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and the earth being without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moving gently on the face of the waters,


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


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And God said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between the waters and the waters.


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


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And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.


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And God called the dry land, Earth. And He called the collection of the waters, Seas. And God saw that it was good.


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And God said, Let the earth sprout tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed, the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it on the earth. And it was so.


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And the earth bore tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed according to its kind, and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it. And God saw that it was good.


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And God said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and 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 luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.


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And God made the two great luminaries: the great luminary to rule the day, and the small luminary and the stars to rule the night.


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and to rule over the day and over the night; and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.


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And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a soul of life; and let the birds fly over the earth, on the face of the expanse of the heavens.


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And God created the great sea animals, and all that creeps, having a living soul, which swarmed the waters, according to its kind; and every bird with wing according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


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


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And God said, Let the earth bring forth the soul of life according to its kind: cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth, according to its kind. And it was so.


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And God made the beasts of the earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind, and all creepers of the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


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And God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.


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


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And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.


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And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; it shall be food for you.


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And to every beast of the earth, and to all birds of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul, every green plant is for food. And it was so.


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


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


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And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because He rested from all His work on it, which God had created to make.


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


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And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.


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And Jehovah God formed the man out of dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.


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And out of the ground Jehovah God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the middle of the garden; also the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.


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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was divided and became four heads.


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And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one going east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.


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but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you may not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, dying you shall die.


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And Jehovah God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the heavens out of the ground. And He brought them to the man, to see what he would call it. And all which the man might call it, each living soul, that was its name.


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And the man called names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every animal of the field. But no helper suited to him was found for a man.


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And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh underneath.


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


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And the man said, This now at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. For this shall be called Woman, because this has been taken out of man.


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


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And the serpent was cunning above every animal of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it true that God has said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?


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


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for God knows that in the day you eat of it, even your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.


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And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise. And she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.


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


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And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden.


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And he said, I have heard Your sound in the garden, and I was afraid, for I am naked, and I hid myself.


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


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


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


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And Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all beasts, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.


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


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He said to the woman, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception; you shall bear sons in sorrow, and your desire shall be toward your husband; and he shall rule over you.


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And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eat of it in sorrow all the days of your life.


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By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until your return to the ground. For you have been taken out of it; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.


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And Jehovah God said, Behold! The man has become as one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand and also take from the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever,


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And He drove the man out. And He lodged the cherubs at the east of the Garden of Eden, and the flaming sword whirling around to guard the way of the Tree of Life.


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And the man knew his wife Eve. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.


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And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of flocks. And Cain became a tiller of the ground.


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And in the end of days, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah from the fruit of the ground.


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And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.


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And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed greatly with anger, and his face fell.


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If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is toward you; but you should rule over it.


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And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened as they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.


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


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And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground.


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


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When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.


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Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.


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And Jehovah said to him, If anyone kills Cain, he shall be avenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill him.


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And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and he called the name of the city according to the name of his son, Enoch.


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And Irad was born to Enoch; and Irad fathered Mehujael And Mehujael fathered Methusael; and Methusael fathered Lamech.


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And Lamech took two wives to himself: the name of the first was Adah; and the name of the second was Zillah.


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And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all those playing the harp and the organ.


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And Zillah also bore Tubalcain, the hammerer of every engraving tool of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.


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And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech; listen to my words; for I have killed a man because of my wound, and a young man because of my hurt.


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And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. And she called his name, Seth, for God has appointed to me another seed in place of Abel because Cain killed him.


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And a son was also born to Seth, and he called his name, Enos. Then it was begun to call on the name of Jehovah.


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


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


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


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And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Enos, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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After he fathered Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Mahalaleel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty two years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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


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And after he fathered Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety five years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And it came about that men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them.


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


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And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man; in their erring he is flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.


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The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them; they were heroes which existed from ancient time, the men of name.


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


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And Jehovah said, I will wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the earth, from man to beast, to the creeping thing and to the birds of the heavens; for I repent that I made them.


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These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.


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And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupted. For all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.


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And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them along with the earth.


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Make an ark of cyprus timbers for yourself. You shall make rooms in the ark; and you shall cover it with asphalt inside and out.


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


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


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And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.


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


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


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from the birds according to its kind, and from the cattle according to its kind, from every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two from each shall come in to you to keep alive.


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


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


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You shall take to yourself from every clean animal by sevens, male and female, and from the animal that is not clean by two, male and female.


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And take of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep alive seed on the face of the earth.


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For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights and will wipe away every living substance that I have made 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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And they went in to Noah into the ark, male and female of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of fowl, and of every thing that creeps on the earth,


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


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


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they, and every animal according to its kind, and every beast according to its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind; and every fowl according to its kind, every bird of every wing.


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And those going in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him within.


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


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And the waters prevailed, and were greatly increased on the earth. And the ark floated on the face of the waters.


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And the waters prevailed, exceedingly violent on the earth, and all the high mountains under the heavens were covered.


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And all flesh that moved on the earth died: the fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, and all mankind.


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And every living thing which was on the face of the earth was wiped away, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowl of the heavens. And they were wiped off from the earth, and only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.


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


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


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And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.


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


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And the waters were going and falling until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.


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And it happened, at the end of forty days, even Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.


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And he sent out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the earth.


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He also sent out from him the dove, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth.


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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. And he put out his hand and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark.


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And the dove came in to him in the evening. And, behold! In her mouth was a newly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.


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And he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more.


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And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first 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 earth was dried.


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Bring out from you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; and let them swarm on the earth, and bear, and multiply on the earth.


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every animal, every creeping thing, and every fowl; all which creeps on the earth. They went forth out of the ark according to their families.


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


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And Jehovah smelled the soothing fragrance, and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for the sake of man, because the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. Yea, I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.


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


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And God blessed Noah and his sons. And He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.


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And your fear and your dread shall be on all the animals of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hands.


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Every creeping thing which is alive shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green plant.


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And surely the blood of your lives I will demand. At the hand of every animal I will demand it, and at the hand of man. I will demand the life of man at the hand of every man's brother.


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and with every living creature which is with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every animal of the earth with you, from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.


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And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh shall not be cut off again by the waters of a flood; nor shall there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.


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And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I am about to make between Me and you, and every living soul which is with you, for everlasting generations:


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And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living soul in all flesh. And the waters shall not again become a flood to destroy all flesh.


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And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul, in all flesh on the earth.


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


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


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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father. And he told his two brothers outside.


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


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


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The coasts of the nations were divided by these in their lands each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.


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And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.


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He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; so it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.


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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 the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.


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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, as far as Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lasha.


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


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And to Shem was born, even to him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.


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


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


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


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And it happened, as they pulled up stakes from the east, they found a level valley in the land of Shinar. And they lived there.


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And each one said to his neighbor, Come, let us make brick, and burning burn them. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.


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And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth.


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And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and the lip one to all of them, and this they are beginning to do, and now all which they have purposed to do will not be restrained from them.


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


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And Jehovah scattered them from there, over the face of all the earth. And they stopped building the city.


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On account of this its name is called Babel, because Jehovah confused the language of all the earth there. And Jehovah scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth.


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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a son of a hundred years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.


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And after he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Salah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And after he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


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And these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot.


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


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


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And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out from your land and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you.


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


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And I will bless those who bless you, and curse the one despising you. And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.


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And Abram went out, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was a son of seventy five years when he went out from Haran.


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


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And Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.


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


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


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And a famine was in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to stay there. For the famine was heavy in the land.


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And it happened when he had drawn near to come to Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, Behold, please, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.


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And it will be, when the Egyptians see you, then they will say, This is his wife, and they will kill me, and they will save you alive.


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


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And it happened, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.


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


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And he did good to Abram because of her. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and male slaves, and slave-girls, and she-asses, and camels.


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


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Why did you say, She is my sister? And so I took her for my wife. Now, then, see your wife. Take her and go.


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And as Pharaoh commanded his men as to him, even they sent away him and his wife and all that he had.


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


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And he went on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been there at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,


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


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


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And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.


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


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


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And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was well-watered before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.


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Then Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself. And Lot pulled up stakes toward the east. And they were separated, each one from his brother.


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And Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the circuit, and tented as far as Sodom.


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


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


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Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron; and he built an altar to Jehovah there.


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And it happened in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal king of the nations;


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


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And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,


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And they turned back and came to Enmishpat which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Thamar.


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And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. And they set the battle with them in the valley of Siddim,


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


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And the valley of Siddim was pitted with asphalt pits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And they that remained fled to the mountain.


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And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew; for he was living among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. And these were possessor of a covenant with Abram.


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And when Abram heard that his brother was captured, even then he led out his trained men, born of his household, three hundred and eighteen. And they pursued as far as Dan.


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And he divided against them by night, he and his slaves, and he struck them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus.


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


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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings which were with him, to the valley of Shaveh, it being the valley of the king.


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And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine; and he was the priest of the most high God.


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and blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him a tithe of all.


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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,


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that I will not take from all that is yours, from a thread to a shoe latchet, and that you may not say, I have made Abram rich.


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Nothing for me; only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.


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After these things the Word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram; I am your shield, your reward will increase greatly.


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And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what will You give to me since I am going childless and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eleazar of Damascus?


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And Abram said, Behold! You have given no seed to me; and lo, the son of my house is inheriting of me!


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And behold! The Word of Jehovah came to him saying, This one shall not be inheriting. But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir.


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


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


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And He said to him, Take for Me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtledove, even a nestling.


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And he took all these for Him, and he divided them in the middle; and he laid each piece against one another, but he did not divide the bird.


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And it happened, the sun was going, and a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, a terror of great darkness was falling on him!


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And He said to Abram, Knowing you must know that your seed shall be an alien in a land not theirs; and they shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years;


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


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And in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.


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And it happened, the sun had gone down, and it was dark. Behold! A smoking furnace and a torch of fire that passed between those pieces!


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On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,


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And Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear to him; and to her belonged a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.


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And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.


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


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


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And Sarai said to Abram, My injury be upon you; I gave my slave-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I was despised in her eyes. Let Jehovah judge between me and you.


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But Abram said to Sarai, See, your slave girl is in your hand. Do to her what is good in your eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from before her.


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And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness; by the well in the way of Shur.


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And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave-girl, where did you come from? And where do you go? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress, Sarai.


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


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


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And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers.


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And she called the name of Jehovah, the One speaking to her, You, a God of vision! For she said, Even here have I looked after the One seeing me?


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On account of this, the well was called, The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.


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


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And your name no longer shall be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you a father of many nations.


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And I will make you very fruitful, exceedingly. And I will give you for nations. And kings shall come out of you.


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


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


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And God said to Abraham, You shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations.


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


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


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And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male in your generation, he that is born in the house, or bought with silver from any son of a foreigner who is not of your seed.


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The child of your house and the purchase of your money circumcising must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.


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


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And God said to Abraham, You shall not call your wife Sarai by her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name;


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and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her. Yea, I have blessed her and she shall become nations; kings of people shall be from her.


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And Abraham fell on his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years? And shall Sarah bear, a daughter of ninety years?


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


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


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And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the ones born of his house, and all that were bought with his silver, every male among the men of the house of Abraham. And he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in that same day, even as God spoke to him.


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And his son Ishmael was a son of thirteen years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.


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


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


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


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And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, I beg You, do not leave from near Your servant.


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And I will bring a bite of bread and will sustain Your heart. Then You may pass on, for this is why You have passed over to Your servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said.


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And Abraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, Hurry, prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it and make cakes.


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And Abraham ran to the herd and brought a son of the herd, tender and good, and gave it to a youth. And he hurried to prepare it.


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And he took curds and milk and the son of the herd which he had prepared, and he set before them. And he stood by them under the tree. And they ate.


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And He said, Returning I will return to you at the time of life; and, Behold! A son shall be to your wife Sarah. And Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, and it was behind Him.


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And Abraham and Sarah were aged, going on in days. The custom as to women had ceased to be to Sarah.


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And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall there be pleasure to me; my lord also being old?


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And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why has Sarah laughed at this, saying, Indeed, truly shall I bear, even I who am old?


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Is anything too difficult for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, at the time of life, and there will be a son to Sarah.


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And the men rose up from there and looked on the face of Sodom. And Abraham was going with them, to send them away.


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And Abraham shall become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?


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For I have known him, so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him, even they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.


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I will go down and see if they have at all done according to the cry coming to Me. And if not, I will know.


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And the men faced around from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Jehovah.


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Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; is it so You will cut off and will not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones that are within it?


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Far be it from You to act in this way, to put to death the righteous with the wicked. Far be it from You. The Judge of all the earth, shall He not do right?


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And Jehovah said, If I find fifty righteous within the city, in Sodom, then I will spare all the place because of them.


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And Abraham answered and said, Behold, I pray, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, and I am dust and ash.


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Perhaps there will be lacking five from the fifty righteous, will You destroy all the city for the five? And He said, If I find forty five there, I will not destroy.


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And he continued still to speak to Him and said, Perhaps forty will be found there. And He said, I will not do it because of the forty.


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And he said, Please do not my Lord be angry, that I may speak; perhaps thirty will be found there. And He said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.


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And he said, Behold, I pray, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord; perhaps twenty will be found there. And He said, I will not destroy because of the twenty.


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And he said, I pray, let not my Lord be angry that I may speak only this time; perhaps ten will be found there. And He said, I will not destroy because of the ten.


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And when Jehovah had left off speaking to Abraham, He was finished. And Abraham returned to his place.


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


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And he said, Behold, now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and lodge, and wash your feet; and rise early and go to your way. And they said, No, for we will lodge in the street.


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And he much urged them, and they turned in to him and came into his house. And he made a feast for them. And he baked unleavened cakes, and they ate.


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Before they had laid down, even the men of the city, the men of Sodom, circled the house; from the young to the aged, all the people from its limits.


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


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Behold, now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you and do to them as you see fit; only do not do a thing to these men, on account of this they came into the shade of my roof.


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And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to visit, and must he always judge? Now we will do evil to you rather than to them. And they pressed on the man, upon Lot violently, and drew near to break the door.


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And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, from the small to the great; and they struggled to find the door.


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And the men said to Lot, Who still is here to you? Bring out of this place your sons and your sons-in-law and your daughters, and whoever belongs to you in the city.


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For we are about to destroy this place, for the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.


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And Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters. And he said, Rise up, go out from this place, for Jehovah is about to destroy the city. And he seemed as one joking to his sons-in-law.


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And when the dawn rose, then the angels urged Lot, saying, Rise up, take your wife and your two daughters who are found, lest you be cut off in the depravity of the city.


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And he lingered. And the men lay hold of his hand and his wife's hand, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah having mercy on him. And they caused him to go out, and they put him down outside the city.


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And it happened as they led them outside, he said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.


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Behold, now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy which You have done to me in saving my life. And I am not able to escape to the mountain lest some evil overtake me and I die.


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Please, now, this city is near, to flee there, and it is a little one. Please let me escape there! Is it not a little thing, that my soul may live?


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And He said to him, See, I have lifted up your face also as to this thing, without overthrowing the city for which you have spoken.


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Hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until you have come there. So the name of the city was called Zoar.


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And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all those living in the cities, and the produce of the ground.


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And Abraham started up early in the morning, going to the place where he had stood there before Jehovah.


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


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And it happened when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham; and He sent Lot out from the overthrow when overturning the cities in which Lot lived.


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And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mount. And his two daughters were with him. For he feared to live in Zoar. And he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.


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And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us as is the way of all the earth.


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


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And they caused their father to drink wine that night. And the first-born went in and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down nor when she rose up.


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And on the next day it happened, the first-born said to the younger, Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us cause him to drink wine tonight also. And you go in and lie with him, so that we may keep alive seed of our father.


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And they caused their father to drink wine that night also. And the younger rose up and lay with him. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she rose up.


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


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And Abraham pulled up stakes from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.


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


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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, you are about to die because of the woman you have taken, she being married to a husband.


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


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And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.


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And now return the wife of the man, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. And if you do not return her, know that dying you shall die, you and all that are yours.


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And Abimelech started up early in the morning and called for all his servants. And he spoke all these words in their ears. And the men were greatly afraid.


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


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And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.


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And yet she really is my sister, daughter of my father; only not daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.


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And it happened when God made me wander from my father's house, even I said to her, This is your kindness which you do to me: at every place where we come there, say of me, He is my brother.


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Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male slaves, and slave-girls, and gave to Abraham. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.


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And he said to Sarah, I, behold, I have given a thousand of silver to your brother. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all who are with you. And with all this you are reproved.


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And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his concubines, and they gave birth.


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For Jehovah had completely closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.


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


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And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Will Sarah suckle sons? For I have borne a son to his old age.


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And she said to Abraham, Drive away this slave-girl and her son, for the son of this slave-girl shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac.


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And God said to Abraham, Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy, and on account of your slave-girl. All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your Seed shall be called.


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


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And she went and sat down opposite him, about a bow shot away. For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat opposite and raised her voice and wept.


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And God heard the voice of the young boy. And the angel of God called to Hagar out of the heavens. And He said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy, there where he is.


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


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


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


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And now swear to me here by God, that you will not lie to me, and to my son, and to my heir, according to the kindness which I have sworn to you. Do to me and to the land in which you have lived.


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And Abraham reproved Abimelech on account of a well of water which the slaves of Abimelech had seized.


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And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; and also you have not told me; even I have not heard, except today.


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And he said, You shall take the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may become for me a witness that I dug this well.


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And they cut a covenant in Beer-sheba. And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, rose up; and they returned to the land of the Philistines.


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


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And it happened after these things, testing Abraham, God said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me.


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And He said, Now take your son, Isaac, your only one whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. And there offer him for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will say to you.


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And Abraham started up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took two of his youths with him, and his son Isaac. And he split wood for a burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which God had said to him.


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And Abraham said to his young men, You stay here with the ass. I and the boy will go over there that we may worship and may return to you.


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


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And Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. 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 see to the lamb for Himself, for a burnt offering. And the two of them went together.


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And they came to the place which God had said to him. And Abraham built there the altar, and arranged the wood. And he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on the wood.


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And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Behold me.


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And He said, Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you are a God-fearer, and you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.


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


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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Will See; so that it is said until this day, In the mount of Jehovah it will be seen.


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And He said, I have sworn by Myself, declares Jehovah, that on account of this thing you have done, and have not withheld your son, your only son,


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


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And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham lived at Beer-sheba.


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And it happened after these things it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold! Milcah, she also, has borne sons to your brother Nahor:


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And Sarah died in Kirjatharba, it is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.


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I am an alien and a visitor with you. Give to me a possession among you, so that I may bury my dead from before the eyes.


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Hear us, my lord. You are a prince among us. Bury your dead in the best of our burying places. Not a man of us will withhold his burying place from you, from burying your dead.


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And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your desire to bury my dead from before the eyes, hear me. Ask for me of Ephron the son of Zohar,


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that he may give to me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is in the edge of his field. In full silver let him give it to me among you, for a possession of a burying place.


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And Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, to all those entering the gate of his city, saying,


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No, my lord, hear me. I have given the field to you; also the cave that is in it. I have given it to you. Before the eyes of the sons of my people I have given it to you. Bury your dead.


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and spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Only if you would hear me. I have given the silver for the field; take it from me, that I may bury my dead there.


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My lord, hear me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? And bury your dead.


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And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels which passes with the merchant.


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And was certified the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the cave and the field in it, and all the trees in the field, which were in all its borders around it,


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And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre; it is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.


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And the field was certified, and the cave in it, to Abraham for a burial possession from the sons of Heth.


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And Abraham said to his slave, oldest in his house, the one who governed in all that was to him, Please put your hand under my thigh.


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And I will cause you to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, among whom I dwell.


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And the slave said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to go after me to this land; shall I indeed bring back your son into the land from out of which you came?


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


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And if the woman will not be willing to go after you, then you shall be clear from this oath of mine; only do not take my son back there.


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And the slave put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore to him concerning this thing.


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And the slave took ten camels from his master's camels and left. And all his master's goods were in his hand. And he rose up and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.


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


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And he said, Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, I pray, cause her to meet before me this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.


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Behold! I am standing by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.


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And let the girl to whom I shall speak this: Please let down your pitcher that I may drink; and she will say, Drink and also I will water your camels; let it be her You have approved for Your servant, for Isaac. And by this I shall know that You have shown kindness to my master.


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


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And the girl was very good of form, a virgin, a man not having known her. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up.


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


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


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


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And it happened when the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden ring, its weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her hands, ten of gold their weighing.


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


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And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my master, I being in the way, Jehovah guided me to the house of the brother of my master.


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And it happened when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard his sister's words, Rebekah, saying, So the man spoke to me, then he came to the man and saw him standing by the camels at the fountain.


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


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


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


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And Jehovah has blessed my master much, and he is great. And He has given to him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and male slaves and slave-girls, and camels and asses.


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


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And my master caused me to swear, saying, You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I live.


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


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Then you shall be released from my oath, when you have come to my family, and if they do not give one to you; then you shall be released from my oath.


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And today I came to the well. And I said, Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, I pray, if You will, prosper the way in which I am about to go.


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Behold! I stand at the well of water, and when the virgin comes out to draw water, and I say to her, Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher,


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and she says to me, Both you drink and also I will draw for your camels, may she be the woman whom Jehovah has approved for my master's son.


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Before I had finished speaking within my heart, even behold, Rebekah was coming out, her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the well and drew. And I said to her, Please let me drink.


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And she hurried and let down her pitcher from her and said, Drink, and I also will water your camels. And I drank, and also she watered the camels.


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


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And I bowed and worshiped Jehovah, and I blessed Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the true way, to take for his son the daughter of the brother of my master.


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And now, if you are going to do kindness and truth with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me so that I may turn to the right or to the left.


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And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come from Jehovah; we are not able to speak to you good or evil.


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Behold! Rebekah is before you, take her and go. And let her become the wife of the son of your master, as Jehovah has spoken.


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And it happened when the slave of Abraham heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth to Jehovah.


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And the slave brought out vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments, and he gave to Rebekah. And he gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.


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


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


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And he said to them, Do not delay me, for Jehovah has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.


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And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you become myriads of thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of ones hating them.


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And Rebekah and her young women rose up, and they rode on the camels and went after the man. And the slave took Rebekah and went.


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And Isaac had come from the gate of the Well of the Living One My Beholder. And he was dwelling in the land of the Negeb.


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And Isaac had gone out to meditate in the field as it turned evening. And he raised his eyes and looked. And behold, camels were coming.


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


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


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


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


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And to the sons of the concubines who were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away eastward, from his son Isaac, while still alive to an eastern land.


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


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


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And it happened after the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder.


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And these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, the slave-girl of Sarah, bore to Abraham.


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And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,


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These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their settlements and in their camps, twelve chiefs according to their nations.


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


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And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers.


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And Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife.


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


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And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If this is right, why am I this way? And she went to ask Jehovah.


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


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And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.


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And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.


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And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. On account of this his name is called Edom.


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And Jacob gave bread and soup of lentils to Esau. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. And Esau despised the birthright.


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And a famine was in the land besides the famine in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.


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And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Do not go down into Egypt; stay in the land which I shall say to you.


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Reside in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham.


