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Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad..|Y the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,5{g the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,@z} Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,Sy! Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.Hx Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,;ws and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.Vv' Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,au= The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.zto He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD”.Ts# Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.ure The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.=qw The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.p Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.Ho The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.@n} The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.Ym- The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. l  Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.Nk All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.=jw Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.ciA May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”Uh% He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.[g1 He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”Rf Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.Ze/ Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.gdI Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.Nc He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.:bq Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.Za/ These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.n`W The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. _ God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”6^g The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”.]W and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.Y\- When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,e[E I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.Z7 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:4Yc I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”;Xq and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.cWA “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,;Vs God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,[U1 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”gTI Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.FS I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.HR But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.zQo Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.TP# The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.oO [ God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.N While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”M The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done. L Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.K Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.PJ Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.xIk Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”cHA “Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you."GA God spoke to Noah, saying,XF+ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.dEC  In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.iDM  He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore."C?  The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.VB'  He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.]A5  but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.d@C He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,h?K and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.X>+ At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,=- The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.l<S The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.u;e The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.t:c The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.$9 E God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.<8u The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.r7_ Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.[61 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.5! All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.O4 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.s3a The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.p2[ The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.1 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.r0_ Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then the LORD shut him in.Y/- Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went to Noah into the ship.J. they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.$-C  In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—;,s  It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.X++  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.@*}  After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.U)%  went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.X(+ Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the groundl'S Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.S&! Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.8%m Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.4$c In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.”|#s Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.""? You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.!  The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.9 o Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.~w Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”8k Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.- Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.  But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.,S I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.>w You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.% This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.wi Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.7  God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.lS  God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.R  The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.F  Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.3c But Noah found favour in the LORD’s eyes.L The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”_9 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.9 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.P The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.  The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”| s God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.a  ? When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,` ;  Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.U % All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.  Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.3 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”T# Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.U% All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died. Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.[1 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.G Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.C All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.L Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.O~ All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.}{ Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.R| Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.V{' All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died. z Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.Ky Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.Mx and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died. w  Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughtersHv  Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.Ju  All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died. t  Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.As  Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.Kr All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.q Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.Lp Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.So! All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died. n The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.m Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.sla He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.vk i This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.rj_ A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the LORD’s name.i7 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”Rh If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”4gc Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. f Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah.`e; His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.edE Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.ncW Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.b' To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.a+ Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.U`% Cain left the LORD’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.A_} The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.I^ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”L]  Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. \  From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”[y  Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.oZY  The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.}Yu  The LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”X9 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.W/ If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”aV= The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?qU] but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.wTi Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The LORD respected Abel and his offering,[S1 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.yRm Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.Q  The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s help.” P So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim/f + cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10./f* at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.qO] Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.DN The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”]M5 The LORD God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.WL) The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.&KG By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”ZJ/ It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.I To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life.6Hg To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”!G= I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”_F9 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.|Es  The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”rD_  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”}Cu  God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”wBi  The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”NA  The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”D@ They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ? Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.}>u When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.={ for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”A< The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,&;G but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”Y:- The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,E9  Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”I8 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.w7i Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.6! The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”i5M the LORD God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.4 The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.(3K The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him._29 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.u1e The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”0 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”c/A The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;a.= The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.- The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.o,Y  The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.S+!  and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.j*O  The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;z)o  A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.X(+  Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.f'G The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.& The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.X%+ but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.A$} No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,$#C This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens."{ God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done. ! On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.G  The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.  God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.A  To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.8 m God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food._ ; God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”k S God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.  God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”2 a God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.& I God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.< w There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.  God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”B  God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.  God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”= y There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.y o and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.F  God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,   God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.f I and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 5 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;<  w There was evening and there was morning, a third day.'  K The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.-  W God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.   God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.   God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.` = God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.  God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.z q God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”  God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.] 7 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.? } God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.> } In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. b~~t~)}}} |||{|2{{dzz}zyxxTwwvuuJtt{sss'rr\rqqUpppooHnn[mmNm l6kkIjjIihhXgfff+eedd#ccbb,aa%``z__t_(^]]H\[[ZZAYY(XX'WWViVUTTSSRtQQnQPOOO NMM\LLxLKKJDII HGGHFFxF,EDDD:CCBBHAA@@@G?? >X== <[;;@::O988\777L66Y655433@22-100E//).|--o,++f+*())Z) (('e&&%%?$$7##&""?!!: Q .Dgn$v`(Hl  1  f&D3r"k? !They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.yjm  Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”i! The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.*hO Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters..gW When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.%fE He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.]e5 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.Sd! But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.xck He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.dbC Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.=aw The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.`y Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar._+ He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.^# See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”]]5 See now, your servant has found favour in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.1\_ Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.Q[ It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”BZ But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.9Ym When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”_X9 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.W#  for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”&VG  The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:U'  They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.gTI  But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.S{  They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.`R; See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”AQ He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.GP Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.O/ They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”N' But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.M' He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.kLQ and he said, “See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”#K C The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,uJe !The LORD went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.2I_  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”4Hc He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”*GO He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”F He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”2E_ What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.”qD] Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.C} The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.”YB- Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?” A What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?X@+ Abraham drew near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?a?= The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.>} I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”r=_ The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,< For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”|;s since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?=:w The LORD said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,n9W The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.u8e Then Sarah denied, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.” 7 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”r6_  The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’y5m  Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”h4K  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.03[  He said, “I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.Z2/  They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”1 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.y0m Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it./ Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”@.{ I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”_-9 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.r,_ and said, “My lord, if now I have found favour in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant./+Y He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,i* O The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.) All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.M( In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.g'I Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.a&= Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.r%_ 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 foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.E$ When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.k#Q But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”V"' As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.=!u God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.J  Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”<s Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”)M I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”wi God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.7 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.” ;  He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.F  He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.wi  You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.   This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.}  God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.*O I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are travelling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”9m I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.jO I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you. Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.iM “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.<u Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,Z/ I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” ! When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.I Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.` ; Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.^ 7 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. )  She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”' I  He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.”) M  the LORD’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction.y  the LORD’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.”lS  the LORD’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”!= He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”sa the LORD’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.-U But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.I Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you.”|s He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes./Y Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.F Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.o [ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.M~ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”2}a the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,4|e the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,*{O In that day the LORD 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:z! It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.py[ In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”Xx+ but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.mwU I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,0v[  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.luS  When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.Qt  The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.s  He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.r-  He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”Iq He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”|ps He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”No He believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.1n] The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your seed be.”m/ Behold, the LORD’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”nlW Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”k Abram said, “Lord the LORD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” j = After these things the LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”9im I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”h that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’g{ Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,dfC The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”wei and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.gdI He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:bc? Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.=bu The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).a He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.`/ He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.$_C When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.5^e  One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.c]A  They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed._\9  They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. [;  Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.Z/  against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.^Y7 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;&XG They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.UW% and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.9Vm In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,ZU/ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.VT' All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).2S_ they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).R { In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,Q Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.ePE Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.”O% I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.[N1 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.7Mi The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,SL! Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.yKm Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.J So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot travelled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.`I; Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.EH Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”G Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.2F_ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.E The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.ID Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.rC_ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name. B He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,AA Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.d@ E Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.q?] Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.> Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”= Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?d<C The LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.; He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.t:c The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.Y9- When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.8 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”7' It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.6 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.5 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.94o Abram travelled, going on still toward the South.L3 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the LORD’s name.2 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him.x1k Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.e0E Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came. / So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. . I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”n-W I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing., 1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.L+ The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.f*G Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.+)S Sarai was barren. She had no child.*(O 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 who was also the father of Iscah.\'3 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.& Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.U%% Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.$} Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.G# Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.x"k Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.A! Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.| s Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.D Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.{q Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.?{ Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.y Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.F Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.A Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.L Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.}u Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.' This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.8k Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.vg So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.ym Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”;q The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.[1 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.K They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”% They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.` ; As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.=  y The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.# A These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.i M These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations._ 9 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.F Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.7 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,9 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,J Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,  To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.R Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.9o The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.H The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.oY Children were also born to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth.ym These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.~/ The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha. v ~o~$}}@||A{{!zcyxx1wFvv^uutt'sYrrir qqCppp0oo@nnMmmlkksjiilhhhgffVeeTddd@cccbbMaa`__^^W]]\`\[ZZ YrY$XWW\VV\VUUqUTT-SS3RRHQQ>P|ONNMMM"LIKyJJfII~HH9GG5FEE0DCCdBB_A@_??L>>Z==X<<:;;f;+:A99887P6655n44w4-3o22O100$/m.--K,,P++;**))I((y''>&&V%%E%$\$##a"""!!+ 'xX$m]N"3p _~>$k B N  Ee3Fv7Xk #They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.W "When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.VV' !He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.U  The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”T They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.5Sg He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.:Ro that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of the LORD.”0Q[ They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,nPW Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”lOS Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.N He built an altar there, and called on the LORD’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.XM+ The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.”+LS He went up from there to Beersheba.GK He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”[J1 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.%IE The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.YH- Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.nGW Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.UF% Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.VE' Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”D) Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.oCY He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.OB  The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.wAi  Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.{@q  Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”!?=  Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”D>  Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”#=A When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.n<W The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”;7 Isaac lived in Gerar.q:] because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”"9? I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,F8 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.s7a The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.6 5 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.5} "Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright._49 !Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.W3)  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”92o Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”1} Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.M0 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.O/ Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.n.W The boys grew. Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.-# After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.T,# The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.\+3 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.I* The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”)} The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of the LORD.( Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.'1 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.n&W This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.}%u They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.$# These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.#1 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.1"_ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.!7 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,+ Q  These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,  Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham._9  After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.r_  the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.)  Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,y Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.lS These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years. ; but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country..Y Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,mU The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.oY Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.H She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.; u Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.#A CIsaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.?{ BThe servant told Isaac all the things that he had done./Y AShe said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.[1 @Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel. ?Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.Z/ >Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.  =Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.1 ] w 0I bowed my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.J /I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.3~a .She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.@}{ -Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’|7 ,and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’A{} +behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”z *I came this day to the spring, and said, ‘The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—y )Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’:xo (He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father’s house.Gw 'I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’evE &but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ u %My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,rt_ $Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.4sc #The LORD has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.-rW "He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.q} !Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” He said, “Speak on.”3pa  The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. o He said, “Come in, you blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”tnc When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.`m; Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.Ml The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.fkG He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”8jm The man bowed his head, and worshipped the LORD.giI She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”ghI She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”{gq and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?”f3 As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,~ew The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.~dw She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.}cu When she had done giving him drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking.”obY She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.oaY The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”`5 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.8_k Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.@^{ Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”y]m  Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.\  He said, “The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.[  He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.BZ  The servant took ten camels, of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.qY]  The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.X If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”W' The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your seed.’ He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.RV Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.U1 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”bT? But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”8Sk I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.R Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.^Q 9 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.P The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.O After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.}Nu to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.LM So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deededUL% Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.K “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”/J[ Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,II  He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”AH  Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.0G[  “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”KF  Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,>Ew  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”D9 He talked with them, saying, “If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,dCC Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.'BI “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”=Aw The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,@/ “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”Y?- Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,> Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Z= 1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.Z</ His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.e;E Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.7:k Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”F9 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,8y After these things, it was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:{7q So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.h6K All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”H5 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 4 and said, “I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,K3 the LORD’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,2% Abraham called the name of that place the LORD Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On the LORD’s mountain, it will be provided.”Q1  Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.50e  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”u/e  the LORD’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”L.  Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.2-_  They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.x,k Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.B+ Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”*) Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. ) Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.”P( On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.f'G Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.K& He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”i% O After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”O$ "Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.u#e !Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God."/  So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.Q! Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.  He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”nW Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”?{ Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.^7 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today.”xk Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.)O Abraham said, “I will swear.” Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.” At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.fG He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.mU God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.zo God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.cA Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”J God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.O She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.[1 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.lS Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.Z/  I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.”X+  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.P   The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. !  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”Y -  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.e E The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.  She said, “Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”X+ Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”P Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.b? Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.S! Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.p[ Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.Z 1 The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.vg For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.tc Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.J To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”Y- Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.” ~ Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.C}  When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”|{  Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.{  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’Zz/  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”gyI  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!” x Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.Ow Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”Kv God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.:uo Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this.”ftG Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?3sa But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”qr] Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.q Abraham travelled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.zpo &The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.doC %The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.Hn $Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.m) #They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.rl_ "It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.” R~~}}||A{{FzzOyy_xxvx wvvUuuDttssqrrBqqpponn/mllkjjMihhUhgCfgeeMdd4cbb[baaa!`\__^&]c\\\[[_ZZ`YYiXWWW VUU_TSSS=RRQQPPYOOmONNRNMSLL[LKK0JJ+IHH.GGF~F/EEsEDD$CCCrCBBA_@@???>>>Y>==/<<;;Y:998766o55!433=22C11*00b//x/ .I--N,,7++** )((("''d&&F%% $y$#b""a! J;}CP(y Lg3Y  O 4 Wj {""]Cd/B [ !Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.GA Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.Z@/ The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.?y Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”> Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there. = He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”G< He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.x;k The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”:7 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.[91 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.V8' He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. 7 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.]65 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.i5M You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”4- He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. 3 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”,2S He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’,1S He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”h0K thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.Z// two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,o.Y He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:-' You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can’t be numbered because there are so many.’”,5 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.V+' I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.4*c Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’y)m and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”&(G Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;'7 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”&% I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in your sight.’”:%o He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.l$S Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.m#U When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.<" w Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.! 7Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.  6Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.! 5The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.8k 4May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.hK 3Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 2If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”lS 1and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.jO 0Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you this day.” Therefore it was named GaleedE /Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.ym .Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.7k -Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.hK ,Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”tc +Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?fG *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 labour of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”1] )These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.{q (This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.+ 'That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.7 &“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.@{ %Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.# $Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?/ Y #She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim. % "Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn’t find them.E  !Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.1 ]  Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them. y Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’|s Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”3a It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’]5 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.#A Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;  Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?% Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.' God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”{ He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.<u Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.|s So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.`~; Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.g}I Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.I| and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.J{ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,z) For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”oyY Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.qx] Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?)wM  I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”4vc  He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.\u3  The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’#tA  During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.Qs  Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.] "She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.(=K !She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.%<E  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”Y;- The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.w:i He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.T9# Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.W8) Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.7 Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”a6= Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.,5S In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”L4 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.^37 In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.L2 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.h1K Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”m0U Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.y/m Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”k.Q Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”R- Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.i,M Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. + Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”e*E Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.9)m  When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.|(s  Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.?'