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But the earth became waste and emptiness, and darkness was on the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was brooding upon the surface of the waters.


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And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.


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And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.


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And God made the expanse and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.


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And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.


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


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And God said, Let the earth sprout grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind with their seed in them upon the earth; and it was so.


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And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with their seed in them according to their kind; and God saw that it was good.


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And God said, Let there be light-bearers in the expanse of heaven to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;


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And God made the two great light-bearers, the greater light-bearer to rule the day and the lesser light-bearer to rule the night, and the stars.


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


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And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living animals, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven.


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And God created the great sea creatures and every living animal that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good


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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.


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And God said, Let the earth bring forth living animals according to their kind, cattle and creeping things and animals of the earth according to their kind; and it was so.


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And God made the animals of the earth according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind, and God saw that it was good.


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And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.


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


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And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.


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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be for you as food.


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And to every animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven and to everything that creeps upon the earth, in which is a living soul, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so.


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And God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.


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And 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.


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


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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. When Jehovah God made earth and heaven,


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And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up - for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to work the ground,


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Jehovah God formed man with the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.


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And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.


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And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.


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The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.


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And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one that goes east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.


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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.


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And Jehovah God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper as his counterpart.


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And Jehovah God formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of heaven, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called any living animal, that was its name.


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And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of heaven and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper as his counterpart.


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


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And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman and brought her to the man.


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And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called Woman Because out of Man this one was taken.


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Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.


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Now the serpent was more crafty than every other animal of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Did God really say, You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?


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But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.


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


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And 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 oneself wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.


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And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.


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


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


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


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And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.


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


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And Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle And more than all the animals of the field:Upon your stomach you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life.


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And I will put enmity Between you and the woman And between your seed and her seed; He will bruise you on the head, But you will bruise him on the heel.


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To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply Your pain in your childbearing; In pain you will bring forth children. And your desire will be to your husband, And he will rule over you.


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And to Adam He said, Because you listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree concerning which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil will you eat of it All the days of your life.


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By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.


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And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever -


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Therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken.


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So He drove the man out, and at the east of the garden of Eden He placed the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned in every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.


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And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain and said, I have acquired a man, Jehovah.


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And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a tender of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.


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And Abel also brought an offering from the firstlings of his flock, that is, from their fat portions. And Jehovah had regard for Abel and for his offering.


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But for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. And Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.


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If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and his desire is for you, but you must rule over him.


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And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go into the field. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.


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


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And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground.


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


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When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.


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Now You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground, and from Your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.


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And Jehovah said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah put a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him would not strike him.


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And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.


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And Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.


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


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And Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.


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And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech; For I have slain a man for wounding me, Even a young man for striking me.


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And Adam knew his wife again; and she gave birth to a son and called his name Seth; for, she said, God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain slew him.


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And to Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of Jehovah.


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This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, He made him in the likeness of God.


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Male and female He created them, and He blessed them and called their name Adam, on the day when they were created.


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


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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred seven years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Enosh lived after he had begotten Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Kenan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred thirty years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methuselah three hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Methuselah lived after he had begotten Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, which come because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.


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And Lamech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.


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And Jehovah said, My Spirit will not strive with man forever, for he indeed is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.


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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they gave birth to children to them; these were the mighty men who were of old the men of renown.


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And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.


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And Jehovah said, I will blot out the man whom I have created from the surface of the ground, from man to beast to creeping things to the birds of heaven; for I repent that I have made them.


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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generations; and Noah walked with God.


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


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And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and now I am about to destroy them with the earth.


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Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark and shall cover it within and without with pitch.


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


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You shall make an opening for light for the ark, and you shall finish it up to a cubit from the top; and you shall put the entrance of the ark in its side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.


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And now I am about to bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.


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But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.


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


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Of the birds according to their kind and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you in order to preserve them alive.


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And for your part, take some of every kind of food that is edible, and gather it to yourself, and it will be for food for you and for them.


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Then Jehovah said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.


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Of every clean animal you shall take with you seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and its female;


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Also of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, male and female; to preserve their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth.


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For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living being that I have made I will blot out from the surface of the ground.


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


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Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps upon the ground,


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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that very day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.


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


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They and every animal according to its kind and all the cattle according to their kind and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind and every bird according to its kind - every bird, every winged creature.


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And those who went in, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and Jehovah shut the door behind him.


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


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And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went about on the surface of the waters.


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And when the waters had prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, all the high mountains that were under the entire heaven were covered.


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And all flesh that moved upon the earth expired:birds and cattle and animals and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth and all mankind.


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Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.


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Thus He blotted out every living being that was upon the surface of the ground, from man to beast to creeping things to the birds of heaven. And they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.


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


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The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained;


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And the waters receded steadily from upon the earth. So at the end of one hundred fifty days the waters began to diminish.


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And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.


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And the waters diminished steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.


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And he sent out the raven; and it went out, going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.


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


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And the dove came to him toward evening time, and there in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.


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And in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that now the surface of the ground was dry.


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Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth - that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.


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Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth from the ark according to their families.


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And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


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And Jehovah smelled the satisfying fragrance; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again smite everything living as I have done.


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Throughout all the days that earth remains, Seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, And summer and winter, and day and night Shall not cease.


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And the fear of you and the terror of you shall be upon every animal of the earth and upon every bird of heaven, on everything that creeps on the ground and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.


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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; just as I gave you the green herb, so I have given you everything.


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And indeed your lifeblood I will require; from every animal I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother, I will require the life of man.


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And with every living animal that is with you:the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that came out of the ark, every animal of the earth.


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And I establish My covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.


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


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


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And the bow will be in the clouds, and I will look upon it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living animal of all flesh that is upon the earth.


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


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Now the sons of Noah who came forth from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.


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And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.


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


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From these the islands and coastal regions of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.


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And the sons of Cush:Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah:Sheba and Dedan.


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


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And the Arvadites and the Zemarites and the Hamathites, and afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread out.


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


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


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And also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the eldest brother of Japheth, children were born.


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


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


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


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And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar.


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And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the surface of the whole earth.


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And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and now nothing which they purpose to do will be kept from them.


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Come, let Us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.


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So Jehovah scattered them from there over the surface of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.


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Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth, and from there Jehovah scattered them over the surface of all the earth.


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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood.


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And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred three years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred three years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred thirty years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred nine years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred seven years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah one hundred nineteen years, and he begot more sons and daughters.


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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves:The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.


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


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Now Jehovah said to Abram, Go from your land And from your relatives And from your father's house To the land that I will show you;


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


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And I will bless those who bless you, And he who curses you I will curse; And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.


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So Abram went as Jehovah had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out of Haran.


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


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And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.


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


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And he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah and called upon the name of Jehovah.


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And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.


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And when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, I know indeed that you are a beautiful woman to look at;


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And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife, and they will kill me; but they will keep you alive.


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Now say you are my sister, that it may be well with me on account of you and I may live because of you.


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And Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.


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And he treated Abram well on account of her, and he had sheep and oxen and donkeys and male servants and female servants and female donkeys and camels.


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


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


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


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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negev.


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


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To the place of the altar, which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.


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


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


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And Abram said to Lot, Let there please be no strife between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.


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


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And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the entire plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere - this was before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah - like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.


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So Lot chose for himself the entire plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves from each other.


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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.


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


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


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And Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to Jehovah.


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And in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar, Arioch the king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of Goiim,


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


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And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim


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And they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.


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And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went forth and set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim,


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Against Chedorlaomer the king of Elam and Tidal the king of Goiim and Amraphel the king of Shinar and Arioch the king of Ellasar, four kings against the five.


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Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; and they fell there, but those who survived fled to the hill country.


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And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, and his possessions and departed, for he was dwelling in Sodom.


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And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was dwelling by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.


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And when Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, and pursued as far as Dan.


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And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them and pursued them to Hobah, which is north of Damascus.


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


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


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


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And blessed be God the Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And Abram gave him a tenth of all.


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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, God the Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,


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That I will not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is yours, lest you say, I have made Abram rich;


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Except only 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.


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After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward.


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And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what will You give me, for I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?


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But then the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, This man shall not be your heir, but he who will come out from your own body shall be your heir.


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


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


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And He said to him, Bring Me a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old female goat and a three-year-old ram and a turtledove and a young pigeon.


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And he brought Him all these and cut them in two in the middle and laid the half of each opposite the other, but the birds he did not cut in two.


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


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And He said to Abram, Know assuredly that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and they will serve them; and they will afflict them four hundred years.


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But I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.


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And in the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.


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And when the sun went down and it was dark, there came a smoking furnace and a torch of fire which passed between these pieces.


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On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed do I give this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:


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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian female servant, whose name was Hagar.


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And Sarai said to Abram, Because Jehovah has prevented me from bearing, please go in to my female servant; perhaps I will obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.


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So after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her female servant, and gave her to Abram her husband to be a wife.


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


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And Sarai said to Abram, May the wrong done to me be upon you. I gave my female servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. May Jehovah judge between me and you.


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And Abram said to Sarai, Your female servant is now in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes. So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from before her.


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


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And He said, Hagar, Sarai's female servant, where did you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am fleeing from before my mistress Sarai.


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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will greatly multiply your seed so that it will not be counted for multitude.


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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, You have now conceived And will bear a son, And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because Jehovah has heard of your affliction.


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And he will be a wild ass of a man; His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand, against him; And he will settle down opposite all his brothers.


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And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, You are a God who reveals Himself, for she said, Do I even remain here after He has revealed Himself to me?


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


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Your name shall no longer be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.


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


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And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your seed after you.


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And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.


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


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


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And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between Me and you.


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And he who is eight days old shall 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.


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He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised; thus My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.


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


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


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And I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. Indeed, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come forth from her.


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Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart, Will a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?


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But God said, No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.


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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you; indeed, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly:twelve princes will he beget, and I will make him a great nation.


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


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And Abraham took Ishmael his son and 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 on the very same day, as God had said to him.


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


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And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre as he was sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.


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And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and there were three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them. And he bowed down to the earth


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And let me fetch a morsel of bread that you may sustain yourselves. After that you may pass on, since you have come to your servant. So they said, Do as you have said.


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And Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, Quickly prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make cakes.


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And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.


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


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And He said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and then Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind Him.


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


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And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?


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And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am old?


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


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


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And the men rose up from there and looked down upon Sodom; and Abraham walked with them to send them away.


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Since Abraham will indeed become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?


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For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of Jehovah by doing righteousness and justice, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken concerning him.


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And Jehovah said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah, how great it is; and their sin, how very heavy it is!


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I shall go down and see whether they have done altogether according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.


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And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham remained standing before Jehovah.


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Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed destroy and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?


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Far be it from You to do such a thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked. Far be it from You! Shall the Judge of all the earth not do justly?


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


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And Abraham answered and said, Now behold, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord, though I am but dust and ashes.


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Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five? And He said, I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.


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And he spoke to Him yet again and said, Suppose forty are found there? And He said, I will not do it because of forty.


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And he said, Oh may the Lord not be angry if I speak. Suppose thirty are found there? And He said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.


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And he said, Now behold, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there? And He said, I will not destroy it because of twenty.


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And he said, Oh let the Lord not be angry if I speak yet once more. Suppose ten are found there? And He said, I will not destroy it because of ten.


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And Jehovah went away as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.


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And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them and bowed with his face to the ground.


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And he said, Now, my lords, please turn aside here to your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise up early and go on your way. But they said, No; we will spend the night in the square.


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But he urged them strongly, and they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.


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


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


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I have here two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is fitting in your eyes; only do not do anything to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.


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But they said, Stand aside. Then they said, This one came here to sojourn, and already he is acting like a judge. Now we will treat you worse than we would have them. And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near in order to break down


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


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And the men said to Lot, Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law or your sons and your daughters or anyone you have in the city - bring them out of the place.


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For we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before Jehovah that Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.


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And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Rise up; go forth from this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But it seemed to his sons-in-law as though he were joking.


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And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Rise up; take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be destroyed in the iniquity of the city.


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But he lingered; so the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.


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And when they had brought them outside, He said, Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the hills, lest you be destroyed.


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Even though Your servant has found favor in Your sight, and You have magnified Your lovingkindness, which You have showed to me in preserving my life; I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.


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Here, this city is nearby to flee to, and it is a little one. Please let me escape there - is it not a little one? - and I shall live.


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And He said to him, I now grant you this request also, that I will not overthrow the city concerning which you have spoken.


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


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And He overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground.


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And he looked down upon Sodom and Gomorrah and upon all the land of the plain. And as he looked, there it was:the smoke of the land was going up like the smoke of a furnace.


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And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the middle of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities among which Lot dwelt.


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


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And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.


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Come, let us make our father drink wine; and let us lie with him, that we may preserve alive seed from our father.


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And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.


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And the next day the firstborn said to the younger, I have now lain with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight also; and you go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve alive seed from our father.


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And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger one arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.


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


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And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.


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And Abraham journeyed from there toward the region of the Negev and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.


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


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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, You are now about to die because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.


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


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


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


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And Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and spoke all these things in their hearing. And the men were very afraid.


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Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.


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And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.


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But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.


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And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, This is your kindness which you must do to me:At every place where we go, say of me, He is my brother.


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


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And to Sarah he said, I have now given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is now your vindication before all who are with you. And in every respect you have been cleared.


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And Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants, so that they bore children.


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For Jehovah had completely shut up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.


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


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And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.


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So she said to Abraham, Cast out this maidservant and her son, for the son of this maidservant shall not inherit with my son Isaac.


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And God said to Abraham, Do not be displeased on account of the boy and on account of your maidservant. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac shall your seed be called.


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And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a waterskin full of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.


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And she went and sat herself down opposite him, a fair distance away, about a bowshot away, for she said, Do not let me look upon the death of the child. And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.


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And God heard the voice of the boy. And the Angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.


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


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


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Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. According to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall do to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.


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And Abraham confronted Abimelech concerning the well of water which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.


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


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And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?


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And he said, These seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness for me that I dug this well.


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So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up with Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.


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


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


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And Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him.


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And Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey; and I and the boy will go over there, and we will worship and then return to you.


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And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them walked together.


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And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?


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


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And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.


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


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And he said, Do not stretch out your hand upon the boy, nor do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.


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


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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, as it is said to this day, On the mount of Jehovah it will be provided.


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And said, By Myself I have sworn, declares Jehovah:Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,


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I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.


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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba.


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


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And the life of Sarah was one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.


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And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. And Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.


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I am a stranger and a sojourner among you. Give me the possession of a burial place among you that I may bury my dead wife out of my sight.


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Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God in our midst. In the choicest of our burial places bury your dead wife. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead wife.


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And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your desire that I should bury my dead wife out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar


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That he would give me the cave of Machpelah, which is his, and which is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your midst for the possession of a burial place.