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And I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in your Seed,


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And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say, My wife, lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful of form.


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And it happened when his days were many to him there, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through the window and saw; and, behold, Isaac was sporting with his wife Rebekah.


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And Abimelech called Isaac and said, See, surely she is your wife, and how have you said, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, lest I die on account of her.


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And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people had in a little lain with your wife, and you would have brought on us guilt.


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And Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, Anyone touching this man and his wife dying shall die.


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And possessions of flocks and possessions of herds, and many slaves were his. And the Philistines envied him.


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And all the wells which the slaves of his father dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with dirt.


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And Isaac returned and dug the wells of water which they dug in the days of his father Abraham; and the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called names to them like the names which his father had called them.


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And the shepherds of Gerar fought with the shepherds of Isaac, saying, The water is ours; and he called the name of the well, Contention, for they had contended with him.


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And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not fight over it; and he called its name, Broad Places. And he said, For now Jehovah has broadened for us and we shall be fruitful in the land.


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


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And he built an altar there and called on the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there. And the slaves of Isaac dug a well there.


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And they said, Since we plainly have seen that Jehovah has been with you, and we have said, let there be an oath now between us, between us and you, and let us cut a covenant with you,


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whether you will do with us evil, as we did not touch you, and as we did only good with you, and we sent you away in peace you now being blessed of Jehovah.


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And they started up early at dawn, and each swore to his brother. And Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.


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


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And Esau was a son of forty years. And he took a wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite; also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.


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And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me.


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And now please lift up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go to the field and hunt game for me.


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And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die.


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


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


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Bring game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before my death.


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Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them into delicious things for your father which he loves;


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Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and I shall bring a curse on me, and not blessing.


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


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And he went and took and came to his mother. And his mother made delicious things, such as his father loved.


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And Rebekah took the clothing of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house. And she dressed her younger son Jacob;


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And Jacob said to his father, I am your first-born, Esau. I have done as you said to me. Rise up now, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me.


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And Isaac said to his son, How then have you quickly found it, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God made it come to me.


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And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not.


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


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And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.


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And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine.


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And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes. And he blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah has blessed.


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And may God give you of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and much grain and wine.


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May the nations serve you and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.


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And it happened that when Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, then it came about that Jacob had hardly gone out from the face of his father Isaac, and his brother Esau came in from his hunting.


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And he also made delicious things and came to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise and eat from the game of his son, so that your soul may bless me.


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And Isaac was terrified with a very great anxiety. And he said, Who then was the one who hunted game and came to me; and I ate from it all before you came; and I blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed.


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


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And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob, and this twice he took me by the heel; he took my birthright and, behold, now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?


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And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him over you as a ruler, and I have given him all his brothers for servants; I have girded him with grain and wine. And what then can I do for you, my son?


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And Esau said to his father, Is one blessing left to you, my father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.


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


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and you shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; and when it shall be that you are restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck.


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


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And the words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, Behold! Your brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you.


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until your brother's anger turns back from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. And I will send and take you from there. Why should I also be bereaved of two of you in one day?


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


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


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Go up, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban the brother of your mother.


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And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful, and add to you; and may you become an assembly of nations.


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


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


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And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and had sent him away to Padan-aram to take a wife for himself from there. In his blessing he had commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;


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then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, Nebajoth's sister. To his wives he added her for his wife.


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And he came on a place and stayed the night there, for the sun had gone. And he took stones of the place and placed them at his head; and he lay down in that place.


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And he dreamed. And, behold, a ladder was placed on the earth, its top reaching to the heavens. And, behold, the angels of God were going up and going down on it!


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


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


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And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.


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And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing except the house of God, and this is the door to Heaven.


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And Jacob started up early in the morning and took the stone which he had placed at his head, and he placed it as a pillar; and he poured oil on the top of it.


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And he called the name of that place, The House of God. And yet the name of the city was at first Luz.


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And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God is with me and keeps me in this way which I am going, and gives to me bread to eat and clothing to wear,


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and this stone which I have placed as a memorial pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I will tithe the tenth to You.


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


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And all the flocks were usually gathered there, and they rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep, and replaced the stone on the mouth of the well, to its place.


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And he said to them, Well-being to him? And they said, Well-being. And, behold, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.


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And he said, Behold, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and go feed them.


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


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He still was speaking with them, and Rachel came with the sheep which were her father's; for she was feeding them.


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And it happened when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, brother to his mother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep 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 the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father.


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And it happened when Laban heard the report of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him. And he took him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.


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And Laban said to Jacob, are you not my brother? And should you serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall be your wages?


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And Laban said, It is better for me to give her to you than to give her to another man; live with me.


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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes like a few days, in his love for her.


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


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And it happened in the morning; behold! She was Leah. And he said to Laban, What have you done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? And why have you tricked me?


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


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And Jacob did so, and he fulfilled the week of this one, and he gave to him his daughter Rachel, to him for a wife.


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


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


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


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


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


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And Rachel saw that she did not bear to Jacob, and Rachel was jealous of her sister. And she said to Jacob, Give me sons; and if there is none, I shall die.


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


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And she said, Behold my servant Bilhah! Go in to her and let her bear on my knees; yea, let me be built up from her, me also.


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


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And Rachel said, With struggles of God I have wrestled with my sister; yea, I have been able. And she called his name Naphtali.


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And Leah saw that she had ceased from bearing. And she took Zilpah, her slave-girl, and gave her to Jacob for a wife.


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And Leah said, In my happiness; for the daughters shall call me happy. And she called his name Asher.


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And in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went out and found love-apples in the field. And he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give to me from the love-apples of your son.


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And she said to her, is your taking my husband a little thing? Will you also take my son's love-apples? And Rachel said, So he shall be with you tonight, for your son's love apples.


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And Jacob came in from the field at evening. And Leah went out to meet him. And she said, You must come in to me, for hiring I have hired you with my son's love-apples. And he lay with her during that night.


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And Leah said, God has given my hire; I gave my slave-girl to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.


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And Leah said, God has given me a good present. This time my husband will live with me, because I have borne six sons to him. And she called his name Zebulun.


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And it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away so I may go to my own place and to my land.


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Give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know my service with which I have served you.


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And Laban said to him, Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay. I have seen omens, also Jehovah has blessed me because of you.


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For little was yours before my presence, and it has spread out into a host. And Jehovah has blessed you at my foot. And now when shall I work for my house, I also?


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And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will remain. I will feed your flock and keep it.


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I will pass among all your flock today, taking from there every speckled and spotted sheep, and every black sheep among the lambs, also the spotted and speckled goats; these shall be my wages.


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And my righteousness shall testify for me in the day to come. When you come in about my wages, before your face everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen with me.


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And he turned out in that day all the striped and spotted lambs, and all the speckled and spotted goats, every one which had white, and every black one among the lambs. And he gave them into the hands of his sons.


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And he put three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob was feeding the remaining flocks of Laban.


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And Jacob took for himself white rods of a fresh tree, and the almond and plane tree. And he peeled white stripes in them, laying bare the white on the rods.


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And he set the rods which he had peeled by the troughs, by the water troughs where the flocks came to drink, across from the flocks. And they were in heat when they came to drink.


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And Jacob separated the lambs, and he set the faces of the flock toward the striped, and every black one in the flocks of Laban. And he put his own droves by themselves, and did not put them with the flock of Laban.


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And it happened that whenever the strong flocks conceived, Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the flocks, before the troughs, that they might conceive by the rods.


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And the flocks being feeble, he did not set them. And usually it happened that the weak were for Laban, and the strong for Jacob.


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And the man increased very much, and many flocks were his, and slave-girls, and male slaves, and camels and asses.


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And he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was to our father, and from that which was to our father he has gotten all this wealth.


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


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And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not toward me as before. But the God of my father has been with me.


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And your father has cheated me and has changed my wages ten times. And God has not let him do evil to me.


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And if he said this: The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said this, The striped shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore striped.


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And it happened at the time the flock was in heat, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream: And behold! The rams leaping on the flock were striped, speckled, and spotted.


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And He said, Lift up your eyes and see all the rams leaping on the flock; they are striped, speckled and spotted. For I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.


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I am the God of Bethel, there where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now rise up; go out of this land and go back to the land of your kindred.


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And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet to us a portion and an inheritance in the house of our father?


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For all the wealth which God has taken from our father, it is for us and for our sons. And now all that which God has said to you, do.


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And he drove all the livestock, and he took all his goods which he had gotten, livestock of his property which he had gotten in Padan-aram, to come to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.


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And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, for he did not tell him that he was about to flee.


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And he and all that was to him fled. And he rose up and crossed the River and set his face to Mount Gilead.


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And he took his brothers with him and pursued him, seven days journey. And he overtook him in Mount Gilead.


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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Watch out for yourself, that you not speak with Jacob from good to evil.


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And Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob had pitched his tent at the Mount. And Laban with his brothers had pitched at Mount Gilead.


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And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? And you have deceived my heart and have taken my daughters like captives of the sword.


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Why did you hide so as to flee, and have deceived me and have not told me. And I would have sent you away with rejoicing and with music, with tabret and with harp.


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It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Watch out for yourself that you do not speak with Jacob from good to evil.


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And now surely you have gone because you have longed after your father's house. Why have you stolen my gods?


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


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With whomever you find your gods, he shall not live before our brothers here. See for yourself what is with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.


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And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two slave-girls; and he did not find. And he went out of Leah's tent and came into Rachel's tent.


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And Rachel had taken the household idols and put them into the camel's saddle; and she sat on them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find.


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And she said to her father, Let no anger be in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before your face, for the way of women is to me. And he searched for and did not find the household idols.


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And Jacob was angry, and he argued with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my transgression; what my sin that you have hotly pursued me?


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For you have felt around all my articles; what have you found from all the articles of your house? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers and let them decide between the two of us.


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Now I was with you twenty years. Your ewes and your she-goats have not failed to bear, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.


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I did not bring to you the mangled; I replaced it. From my hand you exacted it, that stolen by day and that stolen by night.


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


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Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, truly now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hand, and last night He judged.


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And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters and the sons my sons. And the flocks are my flocks; yea, all which you see, it is mine and my daughters'. What can I do to these today, or to their sons whom they have borne?


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And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones. And they took stones and they made a memorial pillar.


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And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and between me today; so he called its name Heap of Testimony;


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also, Watchtower; for he said, May Jehovah watch between you and me, for we are hidden, when we are out of sight, each from his neighbor.


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If you will not afflict my daughters, and if you will not take wives above my daughters, no man is with us. Behold! God is a witness between you and me.


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And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set between you and me.


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This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a testimony. As for me, I will not pass over this heap to you; and as for you, you will not pass over this heap and this pillar for evil to me.


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


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And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and lodged on the mountain.


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And Laban rose up early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban went away and returned to his own place.


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


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


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And he commanded them, saying, You shall say to my lord, to Esau: Your servant Jacob says this: I have sojourned with Laban and remained until now.


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And it is mine to have oxen, and asses, flocks, and slaves and slave-girls. And I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.


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


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And Jacob was afraid, and he was very distressed. And he divided the people with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.


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And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then it will be, the company that is left shall escape.


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And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Go back to your land and to your kindred and I will deal well with you.


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


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Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, mother to sons.


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And You said, dealing I will deal well with you, and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.


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And he remained there that night. And he took a present from what came into his hand, for his brother Esau:


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thirty nursing camels with their thirty colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten young asses.


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And he gave into the hand of his slaves every drove by itself. And he said to his slaves, Pass over before my face and put a space between drove and drove.


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And he commanded the first ones, saying, When my brother Esau meets you and asks, saying, Whose are you, and where do you go, and whose are these before your face?


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


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And he also commanded the second, also the third, even all the ones going after the droves, saying, You shall speak this word to Esau when you find him.


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And you shall also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will cover his face by the present, the one going before my face, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face.


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And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two slave-girls, and his eleven children. And he passed over the ford Jabbok.


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And He saw that He had not prevailed against him. And He touched on his hip socket, and Jacob's hip socket was unhinged as he wrestled with Him.


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And He said, Send Me away, for the dawn has ascended. And he said, I will not let You go unless You bless me.


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


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And Jacob asked and said, Please reveal Your name. And He said, Why this that you ask about My name? And He blessed him there.


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And Jacob called the name of the place Face of God, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.


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On account of this the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket until this day, because He touched on Jacob's hip socket, on the sinew of the thigh.


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And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And, behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two slave-girls.


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And he put the slave-girls and their children first; and Leah and her children behind: and Rachel and Joseph last.


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And he passed over in front of them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came even to his brother.


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


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And Leah and her children also came near and bowed. And afterward Rachel and Joseph came near and bowed.


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And Jacob said, No, please, if I now have found favor in your eyes, take my present from my hands. For I have seen your face, like seeing the face of God; and you are pleased with me.


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Please take my blessing which has been brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all things. And he urged him; and he accepted.


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And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are suckling. And if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.


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Please let my lord go before the face of his servant, and I will move on by stages at my ease, according to the feet of the livestock which are before me, and according to the pace of the boys, until I come into my lord to Seir.


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And Esau said, Please let me place with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why, then? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.


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And Jacob traveled to Succoth. And he built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. For this reason he called the name of the place Succoth.


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And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he came from Padan-aram. And he camped in front of the city.


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And he bought that part of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money.


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


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


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And Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. And his sons were with his livestock in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they had come.


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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard, and the men were furious, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob, and it should not be done in this way.


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And Hamor spoke with them, saying, My son Shechem's soul has longed to your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.


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


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Heap on me ever so much bride-price and gift, and I will give as you say to me; but give me the girl for a wife.


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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor, speaking with deceit because he had defiled their sister Dinah.


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And they said to them, We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised. For it is a reproach to us.


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Only on this condition will we consent to you; If you will become like us, to have every male of you circumcised.


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


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


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


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These men are peaceable with us; and, Let them live in the land and trade in it. And, behold, the land is wide on both hands before them. Let us take their daughters for ourselves for wives, and let us give our daughters to them.


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Only in this way will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male of us be circumcised as they are circumcised.


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Shall not their livestock, and their property, and all their beasts of burden be ours? Only let us consent to them, and let them live with us.


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


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And it happened on the third day, they being pained, that the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword. And they came on the city in its security, and killed every male.


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And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword. And they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and went out.


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They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and whatever was in the city, and whatever was in the field.


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


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And Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those living in the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites. And I being few in number, and they gathering against me, they will strike me, and I and my house shall be wasted.


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


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And Jacob said to his house, and to all those with him, Put away the strange gods in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your clothing.


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And let us rise up and go up to Bethel. And I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress. And He was with me in the way in which I went.


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


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And they pulled up stakes. And the terror of God was on the cities all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.


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And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan; it is Bethel, he and all the people with him came.


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


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And Deborah died, the nurse of Rebekah, and she was buried below Bethel, under the oak. And he called its name, Oak of Weeping.


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


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And God said to him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be from you. And kings shall go forth from your loins.


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


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


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And they pulled up stakes from Bethel. And there was yet a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel bore; and she had hard labor in her bearing.


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And it happened, when she had hard labor in her bearing, even the midwife said to her, Do not fear, for this also is a son for you.


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And it happened, when her soul was going forth (for she died) even she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.


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And it happened after Israel lived in that land, even Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.


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The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born; and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.


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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave-girl: Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born in Padan-aram.


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And Jacob came to his father Isaac, to Mamre, to the City of Arba; it is Hebron where Abraham and Isaac resided.


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


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


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


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And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his livestock, and all the beasts of burden, and all his property which he had gained in Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.


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For their possessions had become too great for them to dwell together. And the land was not able to bear their travels, in the presence of their livestock.


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


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


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


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And these were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the wife of Esau; even she bore Jeush to Esau, and Jaalam, and Korah.


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These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the first-born of Esau: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,


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


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


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


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


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And these were the sons of Zibeon, even Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the desert as he fed the asses for his father Zibeon.


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


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And these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons 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 place; and the name of his city, Avith.


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


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


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Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwellings, in the land of their possession; he is Esau, the father of Edom.


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These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, was feeding the flock with his brothers, with Bilhah's sons and with Zilpah's sons, his father's wives. And he was a youth. And Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.


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


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And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him. And they were not able to speak to him for peace.


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And, behold! We were binding sheaves in the middle of the field. And, behold, my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And, behold, your sheaves came around and bowed themselves to my sheaf.


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And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you really rule over us? And they hated him still more because of his dreams, and because of his words.


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And he dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers. And he said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: And, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars were bowing themselves to me.


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And he told it to his father, and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which you have dreamed? Shall we indeed come to bow ourselves to the earth to you, I, your mother, and your brothers?


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


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And he said to him, Now go, see the welfare of your brothers, and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me. And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron. And he came to Shechem.


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And a man found him. And, behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What do you seek?


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


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And they saw him from a distance. And before he came near to them, they plotted against him, to kill him.


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And, Come now, and let us kill him, and throw him into one of the pits. And let us say, An evil beast has eaten him. And let us see what will become of his dreams.


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And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father.


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And it happened when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped his robe which was on him, from Joseph, the robe reaching to the soles of his feet.


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And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked. And, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead! And their camels were bearing spices, and balsam gum, and myrrh, going down to take them to Egypt.


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


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And men, Midianites, traders, passed. And they drew up and took Joseph out of the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.


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And they sent the robe reaching to the soles of his feet, and they took it to their father, and said, We have found this. Now look, is it your son's robe?


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And he knew it, and said, My son's robe! An evil beast has eaten him. Being torn Joseph is torn in pieces.


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


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And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners.


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And it happened at that time that Judah went down, away from his brothers, and turned aside to a man of Adullam named Hirah.


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And she continued still and bore a son. And she called his name Shelah. And he was at Chezib when she bore him.


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


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And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. And it happened when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his semen to the ground, not giving seed to his brother.


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And Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah is grown. For he said, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went and lived in her father's house.


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And the days were many, and the wife of Judah, the daughter of Shuah, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to the shearers of his flocks, he and his friend Hirah of Adullam, to Timnah.


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And she took off her widow's robes from her, and veiled herself with a veil, and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him for a wife.


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


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And he said, I will send a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge until you send it?


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And he said, What pledge shall I give to you? And she said, Your signet ring, and your bracelet and your staff in your hand. And he gave to her, and came in to her. And she conceived by him.


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


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And he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the harlot that was at Enaim, by the roadway? And they said, There was no harlot here.


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And he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her. And also the men of the place said, There was no harlot here.


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And Judah said, Let her take them for herself, that we not become a laughing stock. See, I sent this kid, and you did not find her.


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And after three months, it happened. It was told to Judah, saying, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has committed adultery, and also, behold, she is pregnant by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her out and let her be burned.


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She was being brought out, and she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am pregnant by a man to whom these belong. And she said, Note now whose are these, the signet ring, the bracelet, and the staff?


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


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And in her bearing, it happened that one put forth a hand, and the midwife took it and tied crimson on his hand, saying, This one came out first.


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And it happened as he withdrew his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, How have you broken a break for yourself? And one called his name Pharez.


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And Joseph was carried down to Egypt. And Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had carried him down there.


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


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And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and Joseph was prospering in his hand everything which he did.


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And Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. And he appointed him over his house, and he gave all he owned into his hand.


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


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And he left all he owned in Joseph's hand. And he did not know anything that he had, except the bread which he was eating. And Joseph was beautiful in form and beautiful of appearance.


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And after these things, it happened that his master's wife lifted up her eyes to Joseph, and said, Lie with me.


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And he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is in the house with me, and all that he owns he has given into my hand.


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No one in this house is greater than I, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife. And how should I do this great evil and sin against God?


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And it happened, as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.


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And it happened on this day, that he went into the house to do his work. And none of the men of the house were there in the house.


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


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she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, Behold! He has brought to us a Hebrew man in to sport with us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.


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And it happened when he heard that I raised my voice and cried, he left his robe by me and fled, and went outside.


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And she spoke these same words to him, saying, The Hebrew slave whom you brought in to us came in to sport with me.


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And it happened, when his master heard his wife's words which she spoke to him, saying, According to these words your slave did to me, his anger glowed.


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


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And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended kindness to him. And He gave him favor in the eyes of the warden of the prison house.


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And the warden of the prison house gave all the prisoners in the prison house into Joseph's hand. And all which they did there, he was doing.


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There was no looking of the warden of the prison house to anything in his hand, in that Jehovah was with him, and Jehovah was prospering what he was doing.


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And after these things, it happened, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt sinned against their lord, against the king of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh was angry against his two eunuchs, against the chief of the cupbearers and against the chief of the bakers.


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And he gave them into custody, in the house of the chief of the executioners, into the prison house, the place where Joseph was bound.


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And the chief of the executioners assigned Joseph to be with them, and he served them. And they were in custody many days.


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And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison house.


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And he asked the eunuchs of Pharaoh who were with him in custody, in the house of his lord, saying, Why are your faces sad today?


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


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


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And in the vine were three branches. And at its budding, it went up into blossom, its clusters ripened into grapes.


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


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Yet within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will return you to your place. And you will give the cup of Pharaoh into his hand according to the former custom when you were his cupbearer.


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But make mention of me along with yourself, when it is well with you; and please do kindness with me and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.


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For truly I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have not done anything that they should have put me into the dungeon.


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And the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good. And he said to Joseph, I also in my dream saw three baskets of white bread on my head.


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And in the top basket some from all the food of Pharaoh, the work of a baker. And the birds were eating them from the basket off my head.


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


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And it happened, on the third day, the day of Pharaoh's birth, he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers in the midst of his servants.


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And he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearer office; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


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And it happened at the end of two years of days, Pharaoh was dreaming. And, lo, he was standing by the River.


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And, behold! Seven cows were going up from the River, beautiful of appearance and fat of flesh; and they were feeding in the reeds.


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And, behold, seven other cows were going up after them from the River, evil of appearance and lean of flesh. And they were standing beside the cows on the lip of the River.


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And the evil-appearing and lean-fleshed cows were eating the seven cows of beautiful and fat appearance. And Pharaoh awoke.


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


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And, behold, seven ears of grain, being lean and blasted by the east wind, sprouting forth after them.


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And the seven lean ears were swallowing the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awakened; and, lo, it was a dream.


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And it happened in the morning, his spirit was troubled. And he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dream, and there was no interpreter of them to Pharaoh.


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Pharaoh was angry against his servants, and gave me into custody in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers.


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And we dreamed a dream in one night, he and I; we each dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.


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And a Hebrew youth was with us, a slave to the chief of the executioners. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams to us; he interpreted to each according to his dream.


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And it happened, as he had interpreted to us, so it was; he returned me to my position, and he hanged him.


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And Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they rushed him from the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his clothing and came in to Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it; and I have heard about you, saying, you hear a dream to interpret it.


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And, behold, seven cows were going up from the River, fat of flesh and beautiful of form, and were feeding in the reeds.


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And, behold, seven other cows were going up after them, poor and very evil of form, and lean of flesh; I have not seen any like them in all the land of Egypt for badness.


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And they went into their stomachs, and it could not be seen that they had gone into their stomachs; and their appearance was as evil as at the beginning. And I awakened.


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And I looked in my dream. And, behold, seven ears of grain were coming up on one stalk, full and good.


