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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness  was  upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.


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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.


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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.


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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which  were  under the firmament from the waters which  were  above the firmament: and it was so.


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And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto 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 called he Seas: and God saw that  it was  good.


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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.


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And the earth brought forth grass,  and  herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed  was  in itself, after his kind: and God saw that  it was  good.


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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to light over the earth, and to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:


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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.


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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:  he made  the stars also.


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


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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl  that  may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.


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And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his 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 fowl multiply in the earth.


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And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.


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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that  it was  good.


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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.


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So God created man in his  own  image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.


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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.


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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which  is  upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which  is  the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.


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And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein  there is  life,  I have given  every green herb for meat: and it was so.


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And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,  it was  very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.


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And on the six day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.


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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.


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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made heavens and earth


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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and  there was  not a man to till the ground.


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And the LORD God formed man  of  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 made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.


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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.


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The name of the first  is  Pison: that  is  it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where  there is  gold;


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And the name of the second river  is  Gihon: the same  is  it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.


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And the name of the third river  is  Hiddekel: that  is  it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river  is  Euphrates.


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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.


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And the LORD God said,  It is  not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.


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And moreover, out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that is the name thereof.


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And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.


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And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;


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And Adam said, This  is  now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.


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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be two of them one flesh.


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Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?


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But of the fruit of the tree this, which in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.


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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.


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And when the woman saw that the tree  was  good for food, and that it  was  pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make  one  wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.


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


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And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.


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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I  was  naked; and I hid myself.


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And he said, Who told thee that thou  wast  naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?


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And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest  to be  with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.


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And the LORD God said unto the woman, What  is  this  that  thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.


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And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou  art  cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:


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And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.


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And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire  shall be  to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.


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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed  is  the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat  of  it all the days of thy life;


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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou  art , and unto your dust shalt thou return.


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And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:


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Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.


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So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.


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And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.


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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.


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And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.


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And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fats thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:


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But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.


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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee  shall be  his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.


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And Cain talked with Abel his brother – let's go to the field: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.


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And the LORD said unto Cain, Where  is  Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not:  Am  I my brother's keeper?


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And now  art  thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;


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When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.


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Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass,  that  every one that findeth me shall slay me.


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And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.


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And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.


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And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.


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And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one  was  Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.


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And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain  was  Naamah.


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And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.


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And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and he called his name Seth: For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.


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And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.


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This  is  the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;


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Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.


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And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat  a son  in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:


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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:


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And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:


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And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:


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And Jared lived after he begat Enoch seven hundred and eighty five years, and begat sons and daughters:


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And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:


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And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech six hundred fifty and three years, and begat sons and daughters:


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And he called his name Noah, saying, This  same  shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.


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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them


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That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.


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And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also  is  flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.


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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare  children  to them, the same  became  mighty men which  were  of old, men of renown.


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And God 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 the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.


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


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


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And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.


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Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.


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And this  is the fashion  which thou shalt make it  of : The length of the ark  shall be  three hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.


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A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof;  with  lower, second, and third  stories  shalt thou make it.


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And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein  is  the breath of life, from under heaven;  and  every thing that  is  in the earth shall die.


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But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.


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


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From fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing that of the earth after his kind, two of every shall come unto thee, to keep alive.


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And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather  it  to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.


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And the God said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.


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Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and female: and of beasts that not clean by two, the male and female.


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And moreover of fowls flowing in heavens by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.


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For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.


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


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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and from all thing that creepeth upon the earth


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There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as LORD had commanded Noah.


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


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In the selfsame day entered Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;


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They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.


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And they that went in male and female, male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.


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And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.


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And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.


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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that  were  under the whole heaven, were covered.


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And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:


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And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained  alive , and they that  were  with him in the ark.


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And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that  was  with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;


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


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And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.


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


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And the waters decreased continually until tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.


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


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And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.


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Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;


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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth with his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.


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And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth  was  an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.


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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.


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


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And every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.


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And every beast, and every fowl, every all creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.


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And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


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And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again moreover curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart  is  evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.


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


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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.


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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth  upon  the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.


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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.


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And surely your blood of your life will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; and at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.


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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; and bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.


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And with every living creature that  is  with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.


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And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh moreover be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.


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And God said, This  is  the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that  is  with you, for perpetual generations;


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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:


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And I will remember my covenant, which  is  between me and you and every living creature that with you in all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.


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And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that  is  upon the earth.


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And God said unto Noah, This  is  the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that  is  upon the earth.


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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and Ham  is  the father of Canaan.


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And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid  it  upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces  were  backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.


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


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


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By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.


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And the sons of Cush; Seba and Havilah, Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.


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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.


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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.


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And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.


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And the border of the Canaanites was from river of Egypt, great river Gerat, and until latter waters.


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These  are  the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries,  and  in their nations.


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Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were  children  born.


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


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


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These  are  the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: from these were divided the nations in the earth after the flood.


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


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


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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top  may reach  unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.


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And the LORD said, Behold, the people  is  one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.


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


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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city and the tower.


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Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.


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These  are  the generations of Shem: Shem  was  an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:


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And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Shem six hundred years and he is dying.


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And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah three hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Arphaxad eight and thirty years and four hundred years and he is dying.


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And Salah lived after he begat Eber three hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Salah three and thirty years and four hundred years, and he is dying.


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And Eber lived after he begat Peleg two hundred and seventy years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Eber four years and four hundred years, and he is dying.


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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Peleg nine and thirty and two hundred years, and he is dying.


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And Reu lived after he begat Serug hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Reu nine and thirty and two hundred years, and he is dying.


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And Serug lived after he begat Nahor hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Serug thirty years and two hundred years, and he is dying.


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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an sixty and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Nahor eight and forty years and hundred years, and he is dying


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


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And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai and Milka his daughters-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and Nahor – his son; and he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.


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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:


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And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:


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And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.


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So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram  was  seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.


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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.


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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Mora. And the Canaanite  was  then in the land.


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And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said to him, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.


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And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent,  having  Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.


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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine  was  grievous in the land.


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And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou  art  a fair woman to look upon:


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Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This  is  his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.


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Say, I pray thee, thou  art  my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.


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And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she  was  very fair.


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The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.


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And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and his flock and herd was very great, and maidservants, and he asses, and she asses, and camels.


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And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What  is  this  that  thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she  was  thy wife?


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And why saidst thou, She  is  my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take  her , and go thy way.


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


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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 south.


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And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;


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Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.


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And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.


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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.


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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we  be  brethren.


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Is  not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if  thou wilt take  the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if  thou depart  to the right hand, then I will go to the left.


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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it  was  well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,  even  as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.


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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.


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Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched  his  tent toward Sodom.


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And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:


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


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Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.


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Then Abram removed  his  tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which  is  in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.


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


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That these  made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.


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And in the fourteenth year came Chedor Laomer, and the kings that  were  with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim


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And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which  is  Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.


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And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same  is  Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;


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With Chedor Laomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.


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And the vale of Siddim  was full of  slimepits; and the king of Sodom and the king Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.


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And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these  were  confederate with Abram.


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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained  servants , born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued  them  unto Dan.


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And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which  is  on the left hand of Damascus.


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And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and goods, and the women also, and the people.


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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedor Laomer, and of the kings that  were  with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which  is  the king's dale.


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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he  was  the priest of the most high God.


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And he blessed him, and said, Blessed  be  Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:


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And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.


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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the God, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth


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That I will not  take  from a thread even to a shoelatchet, that I will not take any thing that  is  thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:


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Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.


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After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I  am  thy shield,  and  thy exceeding increase reward.


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And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house  is  this Eliezer of Damascus?


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And, behold, the word of the LORD  came  unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.


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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.


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And he said unto him, I  am  the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.


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And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.


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And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.


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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.


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And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land  that is  not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;


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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.


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But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites  is  not yet full.


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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.


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In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:


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Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name  was  Hagar.


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And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.


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


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And he went in unto 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 unto Abram, My wrong  be  upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.


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But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid  is  in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.


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And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.


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And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.


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And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.


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And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou  art  with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.


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


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And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?


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And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I  am  the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.


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Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.


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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.


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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.


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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.


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And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.


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This  is  my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.


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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.


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And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which  is  not of thy seed.


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They that are born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.


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And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised in day the eight, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.


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And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah  shall  her name  be .


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And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be  a mother  of nations; and kings of people shall be of her.


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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall  a child  be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?


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And God said, behold – Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.


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


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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.


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And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.


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And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.


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And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;


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And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw  them , he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground


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And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:


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And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; and after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.


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And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead  it , and make cakes upon the hearth.


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And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave  it  unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.


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


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And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard  it  in the tent door, which  was  behind him.


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


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Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?


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And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?


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Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.


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Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.


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And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.


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


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For I know, that he will command Abraham with his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.


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And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;


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I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.


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And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.


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Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that  are  therein?


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That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?


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


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And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which  am but  dust and ashes:


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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for  lack of  five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy  it .


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And he spake unto him yet again, and said to him, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not destroy  it  for forty's sake.


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And he said  unto him , Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not destroy  it , if I find thirty there.


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And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy  it  for twenty's sake.


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And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy  it  for ten's sake.


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And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.


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And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing  them  rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;


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And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.


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And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.


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But before they lay down, the men of the city,  even  the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:


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And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where  are  the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.


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Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as  is  good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.


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And they said, Stand back. And they said  again , This one  fellow  came in to sojourn, and he will needs moreover be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man,  even  Lot, and came near to break the door.


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And they smote the men that  were  at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.


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And the messengers said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring  them  out of this place:


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For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.


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And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.


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And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.


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And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.


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And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.


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Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:


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Behold now, this city  is  near to flee unto, and it  is  a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ( is  it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.


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And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.


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Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. 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 that which grew upon the ground.


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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.


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


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And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.


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


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


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And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in,  and  lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.


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And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.


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And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same  is  the father of the Moabites unto this day.


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And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same  is  the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.


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And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.


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


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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou  art but  a dead man, for case of the woman which thou hast taken; for she  is  a man's wife.


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Said he not unto me, She  is  my sister? and she, even she herself said, He  is  my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.


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And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.


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Now therefore restore the man  his  wife; for he  is  a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore  her  not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that  are  thine.


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Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and all the men were sore afraid.


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Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.


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And Abraham said, that I feared because I thought, Surely the fear of God  is  not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.


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


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And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, that I said unto her, This  is  thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He  is  my brother.


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And Abimelech took thousand of silver, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave  them  unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.


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And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand  pieces  of silver: behold, he  is  to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that  are  with thee, and with all  other : thus she was reproved.


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So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare  children .


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For the God had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.


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


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And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.


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And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the  same  day that his son Isaac was weaned.


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Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,  even  with Isaac.


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And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.


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And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave  it  unto Hagar, putting  it  on her shoulder, and 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 her down over against  him  a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against  him , and lift up her voice, and wept.


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And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he  is .


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


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And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God  is  with thee in all that thou doest:


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Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:  but  according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.


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And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.


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And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I  of it , but to day.


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And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What  mean  these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?


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And he said Abraham, For  these  seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.


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Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.


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And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.


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And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,  here  I  am .


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And he said, Take now thy son, thine only  son  Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.


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And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.


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And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.


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


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And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here  am  I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where  is  the lamb for a burnt offering?


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And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.


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


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And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here  am  I.


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And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only  son  from me.


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And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind  him  a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.


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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said  to  this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.


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And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only  son  from me:


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That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which  is  upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;


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


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And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;


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And his concubine, whose name  was  Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.