{  Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.s&a  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.g%I  While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.$1 They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”## He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”" He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”b!? He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”h K Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”.W There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.C He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.Y / Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.) then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.”[1 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and the LORD will be my God,5 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,`; He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.' Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.  He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”vg Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”?y Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”X+ Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.>w  Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.#  He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.A}  He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.=w  Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran."?  Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.Q Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.V ' and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.i M Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,”  Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. 9 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”s a May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,9 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.t e Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.X+ .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, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”A} -until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”J ,Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;Z/ +Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.N *The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.E )Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”&G (By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”  'Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.~# &Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.P} %Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?”^|7 $He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”X{+ #He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”#zA "When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”Ey !Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”mxU  Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”0w[ He also made savoury food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”*vO As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.Mu Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”ktQ God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.=su He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.Pr His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”8qk He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.Hp He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”vog He didn’t recognise him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. n Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”}mu Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”l# Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because the LORD your God gave me success.”-kU Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”ijM He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”iiM She gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.Zh/ She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.g Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.wfi He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savoury food, such as his father loved.sea  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”d  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”lcS  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.jbO  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” a  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savoury food for your father, such as he loves.T`# Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.y_m ‘Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.’s^a Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,u]e Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.\ Make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”y[m Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.KZ He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.*Y Q When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.” ~~}}}|}|${UzzYyxxwwMvvuufttlt sos$rGqq[ppWooQnnMmmAmlbkkjciih[gghff_eAddBcbbEaaD``*__A^^]];\\a[[v[ ZZnYYdY1XXeWWWVVUUU#T&SSMRRKQQxPPfOODNjMMbLLyL'KK.JJJAJIIHH:GGFFFiFE[DDvDDCC=B6AA@@g?>>9=F<<<;D::W99L9 8I776605O44G3322P110//{/..W.--_-,b++[*h))C(@''&%%G$$#m""!. Jf]wbC?C*k E]  J vx@IEp y3m )The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.a2= )Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.u1e )He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.Z0/ )The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke./ )Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.m.U )Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.Y- / )At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.K, (Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.J+ (but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.k*Q (He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;F) (On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.(5 (Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”Z'/ (Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.& (In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”+%Q (When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.$% (For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”#/ (But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.;"q ( Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.^!7 ( Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. ! ( Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”~w ( and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.{q ( The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,;q (They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.” (He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”Y- (Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.M (They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.ue (The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.|s (He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.[1 (Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.q _ (After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.'I 'The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it prosper.3 'The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.{ 'But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 'Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.) 'When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.^7 'and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”  'She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,D 'She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.j O 'When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”? y 'she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.T # ' When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,t c ' She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.t c ' About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.hK ' As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.?y ' He isn’t greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”(K 'But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.iM 'After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”%E 'He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.b? 'From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. the LORD’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.! 'Joseph found favour in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.oY 'His master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand.oY 'The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.B  'Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.p~[ &Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah."}? &As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.| &When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”D{ &In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.z- &Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.]y5 &When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”\x3 &About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.”{wq &Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”v &He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”&uG &Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”t' &Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.ksQ &She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.Gr &He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.q &He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”Sp! &He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”`o; &When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.ny &She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.nmW & It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”0l[ & After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.okY & Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.Zj/ & The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.&iG & Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.h1 &Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.”[g1 &Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. The LORD killed him.If &Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.ae= &She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.Ed &She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.;cs &She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.pb[ &Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.pa ] &At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.m`U %$The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.;_q %#All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.c^A %"Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. ] %!He recognised it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”.\W % They took the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”][5 %They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.cZA %He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”fYG %Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.DX %Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.W/ %Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.gVI %Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?]U5 %They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.dTC %and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.vSg %When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colours that was on him;IR %Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.iQM %Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.” %This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.Q=  %Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan./<Y $+chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites./;[ $*chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,2:a $)chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,,9S $(These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,;8q $'Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.L7 $&Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his place.O6 $%Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.@5} $$Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.4 $#Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.R3 $"Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.P2 $!Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.S1! $ Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.r0_ $These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel./ $chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.k.Q $These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,6-i $These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.A, $These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.N+ $These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.U*% $These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.)9 $These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.S(! $These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.O' $The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.z&o $Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.i%M $These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,P$ $These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.1#] $These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.V"' $These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife. ! $chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.  $These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, $These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.ym $ These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.} $ Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.K $ The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.  $ these are 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.oY $ This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:=w $Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.% $For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.ym $Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.ym $Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.7k $Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.?{ $and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.+Q $Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;K  $Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). #Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.8m #The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. #Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.} #The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.D  #The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.0 ] #The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.d C #The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 9 #While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.H  #Israel travelled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.dC #Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.S! #Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).kQ #As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.zo #When she was in hard labour, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”} #They travelled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labour.R #Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.! #Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.C # God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.y # The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land.”#A # God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. ~ # God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.U}% # God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.|y #Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.{# #He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.yzm #So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.y} #They travelled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.*xO #They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.%wE #Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”"v? #Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.*u Q #God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”Nt "They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”s/ "Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.” r "and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.uqe "They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,hpK "Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.o "They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.;nq "On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.&mG "All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.l1 "Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”!k= "Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.`j; "“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.sia "Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,h1 "The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honoured above all the house of his father.=gw "Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.sfa "But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”e "then will we 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.xdk "Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;c "and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.b " The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,|as " Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”` " Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.v_g " You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”b^? " Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.] "Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.Y\- "The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a thing ought not to be done.H[ "Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.Z/ "Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.\Y3 "Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”zXo "His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.zWo "Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.gV K "Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.AU !He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel. T; !He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.S !Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.R! !Jacob travelled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.5Qg !So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.P% !Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favour in the sight of my lord.”]O5 !Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”?Ny ! Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.[M1 ! Esau said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.”L/ ! Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.KK ! Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favour in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.VJ' ! Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”I !Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favour in the sight of my lord.” H !Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.UG% !Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.3Fa !He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”YE- !Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.D} !He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.zCo !He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. 7/~~H}}||{Hzz{z yty-xx0wwvv/usu ttssrrqappZoomnnmm=llkTk jAii>==Fy ,Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’UE% ,When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.yDm ,You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’}Cu ,We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’^B7 ,You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’AA} ,We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’S@! ,My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’L? ,Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.*>O ,He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”r=_ ,Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”< ,Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”u;e ,Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.`:; , Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.t9c , He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.h8K , Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 7 , He said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”l6S , With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”95m ,Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?4 ,They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!;3s ,He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.{2q ,Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”I1 ,When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?Z0/ ,As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys./- ,Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.(. M ,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 his sack’s mouth.-- +"He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.,- +!They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marvelled one with another.X++ + They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.a*= +He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.” ) +Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.I( +He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”g'I +They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.}&u +He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”%! +When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the earth.r$_ +They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.# +The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.="u +He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.u!e +We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”< s +When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.R +and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.kQ +They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,5 +The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”Z/ +The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.@{ +When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”# +The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.'I +May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”>y + Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man. + and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.oY + Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;[1 + for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”$C + I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,,S +Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.- +They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”hK +Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”+ +but if you’ll not send him, we’ll not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”P +If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food,  +Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ # +When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”)  Q +The famine was severe in the land.[ 1 *&He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.” 7 *%Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”A } *$Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”$C *#As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.?y *"Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”F *!The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.  * We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’>y *We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.gI *“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.tc *They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,O *He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?” *As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.M *They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there..~W *Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.#}A *He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.c|A *They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.8{k *Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”Xz+ *They said one to another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”py[ *Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so. x *If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.Qw *Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.=vw *He put them all together into custody for three days.Eu *Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”t *By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.Ts# *Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’6rg * They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”Wq) * He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”Xp+ * We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”So! * They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.n- * Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”Im *Joseph recognised his brothers, but they didn’t recognise him._l9 *Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognised them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”;kq *Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.gjI *The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.i *But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”Ch *Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.g' *He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”vf i *Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”pe[ )9All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.%dE )8The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.,cS )7When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”b) )6The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.Sa! )5The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.t`c )4The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”_% )3Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”^ )2To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.v]g )1Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.H\ )0He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.D[ )/In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.)ZM ).Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.,YS )-Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.X ),Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”W' )+and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.$VC )*Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,YU- ))Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”T )(You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”wSi )'Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.pR[ )&Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”XQ+ )%The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.(PK )$The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”O5 )#Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.$NC )"Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.kMQ )!“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.zLo ) The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.{Kq )and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.J+ )There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,YI- )Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.eHE )That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.8Gk )The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.tFc )The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.tEc )Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.D3 )The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”pC[ )and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.aB= )I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:A% )and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.D@ )The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,?! )and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.m>U )and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,\=3 )Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:k<Q )Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”6;g )Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”:9 )Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh._99 ) As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”E8 ) There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.u7e ) We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.6 ) Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.[51 ) Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.M4 )In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh. =~e}|{zzByyxcwvvJuuts~srqqpp opnnFmmll-kyjji=hyggfreeUdddccNbbIaa$`__>^^^2]]D\\\@[[[MZZNYxXX WeVVUUTT:SS8RyQQ;POONMMLLIKK(JIIWHHCGGIFEEE DDDD"CC>BBAA"@@C??>.==&b yAfterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”6agThe people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.t`cAaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.]_5Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.^{Moses told Aaron all the LORD’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.]The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.n\WSo he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."[?Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”RZOn the way at a lodging place, the LORD met Moses and wanted to kill him.#YAand I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me”; and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.’”WX)You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,MWThe LORD said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.VMoses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.vUgThe LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”`T;Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”TS#You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”RHe will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.Q%You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.iPMthe LORD’s anger was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.:Oq He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”`N; Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”M The LORD said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD?/LY Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”K} It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”J3“It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.UThey will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD, our God.’^=7and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’~<wGo, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;;God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.:God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”S9! Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you;’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I tell them?”?8y He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”7 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?”6 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”5 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.4+I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.,3SThe LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows./2YMoreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.1}He said, “Don’t come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”09When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”f/GMoses said, “I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”+.Qthe LORD’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.7- kNow Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.J,God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.l+SGod heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.A*}In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.t)cShe bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”W()Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.|'sHe said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”&They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”o%YWhen they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”m$UThe shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.# Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.)"MNow when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.4!cHe said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”- U He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”} He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.%E In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.&G The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”%E Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.eEPharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”-She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”.WPharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.DHis sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.>wWhen she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.nWThe woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.P A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 'Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”> {Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.Z 1God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.. YThe midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”  The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”z qBut the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.N  and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”  The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,:  qand they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.C   The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,  ' But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.J  Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”m W He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.H  Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. +The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.F  Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.i OAll the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.' MDan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.' MIssachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,' MReuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,x~ oNow these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):u}e 2So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. | 2Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”7{i 2Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”z 2Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.ay= 2Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.x 2Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. w 2As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.Qv 2Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?qu] 2His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”t 2‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.`s; 2They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,:ro 2When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.” q 2Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father._p9 2 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.6oi 2 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,hnK 2 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.6mg 2 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.Xl+ 2 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.!k= 2all 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.j1 2Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,Vi' 2Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”ah= 2‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”;gq 2When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favour in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, f 2Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.qe] 2Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.Hd 2Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.c' 1!When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.bb? 1 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”ay 1There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:4`c 1in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.#_A 1He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ^; 1All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.z]o 1“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”n\W 1The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.R[ 1even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.)ZM 1But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),OY 1The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:cXA 1“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.AW 1“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.FV 1“Asher’s food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.GU 1“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel./T[ 1I have waited for your salvation, LORD.S 1Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.FR 1“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.!Q= 1He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labour.KP 1“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.uOe 1 “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.CN 1 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.M# 1 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes./LY 1 The sceptre will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.K) 1 Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?J 1“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.I 1Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel./HY 1My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.OG 1“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. F 1Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.E 1“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.YD- 1Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.C  1Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.B# 0Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”A} 0Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. @; 0He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.d?C 0His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.”x>k 0Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”@={ 0When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.R< 0the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”;' 0He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,H: 0Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.09[ 0 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.i8M 0 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.|7s 0 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also.”6 0 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.5' 0 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”C4 0Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”`3; 0As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).”2+ 0Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance./1Y 0Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.M0 0and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.’k/Q 0Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,. 0Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. -  0After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.c,A /He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.+5 /but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”v*g /The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favour in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt, ) /Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.(7 /Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly./'Y /Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.& /They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”Z%/ /It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.” $; /Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.<#s /Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.x"k /As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.3!a /So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.i M /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 to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”  /When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.q] /They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.wi /Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”T# /When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”?y /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. ~~|}}|z{{~zzhyxx w|vvv\utt>=<<";L::9H88L766z6554|33N211402/.Y--,y++*I)z(b''R'&d&%]$$B##"H!!k! UpFf<[1/>? V P Y d q `rL.d?C &A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.> %The children of Israel travelled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.= $The LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.<) #The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.;  "The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.: !The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”c9A Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”38a He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said!37a Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.]65 At midnight, the LORD struck all the 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 dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.h5K The children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.t4c that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshipped.\33 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’2% It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.W1) You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.q0] For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.s/a You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning..- Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.f-G You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”e,E There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.+9 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.]*5 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.Y)- In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.k(Q “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.+'Q This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.P& The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.T%# For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements: I am the LORD.6$g This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s Passover.#  You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.~"w Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.~!w They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.   They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.- and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.sa Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:cA and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbour next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.D Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;oY “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.G  The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,&G Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.}u The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”\3 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you”; and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.K But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.xk There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.\3 and all the 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 all the firstborn of livestock.lS Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,I  The LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.%E Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”; s The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.T# Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.” Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”P  But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.N  Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve the LORD our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve the LORD, until we come there.”  Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 5 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve the LORD. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.” 1 They didn’t see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.ym Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. ; The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”`; But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go..W The LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.9o He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD. Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may also take away from me this death.” Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.# For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.K The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.G  Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.Q~ The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.” } Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what you desire!” They were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.| He said to them, “The LORD be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.A{} Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”z Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are those who will go?”@y{ Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”x Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.~ww and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.mvU Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,Yu- Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.It  and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD.”!s ? The LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in their midst,r #The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.q! "When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.&pG !Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.Po But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.gnI The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.\m3 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear the LORD God.”clA Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the LORD. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.k  Pray to the LORD; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”j1 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.Zi/ Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.9hm The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.g So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.-fU Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and the LORD sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.Re The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”edE Whoever didn’t respect the LORD’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.c  Those who feared the LORD’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.by Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die.”’”"a? Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.U`% as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go. _ but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;^# For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;7]i For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.N\ The LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.q[] The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses. Z  The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians./YY They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal.&XG It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.” W; The LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.3Va Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.U# The LORD did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.hTK The LORD appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.”3Sa The LORD 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.”’”AR} behold, the hand of the LORD is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.>Qy For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,,P U Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.VO' Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.&NGThe LORD did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken.A=They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.< The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.;} Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.:% The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.” 9  He said, “Tomorrow.” He said, “Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.k8Q Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honour of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”O7Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat the LORD, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”m6UThe magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.u5eAaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.D4The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”e3Eand the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.’”p2[and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs:Y1-If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs: 0 The LORD spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, “This is what the LORD says, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me.H/ Seven days were fulfilled, after the LORD had struck the river.x.kAll the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink of the water of the river.Y--Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.',IThe magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.6+gThe fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.z*oMoses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.c)AThe LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”(/The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.”’”I' Thus says the LORD, “In this you shall know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.M&You shall tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:” and behold, until now you haven’t listened.F%Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.c$AThe LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.`#; Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.q"] For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.!# Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.5 e Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.6g “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.’”5gThe LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,b?Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.I Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they did.!The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”6gBut Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgements.dCI will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.'You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.