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Such were the clans of Noah's descendants, listed by descent and nation. From them, other nations branched out on earth after the flood.R  These were Shem's sons, by clans and languages, by countries and nations.i M They occupied a stretch of country from Mesha all the way to Sephar, the eastern mountain range.=w Ophir, Havilah, Jobab; all these were sons of Joktan.9 Obal, Abima-El, Sheba,9 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,=w Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,/ To Eber were born two sons: the first was called Peleg, because it was in his time that the earth was divided, and his brother was called Joktan.=w Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber..Y Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.9o Shem's sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram.dC Shem too fathered sons, being ancestor of all the sons of Eber and Japheth's elder brother.Q These were Ham's sons, by clans and languages, by countries and nations.~' The Canaanite frontier stretched from Sidon all the way to Gerar near Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim near Lesha.T}# Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later, the Canaanite clans spread out."|A Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,5{g and the Jebusites, the Amorites, Girgashites,9zo Canaan fathered Sidon, his first-born, then Heth,Fy Pathros, Casluh and Caphtor, from which the Philistines came.Ex Mizraim fathered the people of Lud, of Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,Fw and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (this being the capital).Qv From this country came Asshur, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,duC The mainstays of his empire were Babel, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.~tw He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh, hence the saying, 'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh'.Cs Cush fathered Nimrod who was the first potentate on earth.Zr/ Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. Raamah's sons: Sheba, Dedan./q[ Ham's sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put, Canaan./pY From these came the dispersal to the islands of the nations. These were Japheth's sons, in their respective countries, each with its own language, by clan and nation.Do Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, the Dananites.2na Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.Om Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, the Medes, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras.pl ] These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood:Ok In all, Noah's life lasted nine hundred and fifty years; then he died.Aj After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.giI May God make space for Japheth, may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his slave!Kh He added: Blessed be Yahweh, God of Shem, let Canaan be his slave!Og and said: Accursed be Canaan, he shall be his brothers' meanest slave.Zf/ When Noah awoke from his stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him,Ze/ Shem and Japheth took a cloak and they both put it over their shoulders, and walking backwards, covered their father's nakedness; they kept their faces turned away, and they did not look at their father naked.Wd) Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.Yc- He drank some of the wine, and while he was drunk, he lay uncovered in his tent.Eb Noah, a tiller of the soil, was the first to plant the vine.Ra These three were Noah's sons, and from these the whole earth was peopled.l`S The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth-Ham being the father of Canaan._y 'That', God told Noah, 'is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.'(^K When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.'@]{ I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.S\! When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,i[M I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.Z3 'And this', God said, 'is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come:BY And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.'*XO and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth.WW) 'I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come,2Va God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons,KU Be fruitful then and multiply, teem over the earth and subdue it!'pT[ He who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God was man created.4Sc And I shall demand account of your life-blood, too. I shall demand it of every animal, and of man. Of man as regards his fellow-man, I shall demand account for human life.\R3 with this exception: you must not eat flesh with life, that is to say blood, in it.{Qq Every living thing that moves will be yours to eat, no less than the foliage of the plants. I give you everything,9Pm Be the terror and the dread of all the animals on land and all the birds of heaven, of everything that moves on land and all the fish of the sea; they are placed in your hands.\O 5 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Breed, multiply and fill the earth.|Ns As long as earth endures: seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.'sMa Yahweh smelt the pleasing smell and said to himself, 'Never again will I curse the earth because of human beings, because their heart contrives evil from their infancy. Never again will I strike down every living thing as I have done.L) Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh and, choosing from all the clean animals and all the clean birds he presented burnt offerings on the altar.)KM And all the wild animals, all the cattle, all the birds and all the creeping things that creep along the ground, came out of the ark, one species after another.GJ So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.TI# Bring out all the animals with you, all living things, the birds, the cattle and all the creeping things that creep along the ground, for them to swarm on earth, for them to breed and multiply on earth.'XH+ 'Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.G9 Then God said to Noah,XF+ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.wEi  It was in the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month and on the first of the month, that the waters began drying out on earth. Noah lifted back the hatch of the ark and looked out. The surface of the ground was dry!aD=  After waiting seven more days, he released the dove, and now it returned to him no more.(CK  In the evening, the dove came back to him and there in its beak was a freshly-picked olive leaf! So Noah realised that the waters were receding from the earth.PB  After waiting seven more days, he again released the dove from the ark.XA+  But the dove, finding nowhere to perch, returned to him in the ark, for there was water over the whole surface of the earth; putting out his hand he took hold of it and brought it back into the ark with him.h@K He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of the earth.h?K and released a raven, which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on earth.O> At the end of forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark=y The waters gradually fell until the tenth month when, on the first day of the tenth month, the mountain tops appeared.x<k and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.k;Q Little by little, the waters ebbed from the earth. After a hundred and fifty days the waters fell,x:k The springs of the deep and the sluices of heaven were stopped up and the heavy rain from heaven was held back..9 Y But God had Noah in mind, and all the wild animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. God sent a wind across the earth and the waters began to subside.Q8 The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.D7 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out, people, animals, creeping things and birds; they were wiped off the earth and only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.`6; Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died.53 And all living things that stirred on earth perished; birds, cattle, wild animals, all the creatures swarming over the earth, and all human beings.T4# The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains.3 The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were submerged.e2E The waters rose, swelling higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters.s1a The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground.0 and those that went aboard were a male and female of all that was alive, as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut him in.]/5 One pair of all that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah,P. and with them every species of wild animal, every species of cattle, every species of creeping things that creep along the ground, every species of bird, everything that flies, everything with wings.-}  That very day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth boarded the ark, with Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons,F,  And heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights.Q+  In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened.D*  Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on earth.a)=  one pair boarded the ark with Noah, one male and one female, as God had commanded Noah.)u(e (Of the clean animals and the animals that are not clean, of the birds and all that creeps along the ground,m'U Noah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives boarded the ark to escape the waters of the flood.W&) Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, the waters over the earth.1%_ Noah did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.'$I For in seven days' time I shall make it rain on earth for forty days and forty nights, and I shall wipe every creature I have made off the face of the earth.'z#o (and of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, a male and its female), to preserve their species throughout the earth."% Of every clean animal you must take seven pairs, a male and its female; of the unclean animals you must take one pair, a male and its female! + Yahweh said to Noah, 'Go aboard the ark, you and all your household, for you alone of your contemporaries do I see before me as an upright man.< u Noah did this; exactly as God commanded him, he did.  For your part, provide yourself with eatables of all kinds, and lay in a store of them, to serve as food for yourself and them.'-U Of every species of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that creeps along the ground, two must go with you so that their lives may be saved.,S From all living creatures, from all living things, you must take two of each kind aboard the ark, to save their lives with yours; they must be a male and a female.+ But with you I shall establish my covenant and you will go aboard the ark, yourself, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives along with you.0[ 'For my part I am going to send the flood, the waters, on earth, to destroy all living things having the breath of life under heaven; everything on earth is to perish.#A Make a roof to the ark, building it up to a cubit higher. Put the entrance in the side of the ark, which is to be made with lower, second and third decks.  This is how to make it: the length of the ark is to be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.lS Make yourself an ark out of resinous wood. Make it of reeds and caulk it with pitch inside and out.F  God said to Noah, 'I have decided that the end has come for all living things, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of human beings. So I am now about to destroy them and the earth.jO  God looked at the earth: it was corrupt, for corrupt were the ways of all living things on earth.D  God saw that the earth was corrupt and full of lawlessness.8m  Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.ym  This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, an upright man among his contemporaries, and he walked with God.%G But Noah won Yahweh's favour.F And Yahweh said, 'I shall rid the surface of the earth of the human beings whom I created -- human and animal, the creeping things and the birds of heaven -- for I regret having made them.'U% Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart. Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long.C The Nephilim were on earth in those days (and even afterwards) when the sons of God resorted to the women, and had children by them. These were the heroes of days gone by, men of renown.