of it; when he has found out about it, then he shall be guilty.


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Or if a soul swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may speak rashly with an oath, and it is concealed from him; when he has found out about it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.


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And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned;


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and he shall bring his trespass offering unto Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats as a sin offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.


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If he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring unto Jehovah, for his guilt which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and nip off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it completely.


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And he shall sprinkle some 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.


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And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. Thus the priest shall make atonement for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.


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And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his full handful of it as a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar with smoke according to the offerings by fire unto Jehovah. It is a sin offering.


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The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned in any of these matters; and it shall be forgiven him. The rest is for the priest as a grain offering.


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If a soul commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring unto Jehovah for his trespass a ram that is whole from the flocks, with your valuation in shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a trespass offering.


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And he shall make good for his sin with regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.


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If a soul sins, and has done any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of Jehovah, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.


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And he shall bring to the priest a ram that is whole from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his unintentional error in which he did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.


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If a soul sins and commits a trespass against Jehovah by lying to his neighbor about what was delivered into his hand for safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if he has extorted from his neighbor,


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or if he has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and swears falsely; in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:


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then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing which he has extorted, or what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which he found,


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or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall restore the principal, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever it belongs, on the day of his guilt offering.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering unto Jehovah, a ram that is whole from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering, to the priest.


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And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah, and he shall be forgiven for any of these things that he has done in which he is guilty.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.


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And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his flesh, and take up the ashes of the burnt offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.


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And he shall take off his garments, put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.


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And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings with smoke.


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This is the law of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron shall present it before Jehovah in front of the altar.


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And he shall take from it his handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering, and shall burn it on the altar with smoke for a soothing aroma, as a memorial unto Jehovah.


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And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.


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It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings by fire; it is set apart, holy; like the sin offering and the trespass offering.


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All the males among the sons of Aaron shall eat it. It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations concerning the offerings by fire unto Jehovah. Everyone who touches them shall be holy.


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This is the offering for Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer unto Jehovah, on the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.


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It shall be made in a pan with oil. You shall bring it in mixed, and the baked pieces of the grain offering you shall offer for a soothing aroma unto Jehovah.


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The priest from among his sons, who is anointed in his place, shall do it. It is a perpetual statute unto Jehovah. It shall be completely burned with smoke;


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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, the sin offering shall be killed before Jehovah. It is set apart, holy.


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The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In the holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.


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Everyone who touches its flesh shall be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in the holy place.


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But 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.


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But the sin offering, from which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting, to make atonement in the holy place, shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the trespass offering. And its blood shall be sprinkled all around on the altar.


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and the priest shall burn them on the altar with smoke as an offering by fire unto Jehovah. It is a trespass offering.


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Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It shall be eaten in the holy place. It is set apart, holy.


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The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them both: it is for the priest who makes atonement with it.


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And the priest who offers anyone's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.


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Also every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the sauce pan, or in a pan, shall be for the priest who offers it.


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Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil, or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, for one as for the other.


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If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.


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Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.


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And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering unto Jehovah. It shall be for the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.


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And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning.


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But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day the remainder of it may also be eaten;


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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be imputed to him; it shall be an abomination unto him who offers it, and the soul who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.


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The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the other flesh, all who are clean shall eat of it.


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But the soul who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to Jehovah, while he is unclean, that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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Moreover the soul who touches any unclean thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used for any work; but you shall not eat to devour it.


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For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering by fire unto Jehovah, the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering unto Jehovah shall bring his offering unto Jehovah from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.


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His own hands shall bring the offerings by fire unto Jehovah. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar with smoke, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.


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Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.


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He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his portion.


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For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, from the children of Israel, as a perpetual statute.


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This is the portion for the anointing of Aaron and the anointing of his sons, from the offerings by fire unto Jehovah, on the day he presented them to serve Jehovah as priests.


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Jehovah commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, on the day that he anointed them, as a perpetual statute throughout their generations.


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This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offerings,


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which Jehovah had commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings unto Jehovah in the Wilderness of Sinai.


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Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;


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And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him. And the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And he put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him.


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And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.


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He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them.


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And Moses brought Aaron's sons and put tunics on them, girded them with sashes, and tied the turbans on them, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And 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,


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and Moses killed it. And he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement on it.


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And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them with smoke like incense on the altar.


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And the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,


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And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat with smoke like incense.


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And he washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar with smoke like incense. It was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire unto Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he brought the second ram, the ram of ordination. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,


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and Moses killed it. And he took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar.