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Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, in the hearing of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,


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No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave that is in it, to you I give it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you; bury your dead wife.


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And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing 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, that I may bury my dead wife there.


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My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? Therefore bury your dead wife.


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And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.


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So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah and which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, which were in all its territory, were assured


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To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, in the presence of all who went in at the gate of his city.


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


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And the field and the cave that is in it were assured to Abraham for the possession of a burial place from the children of Heth.


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


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And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling.


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And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from where you came?


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Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land, He will send His angel before you; and you shall take a wife for my son fro


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And if the woman is not willing to follow you, you shall be free from this oath of mine; only you shall not take my son back there.


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


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And the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master and departed, having all kinds of his master's good things in his hand. And he rose up and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.


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


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And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, Please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.


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I am standing here by the spring of water as the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.


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And may it be that the girl to whom I say, Please let down your pitcher that I may drink, and who says, Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink, may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant, for Isaac; and in this I will know that Y


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But before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, coming out with her pitcher upon her shoulder.


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And the girl was very beautiful in appearance, a virgin, and no man had known her. And she went down to the spring and filled her pitcher and came up.


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And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried and lowered her pitcher on her hand and gave him a drink.


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


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


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And the man gazed fixedly upon her in silence to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not.


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And when the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden nose-ring weighing half a shekel and two bracelets for her hands weighing ten gold shekels,


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And said, Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?


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And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His faithfulness toward my master. As for me, Jehovah has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.


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As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and had heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, This is what the man spoke to me, he went to the man. And there he was, standing by the camels at the spring.


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


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


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


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


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And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master after she had become old. And he has given all that he has to him.


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


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And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and make your journey prosperous. And you shall take a wife for my son from my family, even from my father's house.


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Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my family. And if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.


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And I came today to the spring and said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if now You make my journey on which I go prosperous,


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I am standing here by the spring of water, so let the maiden who comes out to draw water, to whom I will say, Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,


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


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Before I had finished speaking in my heart, there came Rebekah, and her pitcher was on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, Please let me drink.


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And 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.


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And I asked her and said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the nose-ring upon her nose and the bracelets upon her hands.


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


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And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me so; but if not, tell me so, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.


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Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The matter comes from Jehovah; we cannot speak to you bad or good.


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Here is Rebekah before you:Take her, and go; and let her be the wife of your master's son, as Jehovah has spoken.


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And the servant brought forth silver jewelry and gold jewelry and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.


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


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


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And he said to them, Do not delay me, since Jehovah has made my journey prosperous. Send me away that I may go to my master.


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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, May you, our sister, become Thousands of ten thousands, And may your seed possess The gate of those who hate them.


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And Rebekah arose with her maids, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah and went away.


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


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


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


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And Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurim and the Letushim and the Leummim.


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


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But to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he was still living, eastward to the east country.


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And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred seventy-five years.


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


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


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The field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.


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


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


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These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their peoples.


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


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And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which faces Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He settled down opposite all his brothers.


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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.


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


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And the children struggled with each other within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I like this? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.


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


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And after that his brother came forth, and his hand was holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.


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And when the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.


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And Esau said to Jacob, Let me swallow down some of the red stew, that red stew there, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.


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And Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.


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And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines at Gerar.


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


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Sojourn 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.


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And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and will give to your seed all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed,


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And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say, My wife, thinking, The men of this place might slay me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful in appearance.


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And when he had been there a long time, Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked out through his window and saw, and there was Isaac playfully caressing Rebekah his wife.


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And Abimelech called Isaac and said, So she is indeed your wife. How then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought I might die on account of her.


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


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And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.


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And he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.


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


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And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by the same names which his father had given them.


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And the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac's shepherds, saying, The water is ours. So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.


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And he moved away from there and dug another well, but they did not strive over it, so he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, Now Jehovah has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.


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


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


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And they said, We see plainly that Jehovah is with you; so we say, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,


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That you will not do us any harm, just as we have not touched you, and just as we have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of Jehovah.


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And they rose up early in the morning and swore to one another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.


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


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Now 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.


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Now when Isaac was old, and his eyes had become so dim that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Here I am.


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


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And prepare for me a tasty meal, such as I love, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.


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Now Rebekah had been listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring it home,


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Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, I just heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,


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Bring me game, and prepare for me a tasty meal so that I may eat it and bless you before Jehovah before my death.


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Go now to the flock, and take two choice kids for me from there, and I will prepare them as a tasty meal for your father, such as he loves.


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


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Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.


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


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And he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared a tasty meal, such as his father loved.


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


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And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Now rise up; sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.


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


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


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And Jacob came near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are Esau's hands.


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


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


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So he came near and kissed him; and when Isaac smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son - Like the smell of a field Which Jehovah has blessed.


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And may God give you Of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine.


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Let peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, And let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you.


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And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.


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And he also had prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise up, and eat some of his son's game, that you may bless me.


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And Isaac trembled very greatly and said, Who was it then who hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of it all before you came and blessed him? And blessed will he be.


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When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a very great and bitter cry and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.


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


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And Isaac answered and said to Esau, I have already made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. And what then shall I do for you, my son?


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And Esau said to his father, Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.


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


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And by your sword shall you live, And you shall serve your brother. And when you become restless, You shall break his yoke from off your neck.


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And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will slay my brother Jacob.


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And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, so she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, Now your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.


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


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


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


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


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And may the All-sufficient God bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.


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And may He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.


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And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.


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Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,


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Then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, and the sister of Nebaioth to be his wife, in addition to the wives that he had.


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


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


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And there was Jehovah, standing above it; and He said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your seed.


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And 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, and in you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.


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And, behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will cause you to return to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.


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And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.


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


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


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And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house; and of all that You give me I will surely give one tenth to You.


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


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And when all the flocks would gather there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep; then they would put the stone back on the mouth of the well in its place.


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And he said to them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well, and here is his daughter Rachel coming with the sheep.


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


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And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.


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While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which belonged to her father, for she was a shepherdess.


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Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob drew near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.


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


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And when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him. And he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then Jacob related to Laban all these things.


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


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Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.


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


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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, but they seemed to him only a few days because of the love he had for her.


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And in the morning there she was, Leah! And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?


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Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for another seven years.


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And he went in also to Rachel and also loved Rachel rather than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.


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


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


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


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And she conceived again and bore a son and said, This time I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing.


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And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.


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


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And she said, Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I also may have children through her.


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


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And Rachel said, In wrestling with God, I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed; so she called his name Naphtali.


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Now when Leah saw that she ceased bearing, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.


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


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And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? And would you take away my son's mandrakes also? So Rachel said, Then he may lie with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.


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


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And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my female servant to my husband; so she called his name Issachar.


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


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And when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.


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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go; for you indeed know my service by which I have served you.


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And Jacob said to him, You indeed know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.


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For you had little before I came, and it has spread into a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own house also?


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And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. Just do this one thing for me:Let me again feed your flock and keep it.


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Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted animal, that is, every black animal among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.


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So my righteousness will testify for me later, when you come concerning my wages, by what is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the sheep, if found with me, will be counted stolen.


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But on that day he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons;


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And he set a distance of a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.


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And Jacob took rods of fresh poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.


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And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, in the watering places where the flocks came to drink; and they bred when they came to drink.


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And the flocks bred before the rods; and the flocks brought forth young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.


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And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flock toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban, and he put his own herds apart and did not put them with Laban's flock.


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And whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the troughs so that they might breed among the rods;


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But when the flock was feebler, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.


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And the man became spread out exceedingly, and had large flocks, and female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.


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


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


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And he said to them, I see that your father's countenance is not favorable toward me as previously, but the God of my father has been with me.


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And your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to harm me.


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If he spoke in this way, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled; and if he spoke in this way, The streaked shall be your wages, then all the flock bore streaked.


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And at the time the flock was breeding, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream; and there were the male goats, leaping upon the flock - streaked, speckled, and spotted.


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And He said, Lift up now your eyes, and see that all the male goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.


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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Rise up now; go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.


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And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?


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Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even entirely used up the money given for us.


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Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father is ours and our children's. So do now whatever God has said to you.


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And he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, in order to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.


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So he fled with all that he had, and he rose up and crossed over the River and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.


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And he took his brothers with him and pursued after him the distance of a seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.


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And God came to Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night and said to him, Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.


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And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his brothers also pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.


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And Laban said to Jacob, What are you doing deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?


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Why did you flee secretly and steal away from me and not tell me, when I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre?


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It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.


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And now, though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father's house, why did you steal my gods?


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And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I thought that you might take your daughters from me by force.


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The one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our brothers indicate what there is with me that is yours, and take it. Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.


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And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the two female servants' tent, but he did not find them. Then he went from Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.


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Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's saddle, and she sat upon them. And Laban rummaged through all the tent but did not find them.


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And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before you, for the manner of women is upon me. So he searched but did not find the household idols.


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And Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?


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Although you have rummaged through all my possessions, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may decide between the two of us.


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


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


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These twenty years have I 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.


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If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Dread of Isaac, had not been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.


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


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And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones. So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.


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If you afflict my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters - even though no man is with us - see, God is witness between me and you.


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And Laban said to Jacob, Here is this heap, and here is the pillar which I have set between me and you.


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


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


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And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat a meal, and they ate a meal and spent the night in the mountain.


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


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And he commanded them, saying, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau:Thus says your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now;


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


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


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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two camps;


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Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will do you good,


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I am not worthy of all the lovingkindnesses and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant, for with my staff only I crossed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.


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Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack me, even the mother with the children.


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But You have said, I will surely do you good and make your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.


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And he spent that night there. Then from what he had with him he took a present for Esau his brother:


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Thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.


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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Cross over before me, and put a space between each drove.


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


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Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau; and now he also is behind us.


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And he commanded also the second and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, In this way you shall speak to Esau when you find him,


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And you shall also say, Your servant Jacob is right 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.


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And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two female servants and his eleven children and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.


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


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And the man said, Let Me go, for the dawn is breaking. But Jacob said, I will not let You go unless You bless me.


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


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


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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, he said, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been preserved.


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


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


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And he put the female servants and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.


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And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.


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


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


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


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And Jacob said, No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand; for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.


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


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And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are frail and that the nursing flocks and herds are a concern to me; and if they overdrive them for one day, all the flock will die.


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Let my lord please pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children until I come to my lord at Seir.


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So Esau said, Let me please leave with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.


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


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And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.


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And he bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred qesitahs.


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


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


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


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Now when Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob kept silent until they came in.


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And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it. And the men were grieved and became very angry, because he had committed folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.


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


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And you shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you; dwell and trade in it, and acquire holdings in it.


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


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Impose upon me a very large bridal price and gift, and I will give whatever you say to me; but give me the girl as a wife.


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


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And said to them, We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.


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Only on this condition will we consent to you:If you become like us, and every male among you is circumcised,


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Then we will give our daughters to you, and will take your daughters for ourselves; and we will dwell with you and become one people.


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And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now he was honored above all the house of his father.


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


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These men are with us peacefully; therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for here the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for ourselves as wives, and let us give them our daughters.


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


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Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.


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And 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.


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Then on the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and slew every male.


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And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away.


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


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They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys and whatever was in the city and whatever was in the field;


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


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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have brought trouble upon me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I am few in number, and they will gather themselves together against me and strike me;


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


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


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And let us rise up and go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.


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So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.


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And as they journeyed, the terror of God was upon the cities that were around them, so they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.


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And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.


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


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And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; so its name was called Allon-bacuth.


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And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name. Thus He called his name Israel.


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And God said to him, I am the All-sufficient God:Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from your loins.


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And the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I will give to you; And I will give the land to your seed after you.


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


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And they journeyed from Bethel. And while there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth; and she had hard labor.


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And while she was in hardest labor, the midwife said to her, Do not be afraid, for now you have another son.


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


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And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave, which is there to this day.


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And while Israel dwelt 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:


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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's female servant:Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.


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And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.


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And Isaac expired and died and was gathered to his people, an old man and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.


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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;


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


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And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all his household and his livestock and all his cattle and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob.


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For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.


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


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


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


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And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife:And she bore to Esau Jeush and Jalam and Korah.


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These are the clans of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau:Clan Teman, Clan Omar, Clan Zepho, Clan Kenaz,


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Clan Korah, Clan Gatam, Clan Amalek; these are the clans of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.


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And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son:Clan Nahath, Clan Zerah, Clan Shammah, Clan Mizzah; these are the clans of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.


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And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife:Clan Jeush, Clan Jalam, Clan Korah. These are the clans of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.


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These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land:Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah


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And Dishon and Ezer and Dishan; these are the clans of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.


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And these are the sons of Zibeon:Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.


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Clan Dishon, Clan Ezer, Clan Dishan. These are the clans of the Horites, according to their clans in the land of Seir.


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And these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before a king of the children of Israel reigned:


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


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


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And these are the names of the clans of Esau, according to their families, according to their places, by their names:Clan Timna, Clan Alvah, Clan Jetheth,


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Clan Magdiel, Clan Iram. These are the clans of Edom according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau the father of the Edomites.


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These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought an evil report


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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a coat of many colors.


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


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There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose up and remained standing; and then your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.


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And his brothers said to him, Will you indeed reign over us and actually be a ruler among us? So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.


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And he had still another dream and told it to his brothers and said, Now I have had another dream:There were the sun and the moon and eleven stars, bowing down to me.


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And he told it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?


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And Israel said to Joseph, Your brothers are now shepherding the flock in Shechem. Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.


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And he said to him, Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flock, and bring word back to me. So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.


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


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


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And when they saw him from a distance and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death.


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Now then, come and let us slay him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, A wild beast has devoured him; then we will see what will become of his dreams.


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But when Reuben heard it, he tried to deliver him out of their hand and said, Let us not take his life.


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And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood; throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him - that he might deliver him out of their hand to restore him to his father.


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And when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;


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Then they sat down to eat food; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and there was a caravan of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.


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


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So when some Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And these brought Joseph into Egypt.


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And they sent the coat of many colors and had it brought to their father and said, We found this; please examine it, and see if it is your son's coat or not.


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And he recognized it and said, It is my son's coat. A wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.


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


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Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.


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Now at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.


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


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And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up seed to your brother.


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But since Onan knew that the seed would not be his, whenever he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled it on the ground, so that he would not give seed to his brother.


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Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up. For he thought, He also may die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.


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


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And she removed from herself her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as his wife.


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


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And he said, I will send you a kid from the flock. And she said, Only if you give me a pledge until you send it.


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


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


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Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute who was by the road at Enaim? And they said, There has been no prostitute here.


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And he returned to Judah and said, I did not find her; and also the men of the place said, There has been no prostitute here.


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And Judah said, Let her keep the things for herself, lest we become a laughing stock; you see, I sent her this kid, but you did not find her.


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And about three months later it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; moreover, now she is pregnant by harlotry. And Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.


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As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong. And she said, Please note whose these are, the seal and the cords and the staff.