# A Yahweh said, 'My spirit cannot be indefinitely responsible for human beings, who are only flesh; let the time allowed each be a hundred and twenty years.'v g the sons of God, looking at the women, saw how beautiful they were and married as many of them as they chose.W  + When people began being numerous on earth, and daughters had been born to them,P   When Noah was five hundred years old he fathered Shem, Ham and Japheth.V ' In all, Lamech lived for seven hundred and seventy-seven years; then he died.vg After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived for five hundred and ninety-five years and fathered sons and daughters.D He gave him the name Noah because, he said, 'Here is one who will give us, in the midst of our toil and the labouring of our hands, a consolation out of the very soil that Yahweh cursed.'N When Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old he fathered a son.V' In all, Methuselah lived for nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died.y After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived for seven hundred and eighty-two years and he fathered sons and daughters.U% When Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old he fathered Lamech.G Enoch walked with God, then was no more, because God took him.D In all, Enoch lived for three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God. After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived for three hundred years and he fathered sons and daughters.D When Enoch was sixty-five years old he fathered Methuselah.P~ In all, Jared lived for nine hundred and sixty-two years; then he died.j}O After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived for eight hundred years and he fathered sons and daughters.L| When Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old he fathered Enoch.W{) In all, Mahalalel lived for eight hundred and ninety-five years; then he died.yzm After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived for eight hundred and thirty years and he fathered sons and daughters.Cy When Mahalalel was sixty-five years old he fathered Jared.Jx In all, Kenan lived for nine hundred and ten years; then he died.xwk  After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived for eight hundred and forty years and he fathered sons and daughters.?v{  When Kenan was seventy years old he fathered Mahalalel.Ku  In all, Enosh lived for nine hundred and five years; then he died.vtg  After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived for eight hundred and fifteen years and he fathered sons and daughters.:sq  When Enosh was ninety years old he fathered Kenan.Lr In all, Seth lived for nine hundred and twelve years; then he died.tqc After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived for eight hundred and seven years, and he fathered sons and daughters.Fp When Seth was a hundred and five years old he fathered Enosh.Lo In all, Adam lived for nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.gnI Adam lived for eight hundred years after the birth of Seth and he fathered sons and daughters.m When Adam was a hundred and thirty years old he fathered a son, in his likeness, after his image, and he called him Seth.mlU Male and female he created them. He blessed them and gave them the name Man, when they were created.tk e This is the roll of Adam's descendants: On the day that God created Adam he made him in the likeness of God.ojY A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. This man was the first to invoke the name Yahweh.Di Adam had intercourse with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she named Seth, 'because God has granted me other offspring', she said, 'in place of Abel, since Cain has killed him.'Hh Sevenfold vengeance for Cain, but seventy-sevenfold for Lamech. g; Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I killed a man for wounding me, a boy for striking me. f As for Zillah, she gave birth to Tubal-Cain: he was the ancestor of all who work copper and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.ae= His brother's name was Jubal: he was the ancestor of all who play the harp and the pipe.Qd Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the ancestor of tent-dwelling herdsmen.hcK Lamech married two women: the name of the first was Adah and the name of the second was Zillah.wbi Enoch fathered Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael; Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.$aC Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. He became the founder of a city and gave the city the name of his son Enoch.R` Cain left Yahweh's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.2__ 'Very well, then,' Yahweh replied, 'whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.' So Yahweh put a mark on Cain, so that no one coming across him would kill him.'^I Look, today you drive me from the surface of the earth. I must hide from you, and be a restless wanderer on earth. Why, whoever comes across me will kill me!'M]  Cain then said to Yahweh, 'My punishment is greater than I can bear.|\s  When you till the ground it will no longer yield up its strength to you. A restless wanderer you will be on earth.'z[o  Now be cursed and banned from the ground that has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood at your hands.oZY  'What have you done?' Yahweh asked. 'Listen! Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.tYc  Yahweh asked Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' 'I do not know,' he replied. 'Am I my brother's guardian?'X Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let us go out'; and while they were in the open country, Cain set on his brother Abel and killed him.4Wc If you are doing right, surely you ought to hold your head high! But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.';Vs Yahweh asked Cain, 'Why are you angry and downcast?hUK But he did not look with favour on Cain and his offering, and Cain was very angry and downcast.T) while Abel for his part brought the first-born of his flock and some of their fat as well. Yahweh looked with favour on Abel and his offering.`S; Time passed and Cain brought some of the produce of the soil as an offering for Yahweh, R She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks, while Cain tilled the soil.Q + The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. 'I have acquired a man with the help of Yahweh,' she said.)PM He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.kOQ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken.RN Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!'SM! Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them.WL) The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live.&KG By the sweat of your face will you earn your food, until you return to the ground, as you were taken from it. For dust you are and to dust you shall return.'UJ% It will yield you brambles and thistles, as you eat the produce of the land.jIO To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, Accursed be the soil because of you! Painfully will you get your food from it as long as you live.=Hu To the woman he said: I shall give you intense pain in childbearing, you will give birth to your children in pain. Your yearning will be for your husband, and he will dominate you.G! I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.'?Fy Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this, Accursed be you of all animals wild and tame! On your belly you will go and on dust you will feed as long as you live.wEi  Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'qD]  The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.'qC]  'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?'lBS  'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.'EA  But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked.%@E The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.?3 Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.v>g The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.=y God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.'@<} Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die!; But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." 'X:+ The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden.>9 y Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?'f8G Now, both of them were naked, the man and his wife, but they felt no shame before each other.t7c This is why a man leaves his father and mother and becomes attached to his wife, and they become one flesh.6 And the man said: This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh! She is to be called Woman, because she was taken from Man.i5M Yahweh God fashioned the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man.4- Then, Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And, while he was asleep, he took one of his ribs and closed the flesh up again forthwith.3' The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild animals. But no helper suitable for the man was found for him.Q2 So from the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it.d1C Yahweh God said, 'It is not right that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper.'0 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat; for, the day you eat of that, you are doomed to die.'h/K Then Yahweh God gave the man this command, 'You are free to eat of all the trees in the garden.h.K Yahweh God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it.u-e The third river is named the Tigris, and this flows to the east of Ashur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.Z,/  The second river is named the Gihon, and this winds all through the land of Cush.X++  The gold of this country is pure; bdellium and cornelian stone are found there.k*Q  The first is named the Pishon, and this winds all through the land of Havilah where there is gold.f)G  A river flowed from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided to make four streams.M(  From the soil, Yahweh God caused to grow every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.n'W Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned.& Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being.Y%- Instead, water flowed out of the ground and watered all the surface of the soil.0$[ there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil.w#i Such was the story of heaven and earth as they were created. At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heavent"c God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on that day he rested after all his work of creating. ! On the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing.B   Thus heaven and earth were completed with all their array.k S God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day.: q And to all the wild animals, all the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that creep along the ground, I give all the foliage of the plants as their food.' And so it was.2 a God also said, 'Look, to you I give all the seed-bearing plants everywhere on the surface of the earth, and all the trees with seed-bearing fruit; this will be your food.H  God blessed them, saying to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth.'u g God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.l U God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.'& I God made wild animals in their own species, and cattle in theirs, and every creature that crawls along the earth in its own species. God saw that it was good.! ? God said, 'Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species: cattle, creeping things and wild animals of all kinds.' And so it was.4 g Evening came and morning came: the fifth day. { God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds multiply on land.'5 g God created great sea-monsters and all the creatures that glide and teem in the waters in their own species, and winged birds in their own species. God saw that it was good.% G God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way above the earth across the vault of heaven.' And so it was.5 i Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.d E to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness. God saw that it was good.B  God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth,  God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day, the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars.X - Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.' And so it was.  God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years.4  g Evening came and morning came: the third day.6  i The earth produced vegetation: the various kinds of seed-bearing plants and the fruit trees with seed inside, each corresponding to its own species. God saw that it was good.@  } God said, 'Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on earth, bearing fruit with their seed inside, each corresponding to its own species.' And so it was.d  E God called the dry land 'earth' and the mass of waters 'seas', and God saw that it was good.y  o God said, 'Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear.' And so it was.U ' God called the vault 'heaven'. Evening came and morning came: the second day.f I God made the vault, and it divided the waters under the vault from the waters above the vault.u g God said, 'Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.' And so it was.m W God called light 'day', and darkness he called 'night'. Evening came and morning came: the first day.I  God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness.; u God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.y o Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.4 i In the beginning God created heaven and earth. f~~N}},||){{BzzzGyyy(xxxCwww6vvv5uulttsstrr}qqzpp'onnqmmnllhlkjjj iihhthgg8ff eddcc&bbBaa'``D__0^^g]]'\n[[SZZ0YYX[WWQVV/U|UHTTuSSKRRCQQIPPaOONNbNMLL^KKcJJ%IIIkIHEGG*F@EE(DD/CCBvAAzA@@T???M>>b=<<8;;":O99887]76%5T4433]322310003// .