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And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:  these were  the years of the life of Sarah.


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And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba, which is in the valley; the same  is  Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.


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I  am  a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.


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Hear us, my lord: thou  art  a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.


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And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hetite


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That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which  is  in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.


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And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,  even  of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying


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Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that  is  therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.


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And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou  wilt give it , I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take  it  of me, and I will bury my dead there.


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My lord, hearken unto me: the land  is worth  four hundred shekels of silver; what  is  that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.


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And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current  money  with the merchant.


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And the field of Ephron, which  was  in Machpelah, which  was  over before Mamre, the field, and the cave which  was  therein, and all the trees that  were  in the field, that  were  in all the borders round about, were made sure


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Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that 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: the same  is  Hebron in the land of Canaan.


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And the field, and the cave that  is  therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.


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And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:


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And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:


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And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?


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The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.


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And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.


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And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.


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


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And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening,  even  the time that women go out to draw  water .


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And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.


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Behold, I stand  here  by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:


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And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:  let the same be  she  that  thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master Abraham.


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And it came to pass, before he had done speaking in heart of him, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.


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And the damsel  was  very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.


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And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.


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And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.


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


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And she hasted, and let down her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw  water , and drew for all his camels.


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And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.


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And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight and placed on nose of her, and two bracelets for her hands of ten  shekels  weight of gold;


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And said, Whose daughter  art  thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?


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And he said, Blessed  be  the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master Abraham of his mercy and his truth: I  being  in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.


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And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.


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And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.


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And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that  were  with him.


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And there was set  meat  before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And they said, Speak on.


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And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.


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And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.


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And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:


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And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:


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Then shalt thou be clear from  this  my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee  one , thou shalt be clear from my oath.


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And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:


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Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw  water , and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;


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And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels:  let  the same  be  the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.


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And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew  water : and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee a little from waters of your pitcher.


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And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her  shoulder , and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.


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And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter  art  thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.


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And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.


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


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Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.


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Behold, Rebekah  is  before thee, take  her , and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.


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And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD,  bowing himself  to the earth.


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And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave  them  to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.


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And they did eat and drink, he and the men that  were  with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.


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And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us  a few  days, or a month; after that she shall go.


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And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.


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And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou  art  our sister, be thou  the mother  of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of their enemies.


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And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.


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And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels  were  coming.


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For she  had  said unto the servant, What man  is  this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant  had  said, It  is  my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself.


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


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


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But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.


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And these  are  the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.


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Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full  of years ; and was gathered to his people.


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


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The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.


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And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.


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Now these  are  the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:


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


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These  are  the sons of Ishmael, and these  are  their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.


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And these  are  the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.


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And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that  is  before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria:  and  he died in the presence of all his brethren.


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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.


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


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And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If  it be  so, why  am  I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto her, Two nations  are  in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and  the one  people shall be stronger than  the other  people; and the elder shall serve the younger.


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And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac  was  threescore years old when she bare them.


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


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And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red  pottage ; for I  am  faint: therefore was his name called Edom.


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Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised  his  birthright.


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And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.


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And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:


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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;


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And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;


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Because that Abraham, your father, obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.


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And the men of the place asked  him  of his wife; and he said, She  is  my sister: for he feared to say,  She is  my wife; lest,  said he , the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she  was  fair to look upon.


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


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And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she  is  thy wife: and how saidst thou, She  is  my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.


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And Abimelech said, What  is  this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.


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


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Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.


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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.


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For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.


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And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged servants of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.


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And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water  is  ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.


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And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.


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And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I  am  the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I  am  with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.


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And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.


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Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.


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And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?


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And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,  even  betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;


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That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou  art  now the blessed of the LORD.


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


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


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And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hivite:


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And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold,  here am  I.


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Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me  some  venison;


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And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring  it  to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.


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And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt  for  venison,  and  to bring  it .


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And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying


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Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.


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Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:


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And thou shalt bring  it  to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.


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


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My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.


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And his mother said unto him, Upon me  be  thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me  them .


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And he went, and fetched, and brought  them  to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.


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And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which  were  with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:


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And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.


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And Jacob said unto his father, I  am  Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.


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And Isaac said unto his son, How  is it  that thou hast found  it  so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought  it  to me.


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And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou  be  my very son Esau or not.


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And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice  is  Jacob's voice, but the hands  are  the hands of Esau.


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And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as 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 venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought  it  near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.


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And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son  is  as the smell of a field full which the LORD hath blessed:


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Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:


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Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed  be  every one that curseth thee, and blessed  be  he that blesseth thee.


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And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.


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And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.


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And Isaac his father said unto him, Who  art  thou? And he said, I  am  thy son, thy firstborn Esau.


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And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where  is  he that hath taken venison, and brought  it  me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea,  and  he shall be blessed.


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And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me,  even  me also, O my father.


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And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?


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And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?


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And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but 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 unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;


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And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.


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And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.


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And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself,  purposing  to kill thee.


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Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget  that  which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?


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And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these  which are  of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?


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And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.


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Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.


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And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;


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And give thee the blessing of Abraham, father of you, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which LORD gave unto Abraham.


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


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When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;


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


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And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put  them for  his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.


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And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.


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And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I  am  the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;


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And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.


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And, behold, I  am  with thee, and will keep thee in all  places  whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done  that  which I have spoken to thee of.


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And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew  it  not.


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And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful  is  this place! this  is  none other but 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  for  his pillows, and set it up  for  a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.


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And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city  was called  Luz at the first.


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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 raiment to put on


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And this stone, which I have set  for  a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.


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


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And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.


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And he said unto them,  Is  he well? And they said,  He is  well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.


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And he said to them, Lo,  it is  yet high day, neither  is it  time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go  and  feed  them .


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


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And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.


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


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


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And Laban said to him, Surely thou  art  my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.


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And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou  art  my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what  shall  thy wages  be ?


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


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And Laban said,  It is  better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.


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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him  but  a few days, for the love he had to her.


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


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And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it  was  Leah: and he said to Laban, What  is  this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?


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Fulfil her week, and I will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.


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And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.


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And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.


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And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I  was  hated, he hath therefore given me this  son  also: and she called his name Simeon.


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And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.


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And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.


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


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And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said,  Am  I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?


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And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.


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


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


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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.


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And she said unto her,  Is it  a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.


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


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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.


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And Leah said, God hath endued me  with  a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.


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And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.


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Give  me  my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.


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And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes,  tarry: for  I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.


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For  it was  little which thou hadst before I  came , and it is  now  increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?


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And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed  and  keep thy flock.


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I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and  of such  shall be my hire.


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So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that  is  not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.


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And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,  and  every one that had  some  white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave  them  into the hand of his sons.


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And he set three days' journey betwixt them and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.And saying is the messenger of God to Jacob in dreams: Jacob. And he says: here I am. And he is saying: please open your eyes and see all of the goats that ascending over the flock, the ones striped, spotted and speckled ones. That I saw that which Laban did to you. I'm that to whose house you anointed there the monument and to whom you promised, to me, there a promise. And now rise and go from the land this and return to the land of your father, and I shall do good to you.


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And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which  was  in the rods.


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And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.


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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.


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And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.


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And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.


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But when the cattle were feeble, he put  them  not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.


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And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.


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And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that  was  our father's; and of  that  which  was  our father's hath he gotten all this glory.


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And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.


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And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it  is  not toward us as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.


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And your father hath deceived me, and he changed my wages ten times; but LORD suffered him not to hurt me.


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If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.


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And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle  were  ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.


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And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle  are  ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.


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I  am  the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: and now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.


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


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For all the riches which LORD hath taken from our father, that  is  ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.


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And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for 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 passed over the river, and set his face  toward  the mount Gilead.


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And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.


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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.


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Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.


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And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives  taken  with the sword?


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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?


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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in  so  doing.


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It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.


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And now,  though  thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,  yet  wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?


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And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.


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With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what  is  thine with me, and take  it  to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.


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


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Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found  them  not.


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And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women  is  upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.


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And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What  is  my trespass? And what  is  my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?


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And whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set  it  here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.


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This twenty years  have  I  been  with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.


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That which was torn  of beasts  I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it,  whether  stolen by day, or stolen by night.


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Thus  I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.


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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.


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Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked  thee  yesternight.


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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob,  These  daughters  are  my daughters, and  these  children  are  my children, and  these  cattle  are  my cattle, and all that thou seest  is  mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?


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Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.


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And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.


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And Laban said, This heap  is  a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;


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If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take  other  wives beside my daughters, no man  is  with us; see, God  is  witness betwixt me and thee.


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And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold  this  pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;


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This heap  be  witness, and  this  pillar  be  witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.


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The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of Abraham, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.


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Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.


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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 unto his place.


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And when Jacob saw them, he said, This  is  God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.


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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.


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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:


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And I have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.


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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.


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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that  was  with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;


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And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.


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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:


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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.


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Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,  and  the mother with the children.


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And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.


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And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;


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And he delivered  them  into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.


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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose  art  thou? and whither goest thou? and whose  are  these before thee?


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Then thou shalt say,  They be  thy servant Jacob's; it  is  a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he  is  behind us.


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And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.


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And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob coming behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.


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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.


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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.


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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.


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And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.


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And Jacob asked  him , and said, Tell  me , I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore  is  it  that  thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.


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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.


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Therefore the children of Israel eat not  of  the sinew which shrank, which  is  upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.


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And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.


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And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.


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


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And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who  are  those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.


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And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.


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And he said, What  meanest  thou by all this drove which I met? And he said,  These are  to find grace in the sight of my lord.


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And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.


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Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took  it .


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And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children  are  tender, and the flocks and herds with young  are  with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.


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Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.


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And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee  some  of the folk that  are  with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.


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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.


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And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which  is  in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.


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And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.


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And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.


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


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And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.


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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.


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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard  it : and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.


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And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.


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And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.


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And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.


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Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.


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


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And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that  were  a reproach unto us:


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But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we  be , that every male of you be circumcised;


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Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.


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But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.


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And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he  was  more honourable than all the house of his father.


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


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These men  are  peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold,  it is  large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.


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Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they  are  circumcised.


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Shall  not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs  be  ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.


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And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.


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And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.


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


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And they took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which  was  in the city, and that which  was  in the field


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


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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I  being  few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.


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And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.


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Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that  were  with him, Put away the strange gods that  are  among you, and be clean, and change your garments:


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And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.


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And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which  were  in their hand, and  all their  earrings which  were  in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which  was  by Shechem.


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And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that  were  round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.


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So Jacob came to Luz, which  is  in the land of Canaan, that  is , Beth-el, he and all the people that  were  with him.


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And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.


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But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.


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And God said unto him, Thy name  is  Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.


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And God said unto him, I  am  God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;


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And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.


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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him,  even  a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.


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And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.


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And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.


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And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.


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


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The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:


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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these  are  the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.


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And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which  is  Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.


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And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people,  being  old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.


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


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And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these  are  the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.


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And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went out of the land of Canaan from the face of his brother Jacob.


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For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.


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And these  are  the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Mahaloth the wife of Esau.


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And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these  were  the sons of Adah Esau's wife.


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


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


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These  were  dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn  son  of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz


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Duke Korah, duke Gatam,  and  duke Amalek: these  are  the dukes  that came  of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these  were  the sons of Adah.


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And these  are  the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these  are  the dukes  that came  of Reuel in the land of Edom; these  are  the sons of Mahaloth Esau's wife.


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And these  are  the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these  were  the dukes  that came  of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.


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And these  are  the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah


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


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And these  are  the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this  was that  Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.