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And Judah took note of them and said, She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to my son Shelah. And he did not know her again anymore.


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


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But when he drew back his hand, his brother suddenly came out; and she said, What a breach you have made for yourself! Therefore his name was called Perez.


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


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Now Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.


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


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


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And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered to him; and he made him overseer of his house and put all that he hadin his charge.


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And from the time he made him overseer in his house and put him over all that he had, Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph; and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.


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And he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and with him there, he was not concerned about anything except the food that he ate. And Joseph was handsome in form and handsome in appearance.


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But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, with me here, my master is not concerned about anything in the house, and he has put everything he has in my charge.


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There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil, and sin against God?


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And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her.


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And one such day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house were there in the house.


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


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She called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I called out with a loud voice;


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And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me, and fled and went outside.


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And she spoke to him with these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me.


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And when his master heard the words of his wife that she had spoken to him, saying, This is the way your servant treated me; his anger burned.


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And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while he was there in the prison,


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Jehovah was with Joseph; and He extended kindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer.


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And the chief jailer put in Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the prison; and whatever was done there, he was the one to do it.


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The chief jailer did not supervise anything that was in his charge, because Jehovah was with him; and whatever he did, Jehovah caused it to prosper.


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And after these things, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers.


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And he put them in custody at the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.


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And the captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them, and he ministered to them; and they were in custody for some time.


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And the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, both of them had a dream, each man with his own dream in one night, and each dream with its own interpretation.


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And he asked Pharaoh's officials, who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, Why are your faces so sad today?


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And they said to him, We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.


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And the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, In my dream there was a vine before me,


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And on the vine were three branches. And as soon as it budded, its blossoms came out, and its clusters ripened into grapes.


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And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh's hand.


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Within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.


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But remember my being with you when it is well with you, and please do me a kindness and make mention of me to Pharaoh and so have me brought out of this house.


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For I was actually kidnapped out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have not done anything that they should put me into the dungeon.


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Now when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw this in my dream:There were three baskets of white bread on my head.


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And in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.


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Within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.


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And 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 of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.


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And he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearing, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand;


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And there came up out of the River seven cows, fine looking and fat fleshed; and they grazed in the reed grass.


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Then there came up after them seven other cows out of the River, ugly looking and thin fleshed; and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the River.


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And the ugly looking and thin fleshed cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.


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And he slept and dreamed a second time. And there were seven ears of grain, coming up on one stalk, fat and good.


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And in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all her wise men; and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.


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Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody at the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker.


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And a young Hebrew man was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us; to each one he interpreted according to his dream.


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And as he interpreted to us, so it happened; Pharaoh restored me to my office, and he hanged the baker.


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Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and he had shaved himself and changed his garments, and he came to Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, but there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.


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And there came up out of the River seven cows, fat fleshed and fine looking; and they grazed in the reed grass.


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Then there came up after them seven other cows, poor and very ugly looking and thin fleshed; I had never seen such in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.


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And when they had swallowed them, no one would have known that they had swallowed them, for they were still as ugly looking as at the beginning. Then I awoke.


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And I saw this in my next dream:There were seven ears of grain, coming up on one stalk, full and good.


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Then there were seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, that sprouted after them.


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And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.


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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, Pharaoh's dream is one dream; what God is about to do He has told Pharaoh.


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And the seven thin and ugly looking cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven empty ears scorched by the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.


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Then seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will consume the land.


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And the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that famine which follows, for it will be very severe.


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And as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is determined by God, and God will quickly bring it about.


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Now therefore let Pharaoh look out for a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.


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Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers over the land and take a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.


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And let them gather all the food of these coming good years and lay up grain under Pharaoh's authority for food in the cities, and let them keep it.


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And let the food become a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that will be in the land of Egypt, so that the land does not perish in the famine.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God let you know all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.


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You shall be over my household, and according to your word all my people shall be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than you.


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And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain around his neck.


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And he made him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, Bow the knee! And he set him over all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, yet without your consent no man will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.


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Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and passed through all the land of Egypt.


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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which came upon the land of Egypt and put the food in the cities; he placed the food from the surrounding fields within each city.


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And Joseph stored grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea until he stopped measuring it; for it was beyond measure.


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And before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.


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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for, he said, God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's house.


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And he called the name of the second Ephraim, for, he said, God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.


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And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.


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So when all the land of Egypt became hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.


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And when the famine was over all the face of the earth, Joseph opened all the storehouses of grain and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.


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And all the earth came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.


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Now when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do you keep looking at one another?


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And he said, I have now heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there, and buy grain for us from there, that we may live and not die.


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But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, Perhaps harm may befall him.


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And the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who also came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.


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Now Joseph was the governor over the land; it was he who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.


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And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke harshly with them. And he said to them, Where have you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.


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And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.


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And they said, We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and at this moment the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.


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By this you shall be tested:As Pharaoh lives, you shall not go away from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.


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Send one of you to get your brother, while you remain bound, that your words may be tested whether there is truth in you. And if not, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.


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If you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain bound in your place of custody; and the rest of you go, carry grain for the famine of your households.


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And bring your youngest brother to me, that your words may be verified; and you will not die. And they did so.


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And they said one to another, We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come to us.


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And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the child? But you would not listen. So now also his blood is required.


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And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.


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Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to restore every man's silver pieces into his sack and to give them provisions for the way. And thus was it done for them.


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And one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, and he saw his silver; there it was in the mouth of his sack.


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And he said to his brothers, My silver has been returned; and here it is in my sack! And their heart stopped, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, What is this that God has done to us?


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And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying,


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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; the one is no more, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.


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And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this will I know that you are honest men:Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.


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And bring your youngest brother to me that I may know that you are not spies but are honest men. I will give you your brother, and you may trade in the land.


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And when they emptied their sacks, there was each man's bundle of silver pieces, in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of silver, they were afraid.


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And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children:Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.


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And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, You may put to death my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Put him in my hand, and I will return him to you.


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But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. And if harm should befall him on the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.


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And when they had completely consumed the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, Go back; buy us a little food.


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But Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly warned us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.


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But if you are not willing to send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.


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And they said, The man asked very carefully about us and about our relatives, saying, Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? So we told him about these things. Could we possibly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?


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And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the boy with me, and we will rise up and go, that we may live and not die, we and you and our little ones.


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I myself will be surety for him; of my hand you may require him. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, then I shall bear the blame of sinning before you forever.


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And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so, then do this:Take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man - a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.


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And take double the silver in your hand, and carry back in your hand the silver that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was a mistake.


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And may the All-sufficient God grant you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am to be bereaved of my children, I shall be bereaved.


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So the men took this present, and they took double the silver in their hand and Benjamin; and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.


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And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to him who was over his house, Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal, and prepare it; for the men will eat with me at noon.


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And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, It is because of the silver that was returned in our sacks the first time, that we are being brought in, that he may come out against us and fall upon us and take us as sl


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And they came near to the man who was over Joseph's house and spoke to him at the door of the house,


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And when we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and there was each man's silver, in the mouth of his sack, our silver in full weight. So we have brought it back in our hand.


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And we have also brought down extra silver in our hand to buy grain for food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.


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And he said, Be at peace; do not fear. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks; your silver came to me. Then he brought Simeon out to them.


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And the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys fodder.


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And they prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they had heard that they would eat a meal there.


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And when Joseph came into the house, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house and bowed down to the ground to him.


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And he asked them about their welfare and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?


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And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is still alive. And they bowed and paid him homage.


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And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to you, my son.


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And Joseph hurried - for his inward parts burned for his brother - and sought a place to weep. So he entered into his chamber and wept there.


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And they served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat a meal with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.


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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.


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And he had portions brought to them from before him; however Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.


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And he commanded him who was over his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack.


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And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest with his silver for the grain. And he did so, according to the word that Joseph had spoken.


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When they had just gone out of the city and were not yet far off, Joseph said to him who was over his house, Rise up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you repaid evil for good?


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Is not this that from which my lord drinks, and which he indeed uses for divining? You have done wrong in so doing.


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And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.


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See how we brought back to you the silver which we found in the mouth of our sacks from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?


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With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die; and we ourselves will become my lord's slaves.


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And he said, Now also let it be according to your words:He with whom it is found will be my slave; and the rest of you will be blameless.


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And he searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.


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And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there; and they fell to the ground before him.


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And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?


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And Judah said, What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Here we are, my lord's slaves, both we and the one in whose hand the cup has been found.


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But he said, Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose hand the cup has been found, he will be my slave; but as for the rest of you, go up in peace to your father.


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Then Judah came near to him and said, Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.


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And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.


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And we said to my lord, The boy cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.


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And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.


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But we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.


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And the one went away from me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have not seen him to this day.


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And if you take this one also from me and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in misery to Sheol.


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Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, and his life being bound up in the boy's life,


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When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father in sorrow to Sheol.


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For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall bear the blame of sinning before my father forever.


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Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.


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For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come on my father.


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Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who attended him; and he cried out, Have everyone go out from me. So there was no one standing with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph! Is my father still alive? But his brothers could not answer him, so troubled were they at his presence.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come closer to me. And they came closer. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.


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And now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.


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For the famine has been in the midst of the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.


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And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.


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So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.


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Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; do not delay.


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And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen and be near to me, you and your children and your children's children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.


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And there I will sustain you - for there are still five years of famine to come - so that you and your household and all that you have do not become impoverished.


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And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my own mouth that speaks to you.


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And you must tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that you have seen, and you must hurry and bring my father down here.


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And when the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have come, it was pleasing to Pharaoh and to his servants.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this:Load your beasts, and depart; go to the land of Canaan;


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And take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.


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And you are commanded, Do this:Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives; and bring your father, and come.


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And the sons of Israel did so, and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh and gave them provisions for the way.


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To each of them he gave changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.


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And he sent to his father the following:ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father on the way.


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And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.


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And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.


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So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.


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And He said, I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.


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I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph's hand will close your eyes.


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And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.


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And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt.


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His sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.


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And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons:Jacob's firstborn, Reuben.


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And the sons of Simeon:Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.


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And the sons of Judah:Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.


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These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, along with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters were thirty-three persons in all.


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And the sons of Asher:Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah:Heber and Malchiel.


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These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.


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And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of On bore to him.


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And the sons of Benjamin:Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.


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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob, seven persons in all.


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All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six persons in all.


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And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.


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And he sent Judah before him to Joseph to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came to the land of Goshen.


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And Joseph made his chariot ready and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father. And when he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.


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And Israel said to Joseph, Let me die now since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.


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And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.


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And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.


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You shall say, Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers; that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.


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Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and now they are in the land of Goshen.


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And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.


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And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land because there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.


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The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know any capable men among them, make them overseers over my livestock.


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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The years of my sojourning are one hundred thirty years; few and evil have been the years of my life, and they have not attained to the years of the lives of my fathers during the days of their sojourning.


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And Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.


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And Joseph sustained his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food according to the number of their little ones.


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And there was no food in all the land, for the famine was so very severe that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.


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And Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.


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And when the money from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan had been spent, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying, Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.


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And Joseph said, Bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.


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And they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses and for the flocks of sheep and for the herds of cattle and for the donkeys; and he fed them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.


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And when that year had ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, We cannot hide from my lord that our money has been spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord except our bodies and our lands


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Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will become servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.


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So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.


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And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end.


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Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and they lived off their portion which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.


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Then Joseph said to the people, Now that I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you that you may sow the land.


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And when harvest comes, you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own as seed of the field and as food for you and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.


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And they said, You have saved our lives. May we find favor in the sight of my lord and be Pharaoh's servants.


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And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt that stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.


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And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.


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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. Thus the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.


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And the time for Israel to die drew near. And he called his son Joseph and said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and truth; please do not bury me in Egypt.


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But when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial place. And he said, I will do as you have said.


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Now after these things Joseph was told, Your father is now sick. So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


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And someone told Jacob and said, Your son Joseph is now coming to you. So Israel strengthened himself and sat up on his bed.


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And Jacob said to Joseph, The All-sufficient God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.


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And He said to me, Behold, I am going to 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.


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And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.


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And your offspring whom you beget after them will be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.


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And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died to my sorrow in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).


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And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given to me here. And he said, Bring them to me, that I may bless them.


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Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, and he could not see. So Joseph brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.


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And Israel said to Joseph, I never expected to see your face, and now God has let me see your seed also.


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And 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.


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But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head - although he was the younger - and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands with insight, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.


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And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has shepherded me all my life to this day,


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The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; And may my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And may they be a teeming multitude in the midst of the earth.


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And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head onto Manasseh's head.


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And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head.


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But his 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 become greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.


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And he blessed them that day, saying, By you Israel will bless, saying, God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh. Thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.


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And Israel said to Joseph, Now I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.


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Moreover I have given to you one portion more than your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.


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And Jacob called to his sons and said, Gather yourselves together that I may tell you what will happen to you in the last days.


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Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.


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Boiling over like water, you will not have the preeminence, Because you went up to your father's bed; Then you defiled it - he went up to my couch.


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Come not into their council, O my soul; Be not united with their assembly, O my glory; For in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they hamstrung oxen.


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Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel:I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.


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Judah, your brothers will praise you; Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's sons will bow down before you.


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Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he stretches out like a lion, And like a lioness; who will rouse him up?


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The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to Him shall be the obedience of the peoples.


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Binding his foal to the vine, And his donkey's colt to the choice vine, He washes his garment in wine, And his robe in the blood of grapes.


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Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the sea, And he will be a shore for ships, And his flank will be toward Sidon.


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And he saw a resting place that was good And the land that was pleasant, And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a task worker to bring tribute.


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Dan will be a serpent in the way, A viper on the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.


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But his bow remained firm, And the arms of his hands were agile, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob - From there is the Shepherd, the stone of Israel -


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From the God of your father, who will help you, And from the All-sufficient One, who will bless you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.


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The blessings of your father surpass The blessings of my ancestors To the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of the one who was separate from his brothers.


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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, In the morning devouring the prey And in the evening dividing the spoil.


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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them; he blessed them, each one according to his blessing.


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And he charged them and said to them, I am being gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,


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In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for the possession of a burial place -


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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah -


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And when Jacob had finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed and expired, and he was gathered to his people.


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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.


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And forty days were spent for this, for this is the time to be spent for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.


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And when the days of weeping for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,


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My father made me swear, saying, Now I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.


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And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt,


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And all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.


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And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.


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And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.


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And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought with the field for a possession of a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.


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And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.


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And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the evil which we did to him?


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Thus shall you say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong. So now please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.


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Even though you intended evil against me, God intended it for good, to do as it is this day, to preserve alive a numerous people.


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Now therefore do not be afraid; I will sustain you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.


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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children of Machir the son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall bring my bones up from here.


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And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.


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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each man came with his household:


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And all the persons who came forth from the loins of Jacob were seventy persons, but Joseph was already in Egypt.


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But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, and the land was filled with them.