--,,p++U**g)))(?''F&&%%+$$<#""B! Mf5zGn&B;   q + / ? * }Y^/U% To Sarah he said, 'Look, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. This will allay suspicions about you, as far as all the people round you are concerned; you have been completely vindicated.'X+ And Abimelech said, 'Look, my land is open to you. Settle wherever you please.'}~u Abimelech took sheep, cattle, men and women slaves, and presented them to Abraham, and gave him back his wife Sarah.+}Q  So when God made me wander far from my father's home I said to her, "There is an act of love you can do me: everywhere we go, say of me that I am your brother." 'm|U  Anyway, she really is my sister, my father's daughter though not my mother's, besides being my wife.{  'Because', Abraham replied, 'I thought there would be no fear of God here and that I should be killed for the sake of my wife.Qz  Abimelech then said to Abraham, 'What possessed you to do such a thing?'Ly  Then summoning Abraham, Abimelech said to him, 'What have you done to us? What wrong have I done you, for you to bring such guilt on me and on my kingdom? You had no right to treat me like this.'x Early next morning, Abimelech summoned his full court and told them the whole story, at which the people were very much afraid.Dw Now send the man's wife back; for he is a prophet and can intercede on your behalf for your life. But understand that if you do not send her back, this means death for you and all yours.':vo 'Yes, I know,' God replied in the dream, 'that you did this with a clear conscience and I myself prevented you from sinning against me. That was why I did not let you touch her.u) Did he not tell me himself, "She is my sister"? And she herself said, "He is my brother." I did this with a clear conscience and clean hands.'ttc Abimelech, however, had not gone near her; so he said, 'Lord, would you kill someone even if he is upright?s/ But God visited Abimelech in a dream one night. 'You are to die,' he told him, 'because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.'vrg Abraham said of his wife Sarah, 'She is my sister,' and Abimelech the king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.tq e Abraham left there for the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While staying in Gerar,p} &The younger also gave birth to a son whom she named Ben-Ammi; and he is the ancestor of the Bene-Ammon of our own times.toc %The elder gave birth to a son whom she named Moab; and he is the ancestor of the Moabites of our own times.Cn $Both Lot's daughters thus became pregnant by their father.m3 #They made their father drunk that night too, and the younger went and slept with him, though he was unaware of her coming to bed or of her leaving.clA "The next day the elder said to the younger, 'Last night, I was the one who slept with our father. Let us make him drunk again tonight, and you go and sleep with him. In this way we can preserve the race by our father.'k! !That night they made their father drunk, and the elder slept with her father though he was unaware of her coming to bed or of her leaving.zjo  Come on, let us ply our father with wine and sleep with him. In this way we can preserve the race by our father.'i The elder said to the younger, 'Our father is an old man, and there is no one here to marry us in the normal way of the world. h; After leaving Zoar Lot settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he dared not stay at Zoar. He lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.Gg Thus it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he did not forget Abraham and he rescued Lot from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities where Lot was living.f! and looking towards Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole area of the plain, he saw the smoke rising from the ground like smoke from a furnace.Ue% Next morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before Yahweh,Jd But Lot's wife looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.c{ He overthrew those cities and the whole plain, with all the people living in the cities and everything that grew there.]b5 Then Yahweh rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire of his own sending.Ea The sun rose over the horizon just as Lot was entering Zoar.s`a Hurry, flee to that one, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.' That is why the town is named Zoar.`_; He replied, 'I grant you this favour too, and will not overthrow the town you speak of.^ That town over there is near enough to flee to, and is small. Let me flee there-after all it is only a small place -- and so survive.'9]m 'You have already been very good to your servant and shown me even greater love by saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, or disaster will overtake me and I shall die.+\S 'Oh no, my lord!' Lot said to them,1[] When they had brought him outside, he was told, 'Flee for your life. Do not look behind you or stop anywhere on the plain. Flee to the hills or you will be swept away.'7Zi And as he hesitated, the men seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters -- Yahweh being merciful to him -- and led him out and left him outside the city..YW When dawn broke the angels urged Lot on, 'To your feet! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.'^X7 So Lot went off and spoke to his future sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters. 'On your feet!' he said, 'Leave this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city.' But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.W-  for we are about to destroy this place, since the outcry to Yahweh against those in it has grown so loud that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.'V  The men said to Lot, 'Have you anyone else here? Your sons, your daughters and all your people in the city, take them away,U  And they dazzled those who were at the door of the house, one and all, with a blinding light, so that they could not find the doorway.^T7  But the men reached out, pulled Lot back into the house with them, and shut the door._S9  But they retorted, 'Stand back! This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge. Now we shall treat you worse than them.' Then they forced Lot back and moved forward to break down the door.IR Look, I have two daughters who are virgins. I am ready to send them out to you, for you to treat as you please, but do nothing to these men since they are now under the protection of my roof.'2Qa said, 'Please, brothers, do not be wicked.OP Lot came out to them at the door and, having shut the door behind him,O Calling out to Lot they said, 'Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so that we can have intercourse with them.'N/ They had not gone to bed when the house was surrounded by the townspeople, the men of Sodom both young and old, all the people without exception.#MA But he pressed them so much that they went home with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking unleavened bread, and they had supper.[L1 'My lords,' he said, 'please come down to your servant's house to stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can make an early start on your journey.' 'No,' they said, 'we shall spend the night in the square.',K U When the two angels reached Sodom in the evening, Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. As soon as Lot saw them, he stood up to greet them, and bowed to the ground.]J5 !When he had finished talking to Abraham Yahweh went away, and Abraham returned home.,IS  He said, 'I trust my Lord will not be angry if I speak once more: perhaps there will only be ten.' 'I shall not destroy it,' he replied, 'for the sake of the ten.'+HQ He said, 'It is presumptuous of me to speak to the Lord: Suppose there are only twenty there?' 'I shall not destroy it,' he replied, 'for the sake of the twenty.'2G_ Abraham said, 'I hope the Lord will not be angry if I go on: Suppose there are only thirty to be found there?' 'I shall not do it,' he replied, 'if I find thirty there.'F Abraham persisted and said, 'Suppose there are forty to be found there?' 'I shall not do it,' he replied, 'for the sake of the forty.'-EU Suppose the fifty upright were five short? Would you destroy the whole city because of five?' 'No,' he replied, 'I shall not destroy it if I find forty-five there.'lDS Abraham spoke up and said, 'It is presumptuous of me to speak to the Lord, I who am dust and ashes:}Cu Yahweh replied, 'If I find fifty upright people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place because of them.'4Bc Do not think of doing such a thing: to put the upright to death with the guilty, so that upright and guilty fare alike! Is the judge of the whole world not to act justly?'A7 Suppose there are fifty upright people in the city. Will you really destroy it? Will you not spare the place for the sake of the fifty upright in it?`@; Abraham stepped forward and said, 'Will you really destroy the upright with the guilty?[?1 While the men left there and went to Sodom, Yahweh remained in Abraham's presence. > that I shall go down and see whether or not their actions are at all as the outcry reaching me would suggest. Then I shall know.'h=K Then Yahweh said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin is so grave,Q< For I have singled him out to command his sons and his family after him to keep the way of Yahweh by doing what is upright and just, so that Yahweh can carry out for Abraham what he has promised him.'r;_ as Abraham will become a great and powerful nation and all nations on earth will bless themselves by him?V:' Now Yahweh had wondered, 'Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do,9} From there the men set out and arrived within sight of Sodom, with Abraham accompanying them to speed them on their way.n8W Sarah said, 'I did not laugh,' lying because she was afraid. But he replied, 'Oh yes, you did laugh.'z7o Nothing is impossible for Yahweh. I shall come back to you at the same time next year and Sarah will have a son.'w6i  But Yahweh asked Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh and say, "Am I really going to have a child now that I am old?"55  So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, 'Now that I am past the age of childbearing, and my husband is an old man, is pleasure to come my way again?'l4S  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well on in years, and Sarah had ceased to have her monthly periods.)3M  Then his guest said, 'I shall come back to you next year, and then your wife Sarah will have a son.' Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.V2'  'Where is your wife Sarah?' they asked him. 'She is in the tent,' he replied.!1= Then taking curds, milk and the calf which had been prepared, he laid all before them, and they ate while he remained standing near them under the tree.~0w Then, running to the herd, Abraham took a fine and tender calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to prepare it.t/c Abraham hurried to the tent and said to Sarah, 'Quick, knead three measures of best flour and make loaves.'-.U Let me fetch a little bread and you can refresh yourselves before going further, now that you have come in your servant's direction.' They replied, 'Do as you say.'g-I Let me have a little water brought, and you can wash your feet and have a rest under the tree.\,3 'My lord,' he said, 'if I find favour with you, please do not pass your servant by.(+K He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them, and bowed to the ground.* Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day.) and all the men of his household, those born in the household and those bought from foreigners, were circumcised with him.K( Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day,R' Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when his foreskin was circumcised.M& Abraham was ninety-nine years old when his foreskin was circumcised.n%W Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, all the slaves born in his household or whom he had bought, in short all the males among the people of Abraham's household, and circumcised their foreskins that same day, as God had said to him.H$ When he had finished speaking to Abraham, God went up from him.g#I But my covenant I shall maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear you at this time next year.'M" For Ishmael too I grant you your request. I hereby bless him and will make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I shall make him into a great nation.Z!/ But God replied, 'Yes, your wife Sarah will bear you a son whom you must name Isaac. And I shall maintain my covenant with him, a covenant in perpetuity, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him.W ) Abraham said to God, 'May Ishmael live in your presence! That will be enough!'4c Abraham bowed to the ground, and he laughed, thinking to himself, 'Is a child to be born to a man one hundred years old, and will Sarah have a child at the age of ninety?'# I shall bless her and moreover give you a son by her. I shall bless her and she will become nations: kings of peoples will issue from her.'nW Furthermore God said to Abraham, 'As regards your wife Sarai, you must not call her Sarai, but Sarah.