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And the lean ears were swallowing the seven good ears. And I spoke to the magicians, but not one is making known the meaning to me.


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And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.


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The seven good cows, they are seven years and the seven good ears, they are seven years; it is one dream.


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And the seven thin and evil-appearing cows going up after them, they are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted by the east wind will be seven years of famine.


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And seven years of famine will arise after them and all the plenty of the land of Egypt will be forgotten; and the famine will consume the land.


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And the plenty in the land will not be remembered because of that famine afterwards; for it will be very severe.


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And as to the dream being repeated to Pharaoh twice, the thing is settled because it is from God, and God is hastening to do it.


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Let Pharaoh act and let him appoint rulers over the land and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty.


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And let them gather all the food of these coming good years. And let them heap up grain under Pharaoh's hand as food in the cities, and let them keep it.


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And let the food be for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which will be in the land of Egypt and let not the land be cut off by famine.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has taught you all this, there is no one wise and intelligent like you.


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You shall be over my house, and at your mouth all my people shall kiss the hand. Only in respect to the throne will I be greater than you.


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And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; and he clothed him with fine linen robes, and put a golden chain on his neck.


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And he caused him to ride in a chariot which was the second to him. And they cried before him, Bow the knee! And he put him over all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without a word from you not a man shall lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called Joseph by the name of Zaphnath-paaneah. And He gave him Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.


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And Joseph was a son of thirty years as he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the face of Pharaoh and passed over in all the land of Egypt.


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And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and he put food in the cities, the food of the field which is around each city he put into the middle of it.


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And Joseph heaped up grain like the sand of the sea, exceedingly much, until he ceased to count it, because it was without number.


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And two sons were born to Joseph before the year of the famine came in, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore to him.


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And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh; for he said, God has made me forget all my toil, and all the house of my father.


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And the name of the second he called Ephraim; for he said, God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.


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And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.


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And all the land of Egypt hungered and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all Egypt, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.


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And the famine was on the face of all the land. And Joseph opened all which was in them, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was strong in the land of Egypt.


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And he said, Behold! I have heard grain is in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die.


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And Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he said, Lest harm meet with him.


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And Joseph was the potentate over the land, the one selling to all the people of the earth. And Joseph's brothers came in and bowed to him, face down to the earth.


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And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them; but he remained a stranger to them and spoke harsh things to them, and said to them, From where have you come? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.


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And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them. And he said to them, You are spies! You have come in to see the bareness of the land.


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And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, lo, the youngest is with our father today; and one is not.


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By this you shall be tested. As Pharaoh lives you shall not go out from here except your younger brother comes in here.


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Send one of you and let him bring your brother; and you be bound, and let your words be proven, whether truth is with you. And if not, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.


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If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison house, and you go bring grain for the famine of your houses.


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And you bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be true, and you shall not die. And so they did.


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And they said each to his brother, We are truly guilty because of our brother whom we saw in distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we did not hear. So this distress has come to us.


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And Reuben replied to them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the youth, and you did not listen? And, behold, his blood is also required.


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And he turned away from them and wept, and returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.


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And Joseph commanded, and they filled their vessels with grain and returned their silver, each into his sack, and gave to them food for the way; and he did so to them.


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And one opened his sack to give fodder to his ass in the camp, and he saw his silver. And, behold! It was in the mouth of his sack!


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And he said to his brothers, My silver has been put back, and also look in my sack. And their hearts went out, and they were each terrified, saying to his brother, What is this God has done to us?


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And they came to their father Jacob to the land of Canaan. And they told him all that met them, saying,


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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; the one is not, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.


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And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I shall know that you are honest; leave your one brother with me, and take and go for the famine of your houses.


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And bring your youngest brother to me, and I may know that you are not spies, but you are honest. I will give your brother to you and you may trade in the land.


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And it happened. They were emptying their sacks, and, behold, each one's bundle of silver was in his sack; and they saw the bundles of their silver, and they were afraid.


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And their father Jacob said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin? All of these are against me.


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And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, You may kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Give him into my hand, and I will return him to you.


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And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. And if harm should happen to him in the way in which you go, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.


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And it happened, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go back; buy a little food for us.


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And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man fiercely protested, saying to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.


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And if you are not sending, we will not go; for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.


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And they said, The man keenly asked about us and about our kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Is there a brother to you? And we said to him on the mouth of these words. Could we know certainly that he would say, Bring down your brother?


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And Judah said to his father Israel, Send the youth with me, and let us rise up and go, and we may live and not die, both we, and you, and our little ones.


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I will be surety for him; you may require him from my hand. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, I shall be a sinner against you all the days.


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And their father Israel said to them, If it be so, then do this: take from the produce of the land in your vessels and bring down a present to the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts and almonds.


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And take double silver in your hand, and the silver they put back in the mouth of your sacks, take back in your hand; perhaps it was an oversight.


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And may God Almighty give mercy to you before the man; and may he send your other brother to you, and Benjamin. And I, if am bereaved, I am bereaved.


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And the men took this present, and they took double silver in their hand, and Benjamin. And they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.


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And Joseph saw Benjamin with them. And he said to the one over his house, Bring the men into the house and slaughter and prepare an animal; for the men shall eat 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 silver that was returned in our sacks before, we are being brought in, to throw himself on us and to fall on us, and to take us and our asses for slaves.


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And they came near to the man who was over Joseph's house and spoke to him at the door of the house.


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And it happened, when we came to the camp and opened our sacks, behold, the silver of each one was in the mouth of his sack; our silver in its weight. And we bring it back in our hand.


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And we have brought other silver in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.


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And he said, Peace to you; do not fear; your God and the God of your father has given a treasure to you in your sacks; your silver came to me. And he brought Simeon out to them.


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And the man led out the men to Joseph's house. And he gave water, and they washed their feet. And he gave fodder for their asses.


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And they prepared the present for the coming of Joseph at noon. For they had heard that they would eat bread there.


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And Joseph came into the house. And they brought the present in their hand to him, into the house. And they bowed to him, to the earth.


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And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is there peace to your father, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?


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And they said, Peace is to your servant, to our father; he still lives. And they fell down and bowed.


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And he raised his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, the son of his mother. And he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you spoke to me? And he said, May God favor you, my son.


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And Joseph hurried, for his emotions were deeply moved toward his brother. And he sought a place to weep; and he came into the inner room and wept there.


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And they set out for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians eating with him by themselves. For the Egyptians cannot eat bread with the Hebrews; for it is an abomination in Egypt.


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And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the younger according to his youth. And the men were astonished, each to his neighbor.


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And one carried portions from before him to them, and Benjamin's portion was greater than the portions of all of them, five hands. And they drank and were drunken with him.


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And he commanded the one over his house, saying, Fill the sacks of the men with food, as much as they are able to carry; and put the silver of each one in the mouth of his sack.


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And put my cup, the cup of silver, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and the silver for his grain. And he did according to Joseph's word, that which he spoke.


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They had gone out from the city, not having gone far, and Joseph said to the one over his house, Rise up, pursue the men and overtake them, and say to them, Why have you repaid evil for good?


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Is this not that in which my lord is accustomed to drink, and divining he divines by it? You have done evil in what you have done.


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And they said to him, Why should my lord speak according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do according to this word.


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Behold! The silver which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we returned to you from the land of Canaan. And how should we steal silver or gold from the house of your lord?


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With whomever it may be found, with him of your servants, he shall die; and we also will become slaves to my lord.


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And he said, Now also let it be according to your words; with whomever it is found with him, he shall become a slave to me, and you shall be innocent.


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And he searched, with the oldest first, and with the youngest last, and the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin.


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And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. And they fell before him to the earth.


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And Joseph said to them, What is this deed which you have done? Did you not know that a man like me would practice divination?


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And Judah said, What can we say to my lord? What can we speak, and in what can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are slaves to my lord, both we and he in whose hand the cup was found.


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And he said, Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall become a slave to me; and you go up in peace to your father.


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And Judah came near to him and said, O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and let not your anger glow on your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.


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And we said to my lord, An aged father is to us, and a young child of his old age; and his brother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.


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And we said to my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father; and if he should leave his father, he will die.


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And you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you shall not see my face any more.


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And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, we will go down. For we cannot see the face of the man if our youngest brother is not with us.


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And one went out from me. And I said, Indeed, torn he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him until now.


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And if you take this one also from my face, and harm happen to him, you will bring down my gray hair to the grave in sorrow.


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And now when I come to your servant, my father, and the youth is not with us and his soul being bound to his soul,


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it will be when he sees that the youth is not, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father to the grave in sorrow.


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For your servant was surety for the youth with my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, I shall be a sinner against my father all the days.


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And now please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the youth; and let the youth go up with his brothers.


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For how can I go to my father, and the youth not be with me, lest I look on the evil which will find my father?


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And Joseph was not able to control himself in regard to those standing beside him. And he called out, Cause every man to go out from me. And no man stood before him as Joseph was making himself known to his brothers.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my father still alive? And his brothers were not able to answer him, for they trembled before him.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, Now come near to me. And they came near. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.


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And now do not be grieved, and let no anger be in your eyes because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to save life.


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For the famine has been in the midst of the land for two years. And there are still five years in which no plowing and harvest will be.


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And God sent me before you to put a remnant in the land for you, and to keep alive for you a great deliverance.


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And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for a lord in all his house, and a ruler in all the land of Egypt.


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Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, So says your son Joseph, God has placed me as a lord to all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.


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And you shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your sons and sons of your sons, and your flocks, and your herds, and all you have.


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And I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine; lest you be made poor, you and your house and all which abides with you.


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And you tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and all that you have seen. And hurry and bring down my father here.


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And the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, The brothers of Joseph have come. And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants.


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Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this; load your animals and depart; go to the land of Canaan.


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And take your father, and your houses, and come to me. And I will give to you the good of the land of Egypt; and you shall eat the fat of the land.


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And you are commanded; you do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt, for your little ones, and for your wives. And take your father and come.


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And your eye, let it have no regard for your vessels, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.


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And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave wagons to them according to the mouth of Pharaoh, and he gave provision to them for the way.


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He gave to all of them, to each one, changes of clothing. And he gave to Benjamin three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothing.


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And to his father he sent this: ten asses bearing the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing grain, and bread, and food for his father for the way.


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And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. And his heart froze up, for he did not believe them.


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And they spoke to him all Joseph's words which he had spoken to them. And he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him; and the spirit of their father Jacob revived.


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And Israel and all which were to him departed, and he came to Beer-sheba. And he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.


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And God said to Israel in visions of the night, and He spoke, Jacob! Jacob! And he answered, Behold me.


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And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.


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I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely return you. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes.


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And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones, and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.


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And they took their livestock and their property which they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him.


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His sons and the sons of his sons were with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.


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And these were the names of the sons of Israel, those coming into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: the first-born of Jacob was 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 Canaanitess.


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And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.


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These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, and his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty three.


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And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.


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These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen souls.


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And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore to him.


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And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.


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These were the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel; and she bore these to Jacob, all the souls were seven.


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All the souls belonging to Jacob coming into Egypt, those springing from his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the souls were sixty six.


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And the sons of Joseph which were born to him in Egypt, two souls. All the souls belonging to the house of Jacob coming into Egypt were seventy.


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And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give directions before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.


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And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel to Goshen. And he appeared to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.


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And Israel said to Joseph, This time let me die after seeing your face, because you are still alive.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, and to the house of his father, I will go up and report to Pharaoh. And I will say to him, my brothers and the house of my father, who were in the land of Canaan, have come in to me.


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And the men are shepherds of flocks for they have been men of livestock. And their flocks and their herds, and all which belongs to them they have brought in.


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You shall say, Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers. This is so that you may live in the land of Goshen. For the abomination of Egypt is every shepherd of flocks.


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And Joseph came in and made known to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks and their herds, and all which is theirs, have come in from the land of Canaan.


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And, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took five men from among his brothers and set them before Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds of flocks, both we and our fathers.


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And they said to Pharaoh, We have come in to stay in the land, because there is no pasture for the flocks which belong to your servants, for the famine is heavy in the land of Canaan. And now please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.


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The land of Egypt is before you; cause your father and your brothers to live in the best of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know men of ability among them, make them chiefs of livestock over what is mine.


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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my camps are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their camps.


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And Joseph caused his father and his brothers to live, and gave them a place in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.


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And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's house with bread for the mouth of the little ones.


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And no bread was in the land, because the famine was exceedingly severe. And the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted from the famine.


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And Joseph gathered up all the silver found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in return for the grain they were buying. And Joseph brought in the silver to the house of Pharaoh.


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And the silver failed from the land of Egypt, and from the land of Canaan. And all Egypt came in to Joseph, saying, Give us bread; and, Why should we die before you? For the silver has failed.


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And Joseph said, Give your livestock, and I will give to you for your livestock, if silver has failed.


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And they brought in their livestock to Joseph. And Joseph gave bread to them for the horses, and for the livestock of the flocks, for the livestock of the herds, and for the asses. And he satisfied them with bread in that year for all their livestock.


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And that year ended, and they came in to him in the second year and said to him, We cannot hide from my lord that the silver and the livestock of the animals have failed, going to my lord. Nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our lands.


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Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread; and let us, we and our land, become slaves to Pharaoh. And give seed so that we may live and not die, and the land not be desolate.


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And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because each one in Egypt sold his field, because this famine was severe on them; and the land became Pharaoh's.


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And as for the people, he caused them to pass over into the cities, and from the end of the border of Egypt to its other end.


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Only he did not buy the land of the priests; for Pharaoh had appointed a portion for the priests, and they usually ate their appointed portion which Pharaoh gave to them. For this reason they did not sell their land.


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And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you and your land today. Behold! Here is seed for you; and you sow the land.


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And it shall be, as you gather you shall give a fifth part to Pharaoh; and four parts shall be yours, for the seed of the field and for your food, and for those in your houses, and for food for your little ones.


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And they said, You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will become slaves to Pharaoh.


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And Joseph made it a law until this day on the land of Egypt, the fifth part is for Pharaoh; only the land of the priests being excepted; it did not become Pharaoh's.


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And Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they owned in it, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.


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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life were a hundred and forty seven years.


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And the days of Israel to die drew near. And he called to his son Joseph and said to him, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and do kindness and truth with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt;


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but let me lie with my fathers, and carry me from Egypt, and bury me in their burying place. And he said, I will do according to your words.


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And after these things it happened, one said to Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim.


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And one spoke to Jacob and said, Behold, your son Joseph has come to you. And Israel took strength and sat on the bed.


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and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and will multiply you, and will make you a multitude of peoples. And I will give this land to your seed after you as a continual possession.


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And now your two sons, those born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine, Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, even they shall be mine.


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And your offspring which you father after them, they shall be yours. According to the name of their brothers they shall be called in their inheritance.


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And I, when I came from Padan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan in the way, with only a little way to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there in the way to Ephrath, it being Bethlehem.


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And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given to me here. And he said, Now bring them to me and I will bless them.


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And the eyes of Israel were heavy from age, he not being able to see. And he brought them near to him. And he kissed them and embraced them.


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And Israel said to Joseph, I did not think to see your face, and, behold, God also causes me to see your seed.


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And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim in his right hand, to the left of Israel; and Manasseh in his left hand, to the right of Israel. And he brought them to him.


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And Israel sent forth his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim; and he was the younger. And he put his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands; for Manasseh was the first-born.


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And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born until today;


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The Angel that redeemed me from every evil, may He bless the youths; and may my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they like the fishes increase into a multitude in the midst of the earth.


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And Joseph saw that his father was putting his right hand on the head of Ephraim; and it was evil in his eyes. And he took hold of his father's hand to turn it from Ephraim's head to the head of Manasseh.


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And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father! For this one is the first-born; put your right hand on his head.


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And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall be a people, and he shall become great. But his younger brother shall become greater than he, and his seed shall become the fullness of the nations.


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And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.


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And Israel said to Joseph, See, I am dying; and God will be with you, and will return you to the land of your fathers.


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And I will give to you one spur of land beyond your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.


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And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.


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Reuben, you are my first-born, my strength and the firstfruit of my power; excellence of dignity and excellence of might.


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Like boiling water you shall not excel, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.


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Let not my soul come into their counsel; let not my spirit be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed a man; and in selfwill they hamstrung a bull.


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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.


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Judah, may your brothers praise you, your hand be on the neck of your enemies. May the sons of your father bow themselves to you.


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Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him?


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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawmaker from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and the obedience of the peoples to him.


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Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in wine, and his covering in the blood of grapes.


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And he saw a resting place that it was good, and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute slave.


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Let Dan be a serpent on the way, a horned snake on the path that bites the horses' heels, and its rider falls backward.


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His bow abides in strength, and the hands of his arms are made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.


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From the God of your father, may He help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and womb.


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The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my offspring, to the limit of everlasting hills; may they be for the head of Joseph and for the crown of the leader of his brothers.


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Benjamin is a wolf that tears. In the morning he devours the prey, and at evening he divides the spoil.


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All these were the tribes of Israel, two and ten. And this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, each one with what was according to his blessing, he blessed them.


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And he commanded them, and said to them, I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,


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in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.


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They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and I buried Leah there;


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And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.


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And Joseph commanded the physicians, his servants, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.


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And forty days were fulfilled, for so are fulfilled the days of those embalmed. And Egypt wept for him seventy days.


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And the days of his weeping passed by, and Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,


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My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; you shall bury me there in the grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan. And now please let me go up and bury my father, and return.


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And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, even all the elders of the land of Egypt,


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and all the house of Joseph and his brothers, and the house of his father. Only, they left their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.


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And they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns, which is on the other side of the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a lamentation for his father seven days.


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And those living in the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing in the grain floor of thorns. And they said, This is a very great wailing to Egypt; for this reason its name was called The Meadow of Egypt, which is on the other side of Jordan.


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And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah; the field which Abraham bought for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.


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And after he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all those going up with him to bury his father.


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And Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead. And they said, What if Joseph should bear a grudge against us and repaying should repay us all the evil which we did to him?


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Your father commanded before his death, saying, So you shall say to Joseph, Please lift up now the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin; for they did evil to you. And now please lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.


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And you, you intended evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to make it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.


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And now do not fear; I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts.


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And Joseph lived in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.


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And Joseph saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation. Also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, and God visiting will visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, God visiting will visit you, and you will bring up my bones from here.


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And Joseph died, a son of a hundred and ten years. And they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.


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And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob; they each one came in with his house:


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And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased very much, and multiplied, and became very strong; and the land was filled with them.


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Come, let us deal craftily towards them, lest they multiply and it shall be that when war occurs they will also add to our enemies, and will fight against us and go up from the land.


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And they put over them slavemasters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses.


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And as much as they afflicted them, so much they multiplied and so much they spread. And they were afraid before the sons of Israel.


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And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness.


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And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the second, Puah;


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and he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth-stools, if it is a son, you will kill him; and if it is a daughter, it shall live.


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And the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt said to them. And they kept the male children alive.


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And the king of Egypt called to the midwives and said to them, Why do you do this thing and keep alive the male children?


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And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous. Before the midwives come to them they bear.


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And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son that is born, you shall cast him into the river. And you shall keep alive every daughter.


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And the woman conceived and bore a son; and she saw him, that he was beautiful. And she concealed him three months.


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And she was not able to hide him any longer, and she took a basket for him made of papyrus, and she daubed it with bitumen and with pitch. And she put the child in it, and placed it in the reeds by the lip of the Nile.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe at the Nile. And her slave women were walking on the side of the Nile. And she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and sent her slave-girl and took it.


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And she opened it and saw the child, and, behold, a boy crying! And she had pity on him and said, This one is of the children of the Hebrews.


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And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a woman for you, a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed him.


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And the child grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh. And he became a son to her, and she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.


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And it happened in those days, even Moses was grown, and he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian man strike a Hebrew man of his brothers.


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And he turned here and there and saw that no man was there. And he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


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And he went out on the second day, and, behold, two men, Hebrews, were fighting. And he said to the guilty one, Why should you strike your neighbor?


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And he said, Who appointed you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.


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And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well.


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And the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father's flocks.


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And the shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses rose up and saved them, and watered their flocks.


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And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew for us and watered the flock.


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And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, and let him eat bread.


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And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land.


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And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery.


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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


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And Moses was feeding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.


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And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire from the middle of a thorn bush. And he looked, and behold, the thorn bush was burning with fire, and the thorn bush was not burned up!


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And Moses said, I will turn aside now and see this great sight, why the thorn bush is not burned up.


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And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the thorn bush, and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Behold me.


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And He said, Do not come near here. Pull off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.


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And He said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he feared to look upon God.


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And Jehovah said, Seeing I have seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry from before their taskmasters; for I know his sorrows.


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And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite.


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And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and I also have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.


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And now, come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you bring My people out, the sons of Israel out of Egypt.


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And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt?


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And He said, I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you, when you bring out the people from Egypt: You shall serve God on this mountain.


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And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall come to the sons of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they will say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them?


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And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and He said, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.


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And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.


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Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, visiting I have visited you and have seen what is done to you in Egypt.


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And I have said, I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; to a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they shall listen to your voice; and you shall come in, you and the elders of Israel to the king of Egypt. And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has met us; and now, please let us go for a journey of three days into the wilderness, and let us sacrifice to Jehovah our God.


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And I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders, which I will do in its midst, and afterward he will send you away.


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And I will give this people favor in the eyes of Egypt; and it will come to pass, when you go, you will not go empty.


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And each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and from the stranger in her house, articles of silver, and articles of gold, and garments; and you shall put these on your sons and on your daughters. And you shall plunder Egypt.


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And Moses answered and said, And, behold, they will not believe me and will not listen to my voice. For they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to you.


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And He said, Throw it to the ground. And he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake. And Moses fled before it.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Send out your hand and take it by the tail. And he sent out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand;


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so that they may believe that Jehovah the God of their fathers has appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.


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And Jehovah said to him again, Now put your hand into your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and he brought it out, and, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.


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And He said, Put your hand back into your bosom. And he put his hand back into his bosom, and he brought it out from his bosom; and, behold, it had returned like his flesh!


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And it shall be, if they will not believe you and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the latter sign.


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And it shall be, if they will not believe these two signs also, and will not listen to your voice, you shall take of the water of the Nile and pour it on the dry land. And the water which you take from the Nile shall become blood on the dry land.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, O Lord, I am not a man of words, either from yesterday or the third day, nor since You have been speaking to Your bondslave. For I am heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue.


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And Jehovah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?


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And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Moses. And He said, Do I not know your brother, Aaron the Levite, that he can speak well? And, behold, he also is coming out to meet you, and he will see you and be glad in his heart.


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And you shall speak to him, and you shall put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.


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And he shall speak for you to the people. And it shall be, he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be a god for him.


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And Moses went and returned to his father-in-law Jethro, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go! Return to Egypt. For all the men are dead, those seeking your life.


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And Moses took his wife and his sons and made them ride on an ass. And he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, As you go to return to Egypt, see all the wonders which I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh. And I will make strong his heart, and he will not send the people away.


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And I said to you, Send My son away, and let him serve Me; and you refused to send him. Behold, I am about to kill your son, your first-born!