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Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these  are  the dukes  that came  of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.


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And these  are  the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.


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And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: 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 stead: 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 dukes  that came  of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth


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Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these  be  the dukes of Edom, according to their families in the land of their possession: he  is  Esau the father of the Edomites.


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


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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he  was  the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of  many  colours.


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


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For, behold, we  were  binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.


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And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.


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And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.


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And he told  it  to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What  is  this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?


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And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed  the flock  in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here  am I .


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And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.


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And a certain man found him, and, behold,  he was  wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?


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And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.


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And when they saw him afar off, before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.


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Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.


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And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood,  but  cast him into this pit that  is  in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.


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And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat,  his  coat of  many  colours that  was  on him;


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And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry  it  down to Egypt.


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And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit  is it  if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?


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Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he  is  our brother  and  our flesh. And his brethren were content.


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Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty  pieces  of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.


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And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph  was  not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.


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And they sent the coat of  many  colours, and they brought  it  to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it  be  thy son's coat or no.


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And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in 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 he said, For I will go down into the grave over my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.


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And the Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's,  and  captain of the guard.


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And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name  was  Hirah.


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


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And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.


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


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And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled  it  on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.


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Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren  did . And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.


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


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And it was told Tamar,his daughter-in-law, saying, Behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.


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And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which  is  by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.


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And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she  was  his daughter-in-law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?


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And he said, I will send  thee  a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give  me  a pledge, till thou send  it ?


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And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that  is  in thine hand. And he gave  it  her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.


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And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.


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


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Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where  is  the harlot, that  was  openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this  place .


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And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said,  that  there was no harlot in this  place .


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And Judah said, Let her take  it  to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.


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And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she  is  with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.


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When she  was  brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these  are, am  I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose  are  these, the signets, and bracelet, and staff.


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And Judah acknowledged  them , and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.


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And it came to pass, when she travailed, that  the one  put out  his  hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.


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And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth?  this  breach  be  upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.


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And afterward so came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.


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And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.


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


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


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And Joseph found grace in sight of his lord, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.


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And it came to pass from the time  that  he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD 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 hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was  a  goodly  person , and well favoured.


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


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But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not everything what  is  with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;


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There is  none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou  art  his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?


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And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her,  or  to be with her.


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And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business in the house; and  there was  none of the men of the house there within.


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And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.


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That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:


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And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment in hand of me, and fled, and got him out.


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And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:


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And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.


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And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.


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And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners  were  bound: and he was there in the prison.


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But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.


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And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that  were  in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer  of it .


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The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing  that was  under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and all that which he did, the LORD made  it  to prosper.


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And it came to pass after these things,  that  the butler of the king of Egypt and  his  baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh was wroth against two  of  his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.


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And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph  was  bound.


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And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.


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And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which  were  bound in the prison.


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And he asked Pharaoh's officers that  were  with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye  so  sadly to day?


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And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and  there is  no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them,  Do  not interpretations  belong  to God? tell me  them , I pray you.


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And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine  was  before me;


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And in the vine  were  three branches: and it  was  as though it budded,  and  her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:


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And Pharaoh's cup  was  in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.


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But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:


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For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.


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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also  was  in my dream, and, behold,  I had  three white baskets on my head:


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And in the uppermost basket  there was  of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.


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And Joseph answered and said, This  is  the interpretation thereof: The three baskets  are  three days:


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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.


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And it came to pass the third day,  which was  Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.


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And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:


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And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.


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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.


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And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the  other  kine upon the brink of the river.


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And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.


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And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.


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And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold,  it was  a dream.


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And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but  there was  none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.


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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put them in ward in the captain of the guard's house,  both  me and the chief baker:


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And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.


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


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And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.


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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved  himself , and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and  there is  none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee,  that  thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.


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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:


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And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:


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And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they  were  still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.


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And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told  this  unto the magicians; but  there was  none that could declare  it  to me.


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And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh  is  one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he  is  about to do.


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The seven good kine  are  seven years; and the seven good ears  are  seven years: the dream  is  one.


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And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them  are  seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.


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This  is  the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God  is  about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.


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And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;


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And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it  shall be  very grievous.


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And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice;  it is  because the thing  is  established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.


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Let Pharaoh do  this , and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.


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And let them gather all the food of seven good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.


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And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.


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And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find  such a one  as this  is , a man in whom the Spirit of God  is ?


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this,  there is  none so discreet and wise as thou  art :


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Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.


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And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;


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And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him  ruler  over all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I  am  Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaph-nath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over  all  the land of Egypt.


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And Joseph  was  thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were seven years in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which  was  round about every city, laid he up in the same.


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And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for  it was  without number.


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And unto Joseph they were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.


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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God,  said he , hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.


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And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.


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And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.


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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.


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And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.


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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy  corn ; because that the famine was  so  sore in all lands.


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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?


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And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.


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But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.


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And the sons of Israel came to buy  corn  among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.


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And Joseph  was  the governor over the land, and he  it was  that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him  with  their faces to the earth.


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And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.


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And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye  are  spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.


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And they said, Thy servants  are  twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest  is  this day with our father, and one  is  not.


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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.


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Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether  there be any  truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye  are  spies. And they are saying: not he is able our younger brother to forsake his father, because if he will forsake his father he will die.


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If ye  be  true  men , let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:


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But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.


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And they said one to another, We  are  verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore all this distress come upon us.


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And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.


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And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.


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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.


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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it  was  in his sack's mouth.


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And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed  them , and they were afraid, saying one to another, What  is  this  that  God hath done unto us?


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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying


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We  be  twelve brethren, sons of our father; one  is  not, and the youngest  is  this day with our father in the land of Canaan.


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And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye  are  true  men ; leave one of your brethren  here  with me, and take  food for  the famine of your households, and be gone:


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And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye  are  no spies, but  that  ye  are  true  men: so  will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.


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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money  was  in his sack: and when  both  they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.


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And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved  of my children : Joseph  is  not, and Simeon  is  not, and ye will take Benjamin  away : all these things are against me.


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And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.


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And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.


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And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.


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And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother  be  with you.


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But if thou wilt not send  him , we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother  be  with you.


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And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye  so  ill with me,  as  to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?


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And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying,  Is  your father yet alive? have ye  another  brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?


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And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou,  and  also our little ones.


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I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:


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And their father Israel said unto them, If  it must be  so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:


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And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry  it  again in your hand; peradventure it  was  an oversight:


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And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved  of my children , I am bereaved.


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And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.


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And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring  these  men home, and slay, and make ready; for  these  men shall dine with me at noon.


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And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, take us for bondmen, and our asses.


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And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house


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And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold,  every  man's money  was  in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.


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And other money have we take in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.


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And he said, Peace  be  to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your fathers, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto 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 asses provender.


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And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which  was  in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.


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And he asked them of  their  welfare, and said,  Is  your father well, the old man of whom ye spake?  Is  he yet alive?


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And they answered, Thy servant our father  is  in good health, he  is  yet alive. And he is saying, bow because he is a man of God. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.


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And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said,  Is  this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.


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And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought  where  to weep; and he entered into  his  chamber, and wept there.


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And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that  is  an abomination unto 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 marvelled one at another.


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And he took  and sent  messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.


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And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks  with  food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.


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And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.


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And  when they were gone out of the city,  and  not  yet  far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?


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Is  not this  it  in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.


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And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:


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Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?


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With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.


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And he said, Now also  let  it  be  according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.


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And he searched,  and  began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.


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And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he  was  yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.


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And Joseph said unto them, What deed  is  this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?


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And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? And what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? And God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we  are  my lord's servants, both we, and  he  also with whom the cup is found.


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And he said, God forbid that I should do so:  but  the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.


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Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou  art  even as Pharaoh.


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And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.


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And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for  if  he should leave his father,  his father  would die.


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And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.


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And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother  be  with us.


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And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.


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Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad  be  not with me; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;


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It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad  is  not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.


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For thy servant became surety for the lad unto his father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.


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Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.


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For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad  be  not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.


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Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, And caused every man to go out from him. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I  am  Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I  am  Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.


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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.


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For these two years  hath  the famine  been  in the land: and yet  there are  five years, in the which  there shall  neither  be  earing nor harvest.


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And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.


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So now  it was  not you  that  sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.


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Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:


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And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:


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And there will I nourish thee; for yet  there are  five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.


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And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that  it is  my mouth that speaketh unto you.


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And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.


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Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.


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And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;


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And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.


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Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you 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 children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.


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To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred  pieces  of silver, and five changes of raiment.


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And to his father he sent after this  manner ; ten asses laden with the good things of land Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.


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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said, God, See that ye fall not out by the way.


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And told him, saying, Joseph  is  yet alive, and he  is  governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.


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And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto 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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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.


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And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here  am  I.


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And he said, I  am  God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:


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I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up  again : and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine 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 cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:


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His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.


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And these  are  the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.


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And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.


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And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.


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These  be  the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters  were  thirty and three.


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And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, 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 Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob,  even  sixteen souls.


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And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.


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And the sons of Benjamin  were  Belah, 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, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls  were  seven.


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All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls  were  threescore and six;


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And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt,  were  two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt,  were  threescore and ten.


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And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.


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And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.


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And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou  art  yet alive.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which  were  in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;


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And the men  are  shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.


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That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we,  and  also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd  is  an abomination unto the Egyptians.


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Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said to him, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they  are  in the land of Goshen.


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And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, of Joseph, What  is  your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants  are  shepherds, both we,  and  also our fathers.


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They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine  is  sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.


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The land of Egypt  is  before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest  any  men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.


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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage  are  an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.


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And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, 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 nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to  their  families.


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And  there was  no bread in all the land; for the famine  was  very sore, so that the land of Egypt and  all  the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.


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And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.


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And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.


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And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread  in exchange  for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.


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When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide  it  from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:


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Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give  us  seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.


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And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.


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And as for the people, he removed them to servants from  one  end of the borders of Egypt to the  other  end thereof.


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Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion  assigned them  of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.


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Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo,  here is  seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.


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And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth  part  unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.


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And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.


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And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,  that  Pharaoh should have the fifth  part ; except the land of the priests only,  which  became not Pharaoh's.


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And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.


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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole ages of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.


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And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:


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But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.


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And it came to pass after these things, that  one  told Joseph, Behold, thy father  is  sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


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And  one  told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.


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And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me


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And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee  for  an everlasting possession.


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And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt,  are  mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.


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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,  and  shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.


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And as for me, when I came from Padan Aram, Rachel, mother of you, died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet  there was  but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same  is  Beth-lehem.


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And Joseph said unto his father, They  are  my sons, whom God hath given me in this  place . And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.


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Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,  so that  he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.


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And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.


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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.


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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 unto him.


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And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid  it  upon Ephraim's head, who  was  the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh  was  the firstborn.


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And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day


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The King which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads these; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.


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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 held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.


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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this  is  the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.


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And his father refused, and said, I know  it , my son, I know  it : he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.


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And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.


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And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.


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Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.


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And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you  that  which shall befall you in the last days.


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Reuben, thou  art  my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:


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Unstable as waters, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou  it : he went up to my couch.


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O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.


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Great  be  their anger, for  it was  fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.


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Judah, thou  art he  whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hands  shall be  in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.


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Judah  is  a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?


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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him  shall  the gathering of the people  be .


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Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:


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Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he  shall be  for an haven of ships; and his border  shall be  unto Zidon.


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And he saw that rest  was  good, and the land that  it was  pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.