# The uncircumcised male, whose foreskin has not been circumcised -- that person must be cut off from his people: he has broken my covenant.'%  Whether born within the household or bought, they must be circumcised. My covenant must be marked in your flesh as a covenant in perpetuity.O  As soon as he is eight days old, every one of your males, generation after generation, must be circumcised, including slaves born within the household or bought from a foreigner not of your descent.zo  You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that will be the sign of the covenant between myself and you.%  This is my covenant which you must keep between myself and you, and your descendants after you: every one of your males must be circumcised.  God further said to Abraham, 'You for your part must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation.9m And to you and to your descendants after you, I shall give the country where you are now immigrants, the entire land of Canaan, to own in perpetuity. And I shall be their God.'U% And I shall maintain my covenant between myself and you, and your descendants after you, generation after generation, as a covenant in perpetuity, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.kQ I shall make you exceedingly fertile. I shall make you into nations, and your issue will be kings.zo And you are no longer to be called Abram; your name is to be Abraham, for I am making you father of many nations.`; 'For my part, this is my covenant with you: you will become the father of many nations.D And Abram bowed to the ground. God spoke to him as follows,Z/ and I shall grant a covenant between myself and you, and make you very numerous.' } When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to him and said, 'I am El Shaddai. Live in my presence, be perfect,D Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.X + Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave his son borne by Hagar the name Ishmael.^ 7 This is why the well is called the well of Lahai Roi; it is between Kadesh and Bered. )  Hagar gave a name to Yahweh who had spoken to her, 'You are El Roi,' by which she meant, 'Did I not go on seeing here, after him who sees me?' -  A wild donkey of a man he will be, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him, living his life in defiance of all his kinsmen.( K  Then the angel of Yahweh said to her: Now, you have conceived and will bear a son, and you shall name him Ishmael, for Yahweh has heard your cries of distress.mU  The angel of Yahweh further said to her, 'I shall make your descendants too numerous to be counted.'W)  The angel of Yahweh said to her, 'Go back to your mistress and submit to her.'1 He said, 'Hagar, slave-girl of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?' 'I am running away from my mistress Sarai,' she replied.a= The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur.0[ 'Very well,' Abram said to Sarai, 'your slave-girl is at your disposal. Treat her as you think fit.' Sarai accordingly treated her so badly that she ran away from her.fG Then Sarai said to Abram, 'This outrage done to me is your fault! It was I who put my slave-girl into your arms but, now she knows that she has conceived, I count for nothing in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you!'y He went to Hagar and she conceived. And once she knew she had conceived, her mistress counted for nothing in her eyes.% Thus, after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai took Hagar her Egyptian slave-girl and gave her to Abram as his wife.<s So Sarai said to Abram, 'Listen, now! Since Yahweh has kept me from having children, go to my slave-girl. Perhaps I shall get children through her.' And Abram took Sarai's advice.c C Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no child, but she had an Egyptian slave-girl called Hagar.K~ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'2}a the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,4|e the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,.{W That day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram in these terms: 'To your descendants I give this country, from the River of Egypt to the Great River, the River Euphrates,z When the sun had set and it was dark, there appeared a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passing between the animals' pieces.y In the fourth generation they will come back here, for until then the iniquity of the Amorites will not have reached its full extent.'exE For your part, you will join your ancestors in peace; you will be buried at a happy old age.|ws But I shall bring judgement on the nation that enslaves them and after this they will leave, with many possessions./vY  Then Yahweh said to Abram, 'Know this for certain, that your descendants will be exiles in a land not their own, and be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.uue  Now, as the sun was on the point of setting, a trance fell on Abram, and a deep dark dread descended on him.Wt)  And whenever birds of prey swooped down on the carcases, Abram drove them off.s  He brought him all these, split the animals down the middle and placed each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not divide.r  He said to him, 'Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon.'Pq 'Lord Yahweh,' Abram replied, 'how can I know that I shall possess it?'p He then said to him, 'I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldaeans to give you this country as your possession.'So! Abram put his faith in Yahweh and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.n Then taking him outside, he said, 'Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so will your descendants be,' he told him.m Then Yahweh's word came to him in reply, 'Such a one will not be your heir; no, your heir will be the issue of your own body.'llS Since you have given me no offspring,' Abram continued, 'a member of my household will be my heir.'ikM 'Lord Yahweh,' Abram replied, 'what use are your gifts, as I am going on my way childless? . . .j - Some time later, the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram! I am your shield and shall give you a very great reward.'iI For myself, nothing -- except what the troops have used up, and the share due to the men who came with me, Eshcol, Aner and Mamre; let them take their share.'|hs not one thread, not one sandal strap, will I take of what is yours, for you to be able to say, "I made Abram rich."hgK But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, 'I swear by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth:efE The king of Sodom said to Abram, 'Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.'1e_ And Abram gave him a tenth of everything./dY He pronounced this blessing: Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And blessed be God Most High for putting your enemies into your clutches.\c3 Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High.?by When Abram returned from defeating Chedor-Laomer and the kings who had been on his side, the king of Sodom came to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King).xak He recaptured all the goods as well as his kinsman Lot and his possessions, together with the women and people. ` He and his retainers deployed against them under cover of dark, defeated them and pursued them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.;_q When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he mustered his retainers born in his own household, numbering three hundred and eighteen, and gave chase as far as Dan.^9  A survivor came to tell Abram, and Aner the Hebrew, who was living at the Oak of the Amorite Mamre, the brother of Eshcol; these were allies of Abram.p][  They also took Lot (the nephew of Abram) and his possessions and made off; he had been living at Sodom.q\]  The conquerors seized all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and made off.+[Q  Now there were many bitumen wells in the Valley of Siddim, and in their flight the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell into them, while the rest fled into the hills. Z  Chedor-Laomer king of Elam, Tidal king of the Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar: four kings against five. Y Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and engaged them in the Valley of Siddim:5Xe Wheeling round, they came to the Spring of Judgement (that is, Kadesh); they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-Tamar.kWQ the Horites in the mountainous district of Seir near El-Paran, which is on the edge of the desert.NV In the fourteenth year Chedor-Laomer arrived and the kings who had allied themselves with him. They defeated the Rephaim at Ashteroth-Carnaim, the Zuzim at Ham, the Emim in the Plain of Kiriathaim,rU_ For twelve years they had been under the yoke of Chedor-Laomer, but in the thirteenth year they revolted.QT all the latter joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (now the Salt Sea).S) made war on Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar),vR i When Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedor-Laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of the Goiim,zQo So Abram moved his tent and went to settle at the Oak of Mamre, at Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.cPA On your feet! Travel the length and breadth of the country, for I mean to give it to you.';Oq I shall make your descendants like the dust on the ground; when people succeed in counting the specks of dust on the ground, then they will be able to count your descendants too!YN- for all the land within sight I shall give to you and your descendants for ever.M Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had parted company from him, 'Look all round from where you are, to north and south, to east and west,OL Now the people of Sodom were vicious and great sinners against Yahweh.K Abram settled in the land of Canaan; Lot settled among the cities of the plain, pitching his tents on the outskirts of Sodom.iJM So Lot chose all the Jordan plain for himself and moved off eastwards. Thus they parted company:AI} Looking round, Lot saw all the Jordan plain, irrigated everywhere -- this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah-like the garden of Yahweh or the land of Egypt, as far as Zoar.$HC Is not the whole land open before you? Go in the opposite direction to me: if you take the left, I shall go right; if you take the right, I shall go left.'G{ Accordingly Abram said to Lot, 'We do not want discord between us or between my herdsmen and yours, for we are kinsmen.F7 Dispute broke out between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and those of Lot. (The Canaanites and Perizzites were living in the country at the time.)E The land was not sufficient to accommodate them both at once, for they had too many possessions to be able to live together.]D5 Lot, who was travelling with Abram, had flocks and cattle of his own, and tents too.fCG at the place where he had formerly erected the altar. There Abram invoked the name of Yahweh.pB[ By stages he went from the Negeb to Bethel, where he had first pitched his tent, between Bethel and Ai,:Aq Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold.d@ E From Egypt Abram returned to the Negeb with his wife and all he possessed, and Lot with him.v?g And Pharaoh gave his people orders about him; they sent him on his way with his wife and all his possessions.y>m Why did you say, "She is my sister," so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!'z=o So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, 'What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?h<K But Yahweh inflicted severe plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai. ; And Abram was very well treated because of her and received flocks, oxen, donkeys, men and women slaves, she-donkeys and camels.|:s When Pharaoh's officials saw her they sang her praises to Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's household.d9C When Abram arrived in Egypt the Egyptians did indeed see that the woman was very beautiful.8 Therefore please tell them you are my sister, so that they may treat me well because of you and spare my life out of regard for you.'q7] When the Egyptians see you they will say, "That is his wife," and they will kill me but leave you alive.n6W When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, 'Look, I know you are a beautiful woman.5 There was a famine in the country, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a time, since the famine in the country was severe.<4u Then Abram made his way stage by stage to the Negeb.T3# From there he moved on to the mountainous district east of Bethel, where he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and invoked the name of Yahweh.21 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, 'I shall give this country to your progeny.' And there, Abram built an altar to Yahweh who had appeared to him.1 Abram passed through the country as far as the holy place at Shechem, the Oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were in the country at the time.;0q Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had amassed and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set off for the land of Canaan, and arrived there.v/g So Abram went as Yahweh told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.. I shall bless those who bless you, and shall curse those who curse you, and all clans on earth will bless themselves by you.'t-c and I shall make you a great nation, I shall bless you and make your name famous; you are to be a blessing!