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And Zipporah took a stone and cut off her son's foreskin, and caused it to touch his feet. And she said, You are a bridegroom of blood to me.


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And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mountain of God; and he kissed him.


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And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah with which He had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.


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And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses. And he did the signs before the people.


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And the people believed. And they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction. And they bowed and worshiped.


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And afterward Moses and Aaron came in and said to Pharaoh, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Send away My people, and they shall feast to Me in the wilderness.


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And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah that I should listen to His voice to send away Israel? I do not know Jehovah, and I also will not send Israel away.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, that He not strike us with plague or with sword.


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And the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why do you loose the people from their work? You go to your burdens.


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And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are many now, and you make them cease from their burdens.


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You shall not go on giving straw to the people to make bricks, as yesterday and the third day. They shall go and pick up straw for themselves.


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And the fixed number of bricks which they were making yesterday and the third day you shall put on them. You shall not diminish from it. For they are idle; so they are crying, saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to our God.


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Let the bondage be heavy on the men, that they may work in it, and may not trust in the lying words.


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And the taskmasters of the people, and their overseers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Pharaoh has said this, I will not give you straw.


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You go take straw for yourselves from wherever you may find it. For not a thing will be reduced from your work.


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And the taskmasters were demanding, saying, Finish your work, the matter of a day in its day, as when there was straw.


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And the overseers of the sons of Israel were beaten, those whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had put over them, saying, Why have you not finished your appointed task, to make bricks as a day ago and the day before, both yesterday and today?


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And the overseers of the sons of Israel came in and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you do this way to your slaves?


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No straw is given to your slaves, and they are saying to us, Make bricks. And, behold, your slaves are beaten, but your people are at fault.


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Therefore, go now and work. And straw will not be given to you; and a certain number of bricks you shall deliver.


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And the overseers of the sons of Israel saw themselves in affliction, saying, You shall not diminish from your bricks, the matter of a day in its day.


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And they said to them, May Jehovah look on you and judge, you who have made our odor to stink in Pharaoh's eyes and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hands to kill us.


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And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Lord, why have You done evil to this people? Why then have You sent me?


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And since I came in to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people. And You did not certainly deliver your people.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. For he will send them away with a strong hand, yea, he will drive them out from his land with a strong hand.


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And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, and by My name JEHOVAH I have not been known to them.


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And I also established My covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they abode.


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And I also have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving. And I have remembered My covenant.


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Therefore, say to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and will deliver you from their slavery. And I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.


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And I will take you for Myself for a people, and I will be a God for you. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, the One bringing you out from under the burdens of Egypt.


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And I will bring you into the land which I raised My hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it to you for a possession. I am Jehovah!


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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And they did not listen to Moses, from anguish of spirit and from hard bondage.


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And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, Behold the sons of Israel have not listened to me. And how should Pharaoh hear me, I being of uncircumcised lips?


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron and He commanded them as to the sons of Israel, and as to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt.


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These were the heads of the houses of their fathers: The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi; these were 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 Canaanitess; these were the families of Simeon.


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And these were the names of the sons of Levi by their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven years.


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And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty three years.


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And the sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. These were the families of Levi according to their generations.


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And Amram took his aunt Jochebed to him for a wife. And she bore to him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty seven years.


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And Aaron took Elisheba the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to him for a wife. And she bore to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And Aaron's son Eleazar took of the daughters of Putiel for his wife. And she bore to him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers of the Levites by their families.


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That is the Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, according to their armies.


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Those were the ones speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was Moses and Aaron.


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Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah! Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all which I am about to speak to you.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh; and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.


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You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh. And he will send away the sons of Israel from his land.


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And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh. And I will multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh will not listen to you. And I will put My hand on Egypt, and will bring My armies, My people, the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt with great judgments.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I send forth My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.


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And Moses was a son of eighty years, and Aaron was a son of eighty three years when they spoke to Pharaoh.


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When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Give a miracle for yourselves, you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh; and let it become a snake.


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And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants. And it became a snake.


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And Pharaoh also called wise men and the sorcerers. And they, the priests of Egypt, also performed by their secret arts.


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And they each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.


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Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is about to go out to the water. And you stand to meet him on the lip of the river. And you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.


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And you shall say to him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Send away My people, so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. And, behold, you have not listened until now.


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So says Jehovah, By this you shall know that I am Jehovah: Behold, I am about to strike the water in the river with the staff in My hand, and it shall be turned to blood.


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And the fish in the river will die, and the river will stink, and the Egyptians will become weary of drinking water from the river.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over the rivers, over their canals, and over their pools, and over every body of their waters, so that they may become blood. And blood shall be in all the land of Egypt, both in wooden and in stone vessels.


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And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the water which was in the river before Pharaoh's eyes, and before his servants' eyes. And all the water in the river turned to blood.


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And the fish in the river died, and the river stunk. And the Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile. And the blood was in all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians of Egypt did so by their secret arts. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.


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And all the Egyptians dug around the river to drink water, for they were not able to drink from the water of the river.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, So says Jehovah, Send away My people that they may serve Me.


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And the river will swarm with frogs. And they shall go up and enter into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your couch, and into your servants' house, and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools. And bring up frogs on the land of Egypt.


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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray to Jehovah that He may remove the frogs from me and from my people. And I will send away the people that they may sacrifice to Jehovah.


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And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me. For when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, to cut off the frogs from you, and from your house, that they may be left only in the river?


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And he said, For tomorrow. And he said, According to your word, so that you may know that none is like Jehovah our God.


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And the frogs will depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They will only be in the river.


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And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried to Jehovah concerning the frogs which He had set on Pharaoh.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died from the houses, from the courts, and from the fields.


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And Pharaoh saw that there was relief. And he made his heart heavy, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and let it become lice in all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth. And the lice were on man and on beast. All the dust of the earth became lice in the land of Egypt.


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And the priests performed with their secret arts to bring forth lice, and they could not. And the lice were on man and on beast.


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And the priests said to Pharaoh, It is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Get up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh. Behold, he is about to go out to the water. And say to him, So says Jehovah, Send away My people that they may serve Me.


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And if you do not send away My people, behold, I am about to send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and on your house. And the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they are.


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And in that day I will separate the land of Goshen with My people resting on it, that there be no swarms of flies, so that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.


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And Jehovah did so. And teeming swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's house, and the house of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt. And the land was destroyed before the swarms of flies.


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And Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God. Behold! If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?


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We will go into the wilderness, a journey of three days, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as He may say to us.


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And Pharaoh said, I will send you away, and you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only do not go very far off. Pray for me.


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And Moses said, Behold, I am about to go out from you, and to pray to Jehovah. And the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, and from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. But do not let Pharaoh continue to deceive, not to send the people to sacrifice to Jehovah.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses, and the swarms of flies departed from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; and not one was left.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Send away My people that they may serve Me.


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behold the hand of Jehovah is going to be on your livestock in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks, a very heavy pestilence.


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And Jehovah will make a distinction between Israel's livestock and Egypt's livestock. Also of all that belongs to the sons of Israel, not a thing will die.


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And Jehovah did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died. And from the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died.


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And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not even one was dead from Israel's livestock! And Pharaoh's heart was made heavy, and he did not send away the people.


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And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take for yourselves the fullness of your hands of soot from the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven before Pharaoh's eyes.


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And let it become dust on all the land of Egypt, and let it become an inflammation breaking out into a boil on man and on livestock in all the land of Egypt.


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And they took soot of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens, and it became an inflammation breaking out into boils on man and on livestock.


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And the priests were not able to stand before Moses, before the inflammation. For the inflammation was on the priests and on all the Egyptians.


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And Jehovah made heavy Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said to Moses.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Send away My people that they may serve Me.


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For at this time I am going to send all My plagues to your heart, and on your servants, and on your people, so that you may know that none is like Me in all the land.


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For now I have sent forth My hand and have stricken you and your people with pestilence, and you have been destroyed from the earth.


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And for this reason I have made you stand, in order to cause you to see My power, and in order to declare My name in all the land.


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Behold! I will rain very heavy hail about this time tomorrow, such as has never been in Egypt from the day of its foundation until now.


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And now send out, bring your livestock to safety, and all belonging to you in the field. All men and livestock found in the field, and not brought to the house, the hail will come on them, and they will die.


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Of the servants of Pharaoh, the one who feared the Word of Jehovah made his slaves and his livestock flee to the houses.


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And the one who did not set his heart on the Word of Jehovah left his slaves and his livestock in the field.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to the heavens, so that hail may be in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on livestock, and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens. And Jehovah gave thunder and hail. And fire came down to the earth, and Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.


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And there was hail, and fire flashing in the midst of the hail, very heavy, which never had been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.


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And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, from men and to livestock. And the hail struck every plant of the field, and it broke in pieces every tree of the field.


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And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is the righteous One, and I and my people the wicked ones.


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Pray to Jehovah and let it be enough of the thunders and hail of God. And I will send you away and you shall not continue any longer.


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And Moses said to him, As I go out of the city I will spread out my hands to Jehovah. The thunder will cease, and the hail will not still be, so that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's.


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And Moses went out from Pharaoh, from the city, and he spread out his hands to Jehovah. And the thunder and the hail ceased. And rain was not poured out toward the earth.


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And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, and he continued to sin. And he made his heart heavy, he and his servants.


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And Pharaoh's heart was made strong, and he did not send away the sons of Israel, as Jehovah had said by the hand of Moses.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart heavy and the heart of his servants, so that I may set these signs of Mine in their midst;


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and so that you may recount in the ears of your son and the son of your son what I exerted Myself to do against Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, and you may know that I am Jehovah.


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And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until when will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Send away My people so that they may serve Me.


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For if you refuse to send away My people, behold, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.


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And they will cover the eye of the land, and no one will be able to see the land. And they will eat the rest of that which escaped, that which is left to you from the hail. And they will eat every tree that sprouts to you from the field.


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And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of the Egyptians, which neither your fathers nor the fathers of your fathers have seen; from the day of their being on the earth until this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this one be a snare to us? Send away the men that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is perishing?


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And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God. Who and who are the ones going?


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And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters. We will go with our flocks and with our herds. For it is a feast of Jehovah to us.


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And he said to them, May Jehovah be so with you, as I send you away, and your little ones. Watch! For evil is before your face!


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Not so! You and the men go now and serve Jehovah; for you were seeking it. And he drove them out from the face of Pharaoh.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand for the locusts over the land of Egypt, so that they may go up on the land of Egypt and may eat every plant of the land, all that the hail left.


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And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt. And Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. And at morning the east wind lifted up the locusts.


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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested on all the territory of Egypt, exceedingly many. Never were there locusts like them before, and afterward none will be like them.


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And they covered the eye of the earth, and the land became dark. And they ate every plant of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. And no greenness was left in the trees and in the plants of the field in all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron. And he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.


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And now pray forgive my sins only this time, and pray to Jehovah your God that He may take away from me this death only.


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And Jehovah changed to a west wind, very strong. And it carried the locusts and threw them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to the heavens so that darkness may be on the land of Egypt, and one may feel darkness.


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And Moses stretched out his hand to the heavens, and darkness of gloom was in all the land of Egypt three days.


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They did not see each one his brother, and they did not rise up, each one from his place for three days. Yet to all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.


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And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah. Only leave your flocks and your herds behind. Your little ones may go with you.


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And Moses said, You must also give into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings so that we may prepare for Jehovah our God.


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And also our livestock shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left. For we shall take from them to serve Jehovah our God. And we do not know with what we shall serve Jehovah until we come there.


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And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me. Be careful for yourself. Do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, I will bring still one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will send you from here. When he sends you away completely, driving he will drive you out from here.


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Now speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, each man from his neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.


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And Jehovah gave favor in the eyes of the Egyptians toward the people. And the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.


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And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl who is behind the mill; and every first born of animals.


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And a great cry shall be in all the land of Egypt, such as never has been, and nothing like it shall be again.


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And a dog shall not sharpen his tongue against all the sons of Israel, toward man and toward livestock, so that you may know that Jehovah distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.


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And all these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow to me, saying, Go out, you and all the people at your feet. And afterward I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My miracles may multiply in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before Pharaoh. And Jehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not send away the sons of Israel from his land.


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This month shall be the chief of months for you. It shall be the first of the months of the year for you.


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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month, they shall each take for themselves an animal of the flock for a father's house, a flock animal for a house.


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And if the house is too small for a flock animal, he and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of souls, each one according to the mouth of his eating, you shall count concerning the flock animal.


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A flock animal, a male without blemish, a yearling, shall be to you. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.


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And it shall be for you to keep until the fourteenth day of this month. And all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings.


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And they shall take from the blood, and put it on the two side doorposts and on the upper doorpost, on the houses in which they eat it.


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And they shall eat the flesh in this night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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Do not eat it raw, or at all boiled in water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and with its inward parts.


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And you shall not leave any of it until morning. And you shall burn with fire that left from it until morning.


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And you shall eat it this way: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover to Jehovah.


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And I will pass through in the land of Egypt in this night. And I will strike every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even to livestock. And I will execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah!


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And the blood shall be a sign to you, on the houses where you are. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be on you to destroy, when I strike in the land of Egypt.


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And the day shall be a memorial for you. And you shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah, for your generations. You shall celebrate it as a law forever.


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You shall eat unleavened bread seven days. Indeed, on the first day you shall cause leaven to cease from your houses. For anyone eating any leaven, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.


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And on the first day shall be a holy gathering, and in the seventh day a holy gathering shall be to you. Not any work may be done on them. Only what must be eaten by your soul, that alone may be done by you.


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And you shall observe the unleavened bread for on this very day I brought out your armies from the land of Egypt. And you shall observe this day for your generations, a statute forever.


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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening.


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For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For anyone eating any leaven, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens, and among the natives of the land.


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And Moses called to all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take of the flock for you and for your families, and kill the passover.


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And take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the basin. And touch some of the blood in the basin to the lintel and on the two doorposts. And you shall not go out, anyone from the door of his house until morning.


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And Jehovah will pass through to strike Egypt. And He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Jehovah will pass over the door. And He will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.


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And it shall be, when you come into the land which Jehovah shall give to you, as He has spoken, you shall observe this service.


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Then you shall say, A sacrifice of a passover of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt. And He delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped.


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And it happened at midnight. Jehovah struck every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on the throne, to the first-born of the captive who was in the prison house, and every first-born of animals.


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And Pharaoh arose by 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 a one who had died.


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And he called Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the sons of Israel. And go serve Jehovah according to your word.


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And the Egyptians were strong on the people, to hasten to send them away from the land. For they said, All of us are about to die.


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And the people took up their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.


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And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses. And they asked from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing.


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And Jehovah gave favor to the people in the eyes of the Egyptians. And they granted their requests. And they plundered Egypt.


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And the sons of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, the men being about six hundred thousand on foot, apart from little ones.


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And they baked the dough which they brought out from Egypt into unleavened cakes. For it was not leavened, because they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay. And also they had not prepared food for a journey for themselves.


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And the time of the dwelling of the sons of Israel, which they dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.


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And it happened, from the end of four hundred and thirty years, it happened on this day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.


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It is a night of celebration to Jehovah, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This night is a celebration for all the sons of Israel to their generations.


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And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover. No stranger may eat of it.


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It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the flesh outside from the house. And you shall not break a bone in it.


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And when a visitor shall stay with you, and will do the Passover to Jehovah, let every male to him be circumcised, and then he may come near to prepare it. And he shall be like a native of the land. But any uncircumcised one may not eat of it.


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And it happened on this day, Jehovah brought out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt by their armies.


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Set apart to Me every first-born, the one opening the womb among the sons of Israel, among men and among livestock; they shall be Mine.


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And Moses said to the people, Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slaves. For by the might of His hand Jehovah brought you out from here. And no leaven shall be eaten.


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And it shall be when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall do this service in this month.


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Unleavened bread shall be eaten the seven days. And leavened bread for you shall not be seen; yea, no leaven shall be seen among you in all your boundaries.


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And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came out from Egypt.


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And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and a memorial between your eyes, so that a Law of Jehovah may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand Jehovah brought you out from Egypt.


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And it shall be when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,


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you shall set apart to Jehovah every one opening the womb, and every firstling, the offspring of animals which are yours; the males are Jehovah's.


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And every firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a flock animal. And if you do not redeem, you shall break its neck. And every first-born of men among your sons you shall redeem.


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And it shall be when your son asks you in the future, saying, What is this? You shall say to him, Jehovah brought us out from Egypt by the might of His hand, from the house of slaves.


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And it happened when Pharaoh hardened himself against sending us away, Jehovah killed every first-born one in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of men even to the first-born of animals. On account of this I sacrifice to Jehovah every one of the males opening the womb, and I redeem every first-born of my sons.


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And it shall be for a sign on your hand, and frontlets between your eyes. For Jehovah brought us out from Egypt by the might of His hand.


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And it happened, in Pharaoh's sending away the people, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, though it was near. For God said, Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.


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But God made the people turn toward the way of the wilderness, to the Sea of Reeds. And the sons of Israel went up armed from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had made the sons of Israel certainly swear, saying, visiting God will visit you, and you shall cause my bones to go from here with you.


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And Jehovah was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give light to them, to go by day and by night.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them return and camp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon. You shall camp opposite it, by the sea.


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And Pharaoh will say as to the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in,


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue you. And I will be honored through Pharaoh, and through all his armies. And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.


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And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned as to the people. And they said, What is this we have done? For we have sent away Israel from serving us.


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And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and officers over all of them.


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And Jehovah hardened Pharaoh king of Egypt's heart. And he pursued the sons of Israel. And the sons of Israel were going out with a high hand.


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And the Egyptians pursued them. And they overtook them camping by the sea, all the horses and the chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.


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And Pharaoh came near, and the sons of Israel raised their eyes, and, behold! The Egyptians were pulling up after them! And they were greatly afraid. And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah.


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And they said to Moses, Were there no graves in Egypt, that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What is this you have done to us, to bring us out from Egypt?


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Is this not the word which we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Go away from us, and let us serve the Egyptians. For it is good for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid. Take your stand and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will prepare for you today. For as you see the Egyptians today, you shall not continue to see them again forever.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them pull up stakes.


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And you, raise your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the sons of Israel may go in the midst of the sea on dry ground.


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And behold! I am making strong the heart of the Egyptians. And they will go after them. And I will be honored through Pharaoh and through his armies, through his chariots, and through his horsemen.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, in My being honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots, and through his horsemen.


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And the Angel of God withdrew, the One going before the camp of Israel. And He went behind them. And the pillar of cloud withdrew from before them, and it stood behind them.


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And it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And it was cloudy and dark. And it lit up the night; and this one did not come near to that one all night.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night. And He made the sea dry land, and the waters divided.


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And the sons of Israel came into the middle of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them from their right and from their left.


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And the Egyptians pursued, and all the horses of Pharaoh came after them, his chariots and his horsemen, into the middle of the sea.


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And it happened in the morning watch: Jehovah looked on the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and cloud. And He confused the camp of the Egyptians.


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And He took off the wheels of their chariots, and made them drive with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, I will flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, and let the waters return on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its usual flow, at the turning of the morning, and the Egyptians were fleeing to meet it. And Jehovah shook off the Egyptians into the middle of the sea.


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And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, together with all the army of Pharaoh, those going after them, into the sea. And not even one was left among them.


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And the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the waters being a wall for them, from their right and from their left.


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And Jehovah saved Israel in that day from the hand of Egypt. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the lip of the sea.


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And Israel saw the great hand with which Jehovah worked against Egypt. And the people feared Jehovah, and they believed in Jehovah and in His servant Moses.


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Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Jehovah, and spoke, saying, I will sing to Jehovah, for He is highly exalted. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.


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My strength and song is Jehovah, and it happened, He was to me salvation; this is my God and I will glorify Him; the God of my father, and I will exalt Him.


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He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army in the sea; and the choice ones of his officers are drowned in the Sea of Reeds,


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Your right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power; O Jehovah, Your right hand dashes the enemy to pieces.


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And in Your majesty's greatness You pull down those rising up against You; You send forth Your wrath; it consumes them like stubble.


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And by the spirit of Your anger waters were heaped up; the running waters stood like a wall; the depths 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 soul shall be filled with them; I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.


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Who is like You among the gods, O Jehovah? Who is like You, glorified in holiness, fearful in praises, O Worker of wonders?


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In Your mercy You led the people whom You redeemed; You guided in Your strength to Your holy dwelling.


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Then the chiefs of Edom were terrified; the leaders of Moab were seized by trembling; all the dwellers of Canaan were melted.


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Terrors and dread fell on them; by the greatness of Your arm; they are silent as a stone, until Your people pass through, O Jehovah, until pass through the people whom You have bought.


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You shall bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place You have made for Your dwelling place, O Jehovah; the sanctuary which Your hands have prepared, O Lord.


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For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea on them; and the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.


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And the sister of Aaron, Miriam the prophetess, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.


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And Miriam answered to them, Sing to Jehovah, for triumphing He has triumphed gloriously; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.


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And Moses made Israel to pull out from the Sea of Reeds. And they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went into the wilderness three days, and did not find water.


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And they came to Marah. And they were not able to drink water from Marah, for it was bitter. Therefore, one called its name Marah.


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And he cried to Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree. And he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. He made a statute and an ordinance for them there, and He tested them there.


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And He said, If you carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and you give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not put on you all the diseases which I have put on Egypt; for I am Jehovah your Healer.


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And they came to Elim. And there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped by the waters.


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And they pulled up stakes from Elim. And all the congregation of the sons of Israel came into the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their going out from the land of Egypt.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.


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And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the fleshpots, in our eating bread to satisfaction. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill all this assembly with hunger.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I AM! Bread will rain from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather the matter of a day in its day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not.


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And it shall be on the sixth day they shall prepare what they bring in. And it shall be double what they gather day by day.


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And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening you shall know that Jehovah has brought you from the land of Egypt;


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and in the morning you shall see the glory of Jehovah, in His hearing your murmurings against Jehovah. And we, what are we that you murmur against us?


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And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you flesh to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning, to satisfaction; when Jehovah hears your murmurings which you are murmuring against Him, you will see. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.


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And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before Jehovah; for He has heard your murmurings.


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And it happened, as Aaron was speaking to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness. And, behold! The glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud!


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I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, Between the evenings you shall eat flesh; and in the morning you shall be satisfied with bread; and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.


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And it happened in the evening: the quail came up and covered the camp. And in the morning a layer of dew was around the camp.


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And the layer of dew went up, and, behold, something small was on the face of the wilderness, scalelike, small like the hoarfrost on the earth.


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And the sons of Israel looked. And they said, each one to his brother, What is that? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, That is the bread which Jehovah has given to you for food.


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This is the thing which Jehovah commanded. Gather from it, each one according to the mouth of his eating; an omer for a head. By the number of your souls you shall take for each man who is in your tent.


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And so the sons of Israel did. And they gathered; the one gathering much and the one gathering little.


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And they measured with an omer. And the one gathering much did not have too much. And the one gathering little did not have any need. Each one gathered according to the mouth of his eating.


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And they did not listen to Moses. And some left from it until morning; and it became rotten with maggots, and stunk. And Moses was angry against them.