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And he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;


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and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh;


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and he put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And Moses took them from their hands and burned them with smoke upon the altar, upon the burnt offering. They were ordination offerings for a soothing aroma; an offering by fire unto Jehovah.


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And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before Jehovah. It was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.


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And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.


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And you shall not go outside the door of the tent of meeting for seven days, for the days of your ordination to be fulfilled. For seven days he shall confirm your hands.


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Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, so that you may not die; for thus I have been commanded.


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It came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called for Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.


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And he said to Aaron, Take for yourself a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, that are whole, and offer them before Jehovah.


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And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, that are whole, as a burnt offering,


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also a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today Jehovah will appear unto you.


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And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting. And all the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah.


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And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded you to do, and the glory of Jehovah shall appear unto you.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Go to the altar, offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. Offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Jehovah has commanded.


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And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And he dipped his finger in the blood, put it on the horns of the altar, and poured the blood at the base of the altar.


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But the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe from the liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar with smoke, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented the blood to him, which he sprinkled all around on the altar.


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And they presented the burnt offering to him, with its pieces and head, and he burned them on the altar with smoke.


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And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.


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And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and killed it and offered it for sin, like the first one.


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And he brought the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar with smoke, besides the burnt offering of the morning.


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He also killed the bull and the ram as sacrifices of peace offerings, which were for the people. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar,


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and the fat from the bull and the ram; the fatty tail, that covers the entrails and the kidneys, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver;


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And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave offering before Jehovah, as Moses had commanded.


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And Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and peace offerings.


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And 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,


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and fire came out from before Jehovah and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they cried aloud and fell on their faces.


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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.


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And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah has spoken, saying: By those who come near Me I will be honored as holy, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron kept still.


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And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.


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And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, that you not die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Jehovah has kindled.


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You shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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Do not drink wine or strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, that you not die. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,


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and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left: Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings by fire unto Jehovah, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is set apart, holy.


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You shall eat it in the holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due, of the sacrifices by fire unto Jehovah; for thus I have been commanded.


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The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons' due, which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.


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The thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the offerings of fat by fire, to offer as a wave offering before Jehovah. And it shall be yours and your sons' with you, by a perpetual statute, as Jehovah has commanded.


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And Moses investigated to inquire about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,


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Why have you not eaten the sin offering in a holy place, since it is set apart, holy, and God has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah?


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Behold, its blood has not been brought inside the holy place; indeed you should have eaten it in the holy place, as I have commanded.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah, and such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been accepted in the eyes of Jehovah?


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you may eat among all the beasts of the earth:


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Among the beasts, whatever divides the hoof, being cloven and split, and bringing up the cud; that you may eat.


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Nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that bring up the cud or those that divide the hoof: the camel, because it brings up the cud but does not divide the hoof, is unclean to you;


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and the swine, though it divides the hoof, being cloven and split, yet does not bring up the cud, is unclean to you.


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These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever in the water has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers; that you may eat.


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But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that swarm in the water or any living creature which is in the water, they are detestable to you.


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They shall be detestable to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall detest their carcasses.


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And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,


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Yet these you may eat of every flying creature that swarms, going upon all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth.


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These you may eat: the swarming locust after its kind, the locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.


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By these you shall become unclean; whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until evening;


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Any beast that divides the hoof, but is not cloven and split and does not bring up the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches it shall be unclean.


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And whatever goes on its paws, among all the animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until evening.


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Whoever carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. They are unclean to you.


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These also shall be unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind;


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These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.


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Anything upon which any of them falls when they are dead is unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which work is done, it shall be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.


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Any earthen vessel into which any of them falls you shall break; and whatever is in it shall be unclean:


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in such a vessel, any edible food upon which water falls shall be unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it shall be unclean.


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And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or cooking stove, it shall be broken down; for they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.


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Nevertheless a spring or a cistern, in which there is a collection of water, shall be clean, but whatever touches the carcass shall be unclean.


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But if water is put on the seed, and if any part of the carcass has fallen on it, it shall be unclean to you.


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And if any beast which is for your food dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.


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He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.


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Whatever goes on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all swarming things that swarm on the earth; these you shall not eat, for they are detestable.


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You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.


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For I am Jehovah your God. You shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any swarming thing that swarms on the earth.


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For I am Jehovah who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.


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This is the law of the beasts and the flying creatures and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms on the earth,


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to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animals that may be eaten and the animals that may not be eaten.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying: If a woman has conceived seed, and borne a male, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days when she is ill with menstruation, she shall be unclean.