}, w Yahweh said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your kindred and your father's house for a country which I shall show you;O+ Terah's life lasted two hundred and five years; then he died at Haran.^*7 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law the wife of Abram, and made them leave Ur of the Chaldaeans to go to the land of Canaan. But on arrival in Haran they settled there.*)Q Sarai was barren, having no child.(! Abram and Nahor both married: Abram's wife was called Sarai, Nahor's wife was called Milcah daughter of Haran, father of Milcah and Iscah.a'= Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in his native land, Ur of the Chaldaeans.b&? These are Terah's descendants: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. Haran fathered Lot.M% When Terah was seventy years old he fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.l$S After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.?#{ When Nahor was twenty-nine years old he fathered Terah.a"= After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.:!q When Serug was thirty years old he fathered Nahor.i M After the birth of Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.<u When Reu was thirty-two years old he fathered Serug.hK After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years and fathered sons and daughters.8m When Peleg was thirty years old he fathered Reu.lS After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.>y When Eber was thirty-four years old he fathered Peleg.lS After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.:q When Shelah was thirty years old he fathered Eber.r_ After the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.F When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old he fathered Shelah.fG After the birth of Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.{q These are Shem's descendants: When Shem was a hundred years old he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.9 That is why it was called Babel, since there Yahweh confused the language of the whole world, and from there Yahweh scattered them all over the world.]5 Yahweh scattered them thence all over the world, and they stopped building the city.lS Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they cannot understand one another.'/Y 'So they are all a single people with a single language!' said Yahweh. 'This is only the start of their undertakings! Now nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.V' Now Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.;q 'Come,' they said, 'let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top reaching heaven. Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we do not get scattered all over the world.'' They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire.' For stone they used bricks, and for mortar they used bitumen. x~~U}}}H||f{{zzyyyxx]wvvvuuWtsssarrNrqqRppWooo4nemm2lkk.jiii"h~gglg#feeQdd[dcckcbb>aaga<``0_^^2]]e\\u[[ ZiZYlXXXWMVVEUTTYSSGRREQPPOONN-MM$LfKKK-JJ>==<<.;;"::N9988>77n76k6955Z5 4433C22v11q1 00///2..--,,+?**))H(((''p'&s%%<$j##>#"/! /G}'a[9 8@b&7I ` & t  T F N U ?rtM{ #But he replied, 'Your brother came by fraud and took your blessing.'zzo "On hearing his father's words, Esau cried out loudly and bitterly and said to his father, 'Father, bless me too!']y5 !At this Isaac was seized with a violent trembling and said, 'Who was it, then, that went hunting and brought me the game? I finished eating it just before you came; I blessed him, and now blessed he will remain!']x5  His father Isaac asked, 'Who are you?' 'I am your first-born son, Esau,' he replied.w/ He too made an appetising dish and brought it to his father, 'Father, please eat some of your son's game and then give me your special blessing.'v As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and just as Jacob was leaving his father Isaac, his brother Esau returned from hunting.Nu Let peoples serve you and nations bow low before you! Be master of your brothers; let your mother's other sons bow low before you! Accursed be whoever curses you and blessed be whoever blesses you!ftG May God give you dew from heaven, and the richness of the earth, abundance of grain and wine!Hs He went closer and kissed his father, who sniffed the smell of his clothes. Then he blessed him, saying: Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a fertile field which Yahweh has blessed.Gr His father Isaac said to him, 'Come closer, and kiss me, son.'+qQ Isaac said, 'Serve it to me, so that I can eat my son's game and give you my special blessing.' He served it to him and he ate; he offered him wine, and he drank.Gp He said, 'Are you really my son Esau?' And he replied, 'I am.'koQ He did not recognise him since his arms were hairy like his brother Esau's, and so he blessed him.n Jacob went closer to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, 'The voice is Jacob's voice but the arms are the arms of Esau!'my Isaac said to Jacob, 'Come closer, son, so that I can feel you and be sure whether you really are my son Esau or not.'l Isaac said to his son, 'Son, how did you succeed so quickly?' He replied, 'Because Yahweh your God made things go well for me.'8kk Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau your first-born; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the game I have brought and then give me your soul's blessing.'aj= He went to his father and said, 'Father!' 'Yes?' he replied. 'Which of my sons are you?'Vi' She then handed the special dish and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.Vh' covering his arms and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the kids.zgo Rebekah took her elder son Esau's best clothes, which she had at home, and dressed her younger son Jacob in them,yfm So he went to fetch them and brought them to his mother, and she made the kind of special dish his father liked.keQ  But his mother replied, 'On me be the curse, my son! Just listen to me; go and fetch me the kids.' d  If my father happens to touch me, he will see I am cheating him, and I shall bring a curse down on myself instead of a blessing.'fcG  Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, 'Look, my brother Esau is hairy, while I am smooth-skinned.^b7  Then take it to your father for him to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.'xak  Go to the flock and bring me back two good kids, so that I can make the kind of special dish your father likes.4`e Now, son, listen to me and do as I tell you._ "Bring me some game and make an appetising dish for me to eat and then I shall bless you in Yahweh's presence before I die."c^A Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'I have just heard your father saying to your brother Esau,] Rebekah was listening while Isaac was talking to his son Esau. So when Esau went into the country to hunt game for his father,\ Make me the kind of appetising dish I like and bring it to me to eat and I shall give you my special blessing before I die.'c[A Now take your weapons, your quiver and bow; go out into the country and hunt me some game.FZ He then said, 'Look, I am old and do not know when I may die.'Y K When Isaac had grown old, and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he summoned his elder son Esau. 'Son!' he said, and Esau replied, 'Here I am.'@X} #These were a bitter disappointment to Isaac and Rebekah.W "When Esau was forty years old he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.XV+ !So he called the well Sheba, and hence the town is named Beersheba to this day.U-  It happened, the same day, that Isaac's servants brought him news about the well they had been digging. 'We have found water!' they said to him.nTW Early next morning, they exchanged oaths. Then Isaac bade them farewell and they left him as friends.9So He then made them a feast and they ate and drank.,RS that you will not do us any harm, since we never molested you but were unfailingly kind to you and let you go away in peace. Henceforth, Yahweh's blessing on you!'DQ 'It became clear to us that Yahweh was with you,' they replied, 'and so we thought, "It is time to have a treaty sworn between us, between us and you." So let us make a covenant with you:cPA Isaac said to them, 'Why do you come to me since you hate me, and have made me leave you?'nOW Abimelech came from Gerar to see him, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.N There he built an altar and invoked the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and there Isaac's servants sank a well.OM Yahweh appeared to him the same night and said: I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I shall bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.+LS From there he went up to Beersheba.:Ko Then he left there, and dug another well, and since there was no dispute over this one, he named it Rehoboth, saying, 'Now Yahweh has made room for us to thrive in the country.'aJ= They dug another well, and there was a dispute over that one too; so he named it Sitnah.!I= the herdsmen of Gerar disputed it with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, 'That water is ours!' So Isaac named the well Esek, because they had disputed with him.^H7 But when Isaac's servants, digging in the valley, found a well of spring-water there,BG Isaac reopened the wells dug by the servants of his father Abraham and blocked up by the Philistines after Abraham's death, and he gave them the same names as his father had given them.SF! So Isaac left; he pitched camp in the Valley of Gerar and there he stayed.oEY Then Abimelech said to Isaac, 'You must leave us, for you have become much more powerful than we are.'D' The Philistines had blocked up all the wells dug by his father's servants -- in the days of his father Abraham -- filling them in with earth.]C5 He acquired flocks and herds and a large retinue. The Philistines began to envy him.[B1  and the man became rich; he prospered more and more until he was very rich indeed.iAM  Isaac sowed his crops in that country, and that year he reaped a hundredfold. Yahweh blessed himy@m  Then Abimelech issued this order to all the people: 'Whoever touches this man or his wife will be put to death.'?3  Abimelech said, 'What a thing to do to us! One of the people might easily have slept with your wife. We should have incurred guilt, thanks to you.'D>  Abimelech summoned Isaac and said to him, 'Surely she must be your wife! How could you have said, "She is my sister"?' Isaac replied, 'Because I thought I might be killed on her account.'=# When he had been there some time, Abimelech the Philistine king happened to look out of the window and saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah.g<I When the people of the place asked him about his wife he replied, 'She is my sister,' for he was afraid to say, 'She is my wife,' thinking, 'The people of the place will kill me because of Rebekah, since she is beautiful.'!;? So Isaac stayed at Gerar.m:U in return for Abraham's obedience; for he kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes and my laws.'89k I shall make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I shall give them all these countries, and all nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendantsN8 Remain for the present in that country; I shall be with you and bless you, for I shall give all these countries to you and your descendants in fulfilment of the oath I swore to your father Abraham.{7q Yahweh had appeared to him and said, 'Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the country which I shall point out to you.56 g There was a famine in the country -- different from the previous famine which took place in the time of Abraham -- and Isaac went to Abimelech, the Philistine king at Gerar. 5 "Then Jacob gave him some bread and lentil stew; he ate, drank, got up and went away. That was all Esau cared about his birthright.k4Q !Then Jacob said, 'First give me your oath'; he gave him his oath and sold his birthright to Jacob.Q3  Esau said, 'Here I am, at death's door; what use is a birthright to me?'A2 Jacob said, 'First, give me your birthright in exchange.'1y Esau said to Jacob, 'Give me a mouthful of that red stuff there; I am exhausted' -- hence the name given to him, Edom.[01 Once, when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau returned from the countryside exhausted.]/5 Isaac preferred Esau, for he had a taste for wild game; but Rebekah preferred Jacob.!.= When the boys grew up Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country. Jacob on the other hand was a quiet man, staying at home among the tents.-' Then his brother was born, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old at the time of their birth.],5 The first to be born was red, altogether like a hairy cloak; so they named him Esau.U+% When the time came for her confinement, there were indeed twins in her womb.?