{ sThe LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.r_Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”vgthe LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the LORD. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you.”FOn the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.+These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”CEleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.fGThe sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.!Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.>yThe sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.9 oThe sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.2 _Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.s aThe sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.L The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.8kThese are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years./The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.,SThese are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.9m The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt./Y Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”lS “Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”(M The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. ;I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the LORD.’”8kand I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.w~iTherefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements: }Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.|I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.}{uand I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name the LORD I was not known to them.>zyGod spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am the LORD;7y kThe LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”x#For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all.”wMoses returned to the LORD, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?]v5and they said to them, “May the LORD look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”Wu)They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came out from Pharaoh:'tIThe officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”|ssGo therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!” !~~C}k|||A{{pzayyy xxbwwTv9uutssyrr7qtponnmgll;kkjj*ihgggDfeedYcybb]aaH`s__9^u]]\[[/ZYXX]WW4VlUUU$TTkSS:RR!QQ]PP]OO N>(=Y1"As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.=1!Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations.”}<u Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”;The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.0:]So the people rested on the seventh day.M9Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”_89The LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?X7+On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.k6QSix days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”u5eMoses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.z4oThey laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn’t become foul, neither was there any worm in it.3/He said to them, “This is that which the LORD has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”2On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.q1]They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.)0MNotwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.L/Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”,.SWhen they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.J-The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.b,?This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.”K+When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.” *When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.l)S In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.d(C “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’”('M The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,%&E As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the LORD’s glory appeared in the cloud.%1 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.’” $Moses said, “Now the LORD shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”!#=and in the morning, then you shall see the LORD’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”"-Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt;!-It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”\ 3Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.'and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”ueThe whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;v iThey took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.9mand he said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”MThen he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;NThe people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.!=Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. Miriam answered them, “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”/Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.`;For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.1_The LORD shall reign forever and ever.”LYou shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.;qTerror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone— until your people pass over, LORD, until the people pass over who you have purchased.Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.eEThe peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.# “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.E  You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.y m Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?a = You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.1 ] The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’ -With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.hKYour right hand, LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.KThe deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.q]He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.7kThe LORD is a man of war. The LORD is his name.'The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.D Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. ;Israel saw the great work which the LORD did to the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD, and in his servant Moses.}Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore./But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.3~aThe waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.P}Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. The LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.%|EThe LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”C{He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians!”zIn the morning watch, the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army. yThe Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.x3The 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.7wiMoses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.@v{It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn’t come near the other all the night.!u=The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.tThe Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten myself honour over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”QsBehold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honour over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.r7Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.pq[The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.?p{The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.”Vo' Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.\n3 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.”3ma They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?Jl When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the LORD.=ku The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.!j=The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.oiYand he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.>K==Q<<*;;q:::E:99]9877Z66h6 55h44s33211100i///..D-~,++**J)))@(('|&&4%s$$f##."o!!R q:OG-~^?:ov,s 0 C w D 0 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.a= You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:2~_The skilfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.h}KIt shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.|“They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman.e{EThey shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.zThese are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.KyYou shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.Wx)You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.aw ?“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.v In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.u'“You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.tAll the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass..sWThe length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.~rwAll the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.Hq For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.npWFor the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.yomThe hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.Rn The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.m For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.Sl! Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. k and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.5je “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:kiQYou shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.whiIts poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it._g9You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.pf[You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.eYou shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.d7You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.cYou shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.b 7“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be square: and its height shall be three cubits.+aQ%You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.`!$“You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.;_q#You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.Y^-"You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.?]y!You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.\} You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.[1“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skilful workman shall it be made.gZIYou shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.YYou shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.VX'The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.!W=and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward.fVG“You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,U%There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.)TMThey shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.US%You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.ORFor the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.mQUand their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.QPFor the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,0O[You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.bN?You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.MThere shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.hLKTen cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.UK%“You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.qJ]You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.]I5 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in 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.H The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.G You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.;Fq You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.E3 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.D#The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.}Cu“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make them eleven curtains. B You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.=AuYou shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another.D@You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.}?uFive curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.>)The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.A= “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skilful workman you shall make them.a<=(See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.O;'It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.@:}&Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.r9_%You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.m8U$Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.S7!#and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.]65"and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;W5)!three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;.4W There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;B3“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lamp stand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.K2You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.1 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.v0gYou shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.Z//the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.s.aYou shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.q-]You shall make a rim of a hand breadth around it. You shall make a golden moulding on its rim around it.Q,You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold moulding around it.+“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.K*There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.y)mYou shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.C(The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.')Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.m&UYou shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.%}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 breadth.I$ You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.U#%The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.Y"-You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.I!  You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold." ? You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold moulding around it. ; “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.  According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.CLet them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.Qonyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.S!oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,;srams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,9oblue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,RThis is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,)“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.' MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. The appearance of the LORD’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.+the LORD’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.KMoses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.(KHe said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”Y- Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.F The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”k Q He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.z o They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.V ' Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.4 cMoses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.”" ?He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the LORD has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”lSMoses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the LORD.)MMoses wrote all the LORD’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.G Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do.”{qMoses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.” 'He said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.!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.”C You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.b?I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.oYLittle by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.~I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.}}uI will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.|'I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you._{9No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfil the number of your days.z You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.y1You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.-xUFor my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.w)But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. vPay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.~uw“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.%tEThe first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.s#“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.QrThree times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.Hq And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labours, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labours out of the field.lpSYou shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.>oy“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.n+ “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.=mu “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.nlW but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.Tk# “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,{jq “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.uie“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.yhm“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.Mg“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.f If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.re_“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.9doneither shall you favour a poor man in his cause.c“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;qb _“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.a!“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.`3You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me._#“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.J^“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.)]Mfor that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.t\cIf you take your neighbour’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,[%“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.Zand my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.gYIIf you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;JX“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.rW_“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.^V7“He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.HU “Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.3Tc“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.pS[If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.R“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.lQSIf its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.P'“If a man borrows anything of his neighbour’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.lOS If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.NN But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.8Mk the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbour’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.L3 “If a man delivers to his neighbour a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;K! For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbour.J5If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbour’s goods.I5“If a man delivers to his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.;Hq“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.`G;“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.tFcIf the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.E5If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.xDkIf the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.C “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.;Bq$Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.+AQ#“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.u@e"the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.v?g!“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,>! If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.q=]Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgement it shall be done to him.o<YIf a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.f;GBut if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.2:_“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.9 If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.8“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.E7burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.D6eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,C5But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,H4 “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.m3UNotwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.y2m“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.Q1if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.0“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;T/#“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.u.e“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.U-%“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.,If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.z+o but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.O* “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,a)= If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.s(a If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.L' If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.P&If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.m%U“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.<$sthen his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.x#kBut if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’"9If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.v!gIf he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.H “Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.gINeither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’ If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.eEYou shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.jOYou shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.3The LORD said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.b?The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.#Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”~wThey said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”7iAll the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. a ~G~}||D{{}{;zyyyxxwcvutsssryrqjppyo{nn8mrlkk-jj/iihhQhgPffnee!dd&cc8bb.a__^]]D\[ZZ+YY>XXWXVVUxUTSSRZQQ]QPsPOuNN-MM=LLBKJJIHHWGFFEEDD CCBB,AArA@@8??>==e<!He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”R=!He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the LORD’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”1<_!He said, “Please show me your glory.”;%!The LORD said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favour in my sight, and I know you by name.”i:M!For how would people know that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”a9=!He said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.O8!He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”J7! Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favour in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people.”g6I! Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people:’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.’@5{! The LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.4'! All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshipped, everyone at their tent door.~3w! When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses."2?!When Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.h1K!Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.]05!The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward./}!The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”[.1!When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.-+!to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”,3!I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:n+ Y!The LORD spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed.’R* #The LORD struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.>)w "Now 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 punish, I will punish them for their sin.”b(? !The LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.y'm Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”&} Moses returned to the LORD, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.!%= On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”+$Q Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.”}#u The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. "  He said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.’”)!M then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the LORD’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.| s When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),/ I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”>w For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’r_ Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.oY Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”'I He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.<s As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.6g He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.” When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”jO The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.M Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.O The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.! 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 sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”p[ Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.H  Moses begged the LORD his God, and said, “The LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?' Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”iM The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.   They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”  The LORD spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!( K They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.  When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”O  He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”f G All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 5 Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”8 m When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”1He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God’s finger./YIt is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.2_Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.QYou shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.a= “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.(M The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”  the finely worked garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest—the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s office,R~ the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,c}Athe table and its vessels, the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,t|cthe Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,W{)Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:kzQand in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.Oyto devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, xand I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,hwK“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:'v MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,bu?&Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”t%The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the LORD.,sS$and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.vrg#and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:4qc"The LORD said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each;{pq!Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”o+ It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.nYou shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.wmiYou shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.bl?You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.Xk+the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.bj?the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,RiYou shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,hYou shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil._g9and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.9fm“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;1e_Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,9dmSo they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”=cuWhen they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD.Hb Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.5ae“You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.(`MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,p_[You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.”)^MThe rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.]Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD.M\ They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to the LORD.x[k “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.(ZM The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,_Y9 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”X You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.WWhen Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.qV]Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.U3You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.MTYou shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.8SkYou shall make two golden rings for it under its moulding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.R You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold moulding around it.Q9Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.XP -“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.O-.They shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.JN-I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.M,I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest’s office.fLG+There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.2K_*It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.VJ')The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.3Ia(and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.dHC'The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:mGU&“Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.F+%Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.4Ec$Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.D #“You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.7Ci"If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.B9!They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.A Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.W@)“You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.?Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.~>w“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.=and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to the LORD.h<KYou shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:;'“You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be your portion.2:_You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD. 9 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.8and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.]75Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),63You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.5-Then 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, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.n4W“You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.3%You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.2You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.c1AYou shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.q0]“You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram./But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering..7 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.'-I You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.U,% You shall kill the bull before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.+ “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.B* You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.8)mYou shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.X(+Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.X'+and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.2&_You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod;o%YYou shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.j$OYou shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. #unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.&" I“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect, !+They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don’t bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. *You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:B)You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.+(“You shall make coats for Aaron’s sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.#A'You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.zo&It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.oY%You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.|s$“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO THE LORD.’"?#It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he not die.fG"a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.!On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:+Q It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.<u“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.~wYou shall put in the breastplate of judgement the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgement of the children of Israel on his heart before the LORD continually.:oAaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgement on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.X+They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.FYou shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. ;You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward./The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.fGYou shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.} uYou shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.[ 1You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.V 'The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.r _and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.? {and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;Dand the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;}uYou shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;hKIt shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.Z/“You shall make a breastplate of judgement, the work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it. and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.(M You shall make settings of gold,U% You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders for a memorial.\3 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold. .~}}c||r{{ z`yyx0ww(vvCutt-snsrqqqwq!ppgoooVnn]mmwm(lkl k&jOiih_hgg1feeeLeddbaaE`c__]^t^]>\\D[ZZ]YYbYXQWWW7VVdVUYTTTBSSYRRQQPPvOO_NN+MM?LLL,KK4JvIII.HHbHGqFFE>K===%<<;|::8:9887663544u32241L0//..g--^,,A+s**A)).(((A''&&>%%C$#"""!!& B9;Q=R]3bJm d"Px&.2% V m / q + 2,B %and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;dA EThe sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;@@ He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.;? sHe shall kill the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.|> uHe shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.E= “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.B< “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to the LORD, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.S; %The LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,2:_(&For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.j9O(%but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up.8}($When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; 7(#Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle.b6?("Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle.5(!He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.4}( When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses.L3(Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.o2Y(He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.:1o(He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.;0s(He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.Q/(and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as the LORD commanded Moses.H. (He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;G- (He lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.s,a(He put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.V+'(He set the bread in order on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.o*Y(He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.))(He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD commanded Moses.{(q(He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.{'q(He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as the LORD commanded Moses.&(Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.l%S(In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.O$(Moses did so. According to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.T##(You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”8"m(You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.!!( You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.r _( “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.A( You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.( You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.#A( “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy._9(You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.hK(You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.oY(“You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.(You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. (You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.b?(You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.iM(“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.' M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, '+Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.dC'*According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.2_')the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.G '(the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,gI''the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,eE'&the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,sa'%the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,3 c'$the table, all its vessels, the show bread,@ }'#the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,g I'"the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, '!They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,) M' Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they did.gI'They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses.'They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO THE LORD”. 'and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moses.zo'and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,U%'They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, 'a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses. 'They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;eE'They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.#'The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.A'He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.u~e'They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.8}k'They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.|'They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.{!'The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.az='They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.vyg'They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.Vx''They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.Dw'The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.fvG' and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.@u}' and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;Et' and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;_s9' They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;vrg' It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.q''He made the breastplate, the work of a skilful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. p'He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.o9'They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.Jn'The skilfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.cmA'They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.3la'They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.Qk'He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.1j _'Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.i&the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.h%&With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,^g7&The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.f&Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.>ew&The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.ddC&a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.3ca&The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:Ob&All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.3aa&With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.o`Y&Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.x_k&This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.M^&All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.]7&Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.o\Y&The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.[[1&The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.EZ&All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.&YG&and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.iXM&The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;0W]& For the east side eastward fifty cubits.V1& For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.!U=& For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.T& their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.S}& He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;R/&He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.zQo&He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.HP &He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.[O1&He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.wNi&He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.M&He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.sLa&He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.$K E&He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.lJS%He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.GI %He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.H%He made two golden rings for it under its moulding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.wGi%He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold moulding around it.5Fe%He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.CE%He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.WD)%He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.sCa%Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.GB %and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.^A7%In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;W@)%three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.*?O%There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side:(>K%He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.=%He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.[<1%He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.Y;-%The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.m:U% He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.j9O% He made a border of a hand breadth around it, and made a golden moulding on its border around it.K8% He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold moulding around it. 7 % He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.:6o% The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. 5%one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.f4G%He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat;u3e%He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.R2%He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.C1%He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.~0w%He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.h/K%He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a moulding of gold for it around it.. /%Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.-!$&and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.,{$%He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;+$$He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.*$#He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skilful workman.)}$"He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.i(M$!He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.')$ and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.\&3$He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,n%W$There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.$#$They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.N#$He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.H" $For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.m!U$and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.Y -$For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,)M$He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.[1$He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.mU$Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.`;$Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.K$He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.jO$He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.\3$He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.:o$He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.P$He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. $The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.lS$He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.}u$ He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.,S$ He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another.3a$ He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.hK$ He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another. $ The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.V'$All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, they made them.Y-$For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.e E$Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing. $They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.”o Y$All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which they did.^ 7$and they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill offerings every morning.5 e$Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:l U$“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”%E##He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skilful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skilful works.tc#"He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.oY#!in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skilful workmanship.I # and to make skilful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,~w#He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;##Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.H #The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the LORD; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by Moses.dC#and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.mU#The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate;T~##All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair. };#All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.3|a#Everyone who offered an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD’s offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.{#Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.Sz!#They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to the LORD.by?#They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought the LORD’s offering, for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.\x3#All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.9wm#the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.’”Lv#the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords;iuM#the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;wti#the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;s#and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;crA#the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;Jq# the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread;Hp # the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;vog# the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;cnA# “‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD has commanded:Qm# onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.Sl!#oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,;ks#rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,9jo#blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,i%#‘Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, brass,h#Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,Wg)#You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”;fq#‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.'e K#Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them.&dG"#The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.=cu""But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.Kb"!When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.a!" Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.y`m"Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them._ "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.c^A"When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.0]["He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.\"The LORD said to Moses, “Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”)[M"“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”Z9"“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.>Yw"For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.dXC"Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.W"“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.|Vs"“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in ploughing time and in harvest you shall rest.TU#"The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.qT]"“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.NS"“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt. ?~~}t||{pzzyYxOwvvv7uu.tss;rqqppoSnmmPllkjjijhhh giff=ee~dd c\bbVa2``_v_ ^I]t\\7[[`Z\ZYWXX7WWV0UqTT-SRQQvPPNNMLVKlKJ"I8HGGEED3DBAA%@??>>>=R<|;;E;:29=877x66 5^433211`100/..7--?,,],+i**))N((C''&%%>$s$ # "k! ~ l]GaH.yOOZ8O, i  &  ZQWFKU  ' On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;Q $Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by Moses.# A#You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep the LORD’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”a="What has been done this day, so the LORD has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.)M!You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.M What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.hKMoses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’#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, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him."?Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as the LORD commanded Moses.:oMoses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the LORD.zoHe put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.Jand out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh.)MHe took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh;e~EHe brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.2}_He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.}|uHe presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.\{3He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.`z;He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.Iy He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.txcHe presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.wBut the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.v)He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.euEHe killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.tHe 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.s# Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as the LORD commanded Moses.br? He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. q He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.opY Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. o He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.bn?He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.Am}He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skilfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.FlMoses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.ikMMoses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done.”tjcMoses did as the LORD commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.Qiand assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”.hW“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;'g MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,-fU&which the LORD commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.>ew%This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;)dM$which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.Zc/#This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to the LORD in the priest’s office;by"For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’”a !He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.y`m The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.g_IThe priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.<^sWith his own hands he shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.H] “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.(\MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,\[3Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”cZAYou shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.%YEFor whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people."X?The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.iWM“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.(VMThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,UWhen anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”5Tebut the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.S5“‘The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;}RuIf any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.cQAbut what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.GP “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:&OGThe flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.#NAOf it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to the LORD. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.}Mu With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.GL  If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.fKG “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD.nJW Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.I' Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.H'The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.G'“‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.hFKEvery male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.yEmand the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering.D!and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;ZC/He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,B!In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.HA “‘This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.*@ONo sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.G? Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.>+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.,=SWhatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.<yThe priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.O;“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 the LORD. It is most holy.(:MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,Z9/Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”8'The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to the LORD..7WIt shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.6}“This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.(5MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,M4Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’”-3UIt shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.'2IThat which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.p1[He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to the LORD.x0k“‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.R/ Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.o.Y The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.z-o He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.q,] The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.d+C “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.(*MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying, )The priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”%(EHe shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.R'or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.h&Kthen it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,%-or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;?$y“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbour,'# MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,N"It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before the LORD.”! He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.. W“If anyone sins, and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done; though he didn’t know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.yHe shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.*O“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.(MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,I  The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”I  He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of the LORD made by fire. It is a sin offering./Y “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.B He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.9m 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.1]He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.fG“‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.]5and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.fGIt shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:fG“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.6g“‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.}u“‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.5 g“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.:o#All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of the LORD made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.W)"The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. !He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.n W “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.? yThe priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.y mHe shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.&Gif his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.'“‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;;qAll its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.a=The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering./He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD. It is a sin offering.{if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.#“‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.9mThus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.EAll its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.~{He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.x}kand the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, before the veil.Y|-The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:{#The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD; and the bull shall be killed before the LORD.!z=when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.Qy “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;?xy he shall carry the whole bull outside of 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.gwI The bull’s skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,v  as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.u! and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away,t'He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, s;The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.r#The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the veil of the sanctuary.kqQThe anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.*pOHe shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the LORD.9omif the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to the LORD for a sin offering.3na“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:'m MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,l“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”kThe priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is the LORD’s.j!and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.i9He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,h1 and 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 around on the altar.Qg “‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD:hfK The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to the LORD.e! and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.xdk He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,(cKand 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 around on the altar.Vb'If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD;a“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without defect.4`cAaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD._!and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.*^OHe shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,:]oHe 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 around on the altar.)\ O“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before the LORD.,[SThe priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.TZ#You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.GY “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.[X1 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.W As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to the LORD: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant aroma on the altar.2V_ “‘No meal offering, which you shall offer to the LORD, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.U) That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.T7 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.!S=You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to the LORD: and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.aR=If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.OQYou shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.rP_If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.2O_“‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.N)That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.MHe shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.*L Q“‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.`K =He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.J and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.I 9The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; H “‘If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.MG  but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.F 7 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,E # He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.D  “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.=C w but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. ]~~}|{{zz9yypxxwwwv>uuVtt5srr6qqpKonmmmll1kFjihgffWeDedd0cbbb(aa@`__m_^u^A^$]]]k]*\\;[[_ZZ{YY0XXWW%VUTT+SS;RRWQQ3PiONNoMM LL,KK JxIvHGGFEwDCBB=AAI@@?J>>K==m<<;;:[99d8776\55@4E3e221002///.p.--,H++*{*)((t'&&!%$##"C!!Z YXBZ2%JH > e  u tbq2RsPZ2He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water._Y91To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.[X10“If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.sWa/He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.gVI.“Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.U3-He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.T1,then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.&SG+“If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;R*They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.1Q])and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.P%(then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:vOg'The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,nNW&then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.1M]%He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;WL)$The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. K#then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’%JE"“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,5Ig!The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,}Hu This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.UG%even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.”fFGHe shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,E5The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.~DwThen the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.Cand the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.RBThe priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; A He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. 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 to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.@-The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.? “On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD.>'and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.w=i“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;</and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.1;]“The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;/:YThe rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.z9oThe priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.#8AThe 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 the LORD.f7GThe priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.j6OThe 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 to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.b5? He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.'4I “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.3# The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.\23 “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.u1e It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.`0;“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.*/OHe shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.O.As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.h-KThe priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.,then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. +and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,n*W“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,') MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,;(q ;This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.R' :The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”3&a 9and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.8%k 8If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: $ 7Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its colour, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.#{ 6then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days."- 5“If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;C! 4He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.k Q 3He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.P 2The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.I  1if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.nW 0whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;sa /“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woollen garment, or a linen garment;+ .All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.4c -“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’vg ,he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.I  +Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,1 *But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.fG )If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.P (“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.;q 'then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.dC &“When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;+ %But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.- $then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.@} #But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,ym "On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. !then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.I   On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,\ 3 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.w i then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.I   “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,L  If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.!= The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.>w But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.  then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.  “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.`; If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.2_ But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.gI and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;D “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,~5 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.d}C Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest;t|c The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.D{ But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.4zc then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.7yi “If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;x/ it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean."w? and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,[v1 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;u The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.t# But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.rs_ The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.Pr The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.Tq# If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.p' and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.moU “When a man shall have a rising in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:4n g The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,kmQ If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”Jl and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.~kw “‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:$jC But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.;iq She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.Jh In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.Fg “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.'f M The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"e? /to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”%dE .“‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,c -For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.Iy the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.2Ha the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,5Gg the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,IF  the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,E1 any kind of raven,1D_ and the red kite, any kind of black kite,C1 “‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,VB' Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.eAE and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.F@ All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,?5 “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.l>S Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.v=g The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.`<; The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn’t part the hoof, she is unclean to you.c;A The cony, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.J: “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.n9W Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.8 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.<7 w The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,<6u When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.5 Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of the LORD?”4+ Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”X3+ “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?;2q Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,1} The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever; as the LORD has commanded.”0 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.&/G and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.g.I Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;p-[ You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by Moses.”n,W You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.;+q “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.$*E Then The LORD said to Aaron,*)O You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses.<(s Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don’t die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled._'9 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.4&c Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”N% Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.^$7 Fire came out from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.8# m Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them.+"Q Fire came out from before the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.! Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the LORD’s glory appeared to all the people.) M Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.q] and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.S! and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar: and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:@{ He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar, He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.T# He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.%E He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.`; He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.sa They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.~w He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.E The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp. but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.6g The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:iM So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.{ Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.” Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do: and the LORD’s glory shall appear to you.” They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.5 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today the LORD appears to you.’”1 ] You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering; 9 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before the LORD. 5~}}}[}||{{HzzPyyxhxwEvuut_ss"rr qQppVooNnmllVkk6jqii1hh3gBfee=ddMccpbaa4`_^]\[[YZYYXWWyW7VUU&T;SSJRQPPP/ONMLL1K~JJ IHHGFEEVE5DDCC"BBA@@D??=>>===><_;;f::m:9m88n7766675W5-4433>22C100=//k..D-,,i+*))[(''f&&o%%{$$##p# "2!!) })]26spZj~2]U) * .  + z:6)gHe shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”S(!He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.N'No man of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.& or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.=%wor a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,$For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,# “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.("MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,d!CHe shall not profane his seed among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”& GA widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.4e “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity."? neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the LORD.gI neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;^7 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes;% “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.!You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.#A“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.=uThey shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.“‘They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.]5He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.mUand for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,  =The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;(K“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”}uYou shall be holy to me; for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine./Y“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.QBut I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples./You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.$ C“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out. “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless. If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.6 g“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.h K“‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.5e“‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.3a“‘If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.lS“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.#A“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.)M “‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.#A “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.+Q “‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.?y “‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death."? “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.S!You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.V~'“‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.N}“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.H| then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people. {If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don’t put him to death;Az}I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.y“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.'x MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,jwO%“‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am the LORD.’”v#$You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.nuW#“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.St!"The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.dsC!“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.r “‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honour the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.q“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.Up%“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.o!“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.vng“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.xmk“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.ly“‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.rk_In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD your God.[j1But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to the LORD.Ki“‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.DhThe priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.gHe shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.gfI“‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.re_“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘neither shall there come upon you a garment made of two kinds of material.#dA“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am the LORD.c“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbour, and not bear sin because of him.b%“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbour. I am the LORD.4ac“‘You shall do no injustice in judgement. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in righteousness.`“‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD._1 “‘You shall not oppress your neighbour, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.g^I “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.e]E “‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.9\m You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.#[A “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.Z7but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from his people._Y9If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;X%It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.yWm“‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.bV?“‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.{Uq“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. T“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, the LORD your God, am holy.'S MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,\R3Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’”Q“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.tPcthat the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.wOi(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);:NoYou therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;kMQThe land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. L“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.(KK“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.QJ“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable. I“‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.eHE“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbour’s wife, and defile yourself with her.tGc“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.Fy“‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.[E1“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.nDW“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness. C“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.B}“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.xAk “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.t@c “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman. ? “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.&>G “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.%=E “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.l<S“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.;5“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.x:k“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.{9qYou shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the LORD.n8WYou shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am the LORD your God.E7You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.X6+“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.5 ;The LORD said to Moses,b4?But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”w3i“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.s2aFor as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”f1G “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.-0U Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”=/u For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.b.? “‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. - and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from his people./,Y“You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,8+kThey shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’*3The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.)'This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.w(iand hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to the LORD before the LORD’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people. ' Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,&!“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘This is the thing which the LORD has commanded,'% MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,>$w"“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as the LORD commanded Moses.X#+!Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.8"k The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.j!OIt is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. {for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the LORD.gI“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:{qHe who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.ueThe bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.'“He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.?{The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.Z/Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.+Q“Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.}The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.@{Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.“When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. ;He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.S!“He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.U%No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.  He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness.sa“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.OHe shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.,S and he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.'I He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:M  “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.< s But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.k Q Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD, and offer him for a sin offering.l SAaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.f GHe shall take the two goats, and set them before the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting.“Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.zoHe shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.ue“Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.mUand the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.y oThe LORD spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD, and died;y!and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.|s This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;=u“‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.’”A}The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.~On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.}“‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.|Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.?{yEvery bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.z{“‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.y+“‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.yxmIf it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.w Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.vvgWhoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.uy“‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.8tk“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.s!If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.{rqEvery garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.q}“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.4pcand the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge./oY“‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:^n7 “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.m “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.;lq “‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Jk Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Rj “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.#iA“‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.h-“‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. g;He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.vfgWhoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.|es“‘Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.%dEThis shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.c“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.4b gThe LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,Wa)9to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.@`}8and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;F_7and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,D^6This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,]%5but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”-\U4He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;G[ 3He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. z~~}||J{{4zzyxxvwvvuuttsrr#q{ppoonn,mmmllldkjjjiirihvhKgeffPe_dccJb}am``<_n^j^?]y]\\ [~[ZZ'YkY@XXPW\V_UTSSIRR1QQQ!PJOOmO N|MM*LfKKTK)JJ)IIHHHRGGwFF=F EmDDQCBBmAA@(??>>U=<<;;;:: 99,8}8 7w6544#322D1100@//9..6--F,z+**Q)(('_&&a%$$$A#""9!!P o '#,M"",y!Y e>9} I 6 RN20zIf he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.7i“‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.b? But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.oY and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so shall it be. ~ If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to the LORD, then he shall set the animal before the priest;C} He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.|  “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD becomes holy.F{But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.z)If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.DyIf the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.x5If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.Iw If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.v#your valuation of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.u!“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to the LORD in a vow, according to your valuation,'t MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying, s .These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.Ar}-but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.’”Sq!,Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God;|ps+The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.o)*then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.>nw)I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;8mk(“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,)lM'Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.Uk%&You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.j!%They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.i$“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.h#As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.$gC"Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.f-!I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.meU I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.d)I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. c;I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.[b1You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.gaIthen I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.U`%“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;/_YWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.e^EI will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.i]Mthen I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.^\7“‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;*[OI will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.Z“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. YYour strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.lXSI will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.~Ww“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.&VGI will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.[U1I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.T+and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;XS+“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;-RU I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.PQ I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.EP I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.^O7 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.}Nu “‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.MFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.SL!You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.@K{“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.(JKYour threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.I#then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.QH“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;^G7“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.VF )“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God. E7For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.D{6If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.wCi5As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.1B]4If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.A3If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.r@_2He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.0?[1or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.Q>0after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;_=9/“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;n<W.You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.H; -Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.:3,“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.M9+You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.m8U*For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.7)then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.6(As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:~5w'“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.~4w&I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.Z3/%You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.f2G$Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.91m#“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.l0S"But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.`/;!The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel..  “‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.9-mBut the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.f,GIf it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.9+m“‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.l*SBut if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.)then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.m(UIf a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;+'Q“‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.V&'In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.%“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.$/You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.o#Ythen I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.u"eIf you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase”;b!?The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. }“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.b?You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.G According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you."?According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.sa“‘If you sell anything to your neighbour, or buy from your neighbour, you shall not wrong one another.P “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.fG For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.5 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.lS You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.#A Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.*O“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.p[For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.<sThe Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.-UWhat grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land."?but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.saYou shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;3“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.- YThe LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai,<sMoses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.w iYou shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the LORD your God.’”a =He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.t cfracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.U %If anyone injures his neighbour; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:M He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.L“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.\3He who blasphemes the LORD’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.iMYou shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.(M The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,U% They put him in custody, until the LORD’s will should be declared to them.6g The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.@{ The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.3a It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.”)Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant. ~You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.^}7You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.u|e“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.b{?He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the LORD continually.Sz!Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. y“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.'x MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,Sw!,Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.*vO+that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”guI*You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,#tA)You shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.Ks(You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.vrg'“‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest."q?&besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.ypm%“‘These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;po[$Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.Tn##On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.m%"“Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to the LORD.(lM!The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,8kk It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”qj]You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.ticWhoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.ihMFor whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people. g You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.Vf'“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.(eMThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,fdGYou shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”Bc“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.(bMThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,a{“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.’”J`You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.._WThe priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.|^sYou shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. ]You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the LORD.I\ You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to the LORD. [ even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to the LORD.$ZC“‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:\Y3You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.mXU The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.W On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to the LORD. V  and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.bU? “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:(TM The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,S1But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”ZR/In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.Q On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.iPMIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD’s Passover.O{“‘These are the set feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.DN“‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.