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And he said to his people, The people of the children of Israel are now more numerous and stronger than we.


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Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and, when some war occurs, they also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land.


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So they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built storage cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.


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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out so that they came to dread the children of Israel.


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And they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and in brick and in all kinds of labor in the field; all their labor with which they made them serve was with harshness.


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And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one whose name was Shiphrah and the other whose name was Puah;


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And he said, When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.


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But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them but let the male children live.


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So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing and let the male children live?


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And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous:before the midwife comes to them, they give birth.


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And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son who is born you shall cast into the River, but every daughter you shall let live.


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And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.


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And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a papyrus basket and plastered it with tar and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the River.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the River while her maidens walked alongside the River. And she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds and sent her female servant, and she brought it to her.


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And she opened it and saw the child, and there was the boy, weeping. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.


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Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse from the Hebrew women for you that she may nurse the child for you?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed him.


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And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and said, Because I drew him out of the water.


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And in those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brothers.


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And he looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one there, he struck the Egyptian down and hid him in the sand.


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And he went out the next day, and there were two Hebrew men struggling together; and he said to the one who was in the wrong, Why are you beating your companion?


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And he said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you thinking to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses became frightened and said, Surely the matter is known.


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Now when Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh to dwell in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.


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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.


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And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses rose up and helped them and watered their flock.


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And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us as well and watered the flock.


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And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.


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And in the course of those many days the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage. And they cried out, and their cry went up to God because of their bondage.


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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


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Now Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.


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And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thornbush. And when he looked, there was the thornbush, burning with fire; but the thornbush was not consumed.


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And when Jehovah saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the midst of the thornbush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.


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And He said, Do not come near here. Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.


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And He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.


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And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.


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And 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 spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizz


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And now the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.


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So come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.


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But Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?


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And He said, Surely I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you:When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God upon this mountain.


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Then Moses said to God, If I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? what shall I say to them?


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And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And He said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you


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And God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to


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Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen what is being done to you in Egypt.


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And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may


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So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will perform in the midst of it, and after that he will let you go.


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And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.


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But every woman will ask of her neighbor and of any woman living in her house for articles of silver and articles of gold and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and on your daughters, and thus plunder the Egyptians.


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Then Moses answered and said, What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice, but say, Jehovah has not appeared to you?


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And He said, Throw it on the ground. And he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses recoiled from it.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand, and take it by its tail - so he stretched out his hand and seized it, and it became a staff in his hand -


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That they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.


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And Jehovah further said to him, Now put your hand into your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, there his hand was, leprous like snow.


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And He said, Put your hand into your bosom again - so he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, there it was, restored like the rest of his flesh -


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And if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, then you shall take some of the water of the River and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you take out of the River will become blood upon the dry ground.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, Please, Lord, I am not a man of words, neither in the past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.


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And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? Or who makes him dumb or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?


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And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and He said, Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can certainly speak. And even now he is coming out to meet you; and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.


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And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.


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And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him.


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And Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law. And he said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life have died.


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So Moses took his wife and his sons, and mounted them upon a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, When you go to return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.


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And I said to you, Let My son go that he may serve Me; but you have refused to let him go. I will now slay your son, your firstborn.


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Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and cast it at Moses' feet, and she said, You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!


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And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and came upon him at the mountain of God, and he kissed him.


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And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah with which He had sent him and all the signs with which He had charged him.


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And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs in the sight of the people.


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And the people believed; and when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed and worshipped.


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And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let My people go that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.


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But Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah that I should listen to His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and I also will not let Israel go.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God; otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or sword.


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Then the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why are you trying to release the people from their work? Get back to your burdens.


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And Pharaoh said, Look, the people of the land are now many, yet you want them to cease from their burdens.


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You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.


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And the quota of the bricks which they made previously, you shall still place upon them; you shall not diminish any of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.


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Let the work be laid more heavily upon such men, so that they do it and not pay attention to false words.


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And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.


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And the taskmasters pressed them saying, Finish your work, the same daily assignment as when there was straw.


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And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and told, Why have you not finished, both yesterday and today, the amount of bricks required of you previously?


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Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you treat your servants this way?


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No straw is given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks. And now your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of your own people.


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And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, You shall not diminish any of the daily assignment of your bricks.


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And they came upon Moses and Aaron who were standing there to meet them when they came forth from Pharaoh.


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And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, because you have made us odious in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants so as to put a sword in their hand to kill us.


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Then Moses went back to Jehovah and said, Lord, why have You mistreated this people? Why is it that You sent me?


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Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has mistreated this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.


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


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And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as the All-sufficient God; but by My name Jehovah I did not make Myself known to them.


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And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they sojourned.


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And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians have enslaved; and I have remembered My covenant.


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Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.


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And I will take you to Myself as My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, the One who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.


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And I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Jehovah.


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And Moses spoke this to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of exasperation of spirit and harsh bondage.


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And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, The children of Israel do not now listen to me. How then will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am of uncircumcised lips?


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a charge for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


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These 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.


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And 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.


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And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations:Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the years of Levi's life were one hundred thirty- seven years.


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And the sons of Kohath:Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the years of Kohath's life were one hundred thirty-three years.


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And the sons of Merari:Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.


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And Amram took Jochebed his father's sister for himself as wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of Amram's life were one hundred thirty- seven years.


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And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, for himself as wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


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And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.


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It was this same Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.


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It was they who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt; it is the same Moses and Aaron.


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Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah; speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I speak to you.


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But Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How then will Pharaoh listen to me?


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And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.


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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.


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But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt and bring forth My armies, My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.


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And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.


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When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Perform a wonder; then you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff, and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it becomes a serpent.


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And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did just as Jehovah had commanded; and Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.


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Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret spells.


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That is, each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.


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Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and stand on the bank of the River to meet him. And you shall take in your hand the staff which was turned into a serpent.


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And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let My people go that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But until this very moment you have not listened.


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Thus says Jehovah, By this you will know that I am Jehovah. I am now going to strike the water which is in the River with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.


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And the fish that are in the River will die, and the River will become foul, and the Egyptians will loathe drinking water from the River.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their watercourses, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there s


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And Moses and Aaron did just as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the River in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the River was turned to blood.


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And the fish that were in the River died, and the River became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the River; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret spells; and Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.


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And all the Egyptians dug around the River for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the River.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, Let My people go that they may serve Me.


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And the River shall swarm with frogs, and they will go up from the river and come into your house and into your bedchamber and upon your bed, and into the houses of your servants and upon your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the watercourses, and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.


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So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, Entreat Jehovah to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah.


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And Moses said to Pharaoh, May it please you, and not me, as to the time. When shall I make entreaty for you and for your servants and for your people, to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses so that they remain in the River only?


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And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, It will be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Jehovah our God.


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And 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.


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Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Jehovah concerning the frogs which He had brought upon Pharaoh.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died in the houses, in the courts, and in the fields.


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But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your staff, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians did the same with their secret spells, to try to bring forth lice, but they could not; so there were lice on man and on beast.


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Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. But Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and present yourself before Pharaoh as he is going out to the water, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, Let My people go that they may serve Me.


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For if you will not let My people go, then I will at once send swarms of flies against you and against your servants and against your people and against your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, as well as the ground on


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But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, so that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the land.


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And Jehovah did so; and heavy swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and throughout the land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.


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And Moses said, It would not be right to do so, for we will sacrifice to Jehovah our God what is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?


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We must go a three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God just as He commands us.


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And Pharaoh said, I will let you go that you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make entreaty for me.


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And Moses said, I am now going out from you, and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies would depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully anymore by not letting the people go to s


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses, and He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go that they may serve Me.


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Then the hand of Jehovah is going to be 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 severe pestilence.


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And Jehovah will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.


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And Jehovah did this thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel not one died.


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And Pharaoh sent to inquire, and indeed there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.


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And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and on beast throughout all the land of Egypt.


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So they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it toward heaven, and it became boils breaking forth with sores on man and on beast.


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And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.


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And Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken to Moses.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go that they may serve Me.


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For this time I am going to send all My plagues against you and on your servants and on your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.


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For if by now I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would have been cut off from the earth.


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But indeed for this cause I have made you stand, to show you My power and to have My name proclaimed throughout all the earth.


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Tomorrow about this time I am going to cause very heavy hail to fall, such as has never occurred in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.


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Now therefore send men and secure your livestock and all that you have in the field; every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home when the hail comes down shall die.


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He who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.


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But he who did not pay attention to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be hail throughout all the land of Egypt, upon man and upon beast and upon all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven; and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth, and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.


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So there was very heavy hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, such as had not occurred in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.


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And the hail struck everything that was in the field, both man and beast, throughout all the land of Egypt; and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and shattered every tree of the field.


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And Pharaoh sent a messenger and called for Moses and Aaron; and he said to them, I have sinned this time; Jehovah is the righteous One, and I and my people are in the wrong.


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Entreat Jehovah, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.


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And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah; the thunder will cease, and there will not be any more hail, that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's.


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And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to Jehovah; and the thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.


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But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.


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So Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go, just as Jehovah had spoken through Moses.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants that I may show these signs of Mine in the midst of them,


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And that you may recount in the hearing of your son and your grandson how I made a mockery of Egypt and My signs which I have done among them, that you may know that I am Jehovah.


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And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go that they may serve Me.


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For if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I am going to bring swarming locusts into your territory,


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And they will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat the rest of what has escaped - what is left to you from the hail - and will eat up every tree of yours that is sprouting in the field.


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And your houses will be filled with them, as well as the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians; something that neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen since the day that they came upon the earth until this day. T


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And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?


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So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God. But who exactly are going?


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And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds, for we must hold Jehovah's feast.


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And he said to them, Let Jehovah indeed be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones as well. See here, you are up to some evil.


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No! Go now, but the men only, and serve Jehovah, since that is what you are requesting. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the swarming locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail has left.


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So Moses stretched forth his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the land all that day and all night; when it was morning, the east wind had brought the swarming locusts.


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And the swarming locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt in great mass. Before them there had never been so many swarming locusts as they, nor after them will there ever be so many.


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And they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate all the vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and nothing green remained on the trees or among the vegetation of the field


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Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron and said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.


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Now therefore, please forgive my sin just this once, and entreat Jehovah your God that He would only remove this death from me.


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And Jehovah changed the wind into a very strong west wind, and it took up the swarming locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness that can be felt.


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So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout all the land of Egypt for three days.


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They could not see one another, nor did anyone rise up from his place for three days, but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.


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And Pharaoh called Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be detained. Your little ones may also go with you.


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And Moses said, You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings so that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.


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So our cattle also must go with us; not a hoof must be left behind, for we must take some of them to serve Jehovah our God, and we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah until we go there.


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And Pharaoh said to him, Get away from me. Be sure that you do not see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, One more plague will I bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely.


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Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man is to ask of his neighbor and each woman of her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.


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And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.


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And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the millstones, and all the firstborn of cattle.


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And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as has not been or ever will be again.


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But a dog shall not bark at any of the children of Israel, at man or beast, that you may know that Jehovah makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.


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And all these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, Get out, you and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, in order that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.


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Thus Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.


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This month will be the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first of the months of the year to you.


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Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a lamb according to his fathers' house, a lamb for a household.


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And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the persons in the houses; according to each man's eating you shall make your count for the lamb.


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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.


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And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it at twilight.


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And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.


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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread with bitter herbs.


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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire - its head with its legs and with its inward parts.


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And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning, but any of it that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.


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And this is how you shall eat it:with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's passover.


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For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Also against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.


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And the blood shall be a sign for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there will be no plague upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.


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And this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as a perpetual statute you shall keep it as a feast.


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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.


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And on the first day you shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation. No work at all shall be done on them, except to prepare what every person will eat, that alone may be done by you.


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And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a perpetual statute.


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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty- first day of the month in the evening.


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For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether a sojourner or a native of the land.


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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take lambs according to your families, and slaughter the passover.


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And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and you shall apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the entrance of his house until the morn


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For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the entrance and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.


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And when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this service.


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You shall say, It is the passover sacrifice to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshipped.


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And the children of Israel went and did so; just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.


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And at midnight Jehovah 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 cattle.


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And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead.


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And he called for Moses and Aaron in the night and said, Rise up, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as you have said.


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And the Egyptians urged the people, so as to hasten their departure out of the land, for they said, All of us will be dead.


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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.


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And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and clothing.


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And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.


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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.


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And a mixed multitude went up also with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.


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And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared for themselves any provisions.


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Now the time of the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred thirty years.


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And at the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.


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It was for Jehovah a night of watching, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. That same night is a night of watching to Jehovah for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.


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And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover:No foreigner shall eat of it.


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However any man's servant who is bought for silver, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.


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It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its bones.


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But if a stranger sojourns with you and will observe the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to observe it; and he will be like one who is a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.


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And on that very day Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


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Sanctify to Me all the firstborn:Whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.


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And Moses said to the people, Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the slave house, for by strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place; and nothing leavened shall be eaten.


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And when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall observe this service in this month:


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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to Jehovah.


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Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days, and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your territory.


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And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came out of Egypt.


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And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in your mouth; for with a mighty hand Jehovah brought you out of Egypt.


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And when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,


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You shall set apart to Jehovah everything that opens the womb and the first offspring of every beast which is yours; the males shall be Jehovah's.


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And every first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. And every firstborn male among your sons you shall redeem.


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And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? you shall say to him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the slave house.


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And when Pharaoh hardened himself against letting us go, Jehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I am one who sacrifices to Jehovah all that open the womb that are males; and all


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So it will be as a sign upon your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand Jehovah brought us out of Egypt.


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Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Perhaps the people will change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.


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Thus God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up arrayed for battle out of the land of Egypt.


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And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of Israel solemnly swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall bring my bones up from here with you.


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And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them on the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might go by day and by night.


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Tell the children of Israel to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You shall camp before Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.


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And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has hemmed them in.


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue after them; and I will glorify Myself through Pharaoh and through all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.


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And when it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants changed toward the people; and they said, What is this we have done, letting Israel go from serving us?


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And he took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.


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And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, so that he pursued after the children of Israel as the children of Israel were going out with a high hand.


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And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army; and they overtook them as they encamped by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal- zephon.


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And when Pharaoh approached, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and there the Egyptians were, marching after them; and they became very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to Jehovah.


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And they said to Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you done this to us, bringing us out of Egypt?


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Is this not the very thing that we spoke to you about in Egypt, saying, Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.


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But Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid; stand firm, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will see no more again forever.


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And you, lift up your staff, 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.


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And I will now harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will glorify Myself through Pharaoh and through all his army, through his chariots and through his horsemen.


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Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah when I glorify Myself through Pharaoh, through his chariots and through his horsemen.


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And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.


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And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And the cloud was there with the darkness, yet it gave light by night to them. Thus one did not come near the other all night.


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And when Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night and made the sea dry land; and the waters were divided.