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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.


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Joseph  is  a fruitful bough,  even  a fruitful bough by a well;  whose  branches run over the wall:


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But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty  God  of Jacob; (from thence  is  the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)


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Even  by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:


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The blessings of thy father and thy mother have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.


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Benjamin shall ravin  as  a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.


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All these  are  the twelve tribes of Israel: and this  is it  that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.


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And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that  is  in the field of Ephron the Hittite


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In the cave that  is  in the field of Machpelah, which  is  before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.


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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; and there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.


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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.


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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.


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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.


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And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying


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My father made me swear to my face before his death, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father as he swore me, and I will come again.


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And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt


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And all the house of Joseph, his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.


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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which  is  beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.


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And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This  is  a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which  is  beyond Jordan.


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For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.


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And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.


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And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.


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So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.


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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we  be  thy servants.


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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; and God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as  it is  this day, to save much people alive.


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Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.


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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third  generation : the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up in Joseph's days.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence with you.


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So Joseph died,  being  an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.


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Now these  are  the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.


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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob they were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt  already .


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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.


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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel  are  more and mightier than we:


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Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and  so  get them up out of the land.


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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.


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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.


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And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve,  was  with rigour.


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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one  was  Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:


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And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see  them  upon the stools; if it  be  a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it  be  a daughter, then she shall live.


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But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they saved the men children alive.


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And the Pharaon of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and you have saved the men children alive?


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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women  are  not as the Egyptian women; for they  are  lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.


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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born to Hebrews ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.


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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he  was a  goodly  child , she hid him three months.


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And when she could not longer hide him, mother of him took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid  it  in the flags by the river's brink.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash  herself  at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.


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And when she had opened  it , she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him daughter of Pharaon, and said, This  is one  of the Hebrews' children.


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Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give  thee  thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.


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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.


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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.


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And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that  there was  no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.


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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?


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And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.


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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.


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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew  water , and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.


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And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and 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 also drew  water  enough for us, and watered the flock.


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And he said unto his daughters, And where  is  he? why  is  it  that  ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.


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And she bare  him  a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.


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And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.


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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, and with Isaac, and with Jacob.


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Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God,  even  to Horeb.


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And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush  was  not consumed.


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And when the God saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here  am  I.


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And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest  is  holy ground.


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Moreover he said, I  am  the God of thy 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 upon God.


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And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which  are  in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;


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And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and Girgashites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.


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Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.


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And Moses said unto God, Who  am  I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?


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And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this  shall be  a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.


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And Moses said unto God, Behold,  when  I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What  is  his name? what shall I say unto them?


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And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.


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And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this  is  my name for ever, and this  is  my memorial unto all generations.


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Go, and gather the elders of sons of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and  seen  that which is done to you in Egypt:


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And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and Girgashites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.


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And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.


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And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:


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And every man shall borrow of his associate, and every woman shall borrow of her associate, from neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put  them  upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.


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And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.


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And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:


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That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.


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And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, his hand  was  leprous as snow.


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And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his  other  flesh.


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And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.


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And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour  it  upon the dry  land : and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry  land .


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And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I  am  not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I  am  slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.


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And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said,  Is  not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.


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And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.


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And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be,  even  he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.


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And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which  are  in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.


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And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.


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And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son,  even  thy firstborn.


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Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast  it  at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband  art  thou to me.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.


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And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.


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And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.


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And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.


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And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.


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And Pharaoh said, Who  is  the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.


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And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.


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And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now  are  many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.


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Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.


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And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish  ought  thereof: for they  be  idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go  and  sacrifice to our God.


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Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.


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And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.


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So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.


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And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works,  your  daily tasks, as when there was straw given to you.


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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten,  and  demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as heretofore?


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Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?


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There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants  are  beaten; but the fault  is  in thine own people.


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But he said, Ye  are  idle,  ye are  idle: therefore ye say, Let us go  and  do sacrifice to the LORD.


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Go therefore now,  and  work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.


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And the officers of the children of Israel did see  that  they  were  in evil  case , after it was said, Ye shall not minish  ought  from your bricks of your daily task.


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And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in his hand to slay us.


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And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou  so  evil entreated this people? And why  is  it  that  thou hast sent me?


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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.


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And I appeared unto Abraham, and unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by  the name of  God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.


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And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.


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And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.


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Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I  am  the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:


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And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I  am  the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.


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And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I  am  the LORD.


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And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. And they are saying to Moses: leave us please and we shall serve to Egyptians because it is good for us to be servants of Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.


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And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who  am  of uncircumcised lips?


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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


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And these  be  the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these  be  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 Canaanitish 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, Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi  were  an hundred thirty and seven years.


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And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath  were  an hundred thirty and three years.


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And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these  are  the families of Levi according to their generations.


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And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister: and the years of the life of Amram  were  an hundred and thirty and six years.


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And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And Eleazar Aaron's son took him  one  of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these  are  the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.


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These  are  that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.


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These  are  they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt: these  are  that Moses and Aaron.


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That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I  am  the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.


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And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I  am  of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?


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And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.


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Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.


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But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies,  and  my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.


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And all the Egyptians shall know that I  am  the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them with me.


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And Moses  was  fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.


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When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a signs or a miracles for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast  it  before Pharaoh,  and  it shall become a serpent.


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And Moses and Aaron went in unto faces of Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.


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Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.


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For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.


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Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.


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And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.


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Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I  am  the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that  is  in mine hand upon the waters which  are  in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.


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And the fish that  is  in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river. And they are coming, Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and they are saying to him: LORD of Hebrews send us to you to say: let people go with me and they shall serve me in the wilderness. And behold, you did not listen until now. Thus says the LORD: in this you shall know that I'm the LORD. Behold, I'm smiting with rod which is in hand of me over waters which are in the waterway, and they are turning into blood. And the fish, which is in the waterway, shall die. And the waterway stinks, and they are disgusted the Egyptians to drink from waters of the waterway.


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And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, and upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and  that  there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in  vessels of  wood, and in  vessels of  stone.


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And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod of him, and smote the waters that  were  in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that  were  in the river were turned to blood.


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And the fish that  was  in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.


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And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.


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And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and you say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:


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And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. And they are coming, Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and they are saying to him: Thus says the LORD: let go people with me, and they shall serve me. And if you are refusing to let them go, behold, I am smiting all boundary of you with frogs. And swarms the waterway with frogs and they will rise and come in houses of you, and in chambers of you, beds of you, and over couches of you. And in houses servants of you and people of you, and in furnaces of you, and in kneading troughs of you, and beds, and in people, and in all servants of you, they will rise the frogs.


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And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, and over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. And he is saying Moses to Aaron: stretch with your hand and in rod of you, and they rise frogs over land of Egypt


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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.


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And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, from thy servants and from thy people,  that  they may remain in the river only?


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And he said, Tomorrow. And he said,  Be it  according to thy word: that thou mayest know that  there is  none like unto the LORD our God.


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And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.


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And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.


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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields.


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But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand with thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.


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Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This  is  the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms  of flies  upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms  of flies , and also the ground whereon they  are .


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And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms  of flies  shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I  am  the LORD in the midst of the earth.


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And I will put a division between my people and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be. And they are coming Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and they are saying to him: Thus says LORD: let my people go and they shall serve me. And that if you are not letting my people go, behold, I send in you, and in servants of you, and in people of you, and in houses of you the swarm. And they fill be filled houses of Egypt with swarm, and moreover the land which is theirs. And I will distinguish in this day with the land Goshen where are my people so that there is no swarm, so that you know that I'am the LORD within the land. And I will place the divisions between my people and your people. Tomorrow they will happen these signs.


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And the LORD did so; and there came a very grievous swarm  of flies  into the house of Pharaoh, and  into  his servants' houses, into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm  of flies .


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And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?


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We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.


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And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.


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And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms  of flies  may depart from Pharaoh, and from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.


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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms  of flies  from Pharaoh, and from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which  is  in the field, upon the horses, and upon the asses, and upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep:  there shall be  a very grievous murrain.


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And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all  that is  the children's of Israel.


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And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. And they are coming Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and they are saying to him: Thus says LORD: these Hebrews are mine. Let my people go and they shall serve me. And that if you are refusing to let my people go, and you want to burden them more, behold, the hand of the LORD comes upon cattle of you that is in the field, in horses, and in donkeys, and in camels, and in flock: plague very heavy. And the LORD will distinguish between livestock of Israel and between livestock of Egypt, and not it shall die from plague all that belong to Israel. Tomorrow the LORD will do the plague this in the land.


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And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.


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And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the sons of Israel dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.


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And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.


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And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth  with  blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth  with  blains upon man, and upon beast.


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And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.


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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that  there is  none like me in all the earth.


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For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.


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And in very deed for this  cause  have I raised thee up, for to shew  in  thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.


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Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.


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Send therefore now,  and  gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field;  for upon  every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. And they are coming Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and they are saying to him: Thus says LORD: these Hebrews are mine. Let my people go and they shall serve me. That this time I shall send all plagues of me into heart of you, and in servants of you, and in people of you, so that you know that there is no one like me in all the earth. That if I were to send hand of me and smite you and your people in plague, you would be destroyed from the earth. But I'm keeping you to show you vigour of me, and so that numbered names of me in all the earth. Still you extol yourself in my people so as not to let them go, behold, I'm causing rain to come tomorrow; very heavy hail that have not been seen in Egypt from the day of her foundation and until now. And now send for cattle of you, and for all which is yours in the field. All humans and the beast that will be found in the field and not gathered into the houses, when hail falls on them, they will die.


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He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.


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And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.


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So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.


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And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that  was  in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.


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And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD  is  righteous, and I and my people  are  wicked.


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Entreat the LORD (for  it is  enough) that there be no  more  mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.


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And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth  is  the LORD's.


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And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley  was  in the ear, and the flax  was  bolled.


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And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.


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And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.


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And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:


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And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I  am  the LORD. God of you. And say to Pharaoh: Thus says the LORD:These Hebrews are mine. Until death you will refuse to answer before faces of me? Let my people go and they shall serve me. Because if you refuse to let people go with me, behold, I will bring tomorrow locusts in boundary of you. And it will cover all the earth and the earth will not be seen, and it will eat up all remains from the hail, and it will eat all herbage of the earth, and all fruit of the tree of the field. And it will fill houses you, and houses of your servants, and houses of all Egypt. And it will be such as your fathers and fathers of your fathers have not seen from day they came to the land and until now.


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And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.


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And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every herbage of the ground and all fruit of the tree which groweth for you out of the field:


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And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?


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And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God:  but  who  are  they that shall go?


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And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we  must hold  a feast unto the LORD.


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And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look  to it ; for evil  is  before you.


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Not so: go now ye  that are  men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land and fruit of the tree that the hail hath left.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all  that  night;  and  when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.


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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous  were they ; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.


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For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.


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Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.


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And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness  which  may be felt.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:


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They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.


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And Pharaoh called unto Moses and unto Aaron, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.


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And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.


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Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.


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And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in  that  day thou seest my face thou shalt die.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague  more  upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; and afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let  you  go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.


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Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and garments


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And the LORD gave the people favour for their requests in the sight of the Egyptians. And in the middle of the night I will go in midst of the land of Egypt and I will kill all firstborn in the land of Egypt. From firstborn of Pharaoh who is sitting on the throne of him, and unto the firstborn of the slave-woman that is behind the millstones, and unto the firstborn of all beasts. And great cry will become in Egypt such that was not and such that will not be. And to all sons of Israel not even the dog will stir its tongue, from man and until the beast, so that you are knowing that differentiates the LORD between Egypt and between Israel. And 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. And he is saying Moses to the Pharaoh: Thus speaks the LORD: mine are the firstborn sons of Israel. And he says let my sons go and they shall serve me. And if you are refusing to let them go, behold, the LORD will kill all your firstborn sons.