*MO“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.'L MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,TK#!who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the LORD.”J You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who makes you holy,QI“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am the LORD.hHKIt shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am the LORD.{Gq“When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.YF-Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.`E;“When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to the LORD.(DMThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,NCNeither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”BThat which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD; neither shall you do thus in your land.$ACEither a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.:@oBlind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.M?Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.e>EBut whatever has a defect, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.v=gthat you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.7<i“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to the LORD for a burnt offering;(;MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,:and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”o9YThe priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the LORD,8/“‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.U7% But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.x6k If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.5 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.4 “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.37 “‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.s2aThat which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD.y1mWhen the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.0'the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water./'or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;X.+“‘Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;y-m“Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.=,u“Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am the LORD.'+ MThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying,U*%So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel. #~}}=||5{{ zzz ylxww(vv@uttss r{rqq}qLqppvpEpooonnmmSlUkjjwii:hggg'feezdd$cNbb a``h__-^W]]C\\4[[[-Z/YkXWWWNVUUETTKSS{RR%QQ)PPYOOFNMMiLLxLKKJJIIQHHyHGyFFA==f=<<_<;y::<9988'7a66\55:44322G100/e.|.-[-0,j++F**_)):)(''&&g%%$Y##a""1!7F|yOd"Y`  _ T [ 8 /,bS(and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.Fa(The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD;#`A(then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.G_ (and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:G^ ( and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;y]m( “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,(\M( The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,j[O( Every man’s holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”Zy( Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.nYW(But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the LORD shall be the priest’s; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.LX(then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.!W=(“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty;(VM(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,U(The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.T(Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”S+(“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.'R M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,KQ(1According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.WP)(0even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.-OU(/from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, N;(.All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,"M?(-These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.aL=(,even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred. K(+from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,vJg(*Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,AI}()These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.H((even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty. G('from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,hFK(&Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers’ houses,EE(%These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.aD=($Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty. C(#from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.B!("Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,5Ae(!This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”g@I( and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden. ?;(This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,">?(you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.k=Q(“As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;2<_(This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.a;=(At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities. : (and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve.F9(they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,f8G(“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:%7E(you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.e6E(“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;(5M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,[41(but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”F3(but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;_29(“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;51g(The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 0(“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”D/(“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.v.g(They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.[-1( “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.N,( “They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.+( “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.l*S( They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.@){( “They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lamp stand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.(y(They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.D'(“On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.~&w(and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.#%A(When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,c$A(“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. #(from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.{"q(“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,4! g(The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, (3and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the LORD’s word, as the LORD commanded Moses./(2from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:vg(1Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;kQ(0and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”(/you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):(.For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,B(-“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.(M(,The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,7i(+All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.cA(*Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.eE()You shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”5((The LORD said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.D('All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand./(&Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.X+(%the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.9($The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,1(#The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.("Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.tc(!Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.# A( Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.( K(Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.s a(The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.] 5(The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.! =(According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.B(Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.)M(and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.(K(The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,a=(The prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.U%(The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.7i(Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.y(Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites. (The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.T#(The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.X+(These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.U~%(These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.Q}(Moses numbered them according to the LORD’s word, as he was commanded.|(“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”D{(The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,Wz)( for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the LORD.”:yo( “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:(xM( The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, w( You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”v( You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.u+(They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.t/(They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.nsW(“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.(rM(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,sqa(Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father. p(These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.hoK(These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.n {(Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.Um%("Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.elE(!But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.Qk( These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.j'(“All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”ciA(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.mhU(“The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.egE(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.f(“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.be?(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.3da(“On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.c5(“All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third._b9(His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.qa](“The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.a`=(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. _ (“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.]^5(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.7]i(“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.>\w(“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.%[E(“All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.gZI(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.gYI(“The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.cXA( His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.W'( “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai._V9( His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.0U[( “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.T7( All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.aS=(His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.iRM(The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.`Q;(His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.P!(Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.cOA(His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.YN-(Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.BM(“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.”4L g(The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,eK G(6Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.cJ C(5But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”I #(4The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.@H }(3When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.zG q(2but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.}F w(1“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;+E U(0For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,VD )(/But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.\C 5(.even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.,B U(-So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;#A C(,These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house.j@ Q(+those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.R? !(*Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;e> G()those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.O= ((Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;d< E('those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.M; (&Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;j: Q(%those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.R9 !($Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;h8 M(#those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.R7 !("Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;c6 C(!those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.l5 U( Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;i4 O(those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.Q3 (Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;i2 O(those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.R1 !(Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;g0 K(those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.O/ (Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;i. O(those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.M- (Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;h, M(those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.+  (Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;f* I(those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.z) q(The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;T( %(As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.~' y(They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.@& (Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.% -(These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.-$ Y(Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”)# Q(Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.*" S( Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran..! [( Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai..  [( Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.v i( Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.* S( Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.- Y(Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.. [(Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.3 e(Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.f I(These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.\ 5(With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house.  (from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.8 m(“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;A (the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,mU"These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.I !He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”vg All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.QIf a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD.wi“‘No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.oY“‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.S!If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation. 1“‘Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to the LORD, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep. It is the LORD’s.l SAll your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel. In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.. Wthen the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to the LORD.t c“‘If he dedicates a field to the LORD which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,  but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.xkIf he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;5If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.V'But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.hKIf he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.Y-“‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. e~}}e|i{{Izyy[xwwBvv+vuTttsrqqppronn;mUll2ksjihggg-fffkfe== *))((w'&&%%v$$#"!{ F/j:HWXsHa\&, P o f IM-+1e2D_( Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?+CQ( Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the LORD’s anger was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.JB( When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.4Ac( The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil._@9( The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.d?C( but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”>( We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;=3( The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat?_<9( The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD’s fire burnt among them.V;'( The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.C: ( The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the LORD’s fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.f9G( $When it rested, he said, “Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”8( #When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”Y7-( "The cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.=6u( !They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days’ journey. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.5}( It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good the LORD does to us, we will do the same to you.”4{( He said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.d3C( He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.” 2 ( Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.”j1O( Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.Z0/( Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.Z//( Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.=.u( The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.^-7( Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.a,=( Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.+( The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.q*]( The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.Y)-( Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.c(A( Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.'{( The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.~&w( The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.Z%/( Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.]$5( Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.#-( First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.S"!( They first went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.!-( The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. '( In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.'I( “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the LORD your God.”a=( When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. ( “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.lS( But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.#( When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.V'( When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.wi( If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.ue( When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.)M( “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.' M( The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2_( At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they travelled. They kept the LORD’s command, at the commandment of the LORD by Moses.Z/( Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they travelled.A}( Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they travelled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they travelled.A}( Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they travelled. ( When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the LORD’s command, and didn’t travel.D( At the commandment of the LORD, the children of Israel travelled, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.@{( Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel travelled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.Z/( So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.T #( On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. %( “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to the LORD; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”p [( But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. ( They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. ( In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.F( “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.(M( The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,dC( Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”R( Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”C( There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.N( They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.S!( Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.?y( On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season—according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.”Z/( “Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. +( The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,2~_(but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.”g}I(and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,(|K(“This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;({M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,Cz(After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.@y{(The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.Rx(Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.Nw(I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”\v3(I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.9um(For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.8tk(For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.s+(“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.nrW(Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.tqc( You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.Kp( “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.-oU( and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.tnc( You shall present the Levites before the LORD. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,m ( You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.l%(Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.Fk(You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.Qj(“Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.(iM(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,Oh(This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lamp stand.rg_(Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as the LORD commanded Moses. f (“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”'e M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,`d;(YWhen Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.Wc)(Xand all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.6bg(Wall the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;2a_(Vthe twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;<`s(Ueach silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;,_S(TThis was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;2^_(Sand for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.)]O(Rone male goat for a sin offering;Q\(Qone young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9[o(Pone golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;nZW(Ogave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;UY%(NOn the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali5Xe(Mand for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.)WO(Lone male goat for a sin offering;QV(Kone young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9Uo(Jone golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;nTW(Igave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;VS'(HOn the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher;Rq(Gand for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.)QO(Fone male goat for a sin offering;QP(Eone young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9Oo(Done golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;nNW(Cgave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;WM)(BOn the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan6Lg(Aand for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.)KO(@one male goat for a sin offering;QJ(?one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9Io(>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;nHW(=gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;WG)((3one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9=o(2one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;n<W(1gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;Z;/(0On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim6:g(/and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.)9O(.one male goat for a sin offering;Q8(-one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;97o(,one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;n6W(+gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;S5!(*On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad=4u()and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.)3O((one male goat for a sin offering;Q2('one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;91o(&one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;n0W(%gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;\/3($On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon6.g(#and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.)-O("one male goat for a sin offering;Q,(!one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9+o( one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;n*W(gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;V)'(On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben3(a(and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.)'O(one male goat for a sin offering;Q&(one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9%o(one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;p$[(gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;S#!(On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun1"](and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.)!O(one male goat for a sin offering;Q (one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9o(one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;xk(He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;[1(On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.9m(and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.)O(one male goat for a sin offering;Q(one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;9o(one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;q]( and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;kQ( He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,{( The LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”3( The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar. ( But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.7(and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.]5(He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:J(Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.8k(“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”(M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,K(and they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.* O(the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered:N  (On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;Z /(“So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”E (The LORD lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’H  (The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.,U(‘The LORD bless you, and keep you.(“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,(M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,kQ(“‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to the LORD for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’”W)(and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.dC(The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;_9(The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.;q(He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.q](The priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.+Q(and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.b~?(and he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, and one ram without defect for peace offerings,}'( “‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,I| ( He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.L{( The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.z}( On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.Cy( “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.>xy(All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD..wW(He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head.cvA(“‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.juO(“‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the LORD. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.}tu(All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.Ks(he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.)rM(“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,'q M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,[p1(The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”5oe(or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.nnW(“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;emE(If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.>==d<;;E::9988776544d4933Q22H11C/.."--,Q+***))((l'&&?%%$t#_#+"H" !I! % Y)D4dVlEO _  y  y c "uL# (The LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.]"5( Everyone who keeps approaching the LORD’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”o!Y( The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!; s( Moses did so. As the LORD commanded him, so he did.\3( The LORD said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.”( Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod.4c(On the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.M(Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.E(Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods.7i(It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”b?(You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.{(You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.P(“Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.' M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,`;(2Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.(1Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.M(0He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.2_(/Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. Behold, the plague has begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.vg(.Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD! The plague has begun.”tc(-“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.(M(,The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,A(+Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.4 c(*When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, They looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and the LORD’s glory appeared.( K()But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”t c((to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the seed of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before the LORD, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as the LORD spoke to him by Moses. ('Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,r _(&even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the LORD. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”%E(%“Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,(M($The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,eE(#Fire came out from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.oY("All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”(!So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.|s( The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.cA(As he made an end of speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.fG(But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.”(If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me.}(Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.L~(So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.-}U(He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”\|3(Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.s{a(“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”(zM(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, y;(They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”exE(“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”5wg(The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,v#(Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. the LORD’s glory appeared to all the congregation.u#(They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron..tW(Each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before the LORD his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”qs](Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow."r?(Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”Dq(Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”3pa( Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?goI( Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!n( Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against the LORD! What is Aaron that you murmur against him?”|ms( and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?tlc( Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;;ks(Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!>jw(and put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”:iq(Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company;_h9(He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, the LORD will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.1g_(When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.f(They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above the LORD’s assembly?”e7(They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.-d W(Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.uce()I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”Sb!((that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.naW('and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;a`=(&“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:(_M(%The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,^{($All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.](#The LORD said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”^\7("They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.j[O(!Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.sZa( While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.Y1(Because he has despised the LORD’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”9Xm(“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes the LORD. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.9Wm(You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.V7(The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.oUY(“‘If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.CT(All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.S(The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.@R{(then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD, with its meal offering, and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.Q(even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;nPW(“‘When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,lOS(Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the LORD a wave offering throughout your generations.N'(Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.uMe(then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to the LORD.mLU(“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,(KM(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,rJ_(One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”RI(For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so shall the foreigner be before the LORD.SH!(If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.G( “‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.oFY( According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.tEc( Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.D( and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.C ( then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:B(When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD;uAe(and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.@)(“‘Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;?(You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.&>G(then he who offers his offering shall offer to the LORD a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil.d=C(and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; < (“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,'; M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, :(-Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.97(,But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, didn’t depart out of the camp.@8{(+For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.”h7K(*Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.g6I()Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?C5((They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.”^47('Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.}3u(&But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.f2G(%even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.)1M($The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,E0(#I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”B/("After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’!.=(!Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.H- ( But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.,'(But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.-+U(surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.:*o(Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,k)Q(Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.+(Q(“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.5'g(The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, &(Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”/%Y(But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His seed shall possess it.~$w(surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.;#q(because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;c"A(but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the LORD’s glory;A!(The LORD said, “I have pardoned according to your word:4 c(Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”|s(‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’]5(Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,'(‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’xk(Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,'(They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you LORD are in the midst of this people; for you LORD are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.( Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.( I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”%E( The LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?-( But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. the LORD’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.E( Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear them.”(If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.5(They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.|s(Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.xk(Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.]5(They said one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”9m(Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”L(All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!^ 9(All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 5( !There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” ( They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. ( But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” ( Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”< s( Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”)( However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there. ( They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.p[( They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.I ( They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.}u( That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.F( They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.3a( They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)p[( So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.O( and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.7( and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;~( See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; }( Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.v|g( These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.4{e( Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.:zq( Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.9yo( Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.7xk( Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.Qw( Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.9vo( Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.9uo( Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.7tk( Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.9so( Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.:rq( Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.8qm( Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.Sp!( These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.o7( Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.@n{( “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”'m M( The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,_l9( Afterward the people travelled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.}ku( Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.Vj'( The LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”Ii ( Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”}hu( Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”g%( Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.f'( The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.Fe( the LORD’s anger was kindled against them; and he departed.Ad}( With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”Dc( My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house."b?( He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. a( The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.`( The LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out.c_A( Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.}^u( They said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And the LORD heard it.] ( Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.^\7( #From Kibroth Hattaavah the people travelled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.n[W( "The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.7Zi( !While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.VY'( The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.{Xq( A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.>Wy( Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.V5( Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”xUk( Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”fTG( A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”qS]( But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.OR( The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.Q)( Moses went out, and told the people the LORD’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.P( The LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”.OW( Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”,NS( Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.’aM=( but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”bL?( You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,K!( “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you will eat.RJ( I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.fIG( The LORD said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. H( If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”UG%( I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.}Fu( Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’OE( Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’ ~\}}*|l{tzyy^xww9vv\uktss#rqKppo2n7n mlskkjQiihhgfffeNdcbba``__.^]\[[ZYYdXXeWVVUUtTT/SNRR/QQ OOzNNMMBLLKKNJJ-IIHjGGF7EDDPCCwBBAAZ@@O@?\?>>O=v<;;j::=998{8B77H6l5551432110p0%//.---?,,+d**<)) (.''&%%T$$ #R"!!8 3ESp%C/`7H8q: / A ] %jw(t(He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.s-(He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”^r7(Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”pq[(Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.Op(I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A sceptre will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.$oC(he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:lnS(He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;m{(Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”7li( ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the LORD’s word, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what the LORD says’?bk?( Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,j( Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honour; but, behold, the LORD has kept you back from honour.”Ri( Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.h3( He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”Eg(God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.f(Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted. e(As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the LORD has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.Ad(How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!zco(he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:lbS(He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;|as(Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him..` Y(When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.V_'(Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.x^k(Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”M](Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.\'(Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”v[g(But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?’”VZ'(Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”(YK(Behold, the people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”&XG(Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’UW%(God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.V+(He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.^U7(Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.-TU(God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?hSK(He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor. R;(He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”iQM(The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”\P3(He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there.” O(He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.:No( Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”hMK( He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?” L( Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”K%( Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”"J?( For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.bI?(How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?+HQ(He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.pG[(He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.lFS(The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” E(God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”8Dk(Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.fCG(Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.wB k(Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”A()In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.e@E((Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.@?}('Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.'>I(&Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”=7(%Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?”,<S($When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border./;Y(#the LORD’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.5:e("Balaam said to the LORD’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”*9O(!The donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”/8Y( the LORD’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.37a(Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the LORD’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.76i(The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.” 5(Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”4!(The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”3(The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.2(the LORD’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.1(The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.0(Then the LORD’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.Z//(The donkey saw the LORD’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.G. (God’s anger was kindled because he went; and the LORD’s angel placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.b-?(Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.0,[(God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”q+](Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak to me more.”1*](Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.)'