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She shall then continue in the blood of her menstruation thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.


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But if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation, and she shall continue in the blood of her menstruation sixty-six days.


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When the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the door of the tent of meeting.


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And he shall offer it before Jehovah, and make atonement for her. And she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who has borne a male or a female.


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And if she cannot afford to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons; one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed.


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When a man has on the skin of his flesh a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his flesh like a leprous sore, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.


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The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the flesh; and if the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a leprous sore. Then the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.


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And if the bright spot is white on the skin of his flesh, and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the one who has the sore seven days.


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And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; and behold, if the sore appears to be as it was, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall shut him up another seven days.


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And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the sore has faded, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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But if the scab should at all spread over the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.


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And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.


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And the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the swelling on the skin is white, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,


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it is an old leprosy on the skin of his flesh. The priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.


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And if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the sore, from his head to his foot, whatever is seen by the priest's eyes,


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then the priest shall consider; and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the sore clean. It has all turned white. He is clean.


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And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean; for the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.


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And the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the sore has returned to white, then the priest shall pronounce the sore clean. He is clean.


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and in place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be seen by the priest;


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and if, when the priest sees it, behold, it appears deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore which has broken out of the boil.


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But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;


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and if it should spread abroad over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague.


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But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Or if the skin of the flesh is burned by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn develops a bright spot, reddish-white or white,


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then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair of the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.


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But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in the bright spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.


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And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread abroad over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.


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But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread on the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn. The priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.


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then the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if it appears deeper than the skin, and there is in it thin yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scaly leprosy of the head or beard.


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But if the priest examines the scaly sore, and behold, it does not appear deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the one who has the scall seven days.


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And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the sore; and behold, if the scall has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the scall does not appear deeper than the skin,


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he shall shave himself, but the scall he shall not shave. And the priest shall shut up the one who has the scall another seven days.


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On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scall; and behold, if the scall has not spread over the skin, and does not appear deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scall has spread over the skin, the priest shall not look for yellow hair. He is unclean.


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But if the scall appears to have come to a standstill, and black hair has grown up in it, the scall has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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then the priest shall look; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of the flesh are dull white, it is a skin spot that grows on the skin. He is clean.


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And if there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.


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And the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the flesh,


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he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall pronounce to declare him unclean; his plague is on his head.


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And the leper on whom the plague is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bared; and he shall cover his mustache, and call out, Unclean! Unclean!


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He shall be unclean. All the days he has the plague he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.


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whether it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, whether in leather or in anything made of leather,


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and if the spot is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a leprous spot and shall be shown to the priest.


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And he shall examine the spot on the seventh day. If the spot has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, in the leather or in anything made of leather, the spot is an active leprosy. It is unclean.


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He shall therefore burn that garment in which is the plague, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, for it is an active leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.


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And if the priest examines it, and behold, the spot has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather,


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then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the spot; and he shall shut it up another seven days.


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And the priest shall examine the spot after it has been washed; and indeed if the spot has not changed its color, though the spot has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, whether the damage is outside or inside.


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If the priest examines it, and behold, the spot has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, whether out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leather.


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And if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn with fire that in which is the plague.


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And if you wash the garment, either warp or woof, or whatever is made of leather, if the spot has gone from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.


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This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or in anything made of leather, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.


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And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the leprosy is healed in the leper,


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then the priest shall command to take for him who is being cleansed two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.


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And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed on an earthen vessel over running water.


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As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.


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And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is being cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field.


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And he who is being cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, and shall remain outside his tent seven days.


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And on the seventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows; all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs that are whole, one ewe lamb of the first year that is whole, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil.


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And the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man who is being cleansed, and those things, before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And the priest shall take one male lamb and offer it as a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And he shall kill the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a holy place; for as the sin offering is the priest' s, so is the trespass offering. It is set apart, holy.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.


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And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass offering.


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And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is being cleansed. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is being cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.


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But if he is poor and cannot afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, a log of oil,


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and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.


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He shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.


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And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is being cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah.


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such as he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him who is being cleansed before Jehovah.


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When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I have put the leprous plague in a house in the land of your possession,


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and he who owns the house comes and informs the priest, saying, There appears to be a plague in the house,


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then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to examine the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.


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And he shall examine the plague; and indeed if the plague is on the walls of the house with ingrained streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall,


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then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.


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And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house,


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then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which is the plague, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city.


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And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.


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And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house.


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And if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has taken away the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,


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then the priest shall come and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean.


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And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.


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And he who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


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And if the priest comes in and examines it, 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.


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and he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, 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.