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And they gathered it in the morning, each one in the morning according to the mouth of his eating. And it melted in the heat of the sun.


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And it came about on the sixth day, they gathered double bread, two omers for one. And all the leaders of the congregation came and reported to Moses.


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And he said to them, That is what Jehovah said, Tomorrow is a rest, a holy sabbath to Jehovah. What you will bake, bake. And boil what you will boil. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until the morning.


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And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses commanded. And it did not stink and no maggot was in it.


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And Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to Jehovah. Today you will not find it in the field.


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Behold! Because Jehovah has given the sabbath to you, therefore He is giving to you two days of bread on the sixth day. Each one of you remain in his place. Do not let anyone go out from his place on the seventh day.


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And the house of Israel called its name, Manna. And it was like the seed of coriander, white; and its taste like cakes with honey.


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And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, Fill an omer from it, to keep for your generations, so that they may see the bread which I caused you to eat in the wilderness, as I brought you out from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take one pitcher, and put there the fullness of an omer of manna, and lay it up before Jehovah, to keep for your generations.


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And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until their coming into an inhabited land. They ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel pulled up stakes from the Wilderness of Sin, according to their journeys, by the mouth of Jehovah. And they camped in Rephidim. And there was no water for the drinking of the people.


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And the people wrangled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you wrangle with me? Why do you tempt Jehovah?


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And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why, then, have you caused us to go up from Egypt, to kill me and my sons and my livestock with thirst?


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And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? Yet a little and they will stone me.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on in front of the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. And take in your hand your staff with which you smote the River, and go.


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Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. And you shall smite the rock, and water will come out of it; and the people will drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel.


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And one called the name of the place, Massah, and Meribah, because of the wrangling of the sons of Israel, and because of their testing of Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in our midst, or not?


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And Moses said to Joshua, Choose men for us, and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, and the staff of God in my hand.


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And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight against Amalek. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


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And so it was that when Moses lifted his hand, Israel prevailed. And when he rested his hand, Amalek conquered.


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And the hands of Moses became heavy. And they took a stone and put it under him. And he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one from this and one from that side. And his hands were steady until the going of the sun.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this, a memorial in a book, and set it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek under the heavens.


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And he said, A hand is on the throne of Jehovah; war is to Jehovah with Amalek from generation to generation.


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And Jethro the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that which God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, that Jehovah had caused Israel to go out from Egypt.


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and one's name was Eliezer (for the God of my father was my Help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh).


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, and his sons and his wife came to Moses, to the wilderness where he camped, at the mount of God.


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And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, and your wife, and your two sons with her have come to you.


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And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed, and kissed him. And they asked each to his neighbor, as to their welfare. And they came into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the trouble which they had found in the way, and Jehovah had delivered them.


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And Jethro rejoiced regarding all the good which Jehovah had done to Israel whom He had delivered from the hand of Egypt.


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And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh; He who delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt.


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Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all the gods; truly, in the way in which He acted proudly against them.


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And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father-in-law.


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And it happened on the next day that Moses sat to judge the people. And the people stood beside Moses from the morning until the evening.


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And Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing to the people. And he said, What is this thing which you are doing to the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people standing beside you from morning until evening?


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When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor. And I make known the statutes of God, and His laws.


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Wearing you will wear out, both you and this people with you. For the thing is heavy for you. You are not able to do it by yourself.


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Now listen to my voice. I will counsel you, and may God be with you. You be for this people before God, and you bring the matters to God.


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And you warn them as to the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they should walk, and the work which they should do.


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And you, you shall look out men of ability out of all the people, who fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain. And you place these over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.


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And let them judge the people at all times. And it shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, and every small matter they shall judge. And you make it easy on yourself, and let them bear with you.


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If you do this thing, and God command you, you will be able to stand; and also this people will go in peace to their place.


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And Moses chose men of ability from all Israel and made them heads over the people; rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.


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And they judged the people at all times; the hard matters they brought to Moses, and every small matter they judged themselves.


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In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai.


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And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai. And they camped in the wilderness. And Israel camped there before the mountain.


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And Moses went up to God. And Jehovah called to him from the mountain, saying, You shall say this to the house of Jacob, and tell it to the sons of Israel.


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And now if listening you will listen to My voice, and will keep My covenant, you shall become a special treasure to Me above all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.


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And you shall become a kingdom of priests for Me, a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel.


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And Moses came and called the elders of the people. And he put all these words before them which Jehovah commanded him.


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And all the people answered together and said, All which Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a darkness of clouds, so that the people may hear My speaking with you, and in you they may believe forever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow. And let them wash their clothes.


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And be ready for the third day. For on the third day Jehovah will go down before the eyes of all the people on the mountain of Sinai.


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And you shall set limits to the people all around, saying, Be careful for yourselves, not going up into the mountain and touching its border; everyone touching the mountain dying shall die.


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Not a hand shall touch him, but stoning he shall be stoned, or piercing he shall be shot through. He shall not live, whether animal or man. At the sounding of the ram's horn, they shall go up into the mountain.


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And Moses went from the mountain to the people. And he sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.


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And on the third day, it being morning, it happened: There were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a ram's horn, very strong! And all the people in the camp trembled.


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And Moses caused the people to go up from the camp to meet God. And they took their stand at the lower part of the mountain.


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And the mountain of Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down on it in fire. And its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace; and the mountain quaked exceedingly.


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And it happened while the sound of the ram's horn was sounding, and becoming very strong, Moses spoke. And God answered him by a voice.


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And Jehovah came down on the mountain of Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, warn the people lest they break through to gaze at Jehovah, and many of them fall.


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And also the priests, those approaching Jehovah, let them sanctify themselves that Jehovah not burst forth among them.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, The people are not able to come up to the mountain of Sinai. For You warned us, saying, Set limits to the mountain and sanctify it.


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And Jehovah said to him, Come, go down. And you come up, and Aaron with you. And let not the priests and the people break through to come up to Jehovah, lest He burst forth among them.


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You shall not make a graven image for yourself, or any likeness in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth;


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you shall not bow to them, and you shall not serve them; for I am Jehovah your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third and on the fourth generation, to those that hate Me;


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You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.


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and the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male slave and your slave-girl, and your livestock, and your stranger who is in your gates.


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For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all which is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; on account of this Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it.


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Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.


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You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male slave, or his slave-girl, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which belongs to your neighbor.


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And all the people saw the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the ram's horn, and the smoking mountain. And the people looked, and they trembled, and they stood from a distance.


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And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear. And let us not speak with God, that we not die.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid, for God has come in order to test you, and so that His fear may be on your faces, that you may not sin.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, You have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens.


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You shall not make gods of silver along with Me, and you shall not make gods of gold for yourselves.


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You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on it, your sheep and your cattle. In every place in which I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and will bless you.


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And if you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build them of cut stones. When you swing your tool on it, you defile it.


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When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years And in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.


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If he comes in with his body, he shall go out with his body. If he was the husband of a wife, his wife shall go out with him.


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If his master gives him a wife, and she bears sons or daughters to him, the wife and her children shall belong to her master; and he shall go out with his body.


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And if the slave truly says, I love my master, my wife and my children; I do not desire to go out free,


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his master shall bring him to God, and one shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.


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If she is bad in the eyes of her master who has appointed her for himself, he shall allow her redemption. He shall not have power to sell her to a foreign people, in his deceiving her.


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If he takes another for himself, her flesh, her clothing, and her conjugal right shall not be diminished.


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But he who does not lie in wait, and God lets fall into his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.


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And when a man seethes insolently against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him from My altar to die.


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And when men strive, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone, or with a fist, and he does not die, but falls on his bed,


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if he rises and walks about in the street on his staff, the one who struck him shall be innocent; only he shall pay his sitting; paying he shall pay for his healing.


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And if a man strikes his male slave or his slave-girl with a rod, and he dies under his hand, avenging he shall be avenged.


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And when men fight, and they strike a pregnant woman, and her child goes forth, and there is no injury, being fined he shall be fined. As much as the husband of the woman shall put on him, even he shall give through the judges.


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And when a man strikes the eye of his male slave, or the eye of his slave-girl and destroys it, he shall send him away free for his eye.


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And if he causes the tooth of his male slave, or the tooth of his slave-girl, to fall out, he shall send him away free for his tooth.


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And when an ox gores a man so that he dies, the ox stoning shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, and the owner of the ox is innocent.


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And if he was an ox apt to gore from yesterday and the third day, and its owner is given warning, and he does not watch him, and he kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall die.


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If a ransom is put on him, he shall give the redemption of his life, according to all which is put on him.


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If the ox gores a male slave or a slave-girl, he shall give thirty silver shekels to his master, and the ox shall be stoned.


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And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it,


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And when a man's ox strikes against the ox of his neighbor, and it dies, they shall sell the living ox, and they shall divide the silver; and they shall also divide the dead.


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Or if it was known that he was an ox apt to gore from yesterday and the third day, and his owner does not watch him, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his.


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When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.


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If the sun has risen on him, blood is due for him; repaying he shall repay. If he has nothing, then he should be sold for his theft.


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If the stolen thing finding is found in his hand alive, from ox to ass to flock animal, he shall pay double.


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When a man consumes a field or a vineyard, and he lets his beast loose and it consumes another's field, he shall repay the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.


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When fire breaks out and finds thorns, and shocked grain, or standing grain, or the field is burned up, repaying the one kindling the fire shall repay.


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When a man gives silver or vessels to his neighbor to keep, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall repay double.


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If the thief is not found, the master of the house shall be brought to God, to see whether or not he put out his hand to his neighbor's goods.


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In every matter of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for anything lost of which it is said that it is his, the case of both of them shall come to God. Whom God declares guilty, he shall repay double to his neighbor.


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When a man gives an ass or an ox to his neighbor; or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, or is injured, or is captured, no one seeing it,


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an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And its owner shall take it, and he shall not repay.


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If it is completely torn in pieces, he shall bring it as a witness; he shall not repay that which was torn.


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And when a man borrows from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, its owner not being with it, paying he shall repay.


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And when a man lures a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, paying he shall pay her dowry for a wife to himself.


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If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.


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You shall not be violent toward an alien. You shall not oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.


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and My anger shall glow, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become widows, and your sons orphans.


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If you lend money to My people, the poor with you, you shall not be as a money-lender to him; you shall not put interest on him.


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If you indeed take the clothing of your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him by the going of the sun,


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for that is his only covering, that is his covering for his skin. In what shall he lie down? And it shall be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.


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You shall not delay giving the fullness of your crops and the juices of your vintage. You shall give to Me the first-born of your sons.


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So you shall do to your oxen, to your sheep: it shall be seven days with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.


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And you shall be holy men to Me. And you shall not eat flesh torn in pieces; you shall throw it to the dogs.


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You shall not utter a false report; You shall not put your hand with the wicked, to become a violent witness.


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You shall not run after many to gain evil things. And you shall not testify as to a lawsuit, to turn aside after many in order to pervert justice.


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When you happen on the ox of your enemy, or his wandering ass, returning you shall return it to him.


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When you see the ass of one who hates you crouching under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving the matter to him; loosing you shall loose it from him.


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You shall keep far away from a false matter. And do not kill the innocent and the righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.


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And you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the seeing one, and it perverts the words of the righteous.


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And you shall not oppress an alien; and you know the life of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.


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And the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, and the needy of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. So you shall do to your vineyard, to your oliveyard.


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You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your slave-girl and your alien may be refreshed.


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And be watchful in all that I have said to you. And you shall not mention another god by name; it shall not be heard from your mouth.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the set time of the month of Abib. For in it you came out from Egypt, and they shall not appear before Me empty.


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Also the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, at your gathering your work from the field.


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You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven. And the fat of My feast shall not pass the night until morning.


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The first, the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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Behold, I am about to send an Angel before you, to guard you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.


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Be on guard before Him, and listen to His voice. Do not be rebellious against Him, for He will not forgive your transgressions; for My name is in Him.


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For if you fully listen to His voice, and do all which I speak, I will be an enemy to those distressing you, and will be a foe to your foes.


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For My Angel shall go before you and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.


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You shall not bow down to their gods, and you shall not serve them. And you shall not do according to their works. But tearing you shall tear them down, and smashing you shall smash their pillars.


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And you shall serve Jehovah your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will remove sickness from your midst.


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There shall not be one miscarrying, nor one barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.


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I will send My terror before you, and I will confound all the people among whom you come. And I will give the neck of your enemies to you.


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And I will send hornets before you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.


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I will not drive them out from before you in one year, that the land not become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply on you.


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And I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds as far as the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness as far as the River. For I will give the people of the land into your hand. And you shall drive them out before you.


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They shall not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin towards Me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare to you.


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And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel. And bow yourselves from a distance.


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And let Moses approach by himself to Jehovah, and they shall not approach. And the people shall not go up with him.


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And Moses came and told all the words of Jehovah to the people, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, We will do all the Words which Jehovah has spoken.


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And Moses wrote all the Words of Jehovah. And he rose early in the morning and built an altar below the mountain, and twelve memorial pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent young men of the sons of Israel. And they offered up burnt offerings, and offered sacrifices of bulls, peace offerings to Jehovah.


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And Moses took half of the blood, and he put it in basins. And he sprinkled half of the blood on the altar.


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And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the ears of the people. And they said, We will do all that Jehovah has spoken, and we will hear.


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And Moses took the blood and sprinkled on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has cut with you concerning these words.


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And they saw the God of Israel. And under His feet was as the work of a pavement of sapphire, and the same as the essence of the heavens for clearness.


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And He did not stretch out His hand to the nobles of the sons of Israel. And they saw God, and they ate and drank.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to Me to the mountain, and be there. And I will give to you the tablets of stone, and the Law, and the commandments which I have written, to teach them.


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And he said to the elders, Wait here for us until we return to you. And, behold, Aaron, who is a master of matters, and Hur, are with you; let him with difficulties approach to them.


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And the glory of Jehovah dwelt on the mountain of Sinai. And the cloud covered it six days. And He called to Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud.


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And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like fire burning on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses came into the midst of the cloud, and he went up into the mountain. And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart impels him, let them take My offering.


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According to all which I am going to reveal to you, the plan of the tabernacle, and the plan of all its vessels, even so you shall do.


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And they shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.


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And you shall overlay it with pure gold; you shall overlay it inside and outside. And you shall make a wreath of gold all around on it.


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And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and shall put it on its four feet; two rings on the one side, and two rings on the second side.


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And you shall make a mercyseat of pure gold, its length two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half.


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And you shall make two cherubs of gold; you shall make them of beaten work from the two ends of the mercyseat.


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And make one cherub from the end here, and one cherub from the end there. You shall make the cherubs from the mercyseat, on its two ends.


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And the cherubs shall be spreading out wings above, covering the mercyseat with their wings, and their faces each toward its brother; the faces of the cherubs shall be toward the mercyseat.


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And you shall put the mercyseat on the ark from above. And you shall put the testimony into the ark, which I shall give to you.


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And I will meet you there, and will speak with you, above the mercyseat, from between the two cherubs which are on the ark of testimony, all which I shall command you concerning the sons of Israel.


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And you shall make a table of acacia wood, its length two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height a cubit and a half.


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And you shall make a border of a hand's breadth for it all around. And you shall make a wreath of gold all around on its border.


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And you shall make four rings of gold for it, and you shall put the rings on the four corners which are to its four feet.


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And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold. And the table shall be carried by them.


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And you shall make its platters, and its bowls, and its pitchers, and its sacrificial cups with which to pour a drink offering. You shall make them of pure gold.


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And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of beaten work; its base and its shaft, its calyxes, its knobs, and its blossoms shall be from it.


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And six branches shall go out from its sides, three branches of the lamp from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side;


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three almond like calyxes on the one branch with knob and blossom; and three almond like calyxes on the one branch with knob and blossom, so for the six branches, those going out from the lampstand.


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and a knob under two branches of it; and a knob under two branches of it; and a knob under two branches of it, to the six branches, those going from the lampstand.


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And you shall make its seven lamps, and one shall set up its lamps, and they shall give light on its face.


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And you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains. You shall make them with cherubs, the work of a skilled workman, of twined linen, and blue and purple and crimson.


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The length of one curtain shall be twenty eight by the cubit; and the width four by the cubit, for the one curtain; one measure to all the curtains.


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Five curtains shall be joined together, each to her sister. And five curtains shall be joined each to its sister-piece.


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And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, from the end at the juncture; and so you shall do at the edge of the last curtain, at the second juncture.


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You shall make fifty loops on the one curtain; and you shall make fifty loops in the end of the curtain at the second juncture; the corresponding loops each to her sister.


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And you shall make fifty hooks of gold. And you shall join the curtains, each to her sister, by the hooks. And it shall become one tabernacle.


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And you shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains.


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The length of the one curtain shall be thirty by the cubit; and the width four by the cubit for the one curtain; one measure to the eleven curtains.


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And you shall join the five curtains separately, and the six curtains separately. And you shall double the six curtains before the front of the tabernacle.


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And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain, the last at the juncture; and fifty loops on the edge of the second curtain that joins.


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And you shall make fifty hooks of bronze. And you shall put the hooks in the loops and join the tent together. And it shall become one.


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And the overlapping part of the rest of the curtains of the tabernacle, the half curtain that remains, shall hang on the back of the tabernacle.


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And the cubit from this side, and the cubit from that side that remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall be hung over the sides of the tabernacle from this and from that side, to cover it.


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And you shall make a cover for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of dugong skins from above.


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Two pins shall be in one board, each connected to her sister. So you shall do to all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And you shall make forty sockets of silver for the twenty boards; two sockets under the one board for its two pins, and two sockets under the one board for its two pins.


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and their forty silver sockets; two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the one board.


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And they shall be double from beneath. And in like manner they shall be joined on the top, to the one ring. So it shall be to both of them; they shall be for the two corners.


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And there shall be eight boards, and their silver sockets, sixteen sockets, two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the one board.


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and five bars to the boards of the second side of the tabernacle; and five bars to the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the rear, westward.


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And you shall overlay the boards with gold and you shall make their rings gold, housings for the bars. And you shall overlay the bars with gold.


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And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and crimson, and twined linen. One shall make it by the work of the skilled workman, with cherubs.


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And you shall put it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, on four sockets of silver.


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And you shall hang the veil under the hooks. And you shall bring the ark of the testimony there inside to the veil. And the veil shall divide for you between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies.


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And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp across from the table on the side of the tabernacle southward. And you shall put the table on the north side.


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And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent of blue, and of purple and crimson, and twined bleached linen, the work of an embroiderer.


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And you shall make five pillars of acacia wood for the screen. And you shall overlay them with gold, their nails gold. And you shall cast for them five sockets of bronze.


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And you shall make the altar of acacia timbers; five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square, and its height three cubits.


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And you shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be a part of itself. And you shall overlay it with bronze.


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And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and its sacrificial bowls, and its flesh forks, and its pans. You shall make all its vessels to be bronze.


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And you shall make a grating for it, a network of bronze. And you shall make four rings of bronze on the four ends of the net.


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And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar from beneath. And the net shall be as far as half of the altar.


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And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia timbers. And you shall overlay them with bronze.


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And its poles shall be brought into the rings. And the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, for carrying it.


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And you shall make the court of the tabernacle; for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit in length, for the one side.


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And its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty in bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.


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And so for the north side in length, hangings a hundred in length; and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty in bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.


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And the width of the west side of the court shall have fifty cubits of hangings; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.


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And for the gate of the court a screen of twenty cubits, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined linen; the work of an embroiderer; their pillars four and their sockets four.


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All the pillars of the court round about shall be banded with silver, their hooks silver, and their sockets bronze.


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The length of the court shall be a hundred by the cubit, and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, twined linen; and their sockets bronze.


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As to all the vessels of the tabernacle, in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, they shall be bronze.


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And you shall command the sons of Israel, and let them bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to set up lamps perpetually.


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In the tabernacle of the congregation from outside the veil which is by the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall arrange them from evening until morning before Jehovah; a never ending statute for their generations, from the sons of Israel.


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And you shall take to yourself your brother Aaron, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, for him to serve as priest to Me; Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.


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And you shall speak to all the wise-hearted whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom; and they shall make the garments of Aaron to sanctify him for his serving as priest to Me.


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And these are the garments which they shall make: a breast pocket, and an ephod, and a robe, and a tunic of woven stuff, a miter, and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, even for him to serve as priest to Me.


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And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the crimson, and the bleached linen.


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And they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, crimson and bleached, twined linen, skilled work.


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And the band of the ephod which is on it, like its work, shall be of it, gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and bleached, twined linen.


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Six of their names shall be on the one stone, and six of the remaining names on the second stone, according to their birth.


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You shall engrave the two stones, the work of a stone engraver, the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall make them set in plaited work of gold.


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And you shall put the two stones on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the face of Jehovah, on his two shoulders for a remembrance.


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and two chains of pure gold, you shall make them twisted, a work of cord; and you shall put chains of the cords on the plaited work.


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And you shall make a breast pocket of judgment, skilled work, like the work of the ephod you shall make it: gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and bleached, twined linen you shall make it.


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And you shall fill in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row.


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And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve according to their names, the engraving of a signet; they shall be each according to his name for the twelve tribes.


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And you shall make two rings of gold on the breast pocket. And you shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breast pocket.


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And you shall put the two ends of the two cords on the two plaitings. And you shall put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, to the front of it.


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And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breast pocket, on its edge, inward across from the ephod.


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And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two shoulderpieces of the ephod, from beneath, at its front, near its joining, above the band of the ephod.


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And they shall fasten the breast pocket from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue ribbon, to be above the band; and the breast pocket may not move itself from the ephod.


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And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breast pocket of judgment on his heart, in his going into the holy place, for a memorial before the face of Jehovah continually.


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And you shall put the Urim and the Thummim into the breast pocket of judgment; and they shall be on the heart of Aaron in his going before the face of Jehovah. And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before the face of Jehovah continually.


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And the mouth in its top shall be in its middle; a binding shall be all around its mouth, of woven work; it shall be like the mouth of a corselet; it may not be torn.


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And you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and crimson on its hem, all around on its hem; also bells of gold shall be among them all around:


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a bell of gold and a pomegranate; a bell of gold and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.


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And it shall be on Aaron for ministering; and its sound shall be heard in his going into the sanctuary before the face of Jehovah, and in his coming out, that he should not die.


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And you shall make a plate of pure gold. And you shall engrave on it the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.


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And you shall put a ribbon of blue on it, and it shall be on the miter, to the front of the miter it shall be.


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And it shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things which will sanctify the sons of Israel to all their holy gifts. And it shall be on his forehead continually, for acceptance for them before the face of Jehovah.


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And you shall weave the tunic of bleached linen, and you shall make a miter of bleached linen, and you shall make a girdle, the work of an embroiderer.


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And you shall make tunics for the sons of Aaron; and you shall make girdles for them; and you shall make turbans for them, for glory and for beauty.


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And you shall clothe your brother Aaron with them, and his sons with him; and you shall anoint them, and you shall consecrate them, and you shall sanctify them. And they shall minister as priests to Me.


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And make bleached linen breeches for them, to cover the naked flesh, from the loins as far as the thighs they shall be.