(for I will promote you to very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”( (They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,G' (Balak again sent princes, more, and more honourable than they.m&U(The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”%( Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you.”t$c( God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.”B#( ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”V"'( Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,H! ( God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?” 7(He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.%E(The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. (Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”1(He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.J(Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.{q(Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.N(Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.j Q(The children of Israel travelled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.zo(#So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.X+("The LORD said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”(!They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.eE( Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.6i(Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.}(We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”"?(Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.!(for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.wi(Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;/Y(For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.xk(Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.> w(Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.K (Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.U %(“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”F (Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,z o(and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.D(and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;(K(the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the sceptre, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they travelled to Mattanah;D(Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,1(From there they travelled to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”iM(the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”p[(Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,^7( From there they travelled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.H ( From there they travelled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.zo( They travelled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.@}( The children of Israel travelled, and encamped in Oboth.~( Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of brass, he lived.}5(The LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”S|!(The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.l{S(The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.Vz'(The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.”#yA(They travelled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey..xW(The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.w)(Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”'v K(The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.zuo(When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel./tY(Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.ksQ(Moses did as the LORD commanded. They went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.xrk(and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be taken, and shall die there.”Hq (Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;Dp(“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.coA(The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,pn[(They travelled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.emE(Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.wli(He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand._k9(The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”kjQ(Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”i7(“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.” h;(When we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.~gw(how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.f1(Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us;}eu( These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.]d5( The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”c%( Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.(bK( Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”Fa( Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. `(“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”(_M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,!^=(Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. the LORD’s glory appeared to them.F](Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”w\i(Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?[}(The people quarrelled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!yZm(There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.6Y i(The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.X}(“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”;Wq(It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.zVo(But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean._U9(The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.YT-(A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.S(“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel.R-(“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.JQ(Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.P'(“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.O9( Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.EN( He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.PM( “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.`L;( He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.qK]( “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering.J{(He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.5Ie(Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.xHk(The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.vGg(One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.F%(Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.E(You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.>Dw(“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.4C g(The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,/BY( You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”A(You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.F@(“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.? (Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering of the LORD, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.’H> (Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the LORD’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.=(Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.<}(“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.(;M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,w:i(For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”b9?(But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.p8[(Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.<7s(“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.D6(The LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. 5(All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.”k4Q(Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. 3(“But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.H2 (You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.m1U(Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.70k(“Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours./9( The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.!.=( “I have given to you all the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD. -( “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.l,S( You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.+)( This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.w*i(The LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.t)c(You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”:(o(Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. ' (“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.!&=(They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.?%y(They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.]$5(Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony. O~~_}}}!|j{zzYyyNy#x-ww%vnuuuyt{tsUrr6qqKpponnnmmXll`l kk2jjiihh5ggff"eeJddDccbbaS``~__Z^^0]]\\p\[|[ZZtYY XWW VgV$UTT>SRQQ.P_OOOXNMMM,L.KK3JFJIHHpGGFEEEyDCCCBAA@b??@>x=<q(So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.h=K(Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.” <;(Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.p;[(“Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”': M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,+9Q(These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.r8_(But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”l7S(But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.~6w( Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.5y( But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. the LORD will forgive her.14]( and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn’t disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.\33( “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,2( “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.W1)(But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. the LORD will forgive her.10](and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand./(“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,S.!(But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. the LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.Z-/(and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.,y(“Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth,5+e(When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.* (Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.Z)/((Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.m(U('“‘You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’”'(&and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.&5(%their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:(%K($but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;`$;(#“‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no regular work;#y("and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering."/(!and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;g!I( “‘On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; (and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it./(and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;eE(“‘On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;(and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering./(and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;dC(“‘On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;y(and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.'(their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;dC(“‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;(and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering./(and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;fG(“‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;(and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings./(and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;}u(“‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;y(and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.>y(and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;"?(and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,9m( You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;( K( “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.% E( one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.7 k( a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:} u( and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, -(but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; all without defect;#(“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;xk(besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.I (and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;=w(and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;ym(and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,(You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;. Y(“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.)(Besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.1_(one male goat, to make atonement for you.7k(a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;~~w(and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,}(but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;;|q(“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;\{3(On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.\z3(In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.ry_(You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.Ix (and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.Hw (You shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; v(and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram.8uk(but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without defect;Tt#(In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;vsg(On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten be eaten for seven days.`r;(“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD’s Passover.q (One male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.epE(Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.)oM( and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.Dn( and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;(mK( “‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;sla( this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.7ki( “‘On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:Bj(The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD."i?(Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD in the holy place.h (It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.~gw(with the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.dfC(You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening;;eq(You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.9dm(“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’'c M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,Tb#(He laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as the LORD spoke by Moses.a(Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation. `(He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgement of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”g_I(You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.o^Y(Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.v]g(The LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.H\ (who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”c[A(“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,(ZM(Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,iYM(because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honour me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)nXW( When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;W( The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.zVo( If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”_U9( If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.TT#( If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.S1(You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.PR(“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.(QM(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2Pa(Moses brought their cause before the LORD.#OA(Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”KN(“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.M5(They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,L (Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.6Kg(AFor the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.%JE(@But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.I9(?These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.oHY(>Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.MG(=Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.@F}(M(4The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,t=c(3These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.<!(2These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.Z;/(1of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.:(0The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 9 (/These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.48e(.The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.s7a(-Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.!6=(,The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.5}(+All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.4%(*These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.3 ()These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.p2[((The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites._19('of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.*0O(&The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;9/m(%These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.N.($These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.;-q(#These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.s,a("These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.!+=(!Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.^*7( and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.^)7(and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;t(c(These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;'+(The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.G& (The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.}%u(These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.)$M(The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.|#s(These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.\"3(of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.}!u(The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;y m(These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.p[(The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.,S(The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.P(The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.}(These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.S!(of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.N(of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;#A(The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;S!(These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.V'( of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.*O( The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;8m( Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.8k( and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.mU( The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against the LORD,!?(The sons of Pallu: Eliab.(These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.W)(of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. (Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;+Q(“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.m U(Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,: o(“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”e  G(After the plague, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,z o(for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”2 a(“Harass the Midianites, and strike them,(M(The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,(The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.3a(Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.;q( It shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”F( Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.r_( “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.(M( The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,?{( Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.E(He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.5(When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.x~k(Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.q}](Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”3|a(The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”[{1(Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel.qz](for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.iy O(Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;Yx-(Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.w(But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”Vv'(He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?Uu%(Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.” ]p!~~[}}{}|||P|'{@zzyIxx7ww-v[uuftt:ss,rrqppgonnnmmlkk{jj'ii.hhA@@+??~??>>{>"==o=<hTZ.  - Y ` [&=^f)]SK #2.So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.sJ c2-You returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.I !2,The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.#H C2+So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.G 2*The LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.’”wF k2)Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.eE G2(But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”[D 32'Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be captured or killed, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and I will give it to, and they shall possess it.C }2&Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.bB A2%Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.0A ]2$except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.”~@ y2#“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,Q? 2"The LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,-> W2!who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.@= 2 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe the LORD your God,2< a2and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”; 2The LORD your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,H:  2Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them.g9 K2Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”38 c2You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.\7 52Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.;6 s2They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us.”j5 Q2They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.U4 '2The thing pleased me well. I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe.`3 =2You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”:2 q2Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”p1 ]2I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.W0 +2We travelled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.H/  2I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.|. u2You shall not show partiality in judgement; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgement is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”9- o2I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.f, I2So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.W+ +2You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”w* k2 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”Q) 2 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?( {2 The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!q' _2 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.W& +2 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.H%  2Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.’”*$ Q2Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.i# O2“The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.X" -2Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,! 2after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.?  {2In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them;Z 12It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.4 g2These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab."?($ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.7($ They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.($ for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.E($ The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses:/($ So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”gI($Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.+Q($So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.Z/($This is the thing which the LORD does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father. ($Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the LORD’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.{q($When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”5e($If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.Z/($They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.# C($The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.5(#"You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.’”L(#!“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.7(# “‘You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.  (#“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.! =(#“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.z o(#“‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.G  (#because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.( K(#and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,r_(#“‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,(#The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.vg(#then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.1(#or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;p[(#“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,N(#or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.Z/(#If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,tc(#The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.!=(#Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.%(#If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ~(#“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.G} (#For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.|(#You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.O{(# The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.z#(# The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgement.y/(# then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.uxe(# “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,(wM(# The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,v(#Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”tuc(#All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.Et(#“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.!s=(#You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.r-(#“The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.q(#The cities shall they have to dwell in. Their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.>pw(#“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. You shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.Wo +(#The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,zno("These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.Zm/("Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”Sl!("Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.Uk%("Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.Xj+("Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.Vi'("Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.ph[("Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.Ng("Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.;(!%They travelled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.Z=/(!$They travelled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.A<(!#They travelled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.?;{(!"They travelled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.F:(!!They travelled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.H9 (! They travelled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.C8(!They travelled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.@7}(!They travelled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.?6{(!They travelled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.;5s(!They travelled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.:4q(!They travelled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.>3y(!They travelled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.?2{(!They travelled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.D1(!They travelled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.G0 (!They travelled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.?/{(!They travelled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.;.s(!They travelled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.A-(!They travelled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.C,(!They travelled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.>+y(!They travelled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.I* (!They travelled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.X)+(!They travelled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.O((!They travelled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.o'Y(!They travelled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.;&s(! They travelled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.L%(! They travelled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.P$(! They travelled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.>#y(! They travelled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea."!(! They travelled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.=!u(!They travelled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. {(!They travelled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.dC(!They travelled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.P(!The children of Israel travelled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.#(!while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. the LORD also executed judgements on their gods.Y-(!They travelled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,-(!Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD. These are their journeys according to their goings out. %(!These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron._9( *Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.X+( )Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair.O( (Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.|s( 'The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.|s( &Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.C( %The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,L( $Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.'K( #Atrothshophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,8m( "The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,6g( !Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land./( We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”( The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.w i( but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” ( Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;7 i( So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.y m( but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.”o Y( Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;}u( The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.{q( Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”xk( “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.I ( and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards the LORD, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the LORD.( and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,wi( Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,'I( For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”nW( We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance.Y-( but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.}u( They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones; ~( For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all of these people.”}( “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.Q|( The LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.{ ( except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed the LORD completely.’Mz( ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,Jy( The LORD’s anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,Dx( For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.Qw( Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.vy( Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?u ( Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?t3( They said, “If we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”s ( the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”Sr!( “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,q1( the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,Np ( Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;Eo(6Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.>ny(5The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.=mu(4All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.Nl(3Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.Pk(2We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.”j(1They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us. i(0The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.chA(/even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle; as the LORD commanded Moses.&gI(.and sixteen thousand persons),1f_(-and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,/e[(,and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,cdA(+(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,\c3(*Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who foughtzbo()Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.`a;((The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons.d`C('The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one.\_3(&The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two.L^(%and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. ]($The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: a9~~/}j|{{/zSyyxxNwcvvvev"utt sSrqqpponnmnmllkjjihh g]ffNeeEddhchbaa``_}^^].\n\[[ZYYHXX\WVV;UU6TSSSPR_QIPP%ONNwMM|LKK]JJ I?HGFF`EEADCCBAqA@L??>t={=(_21and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.n=W20from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),<12/They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;M;2.beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came out of Egypt.:!2-These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,G9 2,This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.812+Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.+7Q2*that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbour unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:P62)Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;u5e2(You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.4+2'Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.3+2&to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.232%Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;31a2$Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.k0Q2#It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him./)2"Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?t.c2!Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?x-k2 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?,32For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.+72When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice.*)2But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.){2There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.(2The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD will lead you away.f'G2I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.&12When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger;A%2For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.H$ 2Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.w#i2but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.T"#2Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance;!2But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.  2and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.{q2the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;p[2the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,2lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,2Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,%2The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. 2 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets. 2 The LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.%2 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.2 the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”mU2 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;2What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?xk2For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him?_92Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”/Y2Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.O2But you who were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive this day.!=2Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.-U2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.G 2Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.2 a2So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.3 a2But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”/ Y2Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.$ C2But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and didn’t listen to me. the LORD said to me, “Let this satisfy you. Speak no more to me of this matter.s a2Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”J2“Lord the LORD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?/[2I begged the LORD at that time, saying,R2You shall not fear them; for the LORD your God himself fights for you.”<s2I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go over.a=2until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”12But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,G 2I commanded you at that time, saying, “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor./2the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.S!2To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; =2I gave Gilead to Machir.B~2Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)<}s2 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.I| 2 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:|{s2 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.) z2 We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.Ly2 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)!x=2We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.aw=2But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.v#2We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.tuc2All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many towns without walls.(tK2We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.s12So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.Vr'2The LORD said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.” q 2Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.:po2%Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God forbade us.Lo2$From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. the LORD our God delivered up all before us.qn]2#Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.m)2"We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.flG2!The LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.Sk!2 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.j'2The LORD said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”Ci2But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day./hY2as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.”g2You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,f}2“Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.re_2I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,Pd2This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.”Yc-2“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.b2and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)3aa2as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:`!2a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;w_i2(That also is considered a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived there before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,^2When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”@]}2“You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab.%\G2the LORD spoke to me, saying,R[2So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,~Zw2Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.gYI2The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.YX-2 “Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.cWA2 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)aV=2 These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.[U12 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim.XT+2 The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”JS2So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.VR'2For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.Q2You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”AP}2Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.:Oo2Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.IN 2“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.%MG2The LORD spoke to me, saying,L 32Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. ~~}}e||h{{Cz}yy]xwwRvv usrrq8poonomcllEkjj}ihhygg=fSfesddc"bba`` _z^^I]\\L[ZZVYYIXXJWWxVVwUUWTTS7RQQPP?ONN\MLLL!KDJIIHH,GFF&EEsDCC;BB6Ah@??>>$=m<<;:99N877F6E54322H11z00X/u..- ,L++h*))I'&&=%%$_##""'!k s=Ql^z=dt zpg= k _ W 41 ^68Z_/2Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.{^q2You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer.}]u2If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.\}2You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.S[!2You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.HZ 2It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.(YK2then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. X2It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;W%2You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.1V]2You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.KU2 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.!T=2 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.(SK2 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.NR2 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.Q2 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.wPi2but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.NO2If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;2All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.F=2the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.0<]2the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,6;i2the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,D:2the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,#9C2every raven after its kind,:8q2 the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,[712 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,'6K2 Of all clean birds you may eat.Y5-2 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.c4A2 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat.$3C2The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses.a2=2Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.1}2Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.d0C2the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.N/2These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,/.[2You shall not eat any abominable thing./-Y2For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth., 2You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.,+S2 when you listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the LORD your God’s eyes.[*12 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;[)12 You shall gather all its plunder into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all every bit of its plunder, to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.8(k2 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.!'=2 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done in your midst,7&i2 certain base fellows have gone out from your midst, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known;k%Q2 If you shall hear about one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell there, thatg$I2 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this in your midst.8#k2 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." 2 but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.!2 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; 12 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;  2 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;\32 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.2 You shall walk after the LORD your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.V'2 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.-U2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”;j Q2 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises in your midst you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,tc2 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.P2 You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.`;2 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”12 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;N2 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the LORD your God’s eyes._92 You shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God; and you shall eat the flesh.~w2 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose.52 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.M2 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.{q2 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the flesh.}u2 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.+2 If the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.V '2 When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.Y -2 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.' I2 but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.} u2 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;Y -2 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.2 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer."?2 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.\32 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;_92 You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.-U2 then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.C2 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;jO2 for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.ue2 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;3a2 There you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.H 2 There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.&~G2 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.1}_2 You shall not do so to the LORD your God.[|12 You shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.7{i2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.Jz 2 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.eyE2 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.x-2 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.4wc2 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?4vc2 It shall happen, when the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.Du2 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.ltS2 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day;As2 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:-rU2 No man will be able to stand before you. the LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.>qw2 Every place whereon the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.p2 then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.*oO2 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;4nc2 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.Qm2 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;$lC2 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.2k_2 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.Yj-2 and the LORD’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.miU2 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;\h32 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.#gA2 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.Af}2 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,e12 a land which the LORD your God cares for. the LORD your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.d2 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,9cm2 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;$bC2 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.,aS2 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;M`2 but your eyes have seen all of the LORD’s great work which he did.y_m2 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel;P^2 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;X]+2 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;x\k2 his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;E[2 Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, Z 2 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.Y2 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.Xy2 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.|Ws2 You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.TV#2 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.xUk2 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing."T?2 For the LORD your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.VS'2 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.R2 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.tQc2 Behold, to the LORD your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.lPS2 to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?UO%2 Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,*NO2 The LORD said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.”!M=2 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD would not destroy you.L#2 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God spoke to him.)2 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.f=G2 When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.]