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And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of the land of Egypt:


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And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, and even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that  is  behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.


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And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.


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But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.


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And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.


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This month  shall be  unto you the beginning of months: it  shall be  the first month of the year to you.


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Speak ye please unto all the congregation of sons of Israel, saying, In the tenth  day  of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of  their  fathers, a lamb for an house:


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And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take  it  according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.


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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take  it  out from the sheep, or from the goats:


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And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of sons of Israel shall kill it in the evening.


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And they shall take of the blood, and strike  it  on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.


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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;  and  with bitter  herbs  they shall eat it.


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Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast  with  fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.


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And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.


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And thus shall ye eat it;  with  your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staffs in your hands; and ye shall eat it in haste: it  is  the LORD's passover.


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For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I  am  the LORD.


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And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye  are : and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy  you , when I smite the land of Egypt.


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And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.


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Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day and until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.


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And in the first day  there shall be  an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save  that  which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.


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And ye shall observe  the feast of  unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe and do this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.


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In the first  month , on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.


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Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.


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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.


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And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip  it  in the blood that  is  in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that  is  in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.


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For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite  you .


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And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service in this month.


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That ye shall say, It  is  the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.


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And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.


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And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne and unto the firstborn of the captive that  was  in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.


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And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for  there was  not a house where  there was  not one dead.


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And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up,  and  get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.


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And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We  be  all dead  men .


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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs 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 borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:


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And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them  such things as they required . And they spoiled the Egyptians.


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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot  that were  men, beside children.


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And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.


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Now the sojourning of the children of Israel and fathers of them, who dwelt in Canaan and in Egypt,  was  four hundred and thirty years.


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And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.


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It  is  a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this  is  that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.


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And the LORD said unto Moses and to Aaron, This  is  the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:


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But every man's servant that is bought for his money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.


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In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.


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And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.


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And it came to pass the selfsame day,  that  the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


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Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel,  both  of man and of beast: it  is  mine.


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And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this  place : there shall no leavened bread be eaten.


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And it shall be when the LORD God shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Gigrgashites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.


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Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.


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And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying,  This is done  because of that  which  the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.


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And they shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hands, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.


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And it shall be when the LORD God of you shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee


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That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males  shall be  the LORD's.


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And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.


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And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What  is  this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:


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And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of man of my children I redeem.


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And it shall be to you for a token upon thine hands, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.


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And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not  through  the way of the land of the Philistines, although that  was  near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:


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But God led the people about,  through  the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.


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And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for Joseph had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.


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And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which in the edge of the wilderness.


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And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:


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He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night,  from  before the people.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.


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For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They  are  entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I  am  the LORD. And they did so.


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And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?


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And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and thirty over every one of them.


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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.


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But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses  and  chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.


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And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes and they are looking, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.


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And they said unto Moses, Because  there were  no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?


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Is  not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Please let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For  it had been  better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.


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And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more for ever.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:


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But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry  ground  through the midst of the sea.


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And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.


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And all the Egyptians shall know that I  am  the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh and in all able men of him, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.


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And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:


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And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness  to them , but it gave light by night  to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go  back  by a strong east wind all that 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 unto them on their right hand, and on their left.


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And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea,  even  all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians


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And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.


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And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen,  and  all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.


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But the children of Israel walked upon dry  land  in the midst of the sea; and the waters  were  a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.


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Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.


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And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.


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Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.


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The LORD  is  my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he  is  my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.


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Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.


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Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.


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And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath,  which  consumed them as stubble.


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And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap,  and  the depths were 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 lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.


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Who  is  like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who  is  like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful  in  praises, doing wonders?


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Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people  which  thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided  them  in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.


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Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.


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Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be  as  still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over,  which  thou hast purchased.


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Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,  in  the place, O LORD,  which  thou hast made for thee to dwell in,  in  the Sanctuary, O LORD,  which  thy hand have established.


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For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry  land  in the midst of the sea.


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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.


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And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for in the nations he triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.


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So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.


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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they  were  bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.


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And Moses cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree,  which  when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them


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And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I  am  the LORD that healeth thee.


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And they came to Elim, and in Elim there are twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.


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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which  is  between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.


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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:


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And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots,  and  when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.


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Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.


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And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare  that  which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.


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And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:


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And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what  are  we, that ye murmur against us?


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And Moses said,  This shall be , when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what  are  we? your murmurings  are  not against us, but against the LORD.


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And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.


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And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.


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I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I  am  the LORD your God.


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And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.


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And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness  there lay  a small round thing,  as  small as the hoar frost on the ground.


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And when the children of Israel saw  it , they said one to another, It  is  manna: for they wist not what it  was . And Moses said unto them, This  is  the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.


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This  is  the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man,  according to  the number of your persons; take ye every man for  them  which  are  in his tents.


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And when they did mete  it  with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.


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Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.


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And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.


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And it came to pass,  that  on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one  man : and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.


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And he said unto them, This  is that  which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow  is  the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake  that  which ye will bake  today , and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.


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And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.


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And Moses said, Eat that today; for today  is  a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.


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Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day,  which is  the sabbath, in it there shall be none.


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And it came to pass,  that  there went out  some  of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.


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See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man 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 the name thereof Manna: and it  was  like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it  was  like wafers  made  with honey.


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And Moses said, This  is  the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.


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And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.


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And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and  there was  no water for the people to drink.


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Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? And wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?


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And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore  is  this  that  thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?


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And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.


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Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, 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 chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?


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And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.


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So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses and Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


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And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hands, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hands, Amalek prevailed.


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But Moses' hands  were  heavy; and they took a stone, and put  it  under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this  for  a memorial in a book, and rehearse  it  in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.


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For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn  that  the LORD  will have  war with Amalek from generation to generation.


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When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people,  and  that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;


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And her two sons; of which the name of the one  was  Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:


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And the name of the other  was  Eliezer; for the God of my father,  said he, was  mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:


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And he said unto Moses, behold, I thy father-in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.


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And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance to Moses, and kissed him; and they asked each other of  their  welfare; and they came into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake,  and  all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and  how  the LORD delivered them.


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And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.


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And Jethro said, Blessed  be  the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


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Now I know that the LORD  is  greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly  he was  above them.


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning and unto the evening.


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And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What  is  this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning and unto even?


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When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make  them  know the statutes of God, and his laws.


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Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that  is  with thee: for this thing  is  too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.


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Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:


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And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way in wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.


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Moreover thou shalt provide to yourself out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place  such  over them,  to be  rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:


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And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,  that  every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear  the burden  with thee.


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If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee  so , then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.


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So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. And saying Moses to the people: I alone can't bear you. The LORD God made you many, behold, as the stars of the havens for multitude. LORD God of your fathers increased you a thousand times over, and he blessed you as he spoke. Thus how can I bear burdens of you and strifes of you? Select for yourself men wise and understanding and knowlegeable to tribes of you. And I shall place them in heads of you. And they are answering and they are saying: It is good to do what you have spoken.


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And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And officers to tribes of them. And he is commanding with the judges to say: hear between a man and his brother, and you judge righteously between man and between brother of him, and between the sojourner of him. Not you shall respect faces in sentence. Small and great you are hearing. Not you shall be afraid of the face of the man as justice is God's. And matter that is too hard for you you will bring to me and I will hear it. And he is commanding them all words that they should do.


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And they judged the people at all seasons: the great causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.


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In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they  into  the wilderness of Sinai.


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For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come  to  the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.


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And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;


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Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and  how  I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.


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Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth  is  mine:


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And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These  are  the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.


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And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.


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And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes


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And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.


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And thou shalt set bounds with the mountain round about and unto the people you say: Take heed to yourselves,  that ye  go  not  up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:


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There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether  it be  beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.


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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.


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And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that  was  in the camp trembled.


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And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.


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And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.


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And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.


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And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses  up  to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.


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And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.


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And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.


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And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.


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I  am  the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness  of any thing  that  is  in heaven above, or that  is  in the earth beneath, or that  is  in the water under the earth:


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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God  am  a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth  generation  of them that hate me;


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Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.


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But the seventh day  is  the sabbath of the LORD thy God:  in it  thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that  is  within thy gates:


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For  in  six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them  is , and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, and not thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that  is  thy neighbour's. And when it so happens that LORD God brings you to the land of Caanan, which you are coming to posses, you shall set-up there for you great stones and plaster them with plaster and you write on the stones all words of this law. And it becomes for you that across the Jordan you shall raise these stones, which I command you today, in mountain Grizim. And you build there the altar to the LORD God of you. Altar of stones. Not you shall wave on them iron. With whole stones you shall build the altar to LORD God of you. And you bring on it ascend offerings to LORD God of you, and you sacrifice peace offerings, and you eat there and you rejoice before the face of the LORD God of you. The mountain this is across the Jordan behind the way of the rising of the sun, in the land of Caanan who is dwelling in the desert before the Galgal, beside Alvin-Mara, before Sechem.


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And all the people heard the thunderings, and the noise of the trumpet, and saw the lightnings, and the mountain smoking: and when all the people saw  it , they removed, and stood afar off.


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No Translation Available And they said unto Moses, Behold, LORD God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and voice of Him we heard from the midst of the fire. Today we saw that speaks God with the man and he lives. And now why shall we die? This great fire consumes us, and if we will hear more of the voice of the LORD God of us we will die. Because what is the flesh that can hear the voice of God and live, as he has spoken to us from the midst of the fire and we lived. Go hear all that he will say to us the LORD God and then you will tell us all that he spoke and we will listen and we will do. But let not God speak with us, lest we die.


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And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.


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And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God  was .And the LORD said to Moses to say: I heard what people have said. All that they have spoken to you, they have spoken wisely. All that they have spoken let them put in their hearts so that they can keep my commandments in all their days, so that it would be good to them and to sons of them forever. Prophet I shall raise up to them from the midsts of their brothers, and I will place words of me into his mouth to speak to them all that I'm commanding them. And it becomes that the man who will not listen to his words that are spoken in my name, I shall require from him. But the prophet who will speak insolently in my name that which I have not instructed him to speak, or if he speaks in the name of other Gods, such prophet shall die. And if you will ask yourself in your heart how you shall know which word God has spoken and which he has not, see if the word spoken comes to pass. And if it shall not come to pass then this is not the word of the LORD, in insolence spoken the prophet. Not you shall listen to him. Go now back to your tent and I will speak to you regarding all commandments and ordinances and verdicts that you shall teach them, and what to do in the land that I give them for possession.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.


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An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, from thy sheep, and from thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.


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And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.


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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.


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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.


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If his master have given him a wife, and she have born 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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If the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:


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Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.


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If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.


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And if he take him another  wife ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


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And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver  him  into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.


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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.


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And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.


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And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with  his  fist, and he die not, but keepeth  his  bed:


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If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote  him  be quit: only he shall pay  for  the loss of his time, and shall cause  him  to be thoroughly healed.


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And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely be put to death.


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If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart  from her , and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges  determine .


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And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.


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And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.


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If an oxor any animal smiting a man or a woman, that they die: then the animal shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the animal  shall be  quit.


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But if the animal was smiting in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the animal shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.


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If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.