*y and Yahweh said to her: There are two nations in your womb, your issue will be two rival peoples. One nation will have the mastery of the other, and the elder will serve the younger.) But the children inside her struggled so much that she said, 'If this is the way of it, why go on living?' So she went to consult Yahweh,( Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. Yahweh heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.' Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-Aram, and sister of Laban the Aramaean.K& This is the story of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.%- He lived in the territory stretching from Havilah-by-Shur just outside Egypt on the way to Assyria, and he held his own against all his kinsmen.$ The number of years Ishmael lived was one hundred and thirty-seven. When he breathed his last and died, he was gathered to his people.#! These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, according to their settlements and encampments, twelve chiefs of as many tribes.0"] Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.!7 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,   These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by name and line: Ishmael's first-born was Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,cA  These are the descendants of Ishmael son of Abraham by Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian slave-girl.dC  After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac settled near the well of Lahai Roi.xk  This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites, and Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah facing Mamre, in the field of Ephron the Hittite son of Zohar.}u When Abraham had breathed his last, dying at a happy ripe age, old and full of years, he was gathered to his people.J The number of years Abraham lived was a hundred and seventy-five.) To the sons of his concubines Abraham made grants during his lifetime, sending them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the Land of the East.2a Abraham left all his possessions to Isaac.oY The descendants of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah. Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan, and the descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushim and the Leummim.K and she bore him Zimram, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.; u Abraham married another wife whose name was Keturah;5 CThen Isaac took her into his tent. He married Rebekah and made her his wife. And in his love for her, Isaac was consoled for the loss of his mother./[ BThe servant told Isaac the whole story./Y Aand asked the servant, 'Who is that man walking through the fields towards us?' The servant replied, 'That is my master.' So she took her veil and covered herself up.M @And Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She jumped down from her camel,lS ?While Isaac was out walking towards evening in the fields, he looked up and saw camels approaching.^7 >Isaac meanwhile had come back from the well of Lahai Roi and was living in the Negeb.~ w =And forthwith, Rebekah and her maids mounted the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah and departed.= u w /I asked her, "Whose daughter are you?" She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, whom Milcah bore to Nahor." Then I put this ring through her nose and these bracelets on her arms.\~3 .Quickly she lowered her pitcher saying, "Drink, and I shall water your camels too."4}c -I was still saying this in my mind when Rebekah came out, her pitcher on her shoulder. She came down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, "Please give me a drink."|3 ,if she replies, 'Drink by all means, and I shall draw water for your camels too,' let her be the girl whom Yahweh has decreed for my master's son."{% +While I stand by the spring, if a girl comes out to draw water and I say to her, 'Please give me a little water to drink from your pitcher,'z! *Arriving today at the spring I said, "Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant a successful outcome to the course I propose to take.vyg )Then you will be quit of my curse: if you go to my family and they refuse you, you will be quit of my curse."Vx' (and his reply was, "Yahweh, in whose presence I have walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey successful, for you to choose a wife for my son from my own kinsfolk, from my father's house.Pw 'I said to my master, "Suppose the girl will not agree to come with me?"hvK &Instead, you are to go to my father's home and to my own kinsfolk to choose a wife for my son."u %My master made me take this oath, "You are not to choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose country I live.ttc $Sarah, my master's wife, bore my master a son in his old age, and he has made over all his property to him.0s[ #Yahweh has loaded my master with blessings, and Abraham is now very rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, men and women slaves, camels and donkeys.)rO "He said, 'I am Abraham's servant.}qu !They offered him food, but he said, 'I will eat nothing before I have said what I have to say.' Laban said, 'Speak.''pI  The man went to the house, and Laban unloaded the camels. He provided straw and fodder for the camels and water for him and his companions to wash their feet.o He said to him, 'Come in, blessed of Yahweh, why stay out here when I have cleared the house and made room for the camels?'knQ As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets his sister was wearing, and had heard his sister Rebekah saying, 'This is what the man said to me,' he went to the man and found him still standing by his camels at the spring.\m3 Now Rebekah had a brother called Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.Fl The girl ran to her mother's house to tell what had happened.5ke saying, 'Blessed be Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, for not withholding his faithful love from my master. Yahweh has led me straight to the house of my master's brother.'5jg Then the man bowed down and worshipped Yahweh\i3 And she went on, 'We have plenty of straw and fodder, and room to spend the night.'Xh+ She replied, 'I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son whom Milcah bore to Nahor.'|gs and said, 'Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room at your father's house for us to spend the night?':fo When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and put it through her nose, and put two bracelets weighing ten gold shekels on her arms, e All the while, the man stood watching her, not daring to speak, wondering whether Yahweh had made his journey successful or not.ydm She quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran to the well again to draw, and drew for all the camels.c When she had finished letting him drink, she said, 'I shall draw water for your camels, too, until they have had enough.'hbK She replied, 'Drink, my lord,' and quickly lowered her pitcher on her arm and gave him a drink.ba? Running towards her, the servant said, 'Please give me a sip of water from your pitcher.'` The girl was very beautiful, and a virgin; no man had touched her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher and came up again.4_c He had not finished speaking when out came Rebekah -- who was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor -- with a pitcher on her shoulder.^# I shall say to one of the girls, "Please lower your pitcher and let me drink." And if she answers, "Drink, and I shall water your camels too," let her be the one you have decreed for your servant Isaac; by this I shall know you have shown faithful love to my master.']]5  While I stand by the spring as the young women from the town come out to draw water,{\q  And he said, 'Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, give me success today and show faithful love to my master Abraham.[{  In the evening, at the time when women come out to draw water, he made the camels kneel outside the town near the well.Z'  The servant took ten of his master's camels and, carrying all kinds of gifts from his master, set out for the city of Nahor in Aram Naharaim.uYe  And the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham, and swore to him that he would do it.zXo If then the girl refuses to follow you, you will be quit of this oath to me. Only do not take my son back there.'W5 Yahweh, God of heaven and God of earth, who took me from my father's home, and from the land of my kinsfolk, and who promised me on oath, "I shall give this country to your descendants"-he will now send his angel ahead of you, so that you can get a wife for my son from there.KV Abraham replied, 'On no account are you to take my son back there.#UA The servant asked him, 'What if the girl does not want to follow me to this country? Should I then take your son back to the country from which you come?'^T7 but will go to my native land and my own kinsfolk to choose a wife for my son Isaac.'2S_ I am going to make you swear by Yahweh, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I liveRy Abraham said to the senior servant in his household, the steward of all his property, 'Place your hand under my thigh:eQ G By now Abraham was an old man, well on in years, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in every way.|Ps And so the field and the cave in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham's possession as a burial site of his own.O And after this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan.dNC into Abraham's possession in the sight of the Hittites, of all the inhabitants of his town.M9 Thus Ephron's field at Machpelah, facing Mamre -- the field and the cave in it and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field -- passed[L1 Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver he had stipulated in the hearing of the Hittites, namely four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current commercial rate.K 'Please listen to me, my lord. What is a plot of land for four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Bury your dead.'"JA Ephron replied to Abraham,GI  and, in the hearing of the local people, replied to Ephron as follows, 'Be good enough to listen to me. I shall pay the price of the field; accept it from me and I shall bury my dead there.'-HW  Abraham bowed low to the local peopleG-  'No, my lord, listen to me,' he said. 'I give you the field and the cave in it; I make this gift in the presence of my kinsmen. Bury your dead.'F9  Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all the inhabitants of his town.9Em  for him to let me have the cave he owns at Machpelah, which is on the edge of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence at its full price, for a burial site of my own.'D/ and pleaded with them as follows, 'If you consent to my removing my dead for burial, you must agree to intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar,OC At this, Abraham rose and bowed low to the local people, the Hittites,6Bg 'Please listen to us, my lord, we regard you as a prince of God; bury your dead in the best of our tombs; not one of us would refuse you his tomb for you to bury your dead.'(AM The Hittites replied to Abraham,@ 'I am a stranger resident here,' he said. 'Let me have a burial site of my own here, so that I can remove my dead for burial.'I? Then rising from beside his dead, Abraham spoke to the Hittites,x>k She died at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan, and Abraham proceeded to mourn and bewail her.H= The length of Sarah's life was a hundred and twenty-seven years.d<C He had a concubine named Reumah, and she too had children: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.u;e (and Bethuel was the father of Rebekah). These were the eight children Milcah gave Nahor, Abraham's brother./:[ Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, BethuelC9 Uz his first-born, Buz his brother, Kemuel father of Aram,z8o It happened some time later that Abraham received word that Milcah, too, had now borne sons to his brother Nahor:v7g Abraham went back to his servants, and together they set out for Beersheba, and Abraham settled in Beersheba.m6U All nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.'Q5 I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. 4 'I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son,F3 The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven.t2c Abraham called this place 'Yahweh provides', and hence the saying today: 'On the mountain Yahweh provides.'1)  Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. 0;  'Do not raise your hand against the boy,' the angel said. 'Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your own beloved son.'q/]  But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied.K.  Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.?-y  When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood., Abraham replied, 'My son, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering.' And the two of them went on together.:+o Isaac spoke to his father Abraham. 'Father?' he said. 'Yes, my son,' he replied. 'Look,' he said, 'here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?'