<52 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.X;+2 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.g:I2 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 9;2 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.r8_2 I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.m7U2 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.=6u2 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.5!2 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 4;2 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”w3i2 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.2 2 The LORD said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”12 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.X0+2 The LORD delivered to me the two stone tablets written with the finger of God On them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.j/O2 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.f.G2 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.\-32 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.,)2 Know therefore, that the LORD your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.:+o2 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. *2 Don’t say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land”; because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.)2 Know therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.(%2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”,' U2 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,&#2As the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice.6%g2It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.5$e2But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.k#Q2and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”."W2who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:B!2who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; %2then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 2 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;_92 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;)2 Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day;sa2 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.,S2 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.oY2a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;+2For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;dC2You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. `~}||w{{zyy/wwwv;uMtSss'roqqNppOoynn-mwll-kj|ihggfeedccb ak``!__^I]]F\[[ZZZYXXLWW!VfVU"T|SSARQPPRONN4MLLKJJIIMHHhGGFEEqDCC$BHAAY@@.?>>M==$$$G$#O""5!9 H/ZQors/ B /  y m+7#i2 You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.A"2 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.e!E2 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.j O2 When you lend your neighbour any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.\32 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.;q2Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.K2If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.fG2No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.@{2When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.ue2her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD. You shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.>w2If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;X+2When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.y o2When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.0[2When you come into your neighbour’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbour’s standing grain. ;2When you come into your neighbour’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.B2You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to the LORD your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.I 2But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.$C2When you vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.W)2You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. 2You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.E2You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.zo2There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.# A2He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.^ 72You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you._ 92for the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.! =2 You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;W )2 You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.2 but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp..W2 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;mU2 When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.hK2The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the LORD’s assembly.2You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.S!2You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.(K2Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.M2because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.3a2An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into the LORD’s assembly forever;*O2A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into the LORD’s assembly.`~ =2He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly.^}72A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.:|o2then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.{2If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found;ozY2for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.1y]2but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbour, and kills him, even so is this matter;*xO2But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then only the man who lay with her shall die;w%2then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from your midst. v 2If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;5ue2If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.t+2then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.bs?2But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;^r72They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.Eq2The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.xpk2Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.zoo2The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.n-2then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.2m_2accuses her of shameful things, and gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”;?l{2 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,kkQ2 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.Ej2 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.>iy2 You shall not plough with an ox and a donkey together."h?2 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all of the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.g72When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.f#2You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.Ke2If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.&dG2A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God."c?2You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.Hb 2So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found. You may not hide yourself.Xa+2If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.` '2You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.f_G2his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.j^O2If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;]%2All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from your midst. All Israel shall hear, and fear.\12They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” [ 2then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.0Z[2If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;EY2but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.VX'2then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;8Wk2If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;TV#2It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.jUO2 She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.bT?2 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.ySm2 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;R2 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,Q}2 So you shall put away the innocent blood from your midst, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.1P]2Forgive, the LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.iOM2They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.N!2All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.eME2The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the LORD’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.9Lm2The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.9Km2It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke.J}2then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.I -2If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him;5He2Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.G#2When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?F2that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.*EO2but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD your God has commanded you; D2But of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;{Cq2Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.cBA2but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.yAm2 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;e@E2 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.??y2 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become forced labourers to you, and shall serve you.U>%2 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.=!2 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.X<+2The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”3;a2What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”0:[2What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.^972The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.n8W2for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”>7w2and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;o6Y2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,^5 92When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.m4U2Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.h3K2Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil in your midst.w2i2then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.1)2and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;0)2then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;a/=2If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,Q.2One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.A-}2You shall not remove your neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.w,i2 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. +2 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.%*E2 But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;$)C2 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.T(#2 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three.'/2If the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;J&2Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.t%c2Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.$2as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbour, so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.##2This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live. Whoever kills his neighbour unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;/"Y2You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land, which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.!2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it."  A2When the LORD your God cuts off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;Z/2When a prophet speaks in the LORD’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.cA2You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”7i2But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”}u2It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.'I2I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.Q2The LORD said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.kQ2This is according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”~w2The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.*O2For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.4e2 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.)2 For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. Because of these abominations, the LORD your God drives them out from before you.\32 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.A}2 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,2 When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.wi2They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.2then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.7i2If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which the LORD shall choose; 2For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the LORD’s name, him and his sons for ever. 2The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.M 2This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.v g2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. the LORD is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.1  _2The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire and his portion.u e2that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.@{2It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;/Y2It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. 2He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.U%2Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”S!2you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom the LORD your God chooses. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.>w2When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and possess it, and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”;L2 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.R2 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.|s2 according to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgement which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.E2 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the LORD chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:~32 You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict. }2If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgement, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.%|E2The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.{52At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.2z_2then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones..yW2and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,x'2and has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded;Rw2If there is found in your midst, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, v =2You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a defect, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.Xu+2Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which the LORD your God hates.t'2You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourselves.s2You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.4rc2You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.5qe2You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement.pp[2Every man shall give as he is able, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you.vog2Three times in a year all of your shall males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before the LORD empty.jnO2You shall keep a feast to the LORD your God seven days in the place which the LORD chooses; because the LORD your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.Dm2You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.l2 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.dkC2 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.8jk2 You shall rejoice before the LORD your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.5ie2 You shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as the LORD your God blesses you.h12 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks. g2Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.f{2You shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.Ye-2but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.hdK2You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you;:co2No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.b2You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.&aG2You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.` 52Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. R~}}m|{{2zz#y{xwwvvttbscsr:qqqFpp1ooAn+mlkk>jejihhggedcbbDa``0_^]]B\\=[[xZZFZ YiXXWWjVVV UzUTTSSDRQQdQPbP!OONnMMELrKJJI2HHHGFFTEE0DCC?BBIA@??>>C=<2Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,0=[2 that he may establish you this day as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.< 2 that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day;;72 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;:52 All of you stand this day in the presence of the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,h9K2 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 82We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.72When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.~6w2You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the LORD your God.52I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.d4C2But the LORD has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.R32the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders./2Y2Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;A1 2These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.f0G2DThe LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.[/12CIn the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.|.s2BYour life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.A-}2AAmong these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.T,#2@The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.u+e2?It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it. *;2>You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice.)'2=Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.t(c2qy2Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.*pO2You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.Qo2You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.pn[2All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice.hm M2It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.~lw2‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”okY2‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’cjA2‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbour.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’bi?2‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’h2‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’cgA2‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’f2‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonours his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’e2‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’idM2‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’icM2‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbour’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’jbO2‘Cursed is he who dishonours his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Va'2‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’K`2With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,g_I2 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.^72 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.8]m2 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying, \ 2 You shall therefore obey the LORD your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.”![=2 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silence, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.QZ2You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”nYW2You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God.X2You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.zWo2There you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.2V_2It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.tUc2You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.;Tq2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.~S y2Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you this day./RY2He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.Q32the LORD has declared this day that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.=Pu2You have declared this day that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.&OG2This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.DN2Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”mMU2I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.SL!2 You shall say before the LORD your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.K2 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.$JC2 You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in your midst.GI 2 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, the LORD, have given me.” You shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.oHY2 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.G 2the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders; F2Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.RE2The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labour on us.UD%2You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.rC_2The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.KB2You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I have come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”A+2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. @ 2It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,?2Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.>32how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.M=2Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;g<I2For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.';I2You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.T:#2You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.Q92 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.F82 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.E72 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts,]652 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”{5q2 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”42Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;3-2If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”2+2It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.1 2If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.A02You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.M/2He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.5.e2It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.$- E2If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgement, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.q,]2You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.+)2When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.*%2When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.) 2When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.(!2but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.s'a2You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;-&U2The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.:%o2In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.*$O2You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. s~}}%|.{zyqxx,w$uuttetserrpp]pojonnmjllkk!jjEihhgg!ffTeddccb~baT```__$^^]]6\\F[[YZZYOXXWW1VV&UTT SRRrR#QQiPPO2NMMRLLFKKJIHH^G~G*FFEEIDD,CQBB7A@@@??>P==G<Fw2!They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”dEC2!About Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.nDW2!The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all of the peoples, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”UC%2!for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.hBK2!for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,kAQ2!for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,@/2! About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by the LORD, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,?+2! About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of the LORD will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”,>S2! LORD, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again.”=2! They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.O<2! He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant. ;;2!About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.<:s2!This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”D92!“Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.”p8[2!He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.L72!Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.y6m2!Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.>5w2!He said, “The LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.m4 W2!This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.32 4For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”_292 3because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness in the midst of the children of Israel.1'2 2Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;N02 1“Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.6/i2 0The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying,1.]2 /For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”0-[2 .He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.>,y2 -Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.q+]2 ,Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.A*}2 +Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.()K2 *I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”(%2 )if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgement; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.H' 2 (For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,&72 '“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.%)2 &which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.R$2 %He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge;2#_2 $For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.")2 #Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”P!2 "“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?G  2 !Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.2 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.P2 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.2 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?fG2 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!R2 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.A}2 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, The LORD has not done all this.’”b?2 I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men; 2 Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.<s2 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.F2 “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.#A2 For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.iM2 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.$C2 He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.]52 The LORD saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.jO2 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.!2 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.dC2 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.8k2 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.= u2 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.% E2 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;C 2 The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. 2 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. 2 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.U%2 For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.=u2 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.'2 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.)2 Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you. 2 They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.}2 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.M2 For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!2 My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.Z 12 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.p[2Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.0~[2For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”(}K2Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.1|]2For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death?{72“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.[z12Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,iyM2When Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,=xu2He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”Uw%2So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.6vg2It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”u2For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.@t{2“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.~sw2I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.4rc2Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’ q2The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.rp_2The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door.soa2The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.3na2 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”lmS2 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;#lA2 when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. k 2 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, ~}}d||%{zyyxxwwv]uFttsrqq1poohnnmIlkjj:ihgg eedcbbaa`_^^]\[Z|YYXhWWVU}UTeSeRQPPO~NN'MqLL4KJJ6IIGGFFkEDCCHB}B3A@@?}?">=<<2:99:8:77w66J55 433J2g1100//..0--,p++6)))(n'a&&%$p#j""e"!F 6JU}/cO$lu-'m  X 4 lIlTk+< As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.ojY< The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.}iu< But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.@h{< Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.$gC< They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burnt Hazor with fire.f< Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.oeY< Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.edE< The LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.|cs< So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.Yb-< The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”xak< All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.$`C< They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.D_< to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.^9< and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,~] y< When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,I\ < +Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.x[k< *Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.kZQ< )Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.oYY< (So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded. X;< 'He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.SW!< &Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it. V < %They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.cUA< $Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.6Tg< #They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.wSi< "Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it.R < !Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.TQ#< The LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.xPk< Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.qO]< The LORD delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.dNC< Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.My< Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.{Lq< At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. K< Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.'JI< Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.” I < When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.6Hg< They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.nGW< Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.” F < all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.ME< When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,2D_< but don’t stay. Pursue your enemies, and them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”eCE< Joshua said, “Roll large stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them;aB=< Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”KA< These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.I@ < Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.? < There was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.q>]< The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.h=K< Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!” << As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, the LORD hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the sword.F;< The LORD confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.R:< Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal all night.9< The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”p8[< So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.7< The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”6'< Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.5 < “Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”'4I< Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,35< they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. 2 < Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;*1O< That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place which he should choose.z0o< He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them._/9< Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”7.i< They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.-)< Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”,1< Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?%+E< The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”x*k< This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”)+< But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.B(< The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.'/< The children of Israel travelled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.&)< At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they lived among them.%< Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them._$9< The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the mouth of the LORD.&#G< These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”"9< This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become mouldy._!9< Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’" ?< and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.0[< They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,ym< They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”wi< The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”,S< They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”}u< and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.)M< they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine skins, old and torn and bound up,\3< But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,a=< they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.| u< When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of itA}<#There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.  <"Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law."?<!All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.{q< He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.<as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.R<Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,<He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.X+<So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.-<Only the livestock and the plunder of that city Israel took for plunder to themselves, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua. !<For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.e E<All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. '<When Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.G  <They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.G  <The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.&G<When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.iM<When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.;q<The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.I <The LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.}<There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.<All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.nW<Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. <When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.7i< So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.ue< He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.B~< All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.}< Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.+|Q< Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night./{Y<It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the LORD’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”z<and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.2y_<They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,*xO<I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.%wE<He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.v1<So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.Hu <You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its plunder and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”et G<The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.Ss!<They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.8rk<Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? the LORD will trouble you this day.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.|qs<Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.p)<They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the LORD.zoo<So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. n<When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. 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The tribe of Judah was selected.fhG<It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”"g?<“‘In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which the LORD selects shall come near by families. The family which the LORD selects shall come near by households. The household which the LORD selects shall come near man by man.f< “Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for the LORD, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing in your midst, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”e< Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.gdI< Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.Wc)< The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?4bc< For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”caA<Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!b`?<Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!-_U<Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.O^<The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.e]E<So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.d\C<They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”B[<Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai. Z <But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel.GY <So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.X<Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before the LORD, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”YW-<But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.1V]<They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house._U9<The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.5Te<Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.”S3<They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.R)<So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. Q<But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to the LORD. They shall come into the LORD’s treasury.”BP<But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.MO<The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. N<At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city!;Mq<On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.nLW<The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.}Ku< The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the LORD’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.TJ#< Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the LORD’s ark.I < So he caused the LORD’s ark to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.PH< Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”G< The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.dFC<It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.~Ew<They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the LORD’s ark.”?Dy<Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD’s ark.”C!<It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.”;Bq<Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.qA]<All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.|@s<The LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.o? [<Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.>-<The prince of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.E=<He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of the LORD’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”c<A< When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”K;< The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.:< They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.9< The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.%8E< The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.{7q<When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.%6E<Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.q5]<For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the voice of the LORD. The LORD swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. GG~~\}|{{azyxwwvvttssvs8rrrrMrqqqZqppp6ooMnmmPlkkbjjiihcggffeeeFe dcbb}aa``7__^+]]&\1[[Z=YXXIWWVUqTgTS^RR QPPXOON LLK>>>>>====A<<< It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.=< Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.<< The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.t;c< Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.<:s<and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.H9 <Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;I8 <Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;,7U<Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, 6=<Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,!5?<Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,F4<They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,E3 <The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.H2 <Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.1;<Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,!0?<Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,/;<Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,L.<Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.-7<Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,&,I<Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,+<Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,$*C<The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.8)k<The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.d(C<It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.4'c<It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. & <The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.%3<The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.{$q<The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.N#< The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.O"< Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.9!m< The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. !< Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.'< The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.V'<The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, “Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.”<For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.”%<You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God."?<They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.D<Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me."?<Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?iM<Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.) O<The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.r_<but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”(K<Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;|s<The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”`;<Joshua said to them, “If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”E<The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because the LORD has blessed me so far?”< When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, and didn’t utterly drive them out. < Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.9< Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.&G< Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.\ 3< The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.} u<The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim." ?<The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. <because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.g I<Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;4c<They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.V'<But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.`;<So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.W +<This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan./Y< They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labour.3a< together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.>w<From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;hK<It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.!=<The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.)M<This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.N~<The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.}<and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea.c|A<It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;D{ <The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.9zm<?As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.Py<>Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.8xm<=In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,_w9<<and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;k=Q<Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;:< q<The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.};u<Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.!:=<Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.a9=< Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.8< Now therefore give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke.”#7A< As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.f6G< “Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.?5y< Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’4{<Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.!3=<I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.m2U<Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.[11<The children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses, and they divided the land.Y0-<For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.//<For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.v.g<by the lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.q- _<These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,,< !But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. The LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.z+o< These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.T*#< Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.)+< Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.(#< Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.q']< This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.[&1< and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.b%?< and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; $< Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;]#5< Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.6"g< The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.!< The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.j O< all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.8m< Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,F< Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,"A< Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,_9< Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,$C< Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;W)< Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.7< Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of the LORD, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.%E< Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.0[< all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.wi< and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;zo< and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;3< from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;0[< With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:p[< Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”kQ< all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. < and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;  < on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;}u< from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,l S< “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;(  M< Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.: q< the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.U %< the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;E < the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;;s< the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;C< the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;7k< the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;;s< the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;:q< the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;;s< the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;:q< the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;7k< the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;7k< the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;7k< the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;;~s< the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;<}u< the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;O|< the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;Z{/< in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:z/< These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;Iy < Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.1x]< and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.qw]< and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,?vy< and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:ouY< Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;Zt 1< Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:Ps< So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war. r < There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.vqg< Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.Zp/< For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.o< There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.9no< Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.