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Whether he have smote a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.


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If the animal shall smite a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the animal shall be stoned.


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And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass or any animal fall therein;


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The owner of the pit shall make  it  good,  and  give money unto the owner of them; and the dead  beast  shall be his.


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And if one man's ox or any animal hurt another's or any animals of his, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead  ox  also they shall divide.


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Or if it be known that the animal hath used to smite in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay animal for animal; and the dead shall be his own.


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And if a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.


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If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,  there shall  no blood  be shed  for him.


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If the sun be risen upon him,  there shall be  blood  shed  for him;  for  he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.


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If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep or any animal; he shall restore double.


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And if a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; he shall repay well from field of him according to incomes of it. Aif all the field is eaten, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.


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If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed  therewith ; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.


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And if a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.


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And if the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges,  to see  whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.


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For all manner of trespass,  whether it be  for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment,  or  for any manner of lost thing, which  another  challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the LORD;  and  whom the God shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.


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If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing  it :


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Then  shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept  thereof , and he shall not make  it  good.


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If it be torn in pieces,  then  let him bring it  for  witness,  and  he shall not make good that which was torn.


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And if a man borrow  ought  of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof  being  not with it, he shall surely make  it  good.


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But  if the owner thereof  be  with it, he shall not make  it  good: if it  be  an hired  thing , and it came for his hire.


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And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.


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And if her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.


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And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.


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If thou lend money to  any of  my people  that is  poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.


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If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:


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For that  is  his covering only, it  is  his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I  am  gracious.


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Thou shalt not delay  to offer  the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.


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Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen,  and  with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; and on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.


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And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat  any  flesh  that is  torn of beasts in the field; ye shall throw it away.


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Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.


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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to  do  evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest  judgment :


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If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass or any animal going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.


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If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.


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Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.


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And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.


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Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.


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But the seventh  year  thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.


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Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: so that he shall rest servant of you and slaves of you, as you, and all animals of you, and the sojourner


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And all  things  that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, and neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.


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Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)


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And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering,  which is  in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.


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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk, that one doing this as sacrifice forgets and enrages God of Jacob


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Behold, I send my Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.


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Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name  is  in him.


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But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.


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For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Canaanites, and the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Gergashites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.


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Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.


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And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.


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And there shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.


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I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.


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And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Canaanite, and Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Gergashites, and the Perezites, and the Hivite, and the Ebusites from before thee.


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I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.


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By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.


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And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.


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They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.


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And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.


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And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.


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And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.


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And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve stones, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen sons of herd unto the LORD.


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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 in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.


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And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled  it  on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.


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Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar and seventy of the elders of Israel:


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And they saw the God of Israel: and  there was  under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in  his  clearness.


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And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, the law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.


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And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: behold, Aaron and Hur  are  with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.


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And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.


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And the sight of the glory of the LORD  was  like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.


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And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.


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According to all that I shew thee in mountain,  after  the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make  it .


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And you shall make an ark  of  shittim wood: two cubits and a half  shall be  the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.


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And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make to it a crown of gold round about.


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And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put  them  in the four corners thereof; and two rings  shall be  in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.


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And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.


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And thou shalt make a mercy seat  of  pure gold: two cubits and a half  shall be  the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.


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And thou shalt make two cherubims  of  gold,  of  beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.


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They make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end:  even  of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.


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And the cherubims shall stretch forth  their  wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces  shall look  one to one; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.


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And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.


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And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which  are  upon the ark of the testimony, of all  things  which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.


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Thou shalt also make a table  of  shittim wood: two cubits  shall be  the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.


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And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.


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And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that  are  on the four feet thereof.


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And thou shalt make the staves  of  shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.


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And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal:  of  pure gold shalt thou make them.


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And thou shalt make a candlestick  of  pure gold:  of  beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.


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And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:


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Three bowls made like unto almonds,  with  a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch,  with  a knop and a flower: so you shall make to the six branches that come out of the candlestick.


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And in the candlestick  shall be  four bowls made like unto almonds,  with  their knops and their flowers.


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And  there shall be  a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.


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Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it  shall be  one beaten work  of  pure gold.


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And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.


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Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle  with  ten curtains  of  fine twined linen, blue, and purple, and scarlet:  with  cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.


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The length of one curtain  shall be  eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.


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And five curtains shall be coupled together one to one; and  other  five curtains shall be coupled one to one.


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And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of  another  curtain, in the coupling of the second.


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Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that  is  in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.


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And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.


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And thou shalt make curtains  of  goats'  hair  to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.


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The length of one curtain  shall be  thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains  shall be all  of one measure.


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And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.


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And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain  that is  outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops you shalt make in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.


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And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.


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And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.


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And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.


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And thou shalt make a covering for the tent  of  rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above  of  badgers' skins.


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Ten cubits  shall be  the length of one board, and a cubit and a half  shall be  the breadth of one board.


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Two tenons  shall there be  in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.


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And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side  there shall be  you shall make twenty boards:


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And their forty sockets  of  silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.


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And they shall be coupled together beneath, they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.


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And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets  of  silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, two sockets under another 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, for the two sides westward.


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And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings  of  gold  for  places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.


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And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.


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And thou shalt make a veil  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:


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And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim  wood  overlaid with gold: their hooks  shall be of  gold, upon the four sockets of silver.


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And thou shalt hang up the veil under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy  place  and the most holy.


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And thou shalt set the table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon:  of  shittim wood shalt thou make it. A cubit  shall be  the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits  shall be  the height thereof: the horns thereof  shall be  of the same. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make  it ; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. And thou shalt make the staves  of  shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put it before the veil that  is  by the ark of the testimony, where I shall appoint my name. And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon. And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it  is  most holy unto the LORD.


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And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent,  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.


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And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars  of  shittim  wood , and overlay them with pure gold,  and  their hooks  shall be of  gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.


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And thou shalt make an altar  of  shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof  shall be  three cubits.


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And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.


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And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make  of  brass.


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And thou shalt make for it a grate of network  of  brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.


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And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.


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And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.


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Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, and so shall they make  it .


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And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward  there shall be  hangings for the court  of  fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:


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And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets  shall be of  brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets  shall be of  silver.


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And likewise for the north side in length  there shall be  hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets  of  brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets  of  silver.


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And  for  the breadth of the court on the west side  shall be  hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their copper sockets ten.


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The hangings of one side  of the gate shall be  fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their copper sockets three.


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And on the other side  shall be  hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their copper sockets three.


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And for the gate of the court  shall be  an hanging of twenty cubits,  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework:  and  their pillars  shall be  four, and their copper sockets four.


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All the pillars round about the court  shall be  filleted with silver; their hooks  shall be of  silver, and their sockets  of  brass.


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The length of the court  shall be  an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height five cubits  of  fine twined linen, and their sockets  of  brass you make


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All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court,  shall be of  brass. And you make coverings of blue and purple and crimson twined, to cover in them holines.


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And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.


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In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which  is  before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD:  it shall be  a statute for ever unto your generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.


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And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office,  even  Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.


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And thou shalt speak unto all  that are  wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.


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And these  are  the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.


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And they shall make the ephod  of  gold,  of  blue, and  of  purple, and  of  scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.


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It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof;  so  it shall be joined together.


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And the curious girdle of the ephod, which  is  upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof;  even of  gold,  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.


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Six of their names on one stone, and  the other  six names of the rest 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, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.


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And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod  for  stones of memorial to behold unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.


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And two chains  of  pure gold at the ends;  of  wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.


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And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it;  of  gold,  of  blue, and  of  purple, and  of  scarlet, and  of  fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.


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Foursquare it shall be  being  doubled; a span  shall be  the length thereof, and a span  shall be  the breadth thereof.


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And thou shalt set in it settings of stones,  even  four rows of stones:  the first  row  shall be  a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle:  this shall be  the first row.


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And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their enclosings.


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And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names,  like  the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.


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And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two mountings and two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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And thou shalt put the two wreathen  chains  of gold in the two rings  which are  on the ends of the breastplate.


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And  the other  two ends of the two wreathen  chains  thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put  them  on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.


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And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which  is  in the side of the ephod inward.


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And two  other  rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the  other  coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.


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And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that  it  may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.


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And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy  place , for a memorial before the LORD continually. And you make the Urim and the Thummim.


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And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.


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And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.


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And  beneath  upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates  of  blue, and  of  purple, and  of  scarlet, and of twinned linen round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:


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A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.


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And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy  place  before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.


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And thou shalt make a plate  of  pure gold, and grave upon it,  like  the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.


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And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.


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And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.


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And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre  of  fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle  of  needlework.


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And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.


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And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.


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And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:


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And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy  place ; that they bear not iniquity, and die:  it shall be  a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.


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And this  is  the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish


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And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil:  of  wheaten flour shalt thou make them.


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And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.


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And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.


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And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and girdle with its belt. And you put upon him the robe of the ephod, and you put upon him the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:


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And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.


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And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the LORD, to opening of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.


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And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD,  by  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put  it  upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.


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And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul  that is  above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that  is  upon them, and burn  them  upon the altar.


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But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it  is  a sin offering.


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Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.


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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle  it  round about upon the altar.


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And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put  them  unto his pieces, and unto his head.


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And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it  is  a burnt offering unto the LORD: it  is  a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.


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Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put  it  upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.


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And thou shalt take of the blood that  is  upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle  it  upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.


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Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat, the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul  above  the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that  is  upon them, and the right shoulder; for it  is  a ram of consecration:


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And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that  is  before the LORD:


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And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them  for  a wave offering before the LORD.


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And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it  is  an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it  for  a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.


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And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration,  even  of  that  which  is  for Aaron, and of  that  which is for his sons:


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And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it  is  an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings,  even  their heave offering unto the LORD. And take from the anointing oil and from blood that is over the altar, and you smear it over Aaron and over garments of him and over sons of him and over garments of sons of him. And you will purify the him, the garments of him, and the sons of him and the garments of his sons.


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And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.


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And  that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy  place .


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that  is  in the basket,  by  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate  and  to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat  thereof , because they  are  holy.


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And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it  is  holy.


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And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all  things  which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.


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And thou shalt offer every day a bullock  for  a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.


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Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.


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Now this  is that  which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. Ascent offerings continually.


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And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine  for  a drink offering.


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And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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This shall be  a continual burnt offering throughout your generations  at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.


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And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and  the tabernacle  shall be sanctified by my glory.


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And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.


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And they shall know that I  am  the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I  am  the LORD their God.


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A cubit  shall be  the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits  shall be  the height thereof: the horns thereof  shall be  of the same.


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And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.


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And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make  it ; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.


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And thou shalt put it before the veil that  is  by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that  is  over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.


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And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.


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And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.


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Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.


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And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it  is  most holy unto the LORD.


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When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when  thou  numberest them.


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This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: a shekel of the sanctuary is twenty gerahs: an half shekel  shall be  the offering of the LORD.


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Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.


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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when  they  give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.


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And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.


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Thou shalt also make a laver  of  brass, and his foot  also of  brass, to wash  withal : and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.


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When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:


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So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them,  even  to him and to his seed throughout their generations.


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Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred  shekels , and of sweet cinnamon half so much,  even  two hundred and fifty  shekels , and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty  shekels


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And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.


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And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that  they  may minister unto me in the priest's office.


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And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.


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Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make  any other  like it, after the composition of it: it  is  holy, and it shall be holy unto you.


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Whosoever compoundeth  any  like it, or whosoever putteth  any  of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.