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And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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Then the Egyptians pursued; and all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.


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And at the morning watch Jehovah looked down upon the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud and threw the camp of the Egyptians into confusion.


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And He caused their chariot wheels to swerve and made them drive with difficulty, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and over their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its level when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it, and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.


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And as the waters returned, they covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all the army of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; not even one of them was left.


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But the children of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.


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And when Israel saw the great power which Jehovah exercised against the Egyptians, the people feared Jehovah; and they believed in Jehovah and in His servant Moses.


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Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Jehovah and spoke, saying, I will sing to Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously; The horse and its rider He has cast into the sea.


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Jah is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father's God, and I will exalt Him.


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Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; And his choice officers have drowned in the Red Sea.


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Your right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power; Your right hand, O Jehovah, dashed the enemy in pieces.


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And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrew those who rose up against You. You sent forth Your burning wrath; It consumed them like stubble.


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And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up; The flowing currents stood up like a heap; The deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.


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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire will be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.


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Who is like You, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like You, splendid in holiness, Awesome in praises, doing wonders?


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In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.


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Then the chiefs of Edom are dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling has seized them; All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.


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Terror and dread have fallen upon them; By the greatness of Your arm they have become as still as stone, Until Your people passed over, O Jehovah, Until the people whom You purchased passed over.


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You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.


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For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and with his horsemen went into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them while the children of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.


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And 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 dancing.


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And Miriam responded to them, Sing to Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously; The horse and its rider He has cast into the sea.


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Then Moses moved 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.


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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore its name was called Marah.


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And he cried out to Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree; and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.


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And He said, If you will listen carefully to the voice of Jehovah your God and do what is right in His eyes and give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Jeho


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And they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.


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And they journeyed from Elim, and all the assembly 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 departure out of the land of Egypt.


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And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.


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And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole congregation with hu


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, I will now rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My law.


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And on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.


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So Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening you will know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt;


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And in the morning you will see the glory of Jehovah, for He hears your murmurings against Jehovah. And what are we, that you murmur against us?


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And Moses said, This you will see when Jehovah gives you flesh to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against Jeh


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And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the assembly of the children of Israel, Come near before Jehovah, for He has heard your murmurings.


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And as Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and there the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.


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I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, At twilight you will eat flesh, and in the morning you will be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.


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And at evening quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.


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And when the layer of dew lifted, there upon the surface of the wilderness were fine round flakes, fine as the frost on the earth.


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And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.


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This is what Jehovah has commanded, Gather of it, each one according to his eating; you shall take an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, each one for those who are in his tent.


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And when they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no lack; each of them gathered according to his eating.


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But they did not listen to Moses, and some men left part of it until the morning; and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was indignant with them.


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And they gathered it morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun became hot, it melted.


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And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the leaders of the assembly came and told Moses.


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And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has spoken, Tomorrow is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to Jehovah. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until the morning.


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And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it.


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And Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to Jehovah; today you will not find it in the field.


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See, Jehovah has given you the Sabbath, therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let each of you stay in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.


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And the house of Israel called its name manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers made with honey.


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And Moses said, This is what Jehovah has commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations.


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And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to inhabitable land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.


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And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin by their stages according to the command of Jehovah and encamped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.


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Therefore the people contended with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why are you contending with me? Why do you test Jehovah?


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So the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, For what reason did you bring us up out of Egypt; to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?


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So Moses cried out to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? A little more, and they will stone me.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the River, and go.


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I will be standing before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.


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And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel and because they tested Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?


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And Moses said to Joshua, Choose men for us, and go out; fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.


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So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


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And when Moses lifted his hand up, Israel prevailed; and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.


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But Moses' hands were heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.


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For he said, For there is a hand against the throne of Jah! Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.


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Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.


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And her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom, for Moses said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land;


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And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.


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So Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God.


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And he sent word to Moses:I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.


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So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; and each asked the other's welfare, and they came into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how Jehovah delivered them.


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And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.


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And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


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Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; indeed, it was proven when they dealt proudly against the people.


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Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat food with Moses' father- in-law before God.


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And on the following day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.


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And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?


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When they have a dispute, the matter comes to me; and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.


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You will surely wear yourself out, both you and this people who are with you, for the thing is too heavy for you; you cannot do it by yourself.


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Listen now to my voice:I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You stand for the people before God, and you bring the matters to God.


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And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they should walk and the work that they should do.


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You also should look for able men among all the people who fear God, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them, as leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens.


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And let them judge the people at all times; and let them bring every great matter to you, but every small matter let them judge themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.


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If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.


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And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people:leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens.


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And they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.


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In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.


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And when they had journeyed from Rephidim and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped in front of the mountain.


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And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel:


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You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.


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Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My personal treasure from among all peoples, for all the earth is Mine.


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And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel.


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So Moses came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Jehovah had commanded him.


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And all the people answered together and said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you forever. Then Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah,


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow; and have them wash their garments,


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And be ready for the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.


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And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, Be careful that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.


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No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.


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And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments.


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And on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet sound; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.


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And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the base of the mountain.


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Now the whole of Mount Sinai smoked because Jehovah descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly.


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And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in a voice.


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And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain, and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go down; charge the people not to break through to Jehovah to look, lest many of them perish.


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And let the priests who come near to Jehovah also sanctify themselves, so that Jehovah does not break forth upon them.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You charged us, saying, Set limits around the mountain, and sanctify it.


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And Jehovah said to him, Go, get down; then you shall come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people force a way through to come up to Jehovah, so that He does not break forth upon them.


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You shall not make for yourself an idol, nor the form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.


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You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,


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Yet showing lovingkindness to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.


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You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.


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But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter, your male servant nor your female servant, nor your cattle nor the sojourner with you, who is within your gates.


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For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.


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Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be extended upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.


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You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.


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And all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.


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And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak with us, so we do not die.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may be before you, so that you do not sin.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.


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You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.


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An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.


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And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.


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If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; but in the seventh he shall go out free without payment to you.


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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.


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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.


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But if the servant plainly says, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free;


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Then his master shall bring him to God 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 forever.


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If she displeases her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he has no right to sell her to a foreign people, because he has dealt with her unfaithfully.


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If he take another woman for himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.


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And if he does not do these three things for her, then shall she go out for nothing, without payment of silver.


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But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God allowed him to fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he may flee to.


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And if a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to slay him with guile, you shall take him even from My altar so that he may die.


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And he who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.


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And if men contend and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist so that he does not die but remains in bed;


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If he can rise up and walk around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall be guiltless; he shall only pay for the loss of his time, until he has made sure he is completely healed.


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And if a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a rod, and the servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.


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And if men struggle together, and they hit a pregnant woman, so that she has a miscarriage, but there is no further mishap, he shall surely be fined what the woman's husband shall impose upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.


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And if a man strikes the eye of his male servant or the eye of his female servant and destroys it, he shall let that one go free on account of that one's eye.


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And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth or his female servant's tooth, he shall let that one go free on account of that one's tooth.


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And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless.


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But if the ox was accustomed to goring previously, and its owner had been warned, but he would not keep it in, and it killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.


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If a ransom is imposed on the owner, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed upon him.


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If either it gores a son or it gores a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.


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If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.


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And if a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,


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The owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give silver to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.


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And if one man's ox injures another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.


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Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to goring previously and its owner would not keep it in, he shall surely give restitution, an ox for an ox, and the dead animal shall become his.


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If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.


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If the thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him;


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Unless the sun has risen upon him, then there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. He shall indeed make restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.


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If what he has stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall restore double.


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If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed, that is, he lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field; from the best of his own field and from the best of his own vineyard he shall make restitution.


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If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or what is growing in the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.


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If a man gives to his neighbor silver or goods to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall restore double.


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If the thief is not found, then the owner of the house shall come near to God to determine whether or not he laid his hand on his neighbor's goods.


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For every case of transgression, whether concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning a sheep, concerning clothing, or concerning any lost item about which one says, This is it, the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God declares gui


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If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured or driven away, with no man seeing it;


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The oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.


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If it was torn in pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for that which was torn.


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And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.


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If its owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, only the hiring fee is due.


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And if a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to become his wife.


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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay silver according to the dowry of virgins.


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And you shall not wrong a sojourner, nor shall you oppress him; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.


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And My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans.


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If you lend silver to My people, to the poor among you, you shall not be to him as a creditor; you shall not charge him interest.


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If you ever take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.


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For that is his only covering; it is his garment for his skin. On what shall he lie down? And when he cries to Me I will hear, for I am gracious.


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You shall not delay to offer the fullness of your harvest and of the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.


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You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.


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And you shall be holy men to Me. And you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.


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You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.


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You shall not follow a multitude to do evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice ,


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If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him; you shall surely release it with him.


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Keep far away from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked man.


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And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds those whose eyes are open and perverts the words of the righteous.


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And you shall not oppress a sojourner, for you know the feelings of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.


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But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat, and what they leave, the animals of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and with your olivegrove.


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Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall cease from work so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner may be refreshed.


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Now concerning everything which I have said to you, take heed to yourselves; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let their name be heard out of your mouth.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, seven days you shall eat unleavened bread at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out from Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty.


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And you shall keep the Feast of the Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors from what you sow in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year when you gather in your labors out of the field.


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You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened, nor shall the fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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I am now sending an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.


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Be careful before Him, and listen to His voice; do not rebel against Him, for He will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in Him.


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But if you will 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.


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For My Angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.


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You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars into pieces.


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And you shall serve Jehovah your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from your midst.


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I will send My terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people to whom you will come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.


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And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.


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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.


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Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have become fruitful and inherit the land.


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And 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 from before you.


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They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.


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Then He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship at a distance.


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And Moses alone shall come near to Jehovah, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.


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And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do.


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And Moses wrote down all the words of Jehovah, and he rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of bulls to Jehovah.


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And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.


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And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.


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So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, Here is the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah has made with you in accordance with all these words.


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And they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was something like a paved work of sapphire, even like heaven itself for clearness.


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And He did not stretch out His hand upon the nobles of the children of Israel. And they beheld God and ate and drank.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to Me at the top of the mountain, and be there; and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.


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And he had said to the elders, Wait here for us until we return to you. Both Aaron and Hur are here with you; whoever has a cause, let him come near to them.


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And the glory of Jehovah settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.


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And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the children of Israel.


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And 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.


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Tell the children of Israel to take for Me a heave offering. From every man whose heart makes him willing you shall take My heave offering.


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According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its utensils, even so you shall make it.


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And they shall make an ark of acacia wood:two and a half cubits shall be its length; and one and a half cubits, its width; and one and a half cubits, its height.


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And you shall overlay it with pure gold; inside and outside you shall overlay it; and you shall make a rim of gold upon it all around.


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And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them on its four feet; and two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.


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And you shall make an expiation cover of pure gold:two and a half cubits shall be its length, and one and a half cubits, its width.


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And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work you shall make them, at the two ends of the expiation cover.


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And make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the expiation cover you shall make the cherubim on its two ends.


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And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above the cover, covering the expiation cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the expiation cover.


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And you shall put the expiation cover on top of the Ark, and into the Ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.


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And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the expiation cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, of everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.


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And you shall make a table of acacia wood:two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its width, and one and a half cubits its height.


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And you shall make a frame of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a rim of gold for its frame around it.


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And you shall make for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that are on its four feet.


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And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.


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And you shall make its plates and its spoons and its pitchers and its bowls with which to pour out drink offerings; of pure gold you shall make them.


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And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand with its base and its shaft shall be made of beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its blossom buds shall be of one piece with it.


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And there shall be six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of one of its sides, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;


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Three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a calyx and a blossom bud; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a calyx and a blossom bud - so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.


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And there shall be on the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its calyxes and its blossom buds;


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And a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.


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Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.


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Now the tabernacle you shall make with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet strands; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.


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The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurement.


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Five curtains shall be joined to one another; and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.


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And you shall make loops of blue strands on the edge of the one curtain at the end in the set; and likewise you shall make them in the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.


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You shall make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.


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And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may become one.


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And you shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains you shall make.


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The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measurement.


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And you shall join five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves; and you shall double the sixth curtain over at the front of the tent.


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And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the set, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second set.


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And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together, so that it may become one.


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And the overlapping part that is left over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.


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And the cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of what is left over 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.


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And you shall make a covering for the tent, of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of porpoise skins above it.


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Each board shall have two tenons, parallel to each another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under the next board for its two tenons.


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And their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.


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And they shall be double below, and at its top they shall be completely joined to a single ring; thus it shall be for both of them; they shall be for the two corners.


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And there shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.


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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 at the rear westward.


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And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.


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And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.


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And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.


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And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps and bring in the Ark of the Testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall make a separation for you between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.


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And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and the table you shall put on the north side.


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And you shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.


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And for the screen you shall make five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.


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And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, a length of five cubits and a width of five cubits; the altar shall be square; and three cubits, its height.


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And you shall make its horns upon its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.


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And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.


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And you shall make a grating, a network of bronze for it; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four ends.


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And you shall put it below, under the ledge of the altar so that the net may reach halfway up the altar.


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And its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.


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You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was shown to you in the mountain, so shall they make it.


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And you shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits long for one side;


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And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods shall be of silver.


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And likewise on the north side, in length there shall be hangings a length of one hundred cubits, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods shall be of silver.


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And for the width of the court on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.


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And there shall be fifteen cubits of hangings for the one side of the gate, with their three pillars and their three sockets.


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And there shall be fifteen cubits of hangings for the other side, with their three pillars and their three sockets.


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And for the gate of the court there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; with their four pillars and their four sockets.


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All the pillars around the court shall be connected with silver, with their hooks of silver and their sockets of bronze.


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The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits; and the width, fifty at each end; and the height, five cubits; of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.


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All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court shall be of bronze.


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And you shall command the children of Israel to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.


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In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah; it shall be a perpetual statute to be observed throughout their generations by the children of Israel.


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And bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may serve Me as a priest - Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.


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And you shall speak to all who are wise in heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may serve Me as a priest.


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And these are the garments which they shall make:a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a girding sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons that he may serve Me as a priest.


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They therefore shall take the gold and the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands and the fine linen,


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And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine twined linen, the work of a skillful workman.


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And the skillfully woven band, which is on it for its fastening, shall be like it in workmanship, of one piece with it; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen.


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Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth.


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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 sons of Israel; you shall make them enclosed in settings of gold.


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And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders for a memorial.


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And two chains of pure gold; you shall make them twisted, a cordage work, and you shall put the chains of cords on the settings.


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And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and of fine twined linen you shall make it.


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And you shall enclose in it enclosures of stones, four rows of stones:the first row shall be a row of a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;


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And the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their enclosures.


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And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; they shall be like the engravings of a signet, each according to its name, for the twelve tribes.


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And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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And you shall put the two other ends of the two cords on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.