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And they shall be on Aaron and on his sons in their going into the tabernacle of the congregation, or in their drawing near to the altar to minister in the sanctuary, and so that they shall not raise up iniquity and die. It is a never ending statute to him and to his seed after him.


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And this is the thing which you shall do to them, to sanctify them to minister as priests to Me: take one bull, the son of the herd, and two rams without blemish,


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and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes poured over with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.


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And you shall put them into one basket and shall bring them near in the basket, and the bull and the two rams.


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And you shall take Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of congregation. And you shall wash them in water.


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And you shall take the garments, and you shall clothe Aaron with the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast pocket. And you shall bind it to him with the band of the ephod.


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And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons; and you shall bind on turbans for them; and it shall be a never ending statute for them in the priest's office. And you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.


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And you shall bring near the bull before the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.


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And you shall slaughter the bull before the face of Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And you shall take of the bull's blood and shall put it on the horns of the altar with your finger. And you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.


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And you shall take all the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, and you shall burn them on the altar.


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And you shall burn the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.


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And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and shall sprinkle it on the altar all around.


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And you shall cut the ram into pieces; and you shall wash its inward parts, and its legs, and shall place them on its pieces and on its head.


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And you shall burn all the ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to Jehovah, a soothing fragrance; it is a fire offering to Jehovah.


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And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.


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And you shall slaughter the ram; and you shall take of its blood and shall put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and you shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around.


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And you shall take of the blood on the altar, and the oil of anointing, and you shall sprinkle on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him.


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And you shall take the fat from the ram, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, and the right leg; for it is a ram of consecration;


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also one loaf of bread, and one cake of oil bread, and one wafer, from the basket of unleavened bread which is before the face of Jehovah.


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And you shall put all on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons. And you shall wave them, a wave offering before the face of Jehovah.


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And you shall take them from their hands, and you shall burn the burnt offering on the altar for a soothing fragrance before the face of Jehovah; it is a fire offering to Jehovah.


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And you shall take the breast from the ram of consecration which is on Aaron. And you shall wave it a wave offering before the face of Jehovah; it shall be your portion.


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And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved and which is lifted from the ram of consecration, from what is Aaron's, and from what is to his sons.


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And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons for a never ending statute from the sons of Israel; it is for a heave offering, and it shall be a heave offering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their heave offering to Jehovah.


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And the holy garments which are Aaron's shall be his sons' after him, for anointing in them and for filling their hands in them.


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The priest shall put them on seven days, the one from his sons taking his place; the one who comes into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the sanctuary.


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread which is in the basket at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And they shall eat those things by which atonement is made to consecrate them, to sanctify them; and a stranger shall not eat, for they are holy.


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And if any is left of the flesh of consecration, and of the bread, until the morning, you shall burn what is left with fire; it shall not be eaten, for it is holy.


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And so you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all which I have commanded you; you shall consecrate them seven days.


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And you shall offer a bull of a sin offering daily for atonement; and you shall purify the altar in your making atonement for it; and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.


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You shall make atonement seven days for the altar, and shall sanctify it; and the altar shall become most holy, all touching the altar becomes holy.


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The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the second lamb you shall offer between the evenings.


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And a tenth of fine flour anointed with beaten oil, a fourth of a hin; and a drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine, for the one lamb.


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And you shall offer the second lamb between the evenings; you shall do to it like the morning food offering and its drink offering, for a soothing fragrance, a fire offering to Jehovah.


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This shall be a continual burnt offering to your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the face of Jehovah; there where I meet you to speak to you there.


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And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And I will sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister as priests to Me.


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And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, that I may dwell in their midst. I am Jehovah their God.


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It shall be a cubit in length and a cubit in width; it shall be square. And its height shall be two cubits, its horns from itself.


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And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its walls all around, and its horns. And you shall make a wreath of gold for it all around.


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And you shall make two rings of gold for it under its wreath; you shall make its two corners on its two sides; and they shall be housings for poles, to lift them up by it.


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And you shall put it in front of the veil which is beside the ark of the testimony; in front of the mercyseat which is over the testimony, there where I meet you.


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And Aaron shall burn incense of perfume on it morning by morning; when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.


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And when Aaron sets up the lamps between the evenings he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the face of Jehovah for your generations.


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You shall not offer up strange incense on it, and burnt offering and food offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering, to go up on it.


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And Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in a year; from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement once in the year he shall make atonement on it for your generations; it is most holy to Jehovah.


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When you lift up the head of the sons of Israel, of those numbered, each one shall give the ransom of his soul to Jehovah when numbering them; and there shall not be a plague among them when numbering them.


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They shall give this, everyone passing over to those numbered: half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs being a shekel; half a shekel as an offering to Jehovah.


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Every one passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah.


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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, to give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.


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And you shall take the silver of atonement from the sons of Israel and you shall give it to the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and it shall be for the sons of Israel for remembrance before the face of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.


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And you shall make a bronze laver for washing, and its base bronze. And you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar; and you shall put water there.


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as they go into the tabernacle of the congregation they shall wash with water, and shall not die; or as they draw near to the altar to minister, to burn a fire offering to Jehovah.


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And they shall wash their hands and their feet, and shall not die. And it shall be a never ending statute to them, to him and to his seed for their generations.


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And you take spices for yourself, the best, five hundred of pure myrrh, and its half of spicy cinnamon, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty of aromatic calamus;


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And you shall make it an oil of holy anointing, ointment compound, the work of a perfumer, an oil of holy anointing it shall be.


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And you shall sanctify them, and they shall become most holy; everything touching them shall become holy.


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And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and you shall consecrate them to minister as priests to Me.


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And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil for Me for your generations.


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It shall not be poured on the flesh of man, and you shall not make any like it in its proportion; it is holy. It shall be holy to you.


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If a man prepares any like it, or who gives from it to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Take perfumes for yourself, spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices, and pure frankincense, a part shall be for a part.


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And you shall grind some of it fine, and put some of it in front of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I meet you. It shall be most holy to you.


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And the incense which you make, in its proportion, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.


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And I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, and in intelligence, and in knowledge, and in all workmanship,


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And behold! I have given with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of every wise-hearted one I have given wisdom; and they shall make all which I have commanded you:


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the tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercyseat which is going up over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,


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and the table and its vessels, and the pure lampstand and all its vessels, and the altar of incense;


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and the woven garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests;


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and the oil of anointing, and the incense of perfumes for the sanctuary; according to all which I have commanded you, they shall do.


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And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Keeping you shall keep My sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you for your generation; to know that I am Jehovah your sanctifier.


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And you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you; the profaners of it dying shall die; for everyone doing work in it, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people.


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Work may be done six days, and on the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah; everyone doing work on the Sabbath day dying shall die.


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And the sons of Israel shall observe the Sabbath, to do the Sabbath for their generations; it is a never ending covenant.


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It is a sign forever between Me and the sons of Israel; for in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.


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And when He finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.


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And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain. And the people gathered to Aaron. And they said to him, Rise up, make for us gods who may go before our face. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And Aaron said to them, Break off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters; and bring them to me.


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And he took them from their hand and formed it with an engraving tool. And he made it a casted calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who made you go up from the land of Egypt.


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And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before it. And Aaron called and said, A feast to Jehovah tomorrow.


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And they rose early on the morrow, and they offered burnt offerings and brought near peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Come, go down, for your people whom you caused to go up from Egypt are corrupted;


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they have quickly turned off from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a casted calf and have bowed to it, and have sacrificed to it. And they have said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.


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And now leave Me alone that My anger may glow against them, that I may consume them. And I will make you a great nation.


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And Moses prayed before the face of Jehovah his God, and he said, Why, O Jehovah, does Your anger glow against Your people whom You caused to go up from the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?


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Why should the Egyptians say, For evil He has caused them to go up, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them on the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce anger and be moved to pity as to the evil to Your people.


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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You spoke to them, I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and all this land which I have said, I will give to your seed. And they shall possess it forever.


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And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets written on their two sides, on this and on that side they were written.


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And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God; it was engraved on the tablets.


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And Joshua heard the voice of the people in their shouting. And he said to Moses, A sound of war in the camp!


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And he said, It is not a sound of a cry of might, nor a sound of a cry of defeat; I am hearing the sound of singing.


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And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses glowed. And he threw the tablets from his hands, and he broke them below the mountain.


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And he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire and ground it until it was fine, then he scattered it on the face of the water. And he made the sons of Israel to drink it.


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And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to you that you have made to come on them a great sin?


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And they said to me, Make for us gods who may go before us; as for Moses, the man who caused us to go up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And I said to them, Whoever has gold, let them break off. And they gave to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.


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And Moses saw the people, that it was unloosed, for Aaron had let it loose for a derision among their enemies.


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And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is for Jehovah? Come to me! And all the sons of Levi assembled to him.


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And he said to them, So says Jehovah, God of Israel, each one put his sword on his thigh; pass to and fro from gate to gate in the camp, and each one kill his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.


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And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell on that day.


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And Moses said, Fill your hand today for Jehovah, since each one has been against his son and against his brother, and in order to give you a blessing today.


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And it happened on the morrow, Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.


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And Moses went back to Jehovah and said, Oh, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.


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And now if You will, lift up their sin. And if not, I pray, blot me out from Your book which You have written.


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And now go, lead the people to that place which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before your face. And in the day of My visitation I will visit their sin on them.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Come, go up from this place, you and the people whom you have caused to go up out from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed.


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And I will send an Angel before your face, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite;


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to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up among you, for you are a stiffnecked people, lest I consume you in the way.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You are a stiffnecked people; in one instant I will go up among you and I will consume you. And now lay off from you your ornaments, that I may know what I shall do to you.


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And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far off from the camp. And he called it the tabernacle of the congregation. And it happened that everyone seeking Jehovah went to the tabernacle of the congregation which was outside the camp.


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And it happened as Moses went to the tabernacle, the people all rose and stood, each one at the door of his tent. And they looked after Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.


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And it happened as Moses went into the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the door of the tabernacle. And He spoke with Moses.


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And all the people would see the pillar of the cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle. And all the people rose and bowed themselves, each one at the door of his tent.


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And Jehovah would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp. And his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man did not leave the middle of the tabernacle.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, Behold, You are saying to me, Cause this people to go up. And You, You have not told me whom You will send with me. And yet You have said, I know you by name, and also you have found favor in My eyes.


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And now, if I have found favor in Your eyes, please make me see Your ways, and let me know You, so that I may find favor in Your eyes; and consider that this nation is Your people.


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And now by what can it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your eyes? Is it not in Your going with us? And we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the nations which are on the face of the earth?


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And Jehovah said to Moses, This thing which you have spoken I will do. For you have found favor in My eyes, and I know you by name.


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And He said, I will cause all My goodness to pass before your face. And I will call out the name of Jehovah before your face. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.


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And as My glory is passing it will be that I will put you in a cleft of the rock; and I will cover My hand over you during My passing.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone, like the former. And I will write on the tablets the words which were on the former tablet, which you broke.


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And be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai. And place yourself here by Me, on the top of the mountain.


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And a man shall not go up with you. And also let no man be seen on all the mountain. Also do not allow the flocks and the herds to feed before that mountain.


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And he cut out two tablets of stone like the former. And Moses rose early in the morning and went up into Mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him. And he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.


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And Jehovah came down in the cloud. And he placed himself there with Him, and he called on the name of Jehovah.


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And Jehovah passed by before his face and called out: Jehovah! Jehovah God! Merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and great in goodness and truth,


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keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and not leaving entirely unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons, and on sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.


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And he said, If now I have found favor in Your eyes, O Lord, please let my Lord go in our midst, for it is a stiffnecked people; and You forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as a possession.


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And He said, Behold, I am cutting a covenant; I will do wonderful things before all your people which not have been done in all the earth, and among all nations. And all the people in whose midst you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for that which I am about to do is awesome.


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Take heed for yourself what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am about to drive out from before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.


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Take heed to yourself, that you not cut a covenant with the people of the land to which you are going in, that it not be a snare in your midst.


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that you not cut a covenant with the people of the land, and they fornicate with their gods, and they call to you, and you eat from his sacrifice;


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and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters fornicate with their gods, and they lead your sons to fornicate with their gods.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the time appointed, the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you went out from Egypt.


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and a firstling of an ass, you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you do not redeem, you shall break its neck. You shall redeem every first-born of your sons, and they shall not be seen before My face empty.


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You may work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.


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And you shall observe a Feast of Weeks for yourself, the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat; also the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.


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Three times in the year every male of yours shall be seen before the face of the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.


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For I will expel nations from before your face and will make broad your territory; and no one shall covet your land, as you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.


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You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover Feast pass the night until morning.


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You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your ground to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in the milk of its mother.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words for yourself, for on the mouth of these words I will cut a covenant with you and with Israel.


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And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread and he did not drink water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.


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And it happened as Moses was going down from Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony being in Moses' hand as he went down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face had become luminous through His speaking with him.


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And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses. And, behold! The skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to draw near to him.


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And Moses called to them. And Aaron and all the leaders among the congregation turned back to him. And Moses spoke to them.


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And afterwards all the sons of Israel drew near. And he commanded them all that which Jehovah had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.


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And as Moses came in before Jehovah to speak with Him, he took off the veil until he went out. And he would go out and speak to the sons of Israel that which he was commanded.


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And the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face had become luminous. And Moses would put back the veil on his face until he went in to speak with Him.


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And Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, These are the Words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them:


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Work may be done six days and on the seventh day it shall be holy to you, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; everyone doing work in it dying shall die.


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And Moses said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded, saying,


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Take from among you an offering to Jehovah. Everyone willing of heart shall bring it, the offering of Jehovah: gold and silver and bronze,


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the tabernacle, its tent, and its cover, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;


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and the incense altar and its poles, and the oil of anointing, and the incense of perfumes, and the screen of the door, at the door of the tabernacle;


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the altar of burnt offering, and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its base;


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the woven garments to minister in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons, to minister as priests.


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And they came, every one whose heart was lifted up, and everyone whose spirit made him willing. They brought the offering of Jehovah for the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.


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And the men came in together with the women, everyone willing of heart. They brought in bracelets, and nose rings, and rings, and ornaments, every gold article, and every one who waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah.


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And everyone with whom blue was found, and purple, and crimson, and bleached linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and dugong skins, they brought.


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Everyone rising up with an offering of silver and bronze, they brought the offering of Jehovah; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, they brought.


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And every wise-hearted woman spun with her hands; and they brought spun yarn, blue, and purple, and crimson and bleached linen.


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And the leaders brought the onyx stones, and stones for the setting, for the ephod and for the breast pocket,


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and the spice, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the incense of the perfumes.


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And every man and woman whose hearts made them willing to bring for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses; the sons of Israel brought a willing offering to Jehovah.


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And Moses said to the sons of Israel, Behold! Jehovah has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.


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And He has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in intelligence, and in knowledge, and in all workmanship,


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and in cuttings of stones for finishings, and in carving of wood, to work in all workmanship of design.


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He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to do every work of a smith, and an artisan, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in crimson, and in bleached linen, and a weaver; doers of every work and devisers of designs.


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And Bezaleel and Aholiab shall work with everyone wise of heart to whom Jehovah has given wisdom and intelligence, to know how to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, concerning all which Jehovah had commanded.


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And Moses called to Bezaleel, and to Aholiab, and to everyone wise of heart, to whom Jehovah had given a heart of wisdom, everyone whose heart had lifted him up to come near the work, to do it.


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And they took every offering before Moses which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service in the holy place, to do it. And they brought to him still more willing offerings morning by morning.


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And all the wise men came, those doing every kind of work for the sanctuary, each one from his work they were doing.


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And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people are bringing more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded, to do it.


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And Moses commanded, and they caused it to be voiced in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more offering for the sanctuary; and the people were held back from bringing.


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And every wise-hearted one among the doers of the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains, twined, bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and crimson; he made them with cherubs, the work of an artisan.


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The length of one curtain was twenty eight by the cubit; and the width was four by the cubit; the one curtain was the same measure for all the curtains.


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And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, from the end to the juncture; so he did at the edge of the last curtain at the second juncture.


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He made fifty loops on one curtain; and he made fifty loops on the end of the curtain which was at the second juncture; the loops corresponded, one with another.


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And he made fifty hooks of gold; and he joined the curtains by the hooks, one to another. And the tabernacle became one.


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The length of the one curtain was thirty by the cubit, and four cubits the width of the one curtain; one measure to the eleven curtains.


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And he made fifty loops on the edge of the last curtain at the juncture; and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that joined the second.


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The one board was connected by two pins, one to another; so he did to all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under the one board for its two pins.


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and their forty silver sockets; two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board.


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And they were double from below, and in like manner they were complete to its top, to the first ring. So he did to both of them, for the two corners.


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And there were eight boards, and their silver sockets, sixteen sockets; two sockets and two sockets under the one board.


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And he overlaid the boards with gold. And he made the rings gold, housing for the poles; and he overlaid the bars with gold.


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And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined, bleached linen. He made it the work of an artisan, with cherubs.


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And he made four pillars of acacia for it. And he overlaid them with gold, their hooks gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.


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And he made a screen for the door of the tabernacle, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined, bleached linen, the work of an embroiderer;


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and its five pillars, and their hooks; and they overlaid their tops and their bands with gold; and their five sockets bronze.


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And Bezaleel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.


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And he overlaid it with pure gold, inside and outside. And he made for it a wreath of gold all around.


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And he cast four rings of gold for it, on its four feet; two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side.


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one cherub here at one end, and one cherub here at the other end. He made the cherubs from the mercyseat, from its two ends.


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And the cherubs were spreading out wings above, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, their faces each toward the other; the faces of the cherubs were toward the mercyseat.


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And he made the table of planks of acacia; two cubits long, and a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.


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And he made for it a border of a hand's breadth all around. And he made a wreath of gold for its border all around.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold; and he put the rings on the four corners, which were to its four feet.


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And he made the vessels which were on the table, its platters and its bowls, and its sacrificial cups, and its pitchers by which a drink offering is made, with pure gold.


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And he made the lampstand of pure gold; he made the lampstand of beaten work, its side, and its branch, its calyxes, its knobs and its blossoms were from it.


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And six branches went out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from one side, and three branches of the lampstand from its second side.


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Three almond-like bowls were on the one branch, with knob and blossom; and three almond-like bowls on the one branch, with knob and blossom; so for the six branches, those going out from the lampstand.


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And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood; its length a cubit, and its width a cubit, square. And its height was two cubits; its horns were of it.


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And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides and its horns all around. And he made for it a wreath of gold all around.


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And he made for it two rings of gold, from beneath its wreath, on its two corners, on its two sides, for housings for poles, to lift it.


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And he made the holy oil of anointing, and the pure incense of fragrant spices, the work of a perfumer.


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And he made the altar of the burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits its length and five cubits its width, square; and its height was three cubits.


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And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the sacrificial bowls, the fleshhooks and the firepans. He made all its vessels of bronze.


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And he made a network of bronze grating for the altar, from below under its ledge, as far as its middle.


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And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to lift it with them. He made it hollow with planks.


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And he made the laver bronze, and its base bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women, those assembling, who served at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he made the court. To the side of the Negeb, to the south, the curtains of the court were twined bleached linen, a hundred by the cubit.


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Their pillars were twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.


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And for the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars were twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.


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And for the west side, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and her bands were silver.


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And for the second side on this side and on that side to the opening of the court, curtains of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.


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And the sockets for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. And the overlaying of their capitals were silver; and all the pillars of the court were banded with silver.


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And the screen of the opening of the court was an embroiderer's work, blue and purple and crimson, and bleached twined linen, and twenty cubits long, and the height was five cubits in width; the curtains of the court joining.


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And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands were silver.


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These are the numbered things of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were numbered at Moses' command for the service of the Levites in the hand of Ithamar, the son of 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 Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a craftsman, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in crimson and in bleached linen.


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All the gold used was for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary; and it was the gold of the wave offering, twenty nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And the silver of the numbered ones of the assembly was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary,


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a bekah for a head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the holy place, for everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty persons.


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And the hundred talents of the silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and for the sockets of the veil, a hundred sockets for a hundred talents, a talent for a socket.


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And the thousand, seven hundred and seventy five shekels he made into hooks for the pillars; and he overlaid their capitals and joined them.


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And he made with it the sockets of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the vessels of the altar.


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And the sockets of the court all around, and the sockets of the opening of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all of the pins of the court all around were bronze.


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And from the blue and the purple and the crimson they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary. And they made the holy garments which were for Aaron, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And they beat out sheets of gold, and cut threads to work into the midst of the blue, and into the midst of the purple, and into the midst of the crimson, and into the midst of the bleached linen, the work of an artisan.


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And its fastening band was on it; it was of it, like its work, gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And they made stones of onyx set in plaited work of gold, engraved with engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.


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And he put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And he made the breast pocket, a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod: gold, blue, purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen;


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And the fourth row: a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper; these set in their settings, plaited work of gold.


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And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve according to their names, the engravings of a signet, each according to his name, for the twelve tribes.


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And they made two gold plaitings and two golden rings; and they put the two rings on the two ends of the breast pocket.


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And they put the two ends of the two cords on the two plaitings. And they put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, on the front of its face.


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And they made two rings of gold, and they put them on the two ends of the breast pocket, on its edge, on the inward side of the ephod.


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And they made two rings of gold, and they put them on the two shoulderpieces of the ephod from beneath, on the front of its face, near its joining; from above to the band of the ephod.


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And they fastened the breast pocket from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue ribbon, to be on the ephod band, that the breast pocket not move itself from the ephod, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And the mouth of the robe in its middle was like the mouth of a corselet, the edge of its mouth all around, that it might not be torn.


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And they made on the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and crimson, bleached, twined linen.


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And they made bells of pure gold, and they put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates, all around on the hem of the robe, all around, among the pomegranates,


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a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate on the hem of the robe all around for ministering, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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also the miter was of bleached linen, and the turban of the caps of bleached linen, and the breeches of bleached, twined linen.


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And the girdle was of twined bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and crimson, the work of an embroiderer, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they wrote on it the writing of the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.


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And all the work of the tabernacle of the congregation was finished, And the sons of Israel did according to all which Jehovah commanded Moses; so they did.


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And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its vessels, its hooks, its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,


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the pure lampstand, its lamps the lamps of arrangement and all its vessels, and the oil of the light,


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and the altar of gold, and the oil of anointing, and the incense of fragrant spices, and the screen of the door of the tabernacle,


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the bronze altar and bronze grating which was to it, its poles and all its vessels, the laver and its base,


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the screen of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the opening of the court, its cords and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tabernacle of the congregation,


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the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for serving as priests.


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And Moses saw all the work. And, behold, they had done it; as Jehovah commanded Moses, so they had done. And Moses blessed them.


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On the first day of the month, on the first of the month, you shall raise up the tent of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And you shall bring in the table and set in order its arrangement. And you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.


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And you shall put the altar of gold for incense before the ark of testimony. And you shall set up the screen of the door of the tabernacle.


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And you shall set up the altar of burnt offerings before the door of the tent of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And you shall put the laver between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And you shall put water there.