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And the LORD said unto Moses to say, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum;  these  sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like  weight :


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And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure  and  holy:


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And thou shalt beat  some  of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.


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And  as for  the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.


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And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship


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And in cutting of stones, to set  them , and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.


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And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;


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The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that  is  thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle


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And the table and all his furniture, the pure candlestick with all his furniture, the altar of incense


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The cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office


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The anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy  place : according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.


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Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it  is  a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that  ye  may know that I  am  the LORD that doth sanctify you.


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Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it  is  holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth  any  work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Six days may work be done; but in the seventh  is  the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth  any  work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.


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Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations,  for  a perpetual covenant.


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It  is  a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for  in  six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.


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And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.


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And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for  as for  this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.


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And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which  are  in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring  them  unto me.


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And all the people brake off the golden earrings which  were  in their ears, and brought  them  unto Aaron.


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And he received  them  at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These  be  thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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And when Aaron saw  it , he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow  is  a feast to the LORD.


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And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.


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And the LORD said unto Moses to say, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted  themselves :


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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These  be  thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. And the LORD was very angry of Aaron and wanted to destroy him. And Moses prayed for Aaron.


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And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?


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Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.


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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, much I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit  it  for ever.


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And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony  were  in his hand: the tables  were  written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other  were  they written.


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And the tables  were  the work of God, and the writing  was  the writing of God, graven upon the tables.


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And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses,  There is  a noise of war in the camp.


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And he said,  It is  not the voice of  them that  shout for mastery, neither  is it  the voice of  them that  cry for being overcome:  but  the noise of  them that  sing do I hear.


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And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.


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And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt  it  in the fire, and ground  it  to powder, and strawed  it  upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink  of it .


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And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?


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And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are perverted.


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For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for  as for  this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.


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And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break  it  off. So they gave  it  me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.


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And when Moses saw that the people  were  naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto  their  shame among their enemies:)


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Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who  is  on the LORD's side?  let him come  unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.


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And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.


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And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.


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For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.


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And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, behold, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.


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Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.


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Therefore now go, lead the people unto  the place  of which I have spoken unto thee: and behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.


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And the LORD said unto Moses to say, Depart,  and  go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:


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And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashites, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite:


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Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou  art  a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.


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And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.


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For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye  are  a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.


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And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass,  that  every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which  was  without the camp.


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And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle,  that  all the people rose up, and stood every man  at  his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.


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And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood  at  the door of the tabernacle, and  the LORD  talked with Moses.


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And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand  at  the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man  in  his tent door.


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And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.


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And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.


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Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation  is  thy people.


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For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight?  is it  not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that  are  upon the face of the earth.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.


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And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.


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And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon  these  tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.


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And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.


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And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.


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And Moses hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.


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And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth


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Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear  the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth  generation .


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And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it  is  a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.


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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou  art  shall see the work of the LORD: for it  is  a terrible thing that I will do with thee.


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Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Cananites, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashites, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.


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Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:


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Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and  one  call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;


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And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.


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The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.


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All that openeth the matrix  is  mine; and every firstling among thy cattle,  whether  ox or sheep,  that is male .


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But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem  him  not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of a man, of thy sons, thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.


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Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.


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And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.


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For I will cast out many nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.


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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.


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And he was there before the faces of the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


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And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.


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And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.


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And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.


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And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh to him: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.


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But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.


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And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.


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And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These  are  the words which the LORD hath commanded, that  ye  should do them.


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Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.


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And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This  is  the thing which the LORD commanded, saying


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Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever  is  of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, silver, and brass


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The tabernacle, and his tent, and his covering, and his taches, and his boards, and his bars,and his pillars, and his sockets


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The candlestick also for the light, and all his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light


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The incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle


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The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, and his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot


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The hangings of the court, and his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court


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The cloths of service, to do service in the holy  place , and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.


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And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one man whom his spirit made willing,  and  they brought the LORD's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.


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And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted,  and  brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered  offered  an offering of gold unto the LORD.


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And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'  hair , and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought  them .


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Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought  it .


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And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hand, and brought that which they had spun,  both  of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.


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And the children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;


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And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;


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And in the cutting of stones, to set  them , and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.


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And he hath put in his heart that he may teach,  both  he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.


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Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver,  even  of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.


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Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.


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And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom,  even  every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:


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And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it  withal . And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.


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And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;


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And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.


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And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.


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And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle theymade ten curtains  of  fine twined linen, blue, and purple, and scarlet:  with  cherubims of cunning work made he them.


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The length of one curtain  was  twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains  were  all of one size.


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And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and  the other  five curtains he coupled one unto another.


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And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain in the selvedge in the coupling: and likewise he made in the uttermost side of  another  curtain, in the coupling of the second.


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Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which  was  in the coupling of the second: the loops held one  curtain  to another.


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And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.


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And he made curtains  of  goats'  hair  for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.


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The length of one curtain  was  thirty cubits, and four cubits  was  the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains  were  of one size.


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And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.


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And he made a covering for the tent  of  rams' skins dyed red, and a covering  of  badgers' skins above  that .


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One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.


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And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.


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And they were coupled beneath, coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.


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And there were eight boards; and their sockets  were  sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.


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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 for the corner sides westward.


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And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings  of  gold  to be  places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.


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And he made a veil  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen:  with  cherubims made he it of cunning work.


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And he made thereunto four pillars  of  shittim  wood , 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 an hanging for the tabernacle door  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;


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The five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets  were of  brass.


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And Bezaleel made the ark  of  shittim wood: two cubits and a half  was  the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:


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And he cast for it four rings of gold,  to be set  by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.


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And he made the mercy seat  of  pure gold: two cubits and a half  was  the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.


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And he made two cherubims  of  gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;


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One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the  other  end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.


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And the cherubims spread out  their  wings on high,  and  covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to one;  even  to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.


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And he made the table  of  shittim wood: two cubits  was  the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:


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Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that  were  in the four feet thereof.


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And he made the vessels which  were  upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal,  of  pure gold.


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And he made the candlestick  of  pure gold:  of  beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:


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And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:


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Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.


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And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.


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And he made the incense altar  of  shittim wood: the length of it  was  a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit;  it was  foursquare; and two cubits  was  the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.


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And he overlaid it with pure gold,  both  the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.


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And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.


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And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.


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And he made the altar of burnt offering  of  shittim wood: five cubits  was  the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof;  it was  foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.


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And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.


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And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he  of  brass.


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And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.


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And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.


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And he made the laver  of  brass, and the foot of it  of  brass, of the lookingglasses of  the women  assembling, which assembled  at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court  were of  fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:


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Their pillars  were  twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets  were of  silver.


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And for the north side  the hangings were  an hundred cubits, their pillars  were  twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets  of  silver.


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And for the west side  were  hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets  of  silver.


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The hangings of the one side  of the gate were  fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.


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And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand,  were  hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.


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And the sockets for the pillars  were of  brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets  of  silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters  of  silver; and all the pillars of the court  were  filleted with silver.


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And the hanging for the gate of the court  was  needlework,  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits  was  the length, and the height in the breadth  was  five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.


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And their pillars  were  four, and their sockets  of  brass four; their hooks  of  silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets  of  silver.


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This is the sum of the tabernacle,  even  of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses,  for  the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.


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And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.


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And with him  was  Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.


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All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy  place , even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation  was  an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:


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A bekah for every man,  that is , half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty  men .


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And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.


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And of the thousand seven hundred seventy five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.


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And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for the altar, and all the vessels of the altar


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And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.


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And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy  place , and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut  it into  wires, to work  it  in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen,  with  cunning work.


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And the curious girdle of his ephod, that  was  upon it,  was  of the same, according to the work thereof;  of  gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they wrought onyx stones enclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.


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And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod,  that they should be  stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he made the breastplate  of  cunning work, like the work of the ephod;  of  gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.


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It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span  was  the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof,  being  doubled.


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And they set in it four rows of stones:  the first  row  was  a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this  was  the first row.


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And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper:  they were  enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.


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And the stones  were  according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names,  like  the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.


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And they made two ouches  of  gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.


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And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.


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And they made two rings of gold, and put  them  on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which  was  on the side of the ephod inward.


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And they made two  other  golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the  other  coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.


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And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses. And they are making Urim and Tummim as the LORD instructed Moses.


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And  there was  an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon,  with  a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.


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And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates  of  blue, and purple, and scarlet,  and  twined linen.


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And they made bells  of  pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;


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A bell of gold and a pomegranate, a bell of gold and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister  in ; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And a mitre  of  fine linen, and goodly bonnets  of  fine linen, and linen breeches  of  fine twined linen


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And a girdle  of  fine twined linen, blue, and purple, and scarlet,  of  needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they made the plate of the holy crown  of  pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing,  like to  the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.


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And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten  it  on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.


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And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets


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And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the veil of the covering


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The pure candlestick,  with  the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light


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The golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door


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The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, and his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot


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The hangings of the court, and his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, and his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation


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The cloths of service to do service in the holy  place , and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.


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And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.


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On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.


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And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.


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And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.


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And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.


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And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.


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And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that  is  therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.


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And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.


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And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.


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And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.


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And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.


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And it came to pass in the first month in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, on the first  day  of the month,  that  the tabernacle was reared up.


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And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.


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And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:


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And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil.


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And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.


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And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash  withal .


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When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished all the work.


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And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


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And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:


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For the cloud of the LORD  was  upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.


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And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle,  even  of the herd, and of the flock.


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If his offering  be  a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.


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And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.


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And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that  is by  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:


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And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, and the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that  is  on the fire which  is  upon the altar:


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But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar,  to be  a burnt sacrifice, it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.


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And if his burnt offering to the LORD  be  of the flocks,  namely , of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish. To the entrance of the Tent of Appointment he shall bring it.


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And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.


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And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that  is  on the fire which  is  upon the altar:


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But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring  it  all, and burn  it  upon the altar: it  is  a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.


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And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD  be  of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.


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And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn  it  on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:


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And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:


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And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide  it  asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that  is  upon the fire: it  is  a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.


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And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be  of  fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:it is a present


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And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar,  to be  an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:


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And the remnant of the meat offering  shall be  Aaron's and his sons':  it is  a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.


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And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven,  it shall be  unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.


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And if thy oblation  be  a meat offering  baken  in a pan, it shall be  of  fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.


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And if thy oblation  be  a meat offering  baken  in the fryingpan, it shall be made  of  fine flour with oil.


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And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.


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And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn  it  upon the altar:  it is  an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.


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And that which is left of the meat offering  shall be  Aaron's and his sons':  it is  a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.


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No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye bring burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.


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As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.


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And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.


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And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire,  even  corn beaten out of full ears.


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And the priest shall burn the memorial of it,  part  of the beaten corn thereof, and  part  of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof:  it is  an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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And if his oblation  be  a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer  it  of the herd; whether  it be  a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it  at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.


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And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that  is  upon the inwards


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And the two kidneys, and the fat that  is  on them, which  is  by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.


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And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which  is  upon the wood that  is  on the fire that is over the altar:  it is  an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.


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And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD  be  of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.


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And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof,  and  the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that  is  upon the inwards


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And the two kidneys, and the fat that  is  upon them, which  is  by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.


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And the priest shall burn it upon the altar:  it is  the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron, priests shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.


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And he shall offer thereof his offering,  even  an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that  is  upon the inwards


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And the priest shall burn them upon the altar:  it is  the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour to the LORD: all the fat  is  the LORD's.