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And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of the breastplate upon its edge, which is toward the ephod on the inside.


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And you shall make two rings of gold and shall put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod on the front of it, close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.


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And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue strands, that it may be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate may not come loose from the ephod.


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So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart when he goes into the sanctuary, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.


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And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart when he goes in before Jehovah, and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Jehovah continually.


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And there shall be an opening for the head in its center; around its opening there shall be a binding edge of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn.


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And you shall make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet strands, all around its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:


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A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.


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And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the sanctuary before Jehovah and when he comes out, so that he may not die.


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And you shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet:HOLY TO JEHOVAH.


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And you shall put it on a cord of blue strands, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.


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And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel sanctify for all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah.


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And you shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a girding sash, the work of an embroiderer.


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And for Aaron's sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make for them girding sashes, and you shall make for them high hats, for glory and for beauty.


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And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother and upon his sons with him, and you shall anoint them and fill their hands and sanctify them, that they may serve Me as priests.


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And you shall make them linen trousers to cover their naked flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs;


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And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons when they go into the Tent of Meeting or when they come near to the altar to minister in the sanctuary, that they may not bear iniquity and die. It shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his seed after


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And this is what you shall do to them to sanctify them to serve Me as priests:take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish,


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And unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.


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And you shall put them into one basket and present them in the basket with the bull and the two rams.


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And you shall bring Aaron and his sons near to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.


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And you shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;


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And you shall gird them with girding sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind high hats on them; and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall fill the hands of Aaron and his sons.


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And you shall present the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.


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And you shall take some of the blood of the bull and put some of it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and all the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.


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And you shall take all the fat that covers the inward parts and the appendage on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.


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But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.


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And you shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.


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And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it on and around the altar.


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Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces and wash its inward parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.


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And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to Jehovah; it is a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.


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Then you shall slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobe 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 rest of the


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And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; and he and his garments shall be sanctified, as well as his sons and


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You shall also take the fat from the ram, that is, the fat tail and the fat that covers the inward parts, and the appendage of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of the filling of hands),


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And one loaf of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah;


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And you shall put all these in the palms of Aaron and in the palms of his sons, and shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar upon the burnt offering for a satisfying fragrance before Jehovah; it is an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And you shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of the filling of hands and wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah; and it shall be your portion.


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And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering which was waved and which was heaved up from the ram of the filling of hands, from the one which is for Aaron and from the one which is for his sons.


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And it shall become a perpetual statute for Aaron and his sons to be observed by the children of Israel; for it is a heave offering; and it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their heave off


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And the holy garments of Aaron shall belong to his sons after him, for them to be anointed in them and to have their hands filled in them.


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One of his sons who is the priest in his place shall put them on seven days when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the sanctuary.


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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So they shall eat those things by which expiation was made, to fill their hands and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat them, because they are holy.


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And if any of the flesh of the filling of hands or any of the bread remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.


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And thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons according to all that I have commanded you; you shall fill their hands seven days.


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And each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for expiation, and you shall cleanse the altar when you make expiation for it; and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.


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Seven days you shall make expiation for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall become most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.


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And with the one lamb a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.


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And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; you shall offer it with the meal offering and its drink offering as in the morning, for a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.


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And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify to serve Me as priests.


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And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell in the midst of them; I am Jehovah their God.


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Its length shall be a cubit and its width a cubit; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.


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And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and you shall make a rim of gold around it.


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And you shall make for it two golden rings under its rim; on its two sides, on its opposite sides you shall make them; and they shall be as holders for poles with which to carry it.


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And you shall put it before the veil that is over the Ark of the Testimony, before the expiation cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.


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And Aaron shall burn on it fragrant incense; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.


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And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.


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You shall not offer any strange incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.


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And Aaron shall make expiation on its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of expiation once a year he shall make expiation for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.


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When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those of them who are numbered, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to Jehovah, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.


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This they shall give, everyone enrolled with those who are numbered, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a heave offering to Jehovah.


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Everyone enrolled with those who are numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the heave offering of Jehovah.


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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel, when you give the heave offering of Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.


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And you shall take the expiation silver from the children of Israel and shall give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.


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You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.


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When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah,


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Then they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die. And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations.


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You also take the finest spices:of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels,


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And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.


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And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded according to the perfumer's art; it shall be a holy anointing oil.


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And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.


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Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor shall you make any like it, according to its composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.


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Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant spices - stacte and onycha and galbanum - fragrant spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each;


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And you shall make of it incense, a perfume according to the perfumer's art, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.


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And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy.


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And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make for yourselves according to its composition; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.


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And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with understanding and with knowledge and with all kinds of workmanship,


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And in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.


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And now, 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 in heart I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:


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The Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Testimony and the expiation cover that is on it, and all the utensils of the tent,


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And the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,


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And the finely worked garments, both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests,


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And the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant spices for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.


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Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep My Sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.


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Therefore you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.


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Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.


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It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.


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And when He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.


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And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron and said to him, Come, make gods for us who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not kn


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And Aaron said to them, Tear off the gold rings, which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.


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And he took the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!


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And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; then Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.


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And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.


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They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have worshipped it and have sacrificed to it and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!


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Now therefore let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great nation.


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And Moses entreated Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?


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Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent He brought them out, to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your burning anger, and repent of this evil against Your people.


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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.


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Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both of their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.


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And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.


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And when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp.


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But Moses said, It is not the sound of the cry of triumph, Neither is it the sound of the cry of defeat; But it is the sound of singing that I hear.


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And as soon as he drew near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.


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And he took the calf which they had made, and he burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink it.


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And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord burn. You know the people, that they are set on evil;


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For they said to me, Make gods for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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So I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.


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And when Moses saw that the people were without restraint (for Aaron had let them be without restraint to be a derision among those who rise up against them),


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Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Whoever is for Jehovah, come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him.


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And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let each man put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each man kill his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his neighbor.


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And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and that day about three thousand men among the people fell.


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And Moses said, Fill your hands today to Jehovah, for every man has been against his son and against his brother, that He may bestow upon you a blessing today.


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And on the next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to Jehovah; perhaps I can make expiation for your sin.


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And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Oh, this people have committed a great sin and have made gods of gold for themselves.


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Yet now, if You will forgive their sin - and if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.


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And now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you. Now My Angel will go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.


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Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.


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And I will send an Angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiffnecked people.


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Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiffnecked people; if I were to go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Now therefore put off your ornaments from you, and I will decide what to do to you.


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Now Moses would take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, some distance from the camp; and he called it the Tent of Meeting. And everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.


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And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up and stand, every man at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses, until he entered the tent.


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And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stay at the entrance of the tent, and Jehovah would speak with Moses.


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When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at the entrance of his tent.


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And Jehovah would speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his companion. And Moses would return to the camp, but his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart out of the tent.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, See, You say to me, Bring up this people; but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.


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Now therefore if I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know now Your ways, that I may know You, so that I may continue to find favor in Your sight. Consider also that this nation is Your people.


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For how then shall it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, are distinct from all the other people who are on the face of the earth?


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And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.


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And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.


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And while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My palm until I have passed by.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you shattered.


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And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me, on the top of the mountain.


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And no one shall come up with you, nor let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain, nor let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.


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So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, just as Jehovah had commanded him; and he took two tablets of stone in his hand.


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And Jehovah descended in the cloud and took His place there with him and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.


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Then Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, God compassionate and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,


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Keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the grandchildren, to the third and fourth generations.


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And he said, If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord please go in our midst; although they are a stiffnecked people, You pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for Your inheritance.


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And He said, Now I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders such as have not been produced in all the earth, nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for it is an


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Observe what I am commanding you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.


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Be careful that you do not make any covenant with the inhabitants of the land against which you are going, lest they become a snare in your midst.


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But their altars you shall tear down, and their pillars you shall shatter, and their Asherahs you shall cut down


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Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, and you eat of his sacrifice;


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And you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.


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All that opens the womb is Mine; even the first male produced by all your livestock, of cattle or sheep.


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And the first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before Me empty.


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Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor. Even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall cease from labor.


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And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks, that is, of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.


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For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.


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You shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain all night until the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words, for according to the speaking of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.


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And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


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And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai - and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain - Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone by reason of His speaking with him.


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And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, at that time the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.


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So Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the assembly returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.


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And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.


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But whenever Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded,


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The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone. So Moses put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with Him.


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And Moses gathered all the assembly of the children of Israel and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded you to do.


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Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.


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And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah has commanded, saying,


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Take from among yourselves a heave offering to Jehovah; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the heave offering of Jehovah:gold and silver and bronze,


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The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;


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And the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance, at the entrance of the tabernacle;


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The altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base;


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The finely worked garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests.


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And they came, everyone whose heart lifted him up and everyone whose spirit made him willing, and brought the heave offering of Jehovah for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.


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And they came, men together with women, as many as were of a willing heart, and brought nose rings and earrings and signet rings and pendants, all kinds of articles of gold; even every man who waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah.


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And every man with whom was found blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, brought them.


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Everyone who offered a heave offering of silver and bronze brought the heave offering of Jehovah; and every man with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.


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And all the women who were wise in heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands, and the fine linen.


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And the leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastplate,


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The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Jehovah; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded through Moses to be done.


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And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.


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And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all kinds of workmanship;


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And in the cutting of stones for setting, and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.


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And He has put in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.


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He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of an engraver and of a skillful workman and of an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet strands, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do all kinds of


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And Bezalel and Oholiab and every man who is wise in heart in whom Jehovah has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary shall work according to all that Jehovah has commanded.


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And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every man who was wise in heart in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart lifted him up to come to the work to do it.


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And they received from Moses every heave offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still kept bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.


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And all the wise men who did all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which he was doing;


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And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people are bringing much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded us to do.


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And Moses gave commandment; and a proclamation was passed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the heave offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.


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And all the wise in heart among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains, of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet strands, with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. Bezalel made them.


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The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurement.


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And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain at the end in the set; likewise he made them in the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.


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He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.


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And he made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps; so the tabernacle became one.


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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; the eleven curtains had the same measurement.


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And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the set, and fifty loops he made upon the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second set.


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And he made a covering for the tent, of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of porpoise skins above it.


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And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under the next board for its two tenons.


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And they were double below, and at its top they were completely joined to a single ring; thus he did to both of them for the two corners.


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And there were eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under every board.


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And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear westward.


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And he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.


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And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.


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And he made for it four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold. And he cast for them four sockets of silver.


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And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer,


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And its five pillars with their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their connecting rods with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.


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Next Bezalel made the Ark of acacia wood:two and a half cubits was its length; and one and a half cubits, its width; and one and a half cubits, its height.


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And he cast four rings of gold for it, on its four feet; and two rings were on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.


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And he made an expiation cover of pure gold:two and a half cubits was its length, and one and a half cubits, its width.


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And he made two cherubim of gold; of beaten work he made them, at the two ends of the expiation cover,


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One cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the expiation cover he made the cherubim at its two ends.


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And the cherubim spread out their wings above the cover, covering the expiation cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the expiation cover.


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And he made the table of acacia wood:two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and one and a half cubits its height.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.


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And he made the utensils which were to be upon the table:its plates and its spoons and its bowls and its pitchers with which to pour out drink offerings, of pure gold.


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And he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand with its base and its shaft of beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its blossom buds were of one piece with it.


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And there were six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of one of its sides, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;


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And a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.


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Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it; all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.


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And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood; a cubit was its length, and a cubit its width, square, and two cubits its height; its horns were of one piece with it.


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And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and he made a rim of gold around it.


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And he made for it two golden rings under its rim, on its two sides, on its opposite sides, as holders for poles with which to carry it.


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And he made the altar of burnt offering, of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits, its width, square; and three cubits, its height.


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And he made its horns upon its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.


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And he made all the utensils of the altar:the pots and the shovels and the basins, the forks and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.


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And he made a grating of network of bronze, for the altar, under its ledge beneath, reaching halfway up.


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And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it; he made it hollow, with boards.


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And he made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And he made the court. On the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;


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Their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver.


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And on the north side, one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver.


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And on the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver.


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The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets;


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And so for the other side; on both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.


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And the sockets for the pillars were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals was of silver; and all the pillars of the court were connected with silver.


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And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the width was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the cou


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And their four pillars and their four sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their connecting rods were of silver.


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This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted according to the commandment of Moses for the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet strands and in fine linen.


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All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was twenty- nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And the silver of those who were numbered of the assembly was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;


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A beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone enrolled with those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand, five hundred fifty men.


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And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.


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And of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made connecting rods for them.


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And with it he made the sockets for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar


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And the sockets around the court and the sockets of the gate of the court and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs around the court.


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And from the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the sanctuary, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut them into threads, to work into the blue and into the purple and into the scarlet strands and into the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman.


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And the skillfully woven band, which was on it for its fastening, was of one piece with it and like it in workmanship, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine twined linen, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And they made the onyx stones enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet according to the names of the sons of Israel.


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And he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and of fine twined linen.


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It was square; they made the breastplate doubled; a span in its length and a span in its width when doubled.


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And they filled it with four rows of stones. The first row was a row of a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;


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And the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold in their enclosures.


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And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names like the engravings of a signet, each according to his name, for the twelve tribes.


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And they made two settings of gold and two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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And the two other ends of the two cords they put on the two settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.


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And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate on its edge, which was toward the ephod on the inside.


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And they made two rings of gold and put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod on the front of it, close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.


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And they bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue strands, that it might be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And the opening of the robe in its center like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding edge around its opening so that it would not be torn.


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And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and twined linen.


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And they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around, between the pomegranates;


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A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around to minister in; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of high hats of fine linen, and the linen trousers of fine twined linen,


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And the girding sash of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet strands, the work of an embroiderer, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote an inscription upon it, like the engravings of a signet:HOLY TO JEHOVAH.


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And they tied to it a cord of blue strands to fasten it on the turban above, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished, and the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses; so they did.


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And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets;


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And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the veil of the screen;


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The pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;


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And the golden altar and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense and the screen for the entrance of the tent;


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The bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base;


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The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets; and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting;


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And Moses saw all the work; and there it was, they had done it; just as Jehovah had commanded, so they had done; and Moses blessed them.


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And you shall bring in the table and arrange its setting, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.


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And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the Ark of the Testimony and set up the screen of the entrance to the tabernacle.


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And you shall put the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.


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And you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify it and all its utensils; and it shall be holy.


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And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and sanctify the altar; and the altar shall be most holy.


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And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.


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And you shall put the holy garments upon Aaron, and you shall anoint him and sanctify him that he may serve Me as a priest.


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And you shall anoint them as you have anointed their father that they may serve Me as priests; and their anointing shall e to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.


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And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.


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And Moses raised up the tabernacle and put down its sockets and set up its boards and put in its bars and raised up its pillars.