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And you shall set up the court all around. And you shall place the screen of the opening of the court.


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And you shall take the oil of anointing, and you shall anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it. And you shall sanctify it and all its vessels. And it shall become holy.


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And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels. And you shall sanctify it and the altar shall become most holy.


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And you shall cause to draw near Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall wash them with water.


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And you shall clothe Aaron with the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and sanctify him. And he shall serve as priest to Me.


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And you shall anoint them as you anointed their father. And they shall serve as priests to Me. And their anointing shall be for an everlasting priesthood for their generations.


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And it happened in the first month, in the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.


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And Moses raised up the tabernacle, and he gave its sockets, and he set up its boards, and he gave its bars, and he raised up its pillars.


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And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle. And he put the cover of the tent over it from above, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And he took and gave the testimony into the ark. And he put the poles on the ark. And he gave the mercyseat on the ark from above.


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And he caused the ark to go in into the tabernacle. And he placed the veil of the covering, and he covered over the ark of testimony, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And he gave the table into the tabernacle of the congregation, on the side of the tabernacle, northward outside the veil.


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And he put the lampstand in the tabernacle of the congregation, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.


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And he put the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he offered up on it the burnt offering and the food offering, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And he put the laver between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And he gave there water for washing.


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As they came into the tabernacle of the congregation, and as they drew near to the altar, they would wash, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar. And he gave the screen of the opening of the court. And Moses finished the work.


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And the cloud covered the tabernacle of the congregation; and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.


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And Moses was not able to come into the tabernacle of the congregation because the cloud dwelt on it. And the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.


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And as the cloud went up from the tabernacle, the sons of Israel pulled up stakes in all their travels.


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For the cloud of Jehovah was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel in all their pullings up of stakes.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If any one of you brings an offering to Jehovah, from livestock of the herd, or from the flock, you shall bring near your offering.


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If his offering is out of the herd, a male, without blemish, he shall bring it to the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation, at his pleasure, before the face of Jehovah.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it is accepted for him to make atonement for him.


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And he shall kill the son of the herd before the face of Jehovah. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall bring near the blood and sprinkle the blood on the altar all around at the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall arrange the pieces, with the head and the fat, on the wood on the fire, which is on the altar.


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And he shall wash its inward parts, and its legs, with water. And the priest shall burn as incense the whole of it on the altar for a burnt offering, a fire offering of soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if his offering is out of the flock, out of the sheep, or out of the goats, for a burnt offering, a male, without blemish, he shall bring it near.


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And he shall slaughter it by the side of the altar northward, before the face of Jehovah. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall cut it to pieces with both its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire on the altar.


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And he shall wash the inward parts and the legs with water, and the priest shall bring near all of it and burn it as incense on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering of soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if the burnt offering is a burnt offering out of the fowls to Jehovah, then he shall bring near his offering, of turtledoves or of the offspring of the dove.


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And the priest shall bring it near to the altar and shall nip off its head. And he shall burn it as incense on the altar; its blood shall be drained by the side of the altar.


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And he shall remove its crop with its feathers, and shall throw it near the altar eastward, to the place of the ashes.


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And he shall cleave it with its wings, not dividing it, and the priest shall burn it as incense on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire; a burnt offering; it is a fire offering of soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And when a person brings near an offering, a food offering to Jehovah, his offering shall be of flour. And he shall pour oil on it; and he shall put frankincense on it.


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And he shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the priest, And he shall take from it the fulness of his handful from its flour, and from its oil, with all its frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as incense on the altar, a memorial offering, a fire offering, a soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And the rest of the food offering is for Aaron and for his sons, most holy, of the fire offerings of Jehovah.


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And when you bring near an offering, a food offering baked in an oven, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, or unleavened thin cakes anointed with oil.


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And if your offering is a food offering baked in a pan, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.


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And if your offering is a food offering on a griddle, your offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil;


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And you shall bring the food offering made of these things to Jehovah, and shall bring it to the priest. And the priest shall bring it near to the altar.


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And the priest shall lift up the food offering, its memorial offering, and shall burn it as incense on the altar, a fire offering, a soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And the rest of the food offering is for Aaron and his sons, most holy, of the offerings of Jehovah.


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Any food offering which you shall bring to Jehovah, you shall not make with leaven; for all leaven and all honey you shall not burn it as incense, a fire offering to Jehovah.


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As an offering of firstfruits, you shall bring them to Jehovah, but they shall not go up on the altar for a soothing fragrance.


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And every offering of your food offering you shall season with salt, and you shall not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your food offering; you shall offer salt with all your offerings.


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And if you bring near a food offering of firstfruits to Jehovah, fresh ears roasted with fire, grains from a garden, you shall bring near your firstfruits for a food offering.


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And the priest shall burn it as incense, with its memorial offering from its grains, and from its oil, besides all its frankincense, a fire offering to Jehovah.


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And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he is offering it from the herd, whether male or female, without blemish, he shall bring it near before the face of Jehovah.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around.


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And he shall bring near from the sacrifice of the peace offering a fire offering to Jehovah, the fat which covers the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the fatty lobe by the liver beside the kidneys, he shall remove.


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And the sons of Aaron shall burn it as incense on the altar, on the burnt offering on the wood on the fire, a fire offering of a soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings is from the flock, male or female, without blemish, he shall bring it near.


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If he is bringing near a sheep for his offering, then he shall bring it near before the face of Jehovah.


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And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and shall slaughter it in front of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around.


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And he shall bring near from the sacrifice of the peace offerings a fire offering to Jehovah, its fat; he shall remove the entire fat tail close by the backbone, and all the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat that is on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and he shall remove the lobe by the liver, beside the kidneys; he shall remove it.


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And he shall lay his hand on its head and shall slaughter it in front of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.


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And he shall bring near from it his offering, a fire offering to Jehovah, the fat covering the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall remove.


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And the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a soothing fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.


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It shall be a never ending statute for your generations in all your dwellings. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.


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Speak to the sons of Israel saying, When a person sins against any of the commands of Jehovah through error, which is not to be done, and shall do any one of them;


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if the priest who is anointed sins, resulting in guilt to the people, then he shall bring near for his sin which he has sinned a bull, a son of the herd, without blemish, to Jehovah for a sin offering.


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And he shall bring the bull into the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the face of Jehovah. And he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and shall slaughter the bull before the face of Jehovah.


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And the priest who is anointed shall take some of the blood of the bull and shall bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the face of Jehovah, at the front of the veil of the holy place.


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And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense, at the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the face of Jehovah.


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And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering, he shall lift up the fat which is covering over the inward parts, and all the fat which is on the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the flanks, and he shall remove the lobe on the liver beside the kidneys.


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As it is raised up from the sacrifice of the peace offerings of the bull, the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar of burnt offering.


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And the skin of the bull, and all its flesh with its head, and with its legs, and the inward parts, and its dung,


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he shall bring out all the bull to the outside of the camp, to a clean place, to the place of the pouring of ashes; and he shall burn it on the wood with fire; it shall be burned at the place of pouring of ashes.


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If all the company of Israel shall err, and the thing has been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do that which is not to be done to any of all the commands of Jehovah, and are guilty;


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when the sin shall be known, that which they have sinned against it, then the congregation shall bring near a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering. And they shall bring it in front of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the face of Jehovah. And they shall slaughter the bull before the face of Jehovah.


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And the priest who is anointed shall bring in some of the blood of the bull to the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall sprinkle seven times before the face of Jehovah, at the front of the veil.


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And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar before the face of Jehovah in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he shall do with the bull as he has done to the bull of the sin offering, so he shall do to it. And the priest shall atone for them; and it shall be forgiven them.


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And he shall bring the bull to the outside of the camp, and he shall burn it as he burned the first bull; it is a sin offering of the congregation.


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When a ruler sins and has acted against one of all the commands of Jehovah his God, which is not to be done, through ignorance, and is guilty;


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or his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a buck of the goats, a male, without blemish;


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and he shall lay his hand on the head of the he-goat and shall slaughter it in the place where he slaughters the burnt offering, before the face of Jehovah; it is a sin offering.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering, and with his finger he shall put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and he shall pour out its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.


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And he shall burn it as incense on the altar, with all its fat, as the fat of the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall atone for him because of his sin; and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if any person of the people of the land sins through error by doing that which is not to be done, against one of the commands of Jehovah, and is guilty;


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or his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a ewe of the goats, without blemish, a female, for his sin which he has sinned;


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then he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and shall slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and shall put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. And he shall pour out all its blood at the base of the altar;


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and he shall take off all its fat, as has been taken off the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall burn it as incense on the altar for a soothing fragrance to Jehovah. And the priest shall atone for him, and it is forgiven him.


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and he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and he shall slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where he slaughters the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar.


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And he shall take off all its fat, as is taken off the fat of the lamb from the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar, on the fire offerings of Jehovah. And the priest shall atone for him for his sin which he has sinned; and it is forgiven him.


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And when a person sins, and hears the voice of swearing, and he is a witness, or has seen, or has known, if he does not reveal it, then he shall bear his iniquity.


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Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, or the unclean dead body of an animal, or the unclean dead body of livestock, or the dead body of unclean swarming things, it being hidden from him that he is unclean and is guilty,


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or if he touches the uncleanness of man, any of his uncleanness by which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he is guilty.


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Or if a person swears, speaking rashly with the lips, to do evil, or to do good, anything which the man speaks rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he is guilty of one of these.


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And it shall be when he is guilty of one of these, then he shall confess that in which he has sinned.


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And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned, a female out of the flock, a lamb, or a doe of the goats, for a sin offering. And the priest shall atone for him regarding his sin.


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And if his hand does not reach to a lamb, then he shall bring his guilt offering, he who has sinned, two turtledoves, or two offspring of a dove, to Jehovah; one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall bring near for a sin offering first. And he shall nip off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it.


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And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and that which remains of the blood shall be drained at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.


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And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, as by decree. And the priest shall atone for him, because of his sin which he has sinned; and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if his hand cannot reach to two turtledoves, or two offspring of a dove, then he who sinned shall bring his offering, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, nor put frankincense on it; for it is a sin offering.


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And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take from it his full handful, the memorial offering, and shall burn it as incense on the altar, on the fire offering of Jehovah; it is a sin offering.


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And the priest shall atone for him, for his sin which he sinned from one of these; and it shall be forgiven him. And it shall be for the priest as a food offering.


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If a person commits a trespass and sins in error against the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram, without blemish out of the flock, at your evaluation in silver shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.


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And he shall make good that in which he sinned against the holy thing, and he shall add its fifth part to it, and give it to the priest. And the priest shall atone for him with the ram of the guilt offering; and it shall be forgiven him.


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And if a person sins, and he has done that which is not to be done from any one of all the commands of Jehovah, and does not know, and he is guilty, and bears his iniquity,


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then he shall bring a ram, without blemish from the flock, at your evaluation for a guilt offering to the priest. And the priest shall atone for him, for his sin of error which he erred, and he did not know; and it shall be forgiven him.


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If any person sins and is slyly treacherous against Jehovah, and deals falsely with his neighbor concerning a deposit, or concerning security, or by robbery, or has extorted his neighbor,


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or has found a lost thing and has lied about it, and has sworn to a falsehood in regard to any one of all these which a man does, sinning in them,


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then it shall be, when he sins and is guilty, he shall return what he got by robbery, that which he robbed, or the extorted thing which he extorted, or the deposit which had been deposited with him, or the lost thing which he had found;


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or all that about which he swore falsely; he shall even repay it in its principal, and the fifth part he shall add to it; to whomever it belongs. He shall give it on the day of his guilt offering.


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And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah: a ram, without blemish out of the flock, at your evaluation for a guilt offering, to the priest.


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And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah, and as regards to one thing of all that he has done, it shall be forgiven him, by being guilty in it.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering; it is the burnt offering because it is burned on the altar all the night until the morning, and the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.


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The priest shall put on his long robe of fine linen, and he shall put his linen underpants on his flesh. And he shall lift up the ashes which the fire consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and shall put them beside the altar.


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And he shall strip off his garments, and shall put on other garments, and shall bring the ashes out to the outside of the camp, to a clean place.


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And the fuel on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it morning by morning. And he shall lay the burnt offering in order on it. And he shall burn it as incense with the fat of the peace offering.


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And this is the law of the food offering: the sons of Aaron shall bring it near before Jehovah, to the front of the altar.


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And he shall lift from it his handful of the flour of the food offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense on the food offering. And he shall burn it as incense on the altar, a soothing fragrance from its memorial to Jehovah.


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest. It shall be eaten with unleavened things 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 baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion out of My fire offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering, and like the guilt offering.


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Every male among the sons of Aaron shall eat it, a never ending statute throughout your generations from the fire offerings of Jehovah. All that touches them shall be holy.


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This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they shall bring near to Jehovah on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of flour, a continual food offering; half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.


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It shall be made on a griddle with oil. You shall bring it in mixed. You shall bring baked pieces of the food offering, a soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And the priest who is anointed in his place, from among his sons, shall make it. It is a never ending statute of Jehovah. It shall be completely burned;


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Jehovah. It is most holy.


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The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in the holy place in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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All that touches its flesh shall be holy. And when any of its blood is sprinkled on the garment, that on which it is sprinkled shall be washed in the holy place.


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And an earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed with water.


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And any sin offering of whose blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to make atonement in the sanctuary shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering, they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be sprinkled on the altar all around.


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And all its fat shall be brought near, he shall offer the fat tail of it, and the fat which covers the inward parts,


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and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the flanks, and the lobe above the liver beside the kidneys, he shall remove.


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And the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar, a fire offering to Jehovah; it is a guilt offering.


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As a sin offering is, so is a guilt offering. One law is for them. The priest who makes atonement by it, it is his.


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And the priest who brings near any man's burnt offering, the skin of the burnt offering which he has brought near, it is the priest's, his own.


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And every food offering which was baked in an oven, and every one that is prepared in the stewing pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offers it; it is his.


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And every food offering, mixed with oil or dry, it shall be for all the sons of Aaron to a man, as his brother.


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If he brings it for a thanksgiving, then he shall bring with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and of well-mixed flour, cakes mixed with oil.


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He shall bring his offering with the cakes of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, his peace offerings.


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And he shall bring out of it one of every offering, a heave offering to Jehovah, to the priest sprinkling the blood of the peace offering; it is his.


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As to the flesh of the sacrifice of the thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten in the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until morning.


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And if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or freewill offering, in the day he brings his sacrifice near, it shall be eaten. And on the morrow the rest of it shall also be eaten.


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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is at all eaten on the third day, it is not pleasing. It shall not be reckoned for him who has brought it. It shall be a hateful thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.


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And the flesh which touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As to the flesh, every clean one shall eat of the flesh.


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And the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which are Jehovah's when his uncleanness is upon him, even that person shall be cut off from his people.


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And when a person touches any unclean thing, of the uncleanness of man, or of the uncleanness of animals, or of an unclean, abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which are Jehovah's, even that person shall be cut off from his people.


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And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of a thing torn may be used for any work, but you certainly shall not eat it;


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for whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which one brings near a fire offering to Jehovah, even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, He who brings near the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Jehovah shall bring his offering to Jehovah from the sacrifice of his peace offerings;


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his own hands shall bring in the fire offerings of Jehovah; the fat beside the breast he shall bring in with the breast, to wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar as incense; and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons.


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And you shall make a heave offering of the right leg to the priest of the sacrifices of your peace offerings;


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one of the sons of Aaron who is bringing near the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, the right leg is his for a portion.


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For the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the heave offering, I have taken from the sons of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a never ending statute, from the sons of Israel.


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This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons out of the fire offerings of Jehovah, in the day he shall bring them near to act as priests to Jehovah,


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which Jehovah has commanded to give to them the day of His anointing them, from the sons of Israel, a never ending statute throughout their generations.


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This is the law for burnt offering, for the food offering, and for sin offering, and for guilt offering, and for consecrations, and for a sacrifice of the peace offerings,


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which Jehovah had commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the days of His commanding the sons of Israel to bring near their offerings to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.


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Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened things,


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And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded him, and the congregation was gathered to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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and put on him the tunic, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the upper robe, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the ephod on him, and girded him with the girdle of the ephod, and bound it to him with it;


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and put the miter on his head, and on the miter, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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and he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar, and all its vessels, and the laver, and its base, to sanctify them.


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And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with girdles, and bound turbans on them, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering;


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and one slaughtered it; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and cleansed the altar; and he poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement on it.


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And he took all the fat on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it as incense on the altar.


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And the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire, at the outside of the camp, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he brought the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram;


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and he cut the ram into its pieces, and Moses burned it as incense with the head, and the pieces, and the fat.


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And he washed the inward parts and the legs with water, and Moses burned it as incense with the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering, for a soothing fragrance; it is a fire offering to Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he brought the second ram, a ram of the consecrations, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram.


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And one killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. And Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around,


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and took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right leg.


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And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and on the right leg;


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and placed the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and waved them, a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And Moses took them off their hands and burned them with incense on the altar, on the burnt offering; they are consecrations for a soothing fragrance; it is a fire offering to Jehovah.


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And Moses took the breast and waved it, a wave offering before Jehovah, of the ram of the consecrations. It was Moses' portion, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood on the altar, and sprinkled on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him. And he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.


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And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and you shall eat it there, and the bread in the basket of the consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.


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and you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled. For He shall consecrate you seven days;


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And you shall remain at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night for seven days, and you shall keep the charge of Jehovah and shall not die; for so I have been commanded.


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And it happened, on the eighth day, Moses called for Aaron and for his sons, and for the elders of Israel.


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And he said to Aaron, Take a calf to yourself, a son of the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, ones without blemish, and bring them near before Jehovah.


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And speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Take a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf, and a lamb, sons of a year, ones without blemish, for a burnt offering;


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and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and a food offering mixed with oil; for today Jehovah will be seen.


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And they took that which Moses had commanded to the front of the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah.


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And Moses said, This is the thing that Jehovah has commanded; do it, and the glory of Jehovah shall appear to you.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Draw near to the altar and make your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people, and make the offering of the people, and atone for them, as Jehovah has commanded.


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and Aaron's sons brought the blood near to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar. And he poured out the blood at the base of the altar;


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and the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver, of the sin offering, he burned with incense on the altar, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And he killed the burnt offering. And Aaron's sons presented the blood to him and he sprinkled it on the altar all around;


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and they presented to him the burnt offering, by its pieces, and the head, and he burned them with incense on the altar.


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And he washed the inward parts and the legs, and burned them as incense for the burnt offering on the altar.


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And he brought the offering of the people, and took the he-goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and killed it, and made it a sin offering like the first.


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And he brought the food offering and filled his hand from it, and burned it as incense on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.


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And he killed the bull and the ram, a sacrifice of the peace offerings, which are for the people, and Aaron's sons presented the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar all around;


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and the fat of the bull, and of the ram, the fat tail, and the covering, and the kidneys, and the lobe above the liver.


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And Aaron waved the breasts, and the right leg as a wave offering before Jehovah, as Moses commanded.


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And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation. And they came out and blessed the people; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people.


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And fire came out from before Jehovah and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And all the people saw, and cried aloud, and fell on their faces.


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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in them; and they put incense on it and brought strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.


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And Moses said to Aaron, It is that which Jehovah has spoken, saying, I will be sanctified by those drawing near to Me; and I will be honored before all the people. And Aaron was silent.


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And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and said to them, Come near, carry your brothers from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.


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And they came near and carried them in their coats to the outside of the camp, as Moses had commanded.


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And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons, You shall not uncover your heads and you shall not tear your garments, that you may not die, and He be angry on all the congregation. As to your brothers, the whole house of Israel, they shall mourn the burning which Jehovah has kindled.


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And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation lest you die. For the anointing oil of Jehovah is on you. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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You shall not drink wine and fermented drink, you nor your sons with you, as you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, and you shall not die; a never ending statute throughout your generations;


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and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, Take the food offering that remains from the fire offerings of Jehovah, and eat it unleavened near the altar, for it is most holy.


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And you shall eat it in the holy place, for it is your portion, and the portion of your sons, from the fire offerings of Jehovah; for so I have been commanded.


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And the breast of the wave offering, and the leg of the heave offering, you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons, and your daughters with you. For they have been given for your portion and the portion of your sons out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the sons of Israel.


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The leg of the heave offering, and the breast of the wave offering, besides fire offerings of the fat, they shall bring in to wave a wave offering before Jehovah; and it shall be to you, and to your sons with you, a never ending statute, as Jehovah has commanded.


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And Moses sought carefully for the goat of the sin offering; and, behold, it had been burned! And he was angry against Eleazar and against Ithamar, Aaron's remaining sons, saying,


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Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, for it is most holy, and He has given it to you to take away the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah?


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Behold, its blood has not been brought into the holy place inside. You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I have commanded.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, today they have brought their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah; and such things have happened to me. And if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been accepted in the sight of Jehovah?


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you shall eat out of all the animals which are on the earth.


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Any that divides the hoof and is wholly clovenfooted, bringing up the cud, among the living things, you may eat it.


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Only, you may not eat these, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof: the camel, though it brings up the cud, yet it does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you;


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and the rock badger, though it brings up the cud, yet it does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you;


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and the swine, though it divides the hoof and is clovenfooted, yet it does not bring up the cud; it is unclean to you.


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Of all that are in the waters, you shall eat these; any one that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the torrents, you may eat them.


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But any one that does not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the torrents, of any swarming creature of the waters, and of any creature which lives in the waters; they are to be detested by you.


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Yes, they shall be detested by you; you shall not eat of their flesh and you shall shun their dead bodies.


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And these you shall count unclean among the fowls; they shall not be eaten; they are unclean: the eagle, and the black vulture and the bearded vulture,


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Only, this you may eat of any swarming thing which flies, which goes on all four, which has legs above its feet, to leap with them on the earth;


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these are those you may eat: the locusts according to its kind, and the bald locust according to its kind, and the long horned locust according to its kind, and the short horned grasshopper according to its kind.


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And by these you shall be made unclean; any who touches their dead body is unclean until the evening.


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And anyone who lifts up their dead body shall wash his garments and shall be unclean until the evening;


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even every living thing which divides the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, and does not bring up the cud, they are unclean to you; anyone who touches them shall be unclean.


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And any going on its paws among all the living things which go on all four, they are unclean to you; anyone who touches their dead body is unclean until the evening;


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and he who lifts up their dead body shall wash his garments and shall be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.


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And these shall be unclean to you among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard according to its kind,


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These are unclean to you among all which swarm; anyone who touches them in their death is unclean until the evening.


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And anything on which any one of them falls in their death is unclean, whether of any vessel of wood, or garment, or skin, or sack; any vessel in which work is done shall be caused to go into water, and shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be cleaned.


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And any earthen vessel into the midst of which any one of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.


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And of all the food which may be eaten, that on which such water falls shall be unclean, and all drink that may be drunk in any such vessel shall be unclean.


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And anything on which any part of their dead body falls shall be unclean; an oven or hearth shall be broken down; they are unclean; yes, they are unclean to you.


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But a fountain or a well, a collection of water, shall be clean; only that touching the dead body is unclean.