&*G Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, loaded it on Isaac, and carried in his own hands the fire and the knife. Then the two of them set out together.)+ Then Abraham said to his servants, 'Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I are going over there; we shall worship and then come back to you.'N( On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.^'7 Early next morning Abraham saddled his donkey and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He chopped wood for the burnt offering and started on his journey to the place which God had indicated to him.K& God said, 'Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.'}% w It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he called. 'Here I am,' he replied.@$} "Abraham stayed for a long while in Philistine territory.]#5 !And Abraham planted a tamarisk at Beersheba and there he invoked the name of Yahweh."  After they had made a covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and went back to Philistine territory.b!? This was why the place was called Beersheba: because there the two of them swore an oath.g I He replied, 'You must accept these seven lambs from me as evidence that I have dug this well.'S! 'Why have you put these seven lambs on one side?' Abimelech asked Abraham.9o Abraham put seven lambs of the flock on one side.q] Abraham then took sheep and cattle and presented them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.1 'I do not know who has done this,' Abimelech said. 'You yourself have never mentioned it to me and, for myself, I heard nothing of it till today.']5 Abraham then reproached Abimelech about a well that Abimelech's servants had seized.-W 'Yes,' Abraham replied, 'I swear it.'[1 swear to me by God, here and now, that you will not act treacherously towards me or my kith and kin, but behave with the same faithful love to me and the land of which you are a guest as I have behaved to you.' About then, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, 'Since God is with you in everything you do,[1 He made his home in the desert of Paran, and his mother got him a wife from Egypt.cA God was with the boy. He grew up and made his home in the desert, and he became an archer.~w Then God opened Hagar's eyes and she saw a well, so she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.]5 Go and pick the boy up and hold him safe, for I shall make him into a great nation.'8k God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. 'What is wrong, Hagar?' he asked. 'Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy's cry in his plight.!= Then she went and sat down at a distance, about a bowshot away, thinking, 'I cannot bear to see the child die.' Sitting at a distance, she began to sob.R When the skin of water was finished she abandoned the child under a bush.C Early next morning, Abraham took some bread and a skin of water and, giving them to Hagar, put the child on her shoulder and sent her away. She wandered off into the desert of Beersheba.cA  But the slave-girl's son I shall also make into a great nation, for he too is your child.':o  but God said to him, 'Do not distress yourself on account of the boy and your slave-girl. Do whatever Sarah says, for Isaac is the one through whom your name will be carried on.Y -  This greatly distressed Abraham, because the slave-girl's child too was his son,   'Drive away that slave-girl and her son,' she said to Abraham, 'this slave-girl's son is not to share the inheritance with my son Isaac.'l S  Now Sarah watched the son that Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.e E The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham gave a great banquet on the day Isaac was weaned.{ q She added: Whoever would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne a son in his old age.a= Sarah said: God has given me cause to laugh! All who hear about this will laugh with me!L Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.`; Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.X+ Abraham named the son born to him Isaac, the son to whom Sarah had given birth.]5 Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time God had promised.N  Yahweh treated Sarah as he had said, and did what he had promised her.oY for Yahweh had made all the women of Abimelech's household barren on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife. Abraham then interceded with God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his slave-girls, so that they could have children, ~P}}1|{{ zzyyxwwavuuttgssrr>==d=u Then Jacob asked, 'Please tell me your name.' He replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' With that, he blessed him there.= He said, 'No longer are you to be called Jacob, but Israel since you have shown your strength against God and men and have prevailed.'A< The other said, 'What is your name?' 'Jacob,' he replied.o;Y He said, 'Let me go, for day is breaking.' Jacob replied, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.': who, seeing that he could not master him, struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.P9 And Jacob was left alone. Then someone wrestled with him until daybreakY8- After he had taken them across the stream, he sent all his possessions over too. 7 That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.Q6 The gift went ahead of him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.M5 And you must add, "Your servant Jacob himself is just behind us." ' For he thought, 'If I conciliate him by sending a gift in advance, perhaps he will be well inclined towards me when I face him.'43 He gave the same order to the second and the third, and to all who were following the droves. 'That is what you must say to Esau when you find him.~3w you will answer, "Your servant Jacob's. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And Jacob himself is just behind us." '.2W He gave the leading man this order: 'When my brother Esau meets you and asks, "Whose man are you? Where are you going? Whose are those animals that you are driving?"!1= He put them in the charge of his servants, in separate droves, and told his servants, 'Go ahead of me, leaving a space between each drove and the next.'o0Y thirty camels in milk with their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male.U/% two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,l.S Then Jacob passed that night there. From what he had with him he chose a gift for his brother Esau:-' Yet it was you who said, "I shall be very good to you, and make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which is too numerous to count." ' , I implore you, save me from my brother Esau's clutches, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me, mothers and children alike./+Y I am unworthy of all the faithful love and constancy you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, and now I have grown into two camps.*+ Jacob said, 'God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh who told me, "Go back to your native land and I will be good to you,"p)[ thinking, 'If Esau comes to one of the camps and attacks it, the remaining camp may be able to escape.'|(s Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, and the flocks and cattle, into two camps,&'G The messengers returned to Jacob and told him, 'We went to your brother Esau, and he is already on his way to meet you; there are four hundred men with him.'&% and I own oxen, beasts of burden and flocks, and men and women slaves. I send news of this to my lord in the hope of winning your favour." '.%W with these instructions, 'Say this to my lord Esau, "Here is the message of your servant Jacob: I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed there until now,b$? Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in Seir, the open country of Edom,[#1 and on seeing them he said, 'This is God's camp,' and he named the place Mahanaim.I" While Jacob was going on his way, angels of God encountered him,z! q Early next morning, Laban kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home.  6He offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his kinsmen to the meal. They ate the meal, and passed the night on the mountain.|s 5May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor judge between us.' Then Jacob swore by the Kinsman of his father Isaac.C 4This cairn is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I am not to cross to your side of this cairn and you are not to cross to my side of this cairn and pillar, with hostile intent.hK 3Then Laban said to Jacob, 'Here is this cairn I have thrown up between us, and here the pillar.' 2If you ill-treat my daughters or marry other women besides my daughters, even though no one be with us, remember: God is witness between us.'y 1and also Mizpah, because he said, 'Let Yahweh act as watchman between us when we are no longer in sight of each other.dC 0Laban said, 'May this cairn be a witness between us today.' That is why he named it Galeed,F /Laban called it Jegar-Sahadutha while Jacob called it Galeed. .Jacob said to his kinsmen, 'Collect some stones,' and gathering some stones they made a cairn. They had a meal there, on the cairn, and<u -Jacob then took a stone and set it up as a memorial.eE ,So come, let us make a pact, you and me . . . , and let that serve as a witness between us.'y +Laban replied to Jacob, 'These daughters are my daughters and these children are my children, this livestock is my livestock: everything you see belongs to me. But what can I do today about my daughters here or about the children they have borne?Y- *If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Kinsman of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God saw my plight and my labours, and last night he delivered judgement.'J )It was like this for the twenty years I spent in your household. Fourteen years I slaved for you for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, since you changed my wages ten times over.cA (In the daytime the heat devoured me, and frost at night; I never had a good night's sleep.&G 'Those mauled I never brought back to you, but bore the loss myself. You demanded compensation from me, whether the animal was stolen in daylight or at night. &In all the twenty years I was under you, your ewes and your she-goats never miscarried, and I never ate rams from your flock.K %You have gone through all my belongings; have you found anything belonging to your household? Produce it here in the presence of my brothers and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.!= $Then Jacob lost his temper and took Laban to task. And Jacob said to Laban, 'What is my offence, what is my crime, for you to have hounded me like this?B  #Then Rachel said to her father, 'Do not look angry, my lord, because I cannot rise in your presence, for I am as women are from time to time.' Laban searched but did not find the idols., S "Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them inside a camel cushion, and was sitting on them. Laban went through everything in the tent but found nothing.. W !Laban went into Jacob's tent, and then into Leah's tent and the tent of the two slave-girls, but he found nothing. He came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.f G  But whoever is found in possession of your gods shall not remain alive. In the presence of our brothers, examine for yourself what I have, and take what is yours.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had appropriated them.g I Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, thinking you were going to snatch your daughters from me.~w Now it may be you really went because you had such a longing for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?'  It is in my power to harm you, but the God of your father said to me last night, "On no account say anything whatever to Jacob."Z/ You did not even let me kiss my sons and daughters. You have behaved like a fool..W Why did you flee in secret, stealing away without letting me know, so that I could send you on your way rejoicing, with songs and the music of tambourines and harps?zo Laban said to Jacob, 'What do you mean by outwitting me and then carrying off my daughters like prisoners of war?sa Laban caught up with Jacob, who had pitched his tent in the hills; and Laban pitched camp on Mount Gilead. But God appeared to Laban the Aramaean in a dream that night and said to him, 'On no account say anything whatever to Jacob.'fG Taking his brothers with him, he pursued him for seven days and overtook him at Mount Gilead.<u Three days later Laban was told that Jacob had fled.eE Thus he got away with all he had. He was soon across the River and heading for Mount Gilead.e~E and Jacob had outwitted Laban the Aramaean so that he would not be forewarned of his flight.