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And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it from above, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Then he took the testimony and put it into the Ark, and he set the poles onto the Ark and put the expiation cover upon the Ark above it.


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And he brought the Ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil for the screen and screened the Ark of the Testimony, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Then he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.


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He also set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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Whenever they went into the Tent of Meeting and whenever they came near the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.


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And Moses was not able to enter the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.


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And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel set out on all their journeys;


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For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel on all their journeys.


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Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When any one of you presents an offering to Jehovah, you shall present your offering from the cattle, of the herd or of the flock.


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If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall present it, a male without blemish; he shall present it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him, to make expiation for him.


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And he shall slaughter the young bull before Jehovah; and Aaron's sons the priests shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood on and around the altar that is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange the wood in order on the fire.


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Then Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;


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But its inward parts and its legs he shall wash with water. Then the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if his offering is from the flock, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall present it, a male without blemish.


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And he shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah, and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood on and around the altar.


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And he shall cut it into its pieces with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;


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But the inward parts and the legs he shall wash with water. Then the priest shall present the whole and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if his offering to Jehovah is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall present his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons.


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And the priest shall present it at 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.


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And he shall take away its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar toward the east, in the place of the ashes.


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Then he shall tear it open by its wings without dividing it, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And when anyone presents an offering of a meal offering to Jehovah, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.


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Then he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests, and he shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil with all its frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as its memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire, a satisfying frag


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And what is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a thing most holy of Jehovah's offerings by fire.


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And when you present an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened cakes mingled with oil or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.


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And if your offering is a meal offering baked on a flat plate, it shall be of fine flour mingled with oil, unleavened.


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And you shall bring to Jehovah the meal offering that is made of these things and present it to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.


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And the priest shall take up from the meal offering its memorial portion and shall burn it on the altar, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a thing most holy of Jehovah's offerings by fire.


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No meal offering that you present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven, for you shall not burn any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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You may present them to Jehovah, as an offering of firstfruits, but they shall not be offered up for a satisfying fragrance on the altar.


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And every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt, and you shall not omit the salt of the covenant of your God from your meal offering; with all your offerings you shall present salt.


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And if you present a meal offering of firstfruits to Jehovah, you shall present for the meal offering of your firstfruits new grain roasted with fire, crushed grain of the fresh ear.


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And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion, some of its crushed grain and some of its oil, with all its frankincense, as an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he presents it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall present it without blemish before Jehovah.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on and around the altar.


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And he shall present from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering by fire to Jehovah. The fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is on the inward parts,


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And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the appendage on the liver with the kidneys, he shall remove.


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And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire; it is an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah is from the flock, he shall present it, male or female, without blemish.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on and around the altar.


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And he shall present from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering by fire to Jehovah. Its fat, the entire fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is on the inward parts,


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And he shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on and around the altar.


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And he shall present from it his offering, as an offering by fire to Jehovah. The fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is on the inward parts,


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And the priest shall burn them on the altar; it is the food of the offering by fire for a satisfying fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.


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It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If anyone sins without intent, in any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,


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If the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him present a bull of the herd without blemish to Jehovah for a sin offering for his sin that he committed.


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And he shall bring the bull to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before Jehovah, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull before Jehovah.


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And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the Tent of Meeting,


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Jehovah in front of the veil of the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Jehovah, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at t


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And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take off from it:the fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is upon the inward parts,


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And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the appendage upon the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys,


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As it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.


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And the skin of the bull and all its flesh with its head and with its legs, and the rest of its inward parts and its dung,


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That is, all the rest of the bull he shall bring out to a clean place outside the camp, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.


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Now if the whole assembly of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the congregation, and they have done any of the things which Jehovah commanded not to be done and become guilty;


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And when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the congregation shall present a bull of the herd for a sin offering and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.


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And the elders of the assembly shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Jehovah, and one shall slaughter the bull before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah in front of the veil.


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And some of the blood he shall put upon the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is, in the Tent of Meeting; and all the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the Tent of Me


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Thus shall he do with the bull; just as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make expiation for them, and they will be forgiven.


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And he shall bring out the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the congregation.


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When a ruler sins and does without intent any one of all the things which Jehovah his God has commanded not to be done and becomes guilty,


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If his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a male goat, without blemish.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering before Jehovah; it is a sin offering.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger 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 of burnt offering.


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And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin, and he will be forgiven.


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And if any one of the common people sins without intent by doing any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done and becomes guilty;


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If his sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a female goat, without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take some of its blood 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.


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And all its fat he shall remove, just as the fat is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah. And the priest shall make expiation for him, and he will be forgiven.


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And if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it, a female without blemish.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering.


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And 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.


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And all its fat he shall remove, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar upon Jehovah's offerings by fire. And the priest shall make expiation for him concerning his sin tha


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And if anyone sins in that he hears the voice of adjuration when he is a witness, whether he has seen or known about a matter, if he does not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.


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Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether the carcass of an unclean animal or the carcass of unclean cattle or the carcass of unclean swarming things, and it escapes his notice, and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.


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Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he becomes unclean, and it escapes his notice, when he comes to know it, then he will be guilty.


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Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man utters rashly with an oath, and it escapes his notice, when he comes to know it, then he shall be guilty in one of these things.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a sheep or a goat, as a sin offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin.


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And if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring as his trespass offering to Jehovah for that in which he has sinned two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall present first that which is for the sin offering; and the priest shall pinch off its head at the front of its neck but shall not sever it;


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And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.


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And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. And the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven.


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But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that which he has sinned, the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it nor put any frankincense upon it, for it is


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And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, upon Jehovah's offerings by fire; it is a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make expiation for him concerning his sin that he has committed in any of these things, and he will be forgiven. And the rest shall be the priest's, like the meal offering.


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If anyone acts unfaithfully and sins without intent in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock according to your valuation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of th


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And he shall make restitution for the holy thing in which he has sinned, and he shall add to it a fifth part of it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make expiation for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.


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And if anyone sins and does any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, though he did not know, he is still guilty and shall bear his iniquity.


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And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock according to your valuation for a trespass offering. And the priest shall make expiation for him concerning the matter in which he erred without intent and did not know, and he will b


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If anyone sins and acts unfaithfully against Jehovah and deceives his associate in regard to a deposit or a security, or by robbery, or has extorted from his associate,


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Or has found a lost item and lied about it, if he has sworn falsely in any one of all these things a man may do and sins thereby;


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Then if he has sinned and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost item which he found,


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Or anything about which he has sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in full, and shall add to it a fifth part of it. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs, on the day he is found guilty.


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And he shall bring to Jehovah his trespass offering, a ram without blemish out of the flock according to your valuation for a trespass offering; to the priest he shall bring it.


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And the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah, and he will be forgiven for any of the things which he may have done so as to be guilty.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering:The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.


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And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.


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Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.


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And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it must 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 the fat of the peace offerings on it.


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And this is the law of the meal offering:The sons of Aaron shall present it before Jehovah before the altar.


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And one shall take up from it 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 he shall burn it on the altar for a satisfying fragrance as its memorial portion to Jehovah.


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And what is left of it Aaron and his sons may eat; it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place; in the court of the Tent of Meeting they shall eat it.


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It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and like the trespass offering.


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Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations from Jehovah's offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall be holy.


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This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall present to Jehovah in the day when he is anointed:the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a continual meal offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.


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On a flat plate it shall be prepared with oil; when it is mixed, you shall bring it; as a meal offering of baked pieces you shall present it as a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And the priest anointed to be in his place from among his sons shall prepare it. It shall be a perpetual statute; it shall be wholly burned to Jehovah.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering:In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering shall be slaughtered before Jehovah; it is most holy.


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The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.


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Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy. And when any of its blood splashes on a garment, you shall wash whatever was splashed in a holy place.


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But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.


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And any sin offering of which some of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make expiation in the Holy Place shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.


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In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they shall slaughter the trespass offering, and its blood he shall sprinkle on and around the altar.


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And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the appendage upon the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.


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And the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering by fire to Jehovah; it is a trespass offering.


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The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them:The priest who makes expiation with it shall have it.


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And the priest who presents anyone's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has presented.


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And every meal offering that is baked in an oven and everything that is made in a pot or on a flat plate shall belong to the priest who presents it.


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And every other meal offering, mingled with oil or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, to each alike.


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If he presents it for a thanksgiving, then he shall present with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and saturated cakes of fine flour mingled with oil.


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With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.


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And from it he shall present one out of each offering as a heave offering to Jehovah; it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.


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And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.


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But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he presents his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten,


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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten at all on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither will it be reckoned to the one who presents it; it will be an abomination, and the person who eats of it shall bear his own


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And flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. And as for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.


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But the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Jehovah, with his uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from his people.


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And when anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man or an unclean beast or any unclean abomination, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Jehovah, that person shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any fat of an ox or of a sheep or of a goat.


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And the fat of an animal that dies and the fat of an animal which is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but you shall by no means eat it.


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For whoever eats the fat of a beast, from which someone presents an offering by fire to Jehovah, then the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, He who presents the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Jehovah shall bring his offering to Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.


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His own hands shall bring Jehovah's offerings by fire; the fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And the right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.


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The one among the sons of Aaron who presents the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh as his portion.


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For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons for a perpetual statute to be observed


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This is the anointing portion of Aaron and the anointing portion of his sons, from Jehovah's offerings by fire, in the day when he presented them to serve Jehovah as priests,


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Which Jehovah commanded to be given them from the children of Israel in the day that He anointed them. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout their generations.


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This is the law of the burnt offering and of the meal offering and of the sin offering and of the trespass offering and of the filling of hands and of the sacrifice of peace offerings,


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Which Jehovah commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that He commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings to Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai.


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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;


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And Moses did just as Jehovah had commanded him, and the assembly was gathered at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And he put the tunic upon him and girded him with the girding sash and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and with it he bound it to him.


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And he placed the turban on his head; and on the turban, on its front, he placed the golden plate, the holy crown; just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.


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And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.


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And Moses brought Aaron's sons near, and clothed them with tunics and girded them with girding sashes and bound high hats on them, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.


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And he slaughtered it; and Moses took the blood and put some of it on and around the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and sanctified it, to make expiation for it.


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And he took all the fat that was on the inward parts and the appendage of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.


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But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned with fire outside the camp, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.


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And the inward parts and the legs he washed with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a satisfying fragrance; it was an offering by fire to Jehovah, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he presented the other ram, the ram of the filling of hands, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.


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And he slaughtered it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And he brought Aaron's sons near, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the rest of the blood on and around the altar.


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And he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the inward parts, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;


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And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer, and placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.


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And he put all these in the palms of Aaron and in the palms of his sons, and he waved them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And Moses took them from their palms and burned them on the altar upon the burnt offering. They were an offering of the filling of hands for a satisfying fragrance; it was an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before Jehovah; it was Moses' portion of the ram of the filling of hands, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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


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And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of the filling of hands, just as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.


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And you shall not go out from the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your filling of hands is fulfilled, for it will take seven days to fill your hands.


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And at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting you shall stay day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that you may not die; for so I have been commanded.


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And he said to Aaron, Take for yourself a calf of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blem- ish, and present them before Jehovah.


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Then to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering;


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And an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and a meal offering mingled with oil; for today Jehovah will appear to you.


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So they brought what Moses had commanded before the Tent of Meeting, and all the assembly came near and stood before Jehovah.


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And Moses said, This is what Jehovah has commanded you to do. And the glory of Jehovah shall appear to you.


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Then Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make expiation for yourself and for the people; and make the offering of the people and make expiation for them; just as Jehovah has commanded.


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So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.


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And 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 the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.


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But the fat and the kidneys and the appendage of the liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Then he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on and around the altar.


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And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head; and he burned them on the altar.


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Then he presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first.


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Then he presented the meal offering and filled his hand with some of it and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.


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Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him, which he sprinkled on and around the altar.


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And the fat portions of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and the fat which covers the inward parts and the kidneys and the appendage of the liver -


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And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Jehovah, just as Moses had commanded.


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And 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.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting. And they came out and blessed the people; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people.


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Then fire came forth from before Jehovah and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they gave a ringing shout and fell on their faces.


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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in them and laid incense on it, and they presented strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.


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Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying, In those who come near to Me I will be sanctified, And before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent.


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And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.


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So they came near and carried them in their tunics to the outside of the camp, just as Moses had said.


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Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, Do not dishevel the hair of your heads, and do not tear your garments, that you may not die and that He may not be angry with all the assembly. But let your brothers, the whole house of Israel,


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And you shall not go out from the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the Tent of Meeting, that you may not die; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,


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And to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them through Moses.


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Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, Take the meal offering which remains of Jehovah's offerings by fire, and eat it unleavened beside the altar; for it is most holy.


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And you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due of Jehovah's offerings by fire; for so I have been commanded.


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And the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your due and your sons' due out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of


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The thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the offerings by fire of the fat portions to wave as a wave offering before Jehovah, and it shall become a perpetual statute for you and for your sons with you, just


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Then Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned. So he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,


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Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary? For it is most holy, and He gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the assembly, to make expiation for them before Jehovah.


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Now its blood was not brought inside, into the sanctuary; you should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded.


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But Aaron spoke to Moses, See, today they have presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah, and such things as these have befallen me! And if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of Jehovah?


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.


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Whatever has a divided hoof, that is, has its hoof split in two, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you may eat.


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However these you shall not eat:of those that only chew the cud or of those that only have a divided hoof:the camel, for though it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.


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And the pig, for though it has a divided hoof, that is, it has its hoof split in two, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.


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These you may eat of all that are in the water:anything in the water that has fins and scales, in the seas or in the rivers; these you may eat.


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But anything that does not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of anything that swarms in the waters and of any living animal which is in the waters, they are an abomination to you,


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And they shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall regard as an abomination.


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And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are an abomination:the great vulture and the bearded vulture and the black vulture


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Yet these you may eat of all flying insects that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth;


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These of them you may eat:the swarming locust of every kind and the swallowing locust of every kind and the cricket of every kind and the grasshopper of every kind.


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And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,


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And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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For every beast which has a divided hoof but does not have its hoof split in two or chew the cud is unclean to you; everyone who touches them shall be unclean.


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And whatever goes on its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.


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And the one who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.


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And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth:the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard of every kind,


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These are unclean to you among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.


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And anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any article of wood or clothing or skin or sackcloth; any article which is used for any work must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; t


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And any earthen vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean, and the vessel you shall break.


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Any food that could be eaten shall be unclean if water from such a vessel comes upon it, and any liquid that may be drunk shall be unclean if it was in any such vessel.


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And everything on which part of their carcass falls shall be unclean - an oven or a stove shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean and shall continue to be unclean to you.


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Nevertheless a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.


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And if any beast which you have for food dies, the one who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he who eats some of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; the one who carries its carcass shall also wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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Whatever goes on its stomach and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are an abomination.