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It shall be  a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD  concerning things  which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:


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If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.


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And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.


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And the priest that is anointed shall take full hand of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times with his finger before the LORD, before the veil of the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall put  some  of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which  is  in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which  is at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that  is  upon the inwards


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And the two kidneys, and the fat that  is  upon them, which  is  by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away


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As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.


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And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung


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Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.


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And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done  somewhat against  any of the commandments of the LORD  concerning things  which should not be done, and are guilty;


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When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a flawless young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.


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And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:


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And the priest shall dip with his finger  in some  of the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD,  even  before the veil of the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall put  some  of the blood upon the horns of the altar of smoking incense which  is  before the LORD, that  is  in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which  is at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.


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And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it  is  a sin offering for the congregation.


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When a ruler hath sinned, and done  somewhat  through ignorance  against  any of the commandments of the LORD his God  concerning things  which should not be done, and is guilty;


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Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it  is  a sin offering.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put  it  upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.


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And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth  somewhat against  one of the commandments of the LORD  concerning things  which ought not to be done, and be guilty;


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Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place where they are slaying the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put  it  upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.


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And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn  it  upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put  it  upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering


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And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and  is  a witness, whether he hath seen or known  of it ; if he do not utter  it , then he shall bear his iniquity.


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Or if a soul that touch any unclean thing, whether  it be  a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and  if  it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.


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Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness  it be  that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth  of it , then he shall be guilty.


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Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with  his  lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever  it be  that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth  of it , then he shall be guilty in one of these.


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And it shall be, when he shall sin in one of these  things , that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that  thing :


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And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement over him concerning his sin with which he sinned and it is forgiven to him.


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And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer  that  which  is  for the sin offering first, and the priest shall wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide  it  asunder:


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And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it  is  a sin offering.


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And he shall offer the second  for  a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.


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But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall pour no oil upon it, neither shall he put  any  frankincense thereon: for it  is  a sin offering.


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Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it,  even  a memorial thereof, and burn  it  on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it  is  a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and  the remnant  shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.


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If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:


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And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if a one soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist  it  not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.


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And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist  it  not, and it shall be forgiven him.


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If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;


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Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:


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Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found


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Or all words that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto,  and  give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:


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And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This  is  the law of the burnt offering: It  is  the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.


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And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.


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And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.


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And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.


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And this  is  the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.


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And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which  is  upon the meat offering, and shall burn  it  upon the altar  for  a sweet savour,  even  the memorial of it, unto the LORD.


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And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.


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It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it  unto them for  their portion of my offerings made by fire of the LORD; it  is  most holy, as  is  the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.


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All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it.  It shall be  a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.


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This  is  the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof between the evenings.


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In a pan it shall be made with oil;  and when it is  baken, thou shalt bring it in:  and  the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer  for  a sweet savour unto the LORD.


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And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it:  it is  a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.


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Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This  is  the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it  is  most holy.


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The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, he shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.


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But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.


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And no sin offering, whereof  any  of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile  withal  in the holy  place , shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.


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And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and with all fat that is over the inwards


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And the two kidneys, and the fat that  is  on them, which  is  by the flanks, and the caul  that is  above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:


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And the priest shall burn them upon the altar  for  an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it  is  a trespass offering.


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Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it  is  most holy.


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As the sin offering  is , so  is  the trespass offering:  there is  one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have  it .


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And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering,  even  the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.


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And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.


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And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one  as much  as another.


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If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.


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Besides the cakes, he shall offer  for  his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.


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And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation  for  an heave offering unto the LORD,  and  it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth 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 the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.


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But if the sacrifice of his offering  be  a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:


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And if  any  of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.


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And the flesh that toucheth any unclean  thing  shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.


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But the soul that eateth  of  the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that  pertain  unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean  thing, as  the uncleanness of man, or  any  unclean beast, or any creeper unclean  thing , and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which  pertain  unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.


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And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.


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For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth  it  shall be cut off from his people.


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Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood,  whether it be  of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.


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Whatsoever soul  it be  that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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And unto the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.


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His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved  for  a wave offering before the LORD.


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And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest  for  an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.


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He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for  his  part.


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For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.


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This  is the portion  of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day  when  he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;


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Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them,  by  a appointment for ever throughout their generations.


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This  is  the law of the burnt offering, and of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;


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Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.


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Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound  it  unto him therewith.


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And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre,  even  upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that  was  therein, and sanctified them.


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And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.


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And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.


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And he slew  it ; and Moses took the blood, and put  it  upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.


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And he took all the fat that  was  upon the inwards, and the caul  above  the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned  it  upon the altar.


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But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he raised the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.


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And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it  was  a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour,  and  an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.


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And he slew  it ; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put  it  upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.


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And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.


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And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that  was  upon the inwards, and the caul  above  the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:


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And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that  was  before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put  them  on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:


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And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them  for  a wave offering before the LORD.


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And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt  them  on the altar upon the burnt offering: they  were  consecrations for a sweet savour: it  is  an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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And Moses took the breast, and waved it  for  a wave offering before the LORD:  for  of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which  was  upon the altar, and sprinkled  it  upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.


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And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh  at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, in place holy: and there eat it with the bread that  is  in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.


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And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation  in  seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.


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Therefore shall ye abide  at  the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.


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And it came to pass on the eighth day,  that  Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;


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And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer  them  before the LORD.


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And unto the elders of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb,  both  of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;


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Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you.


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And they brought  that  which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.


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And Moses said, This  is  the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.


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And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.


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Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which  was  for himself.


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And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put  it  upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:


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But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.


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And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt  them  upon the altar.


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And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which  was  the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.


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And he brought the meat offering, and took an handfuls thereof, and burnt  it  upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.


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He slew also the bullock and the ram  for  a sacrifice of peace offerings, which  was  for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about


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And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth  the inwards , and the kidneys, and the caul  above  the liver:


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And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved  for  a wave offering before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And Aaron lifted up his hand over the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.


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And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat:  which  when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.


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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.


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Then Moses said unto Aaron, This  is it  that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.


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And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.


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And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.


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And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD  is  upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:  it shall be  a statute for ever throughout your generations:


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And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it  is  most holy:


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And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it  is  thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.


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And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for  they be  thy due, and thy sons' due,  which  are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.


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The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave  it for  a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.


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And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron  which were  left  alive , saying


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Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it  is  most holy, and  God  hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?


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Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy  place : ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy  place , as I commanded.


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And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and  if  I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These  are  the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that  are  on the earth.


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Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted in pairs,  and  cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.


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Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof:  as  the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he  is  unclean unto you.


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And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he  is  unclean to you.


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And these shall ye eat of all that  are  in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.


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And all that have not fins and scales in the seas yea in seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which  is  in the waters, they  shall be  an abomination unto you:


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They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.


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And these  are they which  ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; you shall not eat, they  are  an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey


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Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon  all  four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;


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Even  these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.


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And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.


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And whosoever beareth  ought  of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, wash in waters, and be unclean until the even.


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The carcases  of every beast which divideth the hoof, and  is  not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud,  are  unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.


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And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on  all  four, those  are  unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.


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And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they  are  unclean unto you.


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These also  shall be  unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind


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These  are  unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.


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And upon whatsoever  any  of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether  it be  any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel  it be , wherein  any  work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.


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And every earthen vessel, whereinto  any  of them falleth, whatsoever  is  in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.


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Of all meat which may be eaten,  that  on which  such  water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every  such  vessel shall be unclean.


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And every  thing  whereupon  any part  of their carcase falleth shall be unclean;  whether it be  oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down:  for  they  are  unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.


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Nevertheless a fountain of waters or pit,  wherein there is  plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.


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And if  any part  of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it  shall be  clean.


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But if  any  water be put upon the seed, and  any part  of their carcase fall thereon, it  shall be  unclean unto you.


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And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.


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And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.


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And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth  shall be  an abomination; it shall not be eaten.


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Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon  all  four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they  are  an abomination.


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Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.


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For I  am  the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I  am  holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.


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For I  am  the LORD God that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I  am  holy.


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This  is  the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:


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To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.


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And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.


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But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and 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 lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:


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The Priest who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This  is  the law for her that hath born a male or a female.


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And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.


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When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh  like  the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:


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And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and  when  the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight  be  deeper than the skin of his flesh, it  is  a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.


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If the bright spot  be  white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight  be  not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up  him that hath  the plague seven days:


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And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold,  if  the plague in his sight be at a stay,  and  the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:


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And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold,  if  the plague  be  somewhat dark,  and  the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it  is but  a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.


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But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:


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And  if  the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it  is  a leprosy.


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And the priest shall see  him : and, behold,  if  the rising  be  white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and  there be  quick raw flesh in the rising;


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It  is  an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he  is  unclean.


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And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of  him that hath  the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;


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Then the priest shall consider: and, behold,  if  the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce  him  clean  that hath  the plague: it is all turned white: he  is  clean.


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And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean:  for  the raw flesh  is  unclean: it  is  a leprosy.


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And the priest shall see him: and, behold,  if  the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce  him  clean  that hath  the plague: he  is  clean.


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And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;


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And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it  be  in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it  is  a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.


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But if the priest look on it, and, behold,  there be  no white hairs therein, and  if  it  be  not lower than the skin, but  be  somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:


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And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it  is  a plague.


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But if the bright spot stay in his place,  and  spread not, it  is  a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Or if there be  any  flesh, in the skin whereof  there is  a hot burning, and the quick  flesh  that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;


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Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold,  if  the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it  be in  sight deeper than the skin; it  is  a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it  is  the plague of leprosy.


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But if the priest look on it, and, behold,  there be  no white hair in the bright spot, and it  be  no lower than the  other  skin, but  be  somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:


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And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day:  and  if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it  is  the plague of leprosy.


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And if the bright spot stay in his place,  and  spread not in the skin, but it  be  somewhat dark; it  is  a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it  is  an inflammation of the burning.


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Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it  be  in sight deeper than the skin;  and there be  in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it  is  a dry scall,  even  a leprosy upon the head or beard.


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And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it  be  not in sight deeper than the skin, and  that there is  no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up  him that hath  the plague of the scall seven days:


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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold,  if  the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall  be  not in sight deeper than the skin;


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He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up  him that hath  the scall seven days more:


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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold,  if  the scall be not spread in the skin, nor  be  in sight 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 on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he  is  unclean.


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But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and  that  there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he  is  clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Then the priest shall look: and, behold,  if  the bright spots in the skin of their flesh  be  darkish white; it  is  a freckled spot  that  groweth in the skin; he  is  clean.


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And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he  is  forehead bald:  yet is  he clean.


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And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it  is  a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.


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Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold,  if  the rising of the sore  be  white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;


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He is a leprous man, he  is  unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague  is  in his head.


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And the leper in whom the plague  is , his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.


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All the days wherein the plague  shall be  in him he shall be defiled; he  is  unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp  shall  his habitation  be .


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The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in,  whether it be  a woollen garment, or a linen garment;


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Whether  it be  in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;


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And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it  is  a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:


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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin,  or  in any work that is made of skin; the plague  is  a fretting leprosy; it  is  unclean.


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He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it  is  a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.


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And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;


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Then the priest shall command that they wash  the thing  wherein the plague  is , and he shall shut it up seven days more:


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And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold,  if  the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it  is  unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it  is  fret inward,  whether  it  be  bare within or without.


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And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague  be  somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:


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And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it  is  a spreading  plague : thou shalt burn that wherein the plague  is  with fire.


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And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin  it be , which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.