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but when water is put on the seed, and any of its dead body has fallen on it, it shall be unclean to you.


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And when any of the animals which are food for you dies, he who touches its dead body is unclean until the evening;


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and he who eats of its dead body shall wash his garments and shall be unclean until the evening; and he who lifts up its dead body shall wash his garments and shall be unclean until the evening.


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Anything going on its belly, and any going on all four, and all having many feet, even every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are unclean.


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You shall not pollute yourselves with any swarming thing which swarms, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, so that you should be defiled by them.


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For I am Jehovah your God, and you have sanctified yourselves, and you have become holy, for I am holy. And you shall not defile your persons with any swarming thing which creeps on the earth;


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for I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and you shall be holy, for I am holy.


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This is the law of the animals, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which moves in the waters, and every creature which swarms on the earth,


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to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed, and has borne a male, then she shall be unclean seven days; as on the days of her menstrual impurity she shall be unclean.


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And she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing thirty three days; she shall not touch any holy thing, and she shall not go into the sanctuary, until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled.


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And if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of her cleansing sixty six days.


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And when the days of her cleansing are fulfilled for son or for daughter, she shall bring in a lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt offering, and a young dove or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest.


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And he shall bring it near before Jehovah, and shall atone for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears, whether a male or a female.


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And if her hand is not able to find a lamb, then she shall take two turtle doves, or two young doves one for a burnt offering, and one for a sin offering, and the priest shall atone for her; and she shall be cleansed.


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When a man has a rising in the skin of his flesh, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it shall become in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought in to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.


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And the priest shall look upon the plague in the skin of the flesh; and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy, and the priest shall look upon him and shall pronounce him unclean.


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And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the plague seven days.


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And the priest shall look on him on the seventh day, and, behold, if the plague stays in its appearance, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven more days.


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And the priest shall look upon him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague has become dim, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a scab, and he shall wash his garments and shall be clean.


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But if the scab spreads greatly in the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, then he shall be seen a second time by the priest.


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And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab has spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.


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And the priest shall look, and, behold, if a white rising is in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and a living flesh is in the swelling,


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it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.


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And if the leprosy breaks out greatly on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the plague, from his head even to his feet, to all that appears to the priest's eyes,


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then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plague-spot clean; it has all turned white; he is clean.


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And the priest shall look on the living flesh and shall pronounce him unclean; the living flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.


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Or when the living flesh turns back and shall be turned to white, then he shall come in to the priest;


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and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, the plague has turned to white; the priest shall pronounce the plague-spot clean; he is clean.


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and a white rising has replaced the boil, or a bright white spot, very red, a reddish white, then it shall be seen by the priest.


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And the priest shall look; and, behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy; it has broken out in a boil.


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But if the priest looks at it; and, behold, there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin, and has become dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.


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And if in its place the bright spot is stayed, it has not spread; it is an inflamed boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Or if there is flesh in which the skin has a hot burning, and the raw flesh of the burning becomes a bright white spot, being very red or white;


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and the priest shall look on it; and, behold, the hair has turned white in the bright spot, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy.


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But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no lower than the other skin, but is somewhat faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.


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And the priest shall look at him the seventh day. And if it is spread abroad very much in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.


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And if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but is somewhat faded, it is a swelling of the burning; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. for it is a scar of the burning.


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then the priest shall look on the plague. And, behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and a thin shining hair in it, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scab, a leprosy on the head or beard.


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And when the priest looks on the plague of the scab; and, behold, it is not in sight deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the plagued one with the scab seven days.


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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague. And, behold, if the scab has not spread, and there is no shining hair in it, and the appearance of the scab is not deeper than the skin,


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then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scab. And the priest shall shut up the one who has the scab a second seven days.


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And the priest shall look on the scab on the seventh day. And, behold, if the scab has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his garments, and shall be clean.


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and the priest has looked on him; and, behold, the scab has spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the shining, yellow hair; he is unclean.


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But if in his eyes the scab has stabilized, and black hair has sprung up in it, the scab has been healed; he is clean. And the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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and the priest has seen it; and, behold there are pale white spots in the skin of their flesh, it is a pale spot springing up in the skin; he is clean.


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And if his head grows bald from the corner of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; he is clean.


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And if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish white plague, it is a leprosy breaking out in the bald head, or in the bald forehead.


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And the priest shall look on him, and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy, 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 who has the plague in him, his garments shall be torn, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover the upper lip; and he shall call out, Unclean! Unclean!


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And the days that the plague shall be in him, he is unclean; he shall live alone, he is unclean; his dwelling shall be at the outside of the camp.


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and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is a plague of leprosy; and it shall be seen by the priest.


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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. And if the plague has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather, of all that is made of skin for use, the plague is a corroding leprosy; it is unclean.


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And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is; for it is a corroding leprosy; it shall be burned with fire.


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And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather,


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then the priest shall command, and they shall wash that in which the plague is. And he shall shut it up a second seven days.


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And the priest shall look on that in which the plague is after it has been washed. And, behold, if the plague has not changed its appearance, and if the plague has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it with fire; it is eaten away in its inside or in its outside.


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And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague has become pale after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the leather, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.


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And if it is still seen in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn it with fire, that in which the plague is.


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And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or anything of leather which you shall wash when the plague has been taken off them, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.


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This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or of the warp, or of the woof, or of anything of leather, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.


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This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing, that he shall be brought to the priest.


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And the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,


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then the priest shall command, and he shall take for him who is to be cleansed two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.


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And the priest shall command, and he shall kill the one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water;


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he shall take the living bird, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird, over the running water.


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And he shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean. And he shall send out the living bird into the open field.


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And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave all his hair, and shall bathe with water, and shall be clean. And afterwards he shall come into the camp, and shall live on the outside of his tent seven days.


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And it shall be on the seventh day, he shall shave all his hair, his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows; he shall even shave all his hair. And he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh with water, and shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb, daughter of a year, without blemish, and three tenth parts of flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.


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And the priest who is cleansing, and the man who is to be cleansed, shall stand with them before Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall take the one male lamb and shall bring it near for a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And he shall kill the lamb in the place where he killed the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place. For like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering; and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil on his left palm and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.


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And of the rest of the oil on his palm, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;


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and the rest of the oil on the palm of the priest, he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall make a sin offering, and shall atone for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterwards he shall slaughter the burnt offering;


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and the priest shall offer the burnt offering, and the food offering, on the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him; and he shall be clean.


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And if he is poor, and his hand is not able to reach these things, then he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering, for a wave offering, to atone for himself, and one tenth part of flour mixed with oil for a food offering, and a log of oil,


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and two turtledoves, or two young doves, which his hand can reach; and one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them in to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah;


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and he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and he shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil on his palm, seven times before Jehovah.


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And the priest shall put some of the oil on his palm on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.


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And the rest of the oil on the priest's palm he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to atone for him, before Jehovah.


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And he shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young doves, from that which he is able to reach;


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that which his hand has reached out to, the one a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering, besides the food offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.


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When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you for a possession, and I have put a plague of leprosy in the house in the land of your possession;


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then if he who owns the house shall come in and declare to the priest, saying, I have seen a plague in the house.


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And the priest shall command, and they shall turn out from the house before the priest comes in to see the plague that all in the house may not be unclean; and afterwards the priest shall come in to see the house.


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And he shall look upon the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with depressions greenish or reddish, and the appearance of it is lower than the wall;


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then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.


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And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house;


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then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.


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And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the dust which they have scraped off at the outside of the city, at an unclean place.


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And they shall take other stones and bring them in to the place of the stones; and he shall take other clay and shall plaster the house.


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And if the plague returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it has been plastered,


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then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house; it is unclean.


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And he shall break down the house; its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house; and he shall carry it out to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.


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And he who lies in the house shall wash his clothes and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


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And if the priest shall come in and carefully look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house has been plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague has been healed.


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And he shall take two birds for the cleansing of the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet dye, and hyssop;


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and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and shall dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and shall sprinkle on the house seven times.


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And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet dye;


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and he shall send away the living bird to the outside of the city, to the open field, and shall atone for the house; and it shall be clean.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, to any man, When there is an issue from his flesh; it is unclean because of his issue.


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And this is his uncleanness in his issue, if his flesh has run with his issue, or his flesh has ceased from issue, it is his uncleanness.


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Every bed on which the issuing one lies shall be unclean. And every thing on which he sits shall be unclean.


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And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his garments, and shall bathe with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he who sits on a thing on which he who issues sat, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he that touches the flesh of him who issues shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And if he who issues spits on a clean one, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And the one carrying those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whomever he who issues touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And the earthen vessel that he who issues touches shall be broken; and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water.


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And when he who issues is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take to himself two turtle doves, or two young doves, and come before Jehovah to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and give them to the priest.


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And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall atone for him before Jehovah for his issue.


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And if any man's semen goes out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And every garment, and every skin on which the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And a woman with whom a man lies with an emission of semen shall bathe with water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if a woman's issue in her flesh is a flow of blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.


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And anything on which she lies in her impurity shall be unclean; and anything on which she sits shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if it is on the bed, or on anything on which she sits when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.


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And if lying any man lies with her, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.


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And if a woman has an issue of her blood many days outside the time of her impurity, or if she issues beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness, she shall be as in the days of her impurity; she is unclean.


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Every bed on which she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her impurity to her; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her impurity.


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And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if she is cleansed of her issue then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day she shall take to herself two turtledoves, or two young doves, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priests shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall atone for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness.


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So you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they shall not die in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is in their midst.


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and of her who is menstruating in her impurity, and of him from whom the issue goes, of a male or of a female, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.


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And Jehovah spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, as they drew near before Jehovah, and they died.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to your brother Aaron, and he shall not come in at all times to the sanctuary within the veil, to the front of the mercy-seat.


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With this Aaron shall come into the sanctuary: with a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.


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He shall put on a holy linen coat, and linen underpants shall be on his flesh, and he shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and he shall wrap himself in a linen miter; they are holy garments. And he shall bathe his flesh with water and shall put them on.


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And he shall take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.


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And Aaron shall bring near the bull of the sin offering which is his own, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house.


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And he shall take the two he-goats and shall cause them to stand before Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And Aaron shall give lots over the two he-goats, one lot for Jehovah, and one lot for a complete removal.


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And the goat on which the lot fell for a complete removal shall be made to stand living before Jehovah to atone by it, to send it away for a complete removal into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering which is his own, and shall atone for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is his own.


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And he shall take a censer full of coals of the fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of fragrant perfumes beaten small, and bring it within the veil.


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And he shall put the incense on the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat on the testimony; and he shall not die.


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And he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and shall sprinkle with his finger on the front of the mercy-seat eastward. And he shall sprinkle at the front of the mercy-seat seven times from the blood with his finger.


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And he shall kill the goat of the sin offering which is the people's, and shall bring in its blood to the inside of the veil, and shall do with its blood as he has done with the blood of the bull, and shall sprinkle it on the mercy-seat, and at the front of the mercy-seat.


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And he shall atone for the sanctuary because of the pollutions of the sons of Israel, and because of their transgressions for all their sins. And so he shall do for the tabernacle of the congregation dwelling in the midst of their pollutions.


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And not any man shall be in the tabernacle of the congregation as he goes in to atone in the sanctuary, until he comes out. And he shall atone for himself, and for his house, and for all the congregation of Israel.


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And he shall go out to the altar before Jehovah, and shall atone for it. And he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and some of the blood of the goat, and shall put it on the horns of the altar all around.


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And he shall sprinkle on it from the blood with his finger seven times, and shall cleanse it, and shall purify it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.


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And when he has finished atoning for the sanctuary, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, and has brought near the living goat;


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then Aaron shall lay his two hands on the head of the living goat, and shall confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, and all their sins, and shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send it by the hand of a chosen man into the wilderness.


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And the goat shall bear on him all their iniquities to a land cut off. And he shall send the goat away into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall strip off the linen garments which he had put on as he went into the sanctuary, and shall leave them there.


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And he shall bathe his flesh with water in the sanctuary and shall put on his garments, and shall come out, and shall offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and shall atone for himself and for his people.


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And he who let the goat go for a complete removal shall wash his garments and shall bathe his flesh with water; and later he shall come into the camp.


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And the bull of the sin offering, and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood has been brought in to atone in the sanctuary, one shall carry them out to the outside of the camp; and they shall burn their skins with fire and their flesh, and their dung.


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And he burning them shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh with water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp.


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And it shall be for a never ending statute, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, you shall humble yourself and do no work, the native, and the alien who is staying in your midst.


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For on this day he shall atone for you, to cleanse you from all your sins you shall be clean before Jehovah.


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And the priest whom He shall anoint, and whose hand He shall consecrate to act as priest instead of his father, shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments.


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And he shall atone for the holy sanctuary, and for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar he shall atone; yes, for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation he shall atone.


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And this shall be to you a never ending statute to atone for the sons of Israel, because of all their sins, once a year. And he did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel. And you shall say to them, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, saying,


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Any man of the house of Israel who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills at the outside of the camp,


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and has not brought it in to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation as an offering to Jehovah, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood. And that man shall be cut off from the midst of his people;


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so that the sons of Israel shall bring in their sacrifices which they are sacrificing in the open field to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Jehovah.


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And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall burn the fat as incense for a soothing fragrance to Jehovah.


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And they shall not sacrifice their sacrifices any more to goats, after which they have gone whoring. This is a perpetual statute to them throughout their generations.


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And you shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of aliens who sojourn in your midst, who offers burnt offering or sacrifice,


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and does not bring it in to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer it to Jehovah, that man shall be cut off from his people.


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And any man of the house of Israel, or of the alien who is staying in your midst, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person that eats blood and will cut him off from his people.


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For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to atone for your souls; for it is the blood which makes atonement for the soul.


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For this reason I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood; and the alien who is staying in your midst shall not eat blood.


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And any man of the sons of Israel, or of the aliens who stay in your midst, who hunts game, beast or fowl, which is eaten, shall even pour out its blood and shall cover it with dust.


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For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for its life. And I say to the sons of Israel, You shall not eat blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is in the blood; anyone eating it is cut off.


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And any person who eats a dead body or torn thing, be he a native, or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.


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You shall not do according to the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived; and you shall not do according to the doings of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; nor shall you walk in their statutes.


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and you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. I am Jehovah.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, born at home, or born away; you shall not uncover their nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter; you shall not uncover their nakedness, for theirs is your own nakedness.


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The nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not draw near to his wife; she is your aunt.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not undertake to uncover her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter; they are her relatives; it is wickedness.


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And you shall not take a wife with her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.


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And you shall not give your semen to your neighbor's wife by lying with her, for uncleanness with her.


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And you shall not give your seed to pass them through to Molech, nor shall you pollute the name of your God; I am Jehovah.


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And you shall not give your semen with any animal, for uncleanness with it. And a woman shall not stand before an animal to lie down with it; it is a shameful mixing.


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Do not defile yourself with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled, which I am casting out before you;


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and the land is defiled, and I will visit its iniquity on it; and the land is vomiting out those living in it;


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and you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of all these disgusting acts; neither the native nor the alien who is staying in your midst.


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For the men of the land who are before you have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled.


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Do not do these lest the land vomit you out for your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation that was before you.


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For anyone who does any of these disgusting things, even the persons who are doing them, shall be cut off from the midst of their people.


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And you shall keep My charge, so as not to do any of the disgusting customs which were committed before you; and you shall not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.


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Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, You are holy, for I am holy, Jehovah your God.


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Each man of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.


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And if you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;


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it shall be eaten in the day of your sacrificing it, and on the morrow, and that which is left on the third day shall be burned with fire.


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And he who eats it, he shall bear his iniquity; for he has polluted the holy thing of Jehovah, and that person shall be cut off from his people.


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And as you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corner of your field; and you shall not gather the gleaning of your harvest;


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and you shall not glean your vineyard, and you shall not gather the leavings of your vineyard; you shall leave them to the poor and to the alien; I am Jehovah your God.


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And you shall not swear by My name to a falsehood; nor shall you pollute the name of your God; I am Jehovah.


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You shall not extort your neighbor, nor rob; you shall not allow the wages of one hired to remain with you until morning.


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You shall not revile the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; for you shall revere your God. I am Jehovah.


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You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor favor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.


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You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand up against the blood of your neighbor; I am Jehovah.


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You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall certainly reprove your neighbor, and not allow sin on him.


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You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am Jehovah.


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You shall keep my statutes; you shall not cause your livestock to breed with different kinds; you shall not sow two kinds in your field; and you shall not allow a garment mixed of linen and wool to come upon you.


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And when a man lies with a woman with semen, and she is a slave-girl, betrothed to a man, and not truly redeemed, and freedom not having been given to her, there shall be an inquest; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.


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And he shall bring in his guilt offering to Jehovah, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, a ram for a guilt offering.


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And the priest shall atone for him with the ram of the guilt offering before Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned; and it shall be forgiven him because of his sin he has sinned.


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And when you come into the land and have planted all of the food trees, then you shall expose its foreskin, its fruit, it shall be as uncircumcised for you three years; it shall not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase; I am Jehovah your God.


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And you shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead; and you shall not put on yourself any etched mark; I am Jehovah.


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You shall not pollute your daughter, to cause her to be a prostitute, that the land may not go whoring, and the land become full of wickedness.


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You shall not turn to mediums, and you shall not seek to spirit-knowers to be defiled by them; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall rise up in the face of gray hair; and you shall honor the face of an old man; and be afraid of your God. I am Jehovah.


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as the native among you, so shall be the alien who is staying with you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt;


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And you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel, and of the aliens who are living in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech dying shall die. The people of the land shall stone him with stones!


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And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, for he has given of his seed to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary, and to pollute My holy name.


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And if the people of the land truly hide their eyes from that man, as he gives his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death,


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then I shall set My face against that man, and against his family, and shall cut him off, and all who go whoring after him, even going whoring after Molech from the midst of their people.


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And the person who turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go whoring after them, I shall set my face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.


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And any man who curses his father and his mother dying he shall die; he has cursed his father and his mother; his blood shall be on him.


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And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, the adulterer and the adulteress dying shall die.


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And a man who lies with his father's wife, who has uncovered the nakedness of his father, both of them dying shall die; their blood shall be on them.


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And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them dying shall die; they have performed a perversion; their blood shall be on them.


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And a man who lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing, dying they shall die; their blood shall be on them.


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And a man who takes a woman and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall burn him and them; and there shall be no wickedness in your midst.


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And if a woman draws near to any animal to lie with it, you shall even put to death the woman and the animal; dying they shall die; their blood shall be on them.


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And if a man takes his sister, the daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he has seen her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shame. And they shall be cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.


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And if a man lies with a menstruous woman, and has uncovered her nakedness, he has made her fountain bare; and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; even both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.


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And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister, because he has made naked his near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.


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If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.


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And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.


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And you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and shall do them, and the land where I am bringing you to live in it shall not vomit you out.


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And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out from before you, for all these they have done, and I am disgusted with them.


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But I have said to you, You shall surely possess their land; and, I, I am giving it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I am Jehovah your God, who has set you apart from the nations.


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And you shall make a difference between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. And you shall not defile yourself by beast or by fowl, or by anything which swarms the ground, which I have set apart to you as unclean;


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and you shall be holy to Me, for I, Jehovah, am holy; and I have set you apart from the nations to become Mine.


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And a man or woman, when there is among them a medium, or a spirit-knower, dying shall die; they shall stone them with stones; their blood is on them.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, Aaron's sons, and you shall say to them, None shall be defiled for the dead among his people.


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But for his relative who is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,


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and for his sister, the virgin, who is near to him, who has not been with a man, for her he may be defiled.


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they shall not make their heads bald, and they shall not shave the corner of their beard; and they shall not make a cutting in their flesh;


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they are holy to their God, and they shall not pollute the name of their God. For they offer the fire offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, and they are holy.


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They shall not take a woman who is a prostitute, or polluted; nor shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to his God.


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And you shall sanctify him, for he brings near the bread of your God; he is holy to you; for I am holy, Jehovah who is sanctifying you.


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And when a daughter of any priest pollutes herself by going whoring, she is polluting her father; she shall be burned with fire.


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And the high priest of his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and whose hand is consecrated to put on the garments, his head shall not be uncovered, nor his garments torn;


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nor shall he come near any dead person; he shall not defile himself for his father or for his mother;


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nor shall he go out from the sanctuary; nor shall he pollute the sanctuary of his God. For the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Jehovah.


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He shall not take a widow, or one put away, or a polluted one, a harlot, but he shall take a virgin of his own people for a wife;


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Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed throughout their generations shall draw near to offer the bread of his God if there is a blemish in him.


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For no man in whom there is a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or one lame, or disfigured, or deformed;


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or one humpbacked, or one emaciated, or with a spot in his eye, or a scurvy one, or one scabbed, or one with crushed testicles.


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No man of the seed of Aaron the priest in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah; a blemish is in him; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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But he shall not enter into the veil, and he shall not draw near to the altar; for a blemish is in him; and he shall not pollute My sanctuary; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name in what they devote to Me; I am Jehovah.


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Say to them, Out of all your seed throughout your generations, any man who draws near to the holy things which the sons of Israel set apart to Jehovah, and his uncleanness being upon him, that person shall be cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah.


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Any man of the seed of Aaron that is leprous or has an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And he who touches any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose semen has gone out of him;


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or a man who touches any swarming thing which is unclean to him, or touches a man who is unclean to him, by any of his uncleanness,


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the person who touches it shall even be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, but shall bathe his flesh with water.


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And when the sun goes in, he shall be clean, and afterwards he shall eat of the holy things, for it is his food;


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And they shall keep My charge, and shall bear no sin for it, that they may not die for it when they pollute it; I am Jehovah, who is sanctifying them.


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And no stranger shall eat of the holy things, a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant; these shall not eat of the holy thing.


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And if a priest buys a person, the purchase of his silver, he shall eat of it; also one born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.


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And a priest's daughter, when she belongs to an alien man, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.


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But a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or put away, and has no seed, and has turned back to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread. But no stranger shall eat of it.


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And if a man shall eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he shall add the fifth part of it, and shall give it to the priest along with the holy thing.


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And they shall not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel, that which they lift up to Jehovah;


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and so cause them to bear the iniquity of the guilt offering in their eating their holy things. For I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the aliens in Israel, who brings near his offering, of all his vows, or of all his freewill offerings which they bring near to Jehovah for a burnt offering;


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at your own will a male, without blemish, of the oxen, of the sheep, or of the goats may be offered.


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And when a man brings near a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, to complete a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be without blemish to be accepted; no blemish shall be in it;


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blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a flow, or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not bring these near to Jehovah; and you shall not make of them a fire offering on the altar to Jehovah.


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As to an ox or a sheep deformed, or dwarfed, you shall make it a freewill offering; but it is not acceptable for a vow.


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As to anything bruised, or beaten, or torn, or cut, you shall not bring it near to Jehovah; even you shall not do it in your land.


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And you shall not bring near the bread of your God from the hand of a son of a stranger, or any of these, for their corruption is in them; they are blemished; they are not acceptable for you.