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You shall not make yourselves abominable with any swarming thing that swarms, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, and so become defiled by them.


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For I am Jehovah your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not defile yourselves with any of the swarming things that move upon the earth.


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For I am Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.


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This is the law of the beast and of the bird, and of every living animal that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms upon the earth;


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To make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives seed and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.


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And she shall remain in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days; she shall not touch any sanctified thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.


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But if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall remain in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days.


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And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering to the priest to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And he shall present it before Jehovah and make expiation for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether male or female.


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And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make expiation for her, and she shall be clean.


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When a man has a swelling or an eruption or a bright spot on the skin of his body, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.


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And the priest shall look at the infection in the skin of the body; and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than the skin of his body, it is the infection of leprosy. When the priest has looked at hi


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And if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the infection seven days.


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And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day; and if in his eyes the infection remains, and the infection has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him seven more days.


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And the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day; and if the infection has faded, and the infection has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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But if the scab spreads further on the skin after he has showed himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself again to the priest.


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And the priest shall look; and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.


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And the priest shall look; and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is living raw flesh in the swelling,


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It is a chronic leprosy on the skin of his body; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.


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And if the leprosy breaks out further on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the infection, from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see,


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Then the priest shall look; and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him who has the infection clean. It has all turned white; he is clean.


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And the priest shall look at the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.


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And the priest shall look at him; and if the infection has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him who has the infection clean; he is clean.


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And in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest.


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And the priest shall look; and if its appearance is below the surface of the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the infection of leprosy; it has broken out in the boil.


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But if the priest looks at it, and if there is no white hair in it, and it is not below the surface of the skin, but it has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.


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And if it spreads further in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.


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But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Or when the flesh has on its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white,


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Then the priest shall look at it; and 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 burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy.


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But if the priest looks at it, and if there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is not below the surface of the skin, but it has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.


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And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads further in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy.


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And if the bright spot remains in its place, and it has not spread in the skin, but it has faded, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burning.


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Then the priest shall look at the infection; and if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and there is in it thin yellowish hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scale; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.


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And if the priest looks at the infection of the scale, and if its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the infection of the scale seven days.


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And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection; and if the scale has not spread, and there is no yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the scale is not deeper than the skin,


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Then he shall be shaved, but the scale he shall not shave. And the priest shall isolate the one who has the scale seven days more.


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And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale; and if the scale has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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Then the priest shall look at him; and if the scale has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellowish hair; he is unclean.


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But if in his eyes the scale has remained, and black hair has grown up in it, the scale is healed; he is clean. And the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Then the priest shall look; and if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a rash that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.


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But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there is a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.


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Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish- white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,


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He is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.


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And as for the leper in whom the infection is, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be let loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, Unclean, unclean!


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He shall be unclean all the days during which the infection is in him; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.


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The garment also that the infection of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment,


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If the infection is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is the infection of leprosy and shall be shown to the priest.


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And the priest shall look at the infection and isolate the article which has the infection for seven days.


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Then he shall look at the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever the purpose the skin is used for, the infection is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.


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And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin in which the infection occurs, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.


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And if the priest shall look, and if the infection has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin,


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Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the infection is; and he shall isolate it for seven more days.


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And after the article with the infection has been washed, the priest shall look at it; and if the infection has not changed its appearance, even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire; it is a leprous decay, whet


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And if the priest looks, and if the infection has faded after it was washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the skin, whether from the warp or from the woof.


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But if it appears again in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn the article that the infection is in, in the fire.


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And the garment, whether the warp or the woof, or any article of skin, which you shall wash, if the infection has departed from them, shall be washed a second time and shall be clean.


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This is the law of the infection of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or in the woof, or anything of skin, for pronouncing it clean or for pronouncing it unclean.


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And the priest shall go forth outside the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,


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Then the priest shall command that two living clean birds and cedar wood and scarlet strands and hyssop be taken for the one who is to be cleansed.


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And the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over running water.


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As for the living bird, he shall take it and the cedar wood and the scarlet strands and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the running water.


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And he shall sprinkle it on the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him clean. Then he shall let the living bird go into the open field.


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And the one who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but he shall dwell outside his tent seven days.


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And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair; he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. Then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mingled with oil and one log of oil.


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And the priest who makes him clean shall set the man to be cleansed and those things before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and present it as a trespass offering and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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Then he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where they slaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for the trespass offering like the sin offering is the priest's; it is most holy.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of the priest's left hand,


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And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in the palm of his left hand and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.


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And from the rest of the oil that is in the palm of his hand the priest shall put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and some on the thumb of his right hand and some on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the t


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And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest's hand he shall put on the head of the one who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall offer the sin offering and make expiation for the one who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make expiation for him, and he shall be clean.


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But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved to make expiation for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil,


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And two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford; and the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.


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And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, before Jehovah.


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Then the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah;


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And he shall slaughter the lamb of the trespass offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe


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And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in the palm of his left hand seven times before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in the palm of his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass off


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And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest's hand he shall put on the head of the one who is to be cleansed, to make expiation for him before Jehovah.


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Even such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering; and the priest shall make expiation for the one who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.


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This is the law for the one in whom there is the infection of leprosy, who cannot afford what is prescribed for his cleansing.


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When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put the infection of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession,


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Then he to whom the house belongs shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me that there is something like an infection in the house.


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And the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the infection, so that everything which is in the house does not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.


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And he shall look at the infection; and if the infection is on the walls of the house with greenish or reddish depressions, and its appearance is deeper than the surface of the wall,


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Then the priest shall come out of the house to the entrance of the house and shut up the house seven days.


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And the priest shall return on the seventh day and inspect it. And if the infection has spread in the walls of the house,


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Then the priest shall command that they take out the stones on which the infection is and throw them away outside the city into an unclean place.


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And he shall have the house scraped inside all around, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place.


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And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.


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And if the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it has been replastered,


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Then the priest shall come in and look; and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.


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And he shall break down the house, its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city into an unclean place.


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Moreover, whoever goes into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


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But if on the other hand the priest comes in and looks, and if the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.


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And he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet strands and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.


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And he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet strands.


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And he shall let the living bird go, outside the city into the open field. So he shall make expiation for the house, and it shall be clean.


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Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.


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And this shall be his uncleanness of his discharge:Whether there is a discharge from his body, or the discharge is blocked in his body, it is his uncleanness.


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Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches the flesh of the one who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if the one who has the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he who has been spat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whomever the one who has the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And the earthen vessel that the one who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.


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And when one who has the discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count seven days for himself for his cleansing; then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water, and he shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest.


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And the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah for his discharge.


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And if any man's seed of copulation goes out from him, then he shall bathe his entire body in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And any garment and any article made of skin on which the seed of copulation comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.


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If there is a woman with whom a man lies and there is a discharge of seed of copulation, both of them shall bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.


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And everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean; everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if it is on the bed or on anything on which she sits, when anyone touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.


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And if any man actually lies with her and her impurity comes on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.


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And if a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, during all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be as if in the days of her impurity; s


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Any bed on which she lies during all the days of her discharge shall be to her like the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity.


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And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.


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But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count seven days for herself; and afterward she shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and the priest shall make expiation for her before Jehovah for the discharge of her uncleanness.


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Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is in the midst of them.


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This is the law for the one who has a discharge and for the one whose seed of copulation goes out from him and becomes unclean by it,


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And for the one who is sick with her impurity, and for anyone who has a discharge, male or female, and for a man who lies with a woman who is unclean.


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Then Jehovah spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah and died.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Tell Aaron your brother that he shall not enter at just any time into the Holy of Holies inside the veil before the expiation cover, which is upon the Ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud over the expiation cover.


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In this way Aaron shall come into the Holy of Holies:with a bull of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.


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He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and linen trousers shall be upon his body, and he shall gird himself with the linen girdle and be attired with the linen turban; these are the holy garments. And he shall bathe his flesh in water and put them on.


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And he shall take from the assembly of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.


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And Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make expiation for himself and for his household.


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But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell shall be made to stand alive before Jehovah to make expiation over it, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make expiation for himself and for his household, and shall slaughter the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself.


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And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before Jehovah, with his hands full of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil.


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And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the expiation cover that is over the Testimony, so that he does not die.


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And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger upon the expiation cover toward the east, and before the expiation cover he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.


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Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it upon the expiation cover and before the expiation cover.


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And he shall make expiation for the Holy of Holies because of the uncleannesses of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions, for all their sins. And so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their unc


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And no one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make expiation in the Holy of Holies until he comes out and has made expiation for himself and for his household and for all the congregation of Israel.


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Then he shall go out to the altar that is before Jehovah and make expiation for it, and he shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on and around the horns of the altar.


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And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times; thus he will cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.


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And when he has finished making expiation for the Holy of Holies and the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.


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And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it 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 it away into


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Thus the goat shall bear away all their iniquities on itself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy of Holies, and leave them there.


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And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments. Then he shall come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make expiation for himself and for the people.


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And he who lets the goat go for Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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And the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make expiation in the Holy of Holies, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung.


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And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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And this shall become a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month you shall afflict your souls and not do any work, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you.


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For on this day expiation shall be made for you, in order to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Jehovah.


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It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It shall be a perpetual statute.


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And the priest who is anointed and whose hands are filled to serve as a priest in his father's place shall make expiation; thus he shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.


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And he shall make expiation for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make expiation for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar, and he shall make expiation for the priests and for all the people of the congregation.


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And this shall become a perpetual statute for you, in order to make expiation for the children of Israel because of all their sins, once in the year. And just as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so he did.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, This is what Jehovah has commanded, saying,


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Anyone of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat within the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,


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And has not brought it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, that man shall be accounted as guilty of bloodshed. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his peo


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This is so that the children of Israel will bring their sacrifices which they sacrifice in the open field, that they will bring them to Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to the priest and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to Jeh


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And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall become a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.


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And you shall say to them, Anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice


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And does not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Jehovah, that man shall be cut off from his people.


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And anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and cut him off from among his people.


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For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you to make expiation for your souls on the altar, for it is the blood, by reason of the life, that makes expiation.


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Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any sojourner who sojourns among you eat blood.


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And anyone of the children of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn among them, who in hunting takes an animal or bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.


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For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is its very life; therefore I have said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.


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And every person who eats that which dies of itself or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.


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You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt; and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, nor shall you walk in their statutes.


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You shall observe My ordinances, and you shall keep My statutes to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God.


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So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, by which, if a man does them, he will live; I am Jehovah.


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The nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter, or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.


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The nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is your own nakedness.


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The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten of your father - she is your sister - you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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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 her flesh; it is wickedness.


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And you shall not take a woman as wife in addition to her sister, as a rival to uncover her nakedness while she is alive.


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And you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.


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And you shall not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow countryman to become defiled with her.


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And you shall not give any of your offspring to pass through the fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God; I am Jehovah.


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And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it; it is confusion.


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Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.


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Because the land has become defiled, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.


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You therefore shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you


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(For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);


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That the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation which was before you.


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For all who do any of these abominations, those persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.


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Therefore you shall keep My charge, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Jehovah your God.


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Speak to all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I, Jehovah your God, am holy.


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Each one of you shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.


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And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.


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It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day, but what remains until the third day shall be burned with fire.


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And whoever eats it will bear his own iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to Jehovah; and that person shall be cut off from his people.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest.


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And you shall not glean your vineyard nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.


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You shall not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God; I am Jehovah.


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You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the great, but in righteousness you shall judge your fellow countryman.


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You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you profit by the blood of your neighbor; I am Jehovah.


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You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely reprove your fellow countryman, so that you do not bring sin upon yourself because of him.


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You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am Jehovah.


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You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall a garment made of two kinds of material come upon you.


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And if a man lies down and has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but not at all redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be an inquiry; they shall not be put to death, because she was not freed.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, a ram for a trespass offering.


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And the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah with the ram of the trespass offering for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.


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And when you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as unharvestable. Three years it shall be unharvestable to you; it shall not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their produce may increase for you; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor inscribe any marks upon you; I am Jehovah.


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Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land does not fall to harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.


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Do not turn to mediums or to spiritists; do not seek after them to be defiled by them; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the face of the old man. And you shall fear your God; I am Jehovah.


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The sojourner who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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Moreover you shall say to the children of Israel, Anyone of the children of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.


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I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given one of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name.


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And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes from that man when he gives some of his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,


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Then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people him and all who prostitute themselves after him, to prostitute themselves after Molech.


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And the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists to prostitute himself after them, I will even set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.


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If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.


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If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even one who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.


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If there is a man who lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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If there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have brought about confusion; their blood shall be upon them.


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If there is a man who lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.


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If there is a man who takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickedness among you.


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If there is a man who lies with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall slaughter the beast.


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If there is a woman who approaches any beast to lie down with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. They shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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If there is a man who takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sis


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If there is a man who lies with a woman having her sickness, and he uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.


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And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister nor of your father's sister, for he has made naked his flesh; they shall bear their iniquity.


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If there is a man who lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.


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If there is a man who takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.


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You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land into which I am bringing you to dwell in does not vomit you out.


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And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am about to send away before you. Because they did all these things, so I abhorred them.


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But 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 Jehovah your God, who has separated you from the peoples.


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You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you shall not make your souls abominable by any beast or by any bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have sep


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And you shall be holy to Me, because I Jehovah am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.


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If there is a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist, they shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,


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Except for his flesh who is near to him, for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother


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And for his virgin sister, who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.


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They shall not make any baldness on their head or shave off the edges of their beard or make any cuttings in their flesh.


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They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for they present Jehovah's offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.


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They shall not take a woman who is a harlot or profaned, nor shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.


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You shall sanctify him therefore, for he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Jehovah, who sanctifies you, am holy.


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And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burnt with fire.


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And he who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has filled his hands to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose nor tear his clothes.


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Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him; I am Jehovah.


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A widow or a divorced woman or a profaned woman, a harlot, these he shall not take; but rather a virgin of his own people he shall take as wife.


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Speak to Aaron, saying, No one of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to present the food of his God.


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For no one who has a defect shall approach:one who is blind or lame or with a disfigured nose or with an extended limb,


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Or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scale or crushed testicles.


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No one of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to present Jehovah's offerings by fire. He has a defect; he shall not come near to present the food of his God.


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But he shall not go in unto the veil or come near to the altar, because he has a defect, so that he does not profane My holy places; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy things of the children of Israel, which they sanctify to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name; I am Jehovah.


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Say to them, If anyone among all your seed throughout your generations who approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness is upon him, that person shall be cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah.


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No one of the seed of Aaron who is a leper or who has a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean because of contact with a dead person, or a man whose seed of copulation has gone from him,


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Or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may be made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,


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The person who touches any such thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.


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And when the sun sets, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his food.