+mQ< from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.5le< So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; I~}}p|{{yy8xZwLvuu8t@srrqpp_ooTnnnImmnmllk{k(jjj ihhShgg`ff1eeBddd ccbba``_`_e^]\\[ZYbX|W`VUU*TSyRR PPO{NMML2KJgIFH;G4EDDCCBKA@@)?t>>V==R<q yFJudah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.`p =FThe LORD said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”&o KFAfter the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” n<!Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.m)< They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.2l_<Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had worked for Israel.k/<They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.wji<After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.Fi<So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.bh?<Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the LORD’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”$gC<Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.ufe<So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.jeO<The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to his voice.”d<“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.”)cM<Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”Ib <The people said to Joshua, “No; but we will serve the LORD.” a<If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”"`?<Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve the LORD; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.!_=<The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.”^)<for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.h]K<The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; \<If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”-[U<“Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD.6Zg< I gave you a land whereon you had not laboured, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’Y+< I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.oXY< “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.nWW< but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. V< Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;SU!<“‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.YT-<When they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.S9<I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.R <“‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.Q<I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.P'<I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.]O5<Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.FN <Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.M+<when you disobey the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. 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Not one thing has failed of it.J7< know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.;Iq< “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;QH< Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.sGa< One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you. F< “For the LORD has driven great and strong nations out from before you. 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You shall possess their land, as the LORD your God spoke to you.[A1<Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.@!<You have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.3?a<Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years. > <After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,x=k<"The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God.”`<;<!The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.o;Y< Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.K:<Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against the LORD. 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That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”6.g<However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.<-s<that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? It will be, since you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.(,K<Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of the LORD,+<“Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel this day against the LORD?%*E<They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,C)<and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.?(y< The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,('K< When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.&+< The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.”b%?< When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.;$q< The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.m#U<and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”m"U<Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,R!<So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents. +<Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”_9<Now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan. <You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of the LORD your God.3<and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.W +<Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,mU<-Nothing failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.E<,The LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. The LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.}u<+So the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.hK<*Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. 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So they made an end of dividing the land.3da<2According to the commandment of the LORD, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there. ~~ }J||I{{@zyyXxxCwvvu@ttss=== FThe men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.l=SFThey blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.v<gFThey each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.h;KFThe three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”:FSo Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.(9KFWhen I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”8/FHe said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.(7KFHe divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.i6MFIt was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise; for the LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”05[FHis fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”24_F When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”Y3-F The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.[21F and you shall hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.W1)F But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp:x0kF That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.V/'FSo the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.;.qFThe LORD said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”+-QFThe number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.m,UFSo he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”<+sFThe LORD said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that of whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.”a*=FNow therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” Twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.M)FThe LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’_( ;FThen Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.g'IF(God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.y&mF'Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. 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Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”%%F&It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.X$+F%behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”W#)F$Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,E"F#He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.w!iF"But the Spirit of the LORD came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him., SF!Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.  F Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”}FJoash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar.”A}FThen the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”5FThey said one to another, “Who has done this thing?” When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”RFWhen the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.PFThen Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.QFand build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”RFThat same night, the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;FThen Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it “the LORD is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.[1FThe LORD said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”FGideon saw that he was the LORD’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!” FThen the LORD’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes; and the LORD’s angel departed out of his sight.FThe angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” He did so.S!FGideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.-FPlease don’t go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”zoFHe said to him, “If now I have found favour in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.oYFThe LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”+FHe said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” FThe LORD looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”0 [F Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”r _F the LORD’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”O F the LORD’s angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites., SF and I said to you, “I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’”)MF and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;G Fthe LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage;I FWhen the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of Midian,eEFIsrael was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD.A}FFor they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it..WFand they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.!FSo it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;5eFThe hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. FThe children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. ;F“So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.~~wF‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’K}FHer wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,;|qF“Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’w{iFAt her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.Iz FShe put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.Xy+FHe asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.zxoF“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.,wSF‘Curse Meroz,’ said the LORD’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’cvAFThen the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.qu]FThe river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.Wt)FFrom the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera. sF“The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.yrmFZebulun was a people that jeopardised their lives to the deaths; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.q FGilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.p+FWhy did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.>owFThe princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.CnFThose whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.pm[F “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. The LORD came down for me against the mighty.l{F ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’ak=F Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.kjQF “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.wiiF My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD!yhmFThey chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?lgSFThe rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel. fF“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travellers walked through byways.vegFThe mountains quaked at the presence of the LORD, even Sinai, at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel. d;F“LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.c F“Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD. I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.byF“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, the LORD!Ka FThen Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,`#FThe hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.[_1FSo God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.^^7FBehold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.j]OFThen Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.;\qFHe said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ that you shall say, ‘No.’”[/FHe said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.2Z_FJael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.6YgFHowever Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.4XcFBut Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.4WcFThe LORD confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.`V;FDeborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t the LORD gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.2U_F Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.ST!F They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.OSF Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh. RF Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him._Q9F She said, “I will surely go with you: nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not be for your honour; for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.xPkFBarak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”*OOFI will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”NFShe sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?#MAFShe lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgement.ZL/FNow Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.K1FThe children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.&JGFThe LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.jI QFThe children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. H FAfter him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also saved Israel._G9FSo Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.F FThey struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.bE?FHe said to them, “Follow me; for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.%DEFWhen he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he before them._C9FEhud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.OBFThey waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them, and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.?AyFNow when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”i@MFThen Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.?7Fand the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.j>OFEhud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:#=AFEhud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.J<FBut he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret errand to you, king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him went out from him.g;IFWhen he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute.T:#FHe offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.|9sFEhud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.\83FBut when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.M7FThe children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.6 F He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.\53F The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.F4F The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.X3+F The Spirit of the LORD came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the LORD delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.92mF When the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.K1FTherefore the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.0)FThe children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.{/qFand they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods..!FThe children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:-5FThey were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.4,cFthe five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. +Fonly that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:* FNow these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;})uFSo the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. (Fthat by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”p'[FI also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;=&uFthe LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;h%KFBut when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.$FWhen the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them. A~}}(|Y{{?zzazyy5xaw~wvu~tt>Z=<;::3988w7y6543222O11|1$000/s..@--5,R+k*))(''|'&g%%$$$#s""! W jLM"_{' / 5 8  P};b) FSamson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.`(;FThe Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.”L' FSamson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.F&FHe judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.U%%FBut God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.U$%FHe was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”t#cFWhen he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi."FSamson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”t!cFHe found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.o YFWhen he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.OF They spoke to him, saying, “No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.I F They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.”)F Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”/F The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”\3F Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.zoFHe struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.zoFSamson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.”tcFThen the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.7iFWhen he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.%FSamson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.q]FSamson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them.”NFHer father said, “I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.”K FBut after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife into the room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.X+FBut Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend. FThe Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their plunder, and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.~wFThe men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t ploughed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”DFShe wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.!FSamson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You have told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”d CFOn the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?” )FHe said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.? yF but if you can’t declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”Z /F Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;J F When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.kQF His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.\3F He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.-UFAfter a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.NFHe went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.I FThe Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.1FThen went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him.7iFBut his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.'FThen his father and his mother said to him, “Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me; for she pleases me well.”1]FHe came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.”b AFSamson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.\~3F The Spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.b}?F The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.|F But his wife said to him, “If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.”V{'F Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”zF But the LORD’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the LORD’s angel.LyF For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, the LORD’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.-xUF So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD. Then the angel did a wonderful thing as Manoah and his wife looked on.cwAF the LORD’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?”tvcF Manoah said to the LORD’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honour you?”fuGF the LORD’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat of your bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was the LORD’s angel.ytmF Manoah said to the LORD’s angel, “Please, let us detain you, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”0s[F She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.”^r7F the LORD’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.kqQF Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”p+F Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” He said, “I am.”oF The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, “Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me that day.”n9F God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.>mwF Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.”glIF but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”ckAF Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name:_j9F for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”kiQF Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing:h-F the LORD’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren, and don’t bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son. gF There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn’t bear. f =F The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.eF Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.wdiF He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.Ic F After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.Tb#F Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.Ua%F After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.0`]F Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem._3F He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.3^cF After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.t]cF Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.\yF then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.i[MF The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No”;|ZsF Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.”cYAF When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?”"X?F Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.zW qF The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”zVoF (that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.%UEF 'At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,TF &He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.eF but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;=F and he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,M<F Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;;F The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”%:EF Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”$9CF Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.8 F The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do.”07[F Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?”]65F The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”*5OF Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”n4WF and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”3F It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;F2F After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.1/F Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.P0F Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father’s house; for you are the son of another woman.” / F Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.A.}F The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, “What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”!-=F Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.,{F They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.+!F The children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, this day.”i*MF Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”\)3F Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more. ( F The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.)'MF The LORD said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?&7F The children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”.%WF The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was very distressed.Q$F They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.#'F the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.A"}F The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they abandoned the LORD, and didn’t serve him.+!SF Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.$ CF He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.T#F After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.QF He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.# CF After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.F 9and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.tcF 8Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;b?F 7When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.Y-F 6Then he called hastily to the young man his armour bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”\3F 5A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.ymF 4Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.4cF 3But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.QF 2Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.yF 1All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.=uF 0Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”_9F /It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.ymF .When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.)MF -Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.H F ,Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.EF +He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.V 'F *On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.u eF )Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.o YF (Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.L F 'Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.W )F &Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”3F %Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”KF $When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” Zebul said to him, “You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”$CF #Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.}F "Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.ueF !and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”jOF Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:/YF He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.iMF When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.!F Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army, and come out!”iMF Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?<~sF They went out into the field, and harvested their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.~}wF Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.|9F The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.h{KF that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.zF God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:5ygF Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.ixMF Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.RwF but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”v5F if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:ouYF and you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);itMF (for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:_s9F “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his handsPrF “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’QqF “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’ pF “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’EoF “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’nF “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’Im F “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’%lEF “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honour God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’nkWF The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’KjF When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.*iOF All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.NhF He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.g%F They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.;fqF His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.” ~}}f|{{qzz y=xwwav`uOtss rqq2pboon=mlkkkjei_hgggf\eddd$cba``K__g^]\\[ZZY{XXeW[VUUTTSnRRQyPOOENbMM&L~KrJII=HHFEE*DCCBBAa@g??>=x<;;:s98817X655C443T22v200//.--#,++m**S)((_'&&C%'$$Y#<"t!! i}feU<~M , 2E y$Ob P They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”a 9P The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept./` [PNaomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me._ PShe went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.I^ PThen she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.h] MPMahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.\ +PThey took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.O[ PElimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.TZ %PThe name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there.4Y gPIn the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.gXIFIn those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.!W=FThe children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.WV)FThe children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.UFIt shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’”QTFand see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.aS=FThey commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,^R7FThey said, “Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”Q9FHowever we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”P FThey said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.O+FThen the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”jNOFThe people grieved for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.)MMFBenjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren’t enough for them.L F The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.LKF They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.JyF This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”[I1F The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.nHWF For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.3GaFThey said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.FFHow shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”E}FThe children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.DFThe children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”{CqFOn the next day, the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.BFThey said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?”zAoFThe people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.@ FNow the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.”m?UF0The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.> F/But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.=}F.So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these were men of valor.R<F-They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.S;!F,There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.:F+They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.L9F*Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.r8_F)The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.57eF(But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.U6%F'The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”5%F&Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.4F%The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.23_F$So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.*2OF#The LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.!1=F"There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that evil was close on them.40cF!All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.D/F The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”.-FThe children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.--FThe children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times..,YFIsrael set ambushes all around Gibeah.++Fand Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” The LORD said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”n*WFThe children of Israel asked of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,l)SFThen all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.7(iFBenjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.Z'/FThe children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.p&[FThe children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening; and they asked of the LORD, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” The LORD said, “Go up against him.”%9FThe people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day. $FThe children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty-two thousand men.#FThe men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.T"#FThe children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.W!)FThe children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” The LORD said, “Judah first.” {FThe men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war. FAmong all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.H FThe children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.FThe children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.eEF Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.” But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.F The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that is happen among you?[1F So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.-UF and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.”_9F But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;~wFAll the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.Z/FBehold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”0[FI took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.3FThe men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead.)FThe Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.,SF(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”1]FThe chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword., UFThen all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.U%FIt was so, that all who saw it said, “There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”@{FWhen he had come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel. 9FHe said to her, “Get up, and let us be going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.W )FHer lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. FThen came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.j OFBut the men wouldn’t listen to him: so the man laid hold of his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning: and when the day began to dawn, they let her go.= uFBehold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”@{FThe man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.9FAs they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!”vgFSo he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.{qFThe old man said, “Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don’t lodge in the street.”QFYet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.”vgFHe said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the LORD’s house; and there is no man who takes me into his house.7FHe lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”CFBehold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.6gFThey turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.wiFSo they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.~F He said to his servant, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”"}?F His master said to him, “We won’t turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”6|gF When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.”X{+F But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.Vz'F When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”=yuFHe arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines”; and they both ate._x9FThe man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.8wkFSo they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: and the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”av=FOn the fourth day, they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”uFHis father-in-law, the young lady’s father, retained him; and he stayed with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.t FHer husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.$sCFHis concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.Br FIn those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.sqaFSo they set them up Micah’s engraved image which he made, all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh._p9FThe children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.o9FThey called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.@n{FThere was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.Im FThey took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.l FThe children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.3kaFThe children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”.jWFHe said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what more do I have? How then do you say to me, ‘What ails you?’”iFThey cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”,hSFWhen they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.jgOFSo they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the goods before them. fFThe priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.pe[FThey said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”4dcFWhen these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”cFThe five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.b{FThe six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.aFThey turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.` FThen the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”Z_/F They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. ^;F They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah: therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim. ]F There set out from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.8\kF When you go, you shall come to a secure people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.”G[ F They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.rZ_FThey came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, “What do you say?”QYFThen the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.aX=FThe priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before the LORD.”}WuFThey said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”wViFHe said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.”^U7FWhen they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”,TSFThe children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.VS )FIn those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.pR[F Then Micah said, “Now know I that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest.”jQOF Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.gPIF The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.AO}F Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.N+F Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”:MoFThe man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he travelled.tLcFThere was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.gKIFIn those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.J FThe man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.UI%FWhen he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.HFHe restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”GFHe said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” His mother said, “Blessed be my son of the LORD.”MF FThere was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.XE+FThen his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.DFSamson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.C3FSamson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.DBFSamson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”AA}FNow the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.@#Fand Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.”L?FWhen their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;9>mFWhen the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”F=FThe lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”N<FHowever the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.1;]FThe Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.[:1FShe said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had departed from him.-9UFShe made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 8FWhen Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.}7uFHe told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”b6?FWhen she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.=5uFShe said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”24_FShe fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.H3 F Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.”K2F So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.1%F He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”0F Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.”^/7F Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known..FThen the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.-FSamson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”,}FDelilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”+FThe lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”i*MFIt came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. *o~}}o||{{%zz yWxxwUvvuutHsrrppPonnmmlOkPjjii5hhgffeewdd`cbbab``_r^^h]\\[ZYY(X>WWUTTUSS7RR/QQPPgPONNXMM LL?KKJkJHHHGGFF EnDDCBB$AaA$@@I??>==<< kZThen Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.” = ZDon’t count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”"< AZHannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.Y; /ZEli said to her, “How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.”: Z Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.D9 Z As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli saw her mouth.-8 WZ She vowed a vow, and said, “The LORD of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”Q7 Z She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept bitterly.&6 IZ So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.5 7ZElkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”4 ZAs he did so year by year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.a3 ?ZHer rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.g2 KZbut to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.1 ZWhen the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:B0 ZThis man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there./ %Zand he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.H. ZNow there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:S-!Pand Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.R,Pand Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,]+5Pand Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,U*%Pand Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,`);PNow this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,)(MPThe women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, “There is a son born to Naomi”; and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.P'PNaomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.1&]PHe shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”%%PThe women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.$}P So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.#P Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you of this young woman.”"P All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.!P Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.”K P Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.[1PSo the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” He took off his shoe.fGPNow this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was the way of attestation in Israel.'IPThe near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”LPThen Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”CPI thought to disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”!=PHe said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.a=PHe took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” They sat down.J PNow Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.#APThen she said, “Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day.”|sPShe said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’” PWhen she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?” She told her all that the man had done to her.)MPHe said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.0[PShe lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”,SP Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part. But if he will not do the part of a kinsman for you, then I will do the part of a kinsman for you, as the LORD lives. Lie down until the morning.”[1P Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however there is a kinsman nearer than I.%P Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.A}P He said, “Blessed are you by the LORD, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.5P He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.”c APAt midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.- UPWhen Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid her down.h KPShe went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law told her.: qPShe said to her, “All that you say I will do.”? yPIt shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay down; then he will tell you what you shall do.”9mPTherefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.}uPNow isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.y oPNaomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?'PSo she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law. ;PNaomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.” PRuth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.’”b?PNaomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”{qPHer mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”4cPShe took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.PSo she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.q~]PAlso pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”}PWhen she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.g|IPAt meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.H{ P Then she said, “Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.”z/P May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”yP Boaz answered her, “It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.@x{P Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favour in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”_w9P Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”v1PThen Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.MuPShe said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.” tPThe servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.dsCPThen Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?” rPBehold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you.” They answered him, “The LORD bless you.”3qaPShe went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.DpPRuth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favour.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”zo qPNaomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.9n oPSo Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest./m [PI went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”sl cPShe said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.!k ?PSo they two went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”bj APWhen she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her. i Pwhere you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.”Sh #PRuth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;zg qPShe said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”qf _PThey lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.Me P would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? 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