} Laban was away, shearing his sheep; Rachel in the meanwhile had appropriated the household idols belonging to her father,A|} and drove off all his livestock -- with all the possessions he had acquired, the livestock belonging to him which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram -- to go to his father Isaac in Canaan.C{ Forthwith, Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, z All the wealth that God has reclaimed from our father belonged to us and our children in any case. So do whatever God has told you.' y Does he not think of us as outsiders now? For not only has he sold us, but he has completely swallowed up the money he got for us.rx_ In answer Rachel and Leah said to him, 'Are we still likely to inherit anything from our father's estate?;wq  I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you poured oil on a pillar and made a vow to me. On your feet, then, leave this country and return to the land of your birth." '2v_  He said, "Now take note: all the he-goats covering the females are striped or spotted or piebald -- for I too have noted all the things that Laban has been doing to you,Ru  In the dream the angel of God called to me, "Jacob!" I said, "Here I am."t  Once, when the animals were on heat, I suddenly saw in a dream that the he-goats covering the females were striped or spotted or piebald.Ks  Thus God has reclaimed your father's livestock and given it to me.Jr Whenever he said, "The spotted ones will be your wages," all the animals produced spotted young; whenever he said, "The striped ones will be your wages," all the animals produced striped young.{qq and that your father has tricked me, changing my wages ten times over, and yet God has not allowed him to harm me.Rp You yourselves know that I have worked for your father with all my might,o' and he said to them, 'I can see that your father's manner towards me is not as it was in the past, but the God of my father has been with me.Qn So Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the fields where his flocks were,ume Yahweh said to Jacob, 'Go back to the land of your ancestors, where you were born, and I shall be with you.'_l9 and Jacob also saw that Laban's manner towards him was not as it had been in the past.2k a Jacob learned that Laban's sons were saying, 'Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father; it is at our father's expense that he has acquired all this wealth,'rj_ +Thus the man grew extremely rich, and came to own large flocks, men and women slaves, camels and donkeys.tic *But when the animals were feeble, he did not put them there; so Laban got the feeble, and Jacob the sturdy.7hi )Furthermore, whenever the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob put the shoots where the animals could see them, in the troughs, so that they would mate in front of the shoots.Gg (The ewes, on the other hand, Jacob kept apart and made these face whatever was striped or black in Laban's flock. Thus he built up droves of his own which he did not put with Laban's flocks.sfa 'the goats thus mated in front of the shoots and so the goats produced striped, spotted and speckled young.2e_ &He set up the shoots he had peeled in front of the animals, in the troughs, in the water-holes where the animals came to drink. Since they mated when they came to drink,d# %Jacob then got fresh shoots from poplar, almond and plane trees, and peeled them in white strips, laying bare the white part of the shoots.sca $Then he put a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob grazed the rest of Laban's flock.Ib #That same day he removed the striped and speckled he-goats and all the spotted and speckled she-goats, every one that had white on it, and all the black sheep, and entrusted these to his sons./a[ "Laban replied, 'Good, just as you say.'H` !and my uprightness will answer for me later: when you come to check my wages, every goat I have that is not speckled or spotted, and every sheep that is not black will count as stolen by me.'&_G  'Go through your entire flock today and remove every black animal among the sheep, and every speckled or spotted one among the goats. These will be my wages,4^c Laban said, 'How much am I to pay you?' Jacob replied, 'You need not pay me anything. I shall change my mind and go on tending your flock, if you do this one thing for me.$]C The little you had before I came has increased enormously, and Yahweh has blessed you wherever I have been. When am I to provide for my own household too?'i\M He replied, 'You know how hard I have worked for you, and how your stock has fared in my charge.8[m So name your wages,' he added, 'and I will pay.'Z Laban replied, 'If I have done what pleases you . . . I have learnt by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you. Y Give me my wives for whom I have worked for you, and my children, and let me go. You are well aware how long I have worked for you.'vXg When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Release me and let me go home to my own country.KW She named him Joseph, saying, 'May Yahweh add another son for me!'[V1 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace!'FU Then God remembered Rachel; he heard her and opened her womb.?T{ Later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.S and said, 'God has given me a fine gift; now my husband will bring me presents, for I have borne him six sons.' So she named him Zebulun.ER Again Leah conceived and gave birth to a sixth son by Jacob,xQk Then Leah said, 'God has given me my reward for giving my slave-girl to my husband.' So she named him Issachar.RP God heard Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son by Jacob.NO When Jacob came back from the fields that night, Leah went out to meet him and said, 'You must come to me, for I have hired you at the price of my son's mandrakes.' So he slept with her that night.RN Leah replied, 'Is it not enough to have taken my husband, without your taking my son's mandrakes as well?' So Rachel said, 'Very well, he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.'EM One day, at the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, 'Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.'`L;  Then Leah said, 'What blessedness! Women will call me blessed!' So she named him Asher.FK  Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a second son by Jacob.HJ  Then Leah exclaimed, 'What good fortune!' So she named him Gad.AI  So Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a son by Jacob.~Hw  Now Leah, seeing that she had ceased to bear children, took her slave-girl Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as concubine.vGg Then Rachel said, 'I have fought a fateful battle with my sister, and I have won!' So she named him Naphtali.\F3 Again Rachel's slave-girl Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a second son by Jacob.E Then Rachel said, 'God has done me justice; yes, he has heard my prayer and given me a son.' Accordingly she named him Dan.>Dy and Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son by Jacob.RC So she gave him her slave-girl Bilhah as concubine. Jacob slept with her,B) So she said, 'Here is my slave-girl, Bilhah. Sleep with her and let her give birth on my knees; through her, then, I too shall have children!'zAo This made Jacob angry with Rachel, and he retorted, 'Am I in the position of God, who has denied you motherhood?'@ - Rachel, seeing that she herself gave Jacob no children, became jealous of her sister. And she said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I shall die!'?5 #Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'Now I shall praise Yahweh!' Accordingly, she named him Judah. Then she had no more children.8>k "Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'This time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.' Accordingly, she named him Levi.=7 !Conceiving again, she gave birth to a son and said, 'Yahweh heard that I was unloved, and so he has given me this one too'; and she named him Simeon.<+  Leah conceived and gave birth to a son whom she named Reuben, meaning 'Yahweh has seen my misery'; and she said, 'Now my husband will love me.'a;= When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, while Rachel remained barren.y:m So Jacob slept with Rachel too, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban for another seven years.P9 (Laban gave his slave-girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.)i8M Jacob agreed and, when he had finished the week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.7 Finish this marriage week and I shall give you the other one too in return for your working for me for another seven years.'e6E Laban replied, 'It is not the custom in our place to marry off the younger before the elder.55 When morning came, it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, 'What have you done to me? Did I not work for you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?'N4 (Laban gave his slave-girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her slave.)h3K But when night came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her.Q2 Laban gathered all the people of the place together, and gave a banquet.g1I Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my time is up and I should like to go to her.'y0m So Jacob worked for seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like a few days because he loved her so much.b/? Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to a stranger; stay with me.'./ and Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel. So his answer was, 'I shall work for you for seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.'D- Leah had lovely eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful,S,! Now Laban had two daughters, the elder named Leah, and the younger Rachel.+ Laban said to Jacob, 'Just because you are my kinsman, why should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what wages you want.'v*g and Laban said to him, 'You are indeed my bone and flesh!' After Jacob had been staying with him for a month,<)s  As soon as he heard her speak of his sister's son Jacob, Laban ran to greet him, embraced him, kissed him and took him to his house. Jacob told Laban everything that had happened,f(G  He told Rachel he was her father's kinsman and Rebekah's son, and she ran to tell her father.6'i  Jacob then kissed Rachel and burst into tears.=&u  As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, his uncle Laban's daughter, with his uncle Laban's flock, he went up and, rolling the stone off the mouth of the well, watered his uncle Laban's sheep.n%W  He was still talking to them, when Rachel arrived with her father's flock, for she was a shepherdess.$5 To which, they replied, 'We can't, until all the shepherds have assembled to roll the stone off the mouth of the well; then we can water the sheep.'#- Then he said, 'But it is still broad daylight, not the time to round up the animals. Why don't you water the sheep and take them back to graze?'v"g Then he asked them, 'Is he well?' 'He is,' they replied, 'and here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock.'P! He asked them, 'Do you know Laban son of Nahor?' They replied, 'We do.'g I Jacob said to the shepherds, 'Friends, where are you from?' They replied, 'We are from Haran.'?y and only when all the flocks had collected there, did they roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep; then they would replace the stone over the mouth of the well.B And there, out in the open, he saw a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it; this well was used for watering the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was a large one,I  Continuing his journey, Jacob reached the Land of the Easterners. This stone I have set up as a pillar is to be a house of God, and I shall faithfully pay you a tenth part of everything you give me.'R and if I come home safe to my father's home, then Yahweh shall be my God.- Jacob then made this vow, 'If God remains with me and keeps me safe on this journey I am making, if he gives me food to eat and clothes to wear,Q He named the place Bethel, but before that the town had been called Luz. Early next morning, Jacob took the stone he had used for his pillow, and set it up as a pillar, pouring oil over the top of it. He was afraid and said, 'How awe-inspiring this place is! This is nothing less than the abode of God, and this is the gate of heaven!'gI Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, 'Truly, Yahweh is in this place and I did not know!'5e Be sure, I am with you; I shall keep you safe wherever you go, and bring you back to this country, for I shall never desert you until I have done what I have promised you.'M Your descendants will be as plentiful as the dust on the ground; you will spread out to west and east, to north and south, and all clans on earth will bless themselves by you and your descendants.O  And there was Yahweh, standing beside him and saying, 'I, Yahweh, am the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you are lying I shall give to you and your descendants.  He had a dream: there was a ladder, planted on the ground with its top reaching to heaven; and God's angels were going up and down on it.=u  When he had reached a certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he was.3c  Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran./  So Esau went to Ishmael and chose for a wife, in addition to the wives he had, Mahalath daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.Y- Esau then realised how much his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women.X + and that, in obedience to his father and mother, Jacob had gone to Paddan-Aram,V ' When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to choose a wife there, and that in blessing him he had given him this order: 'You are not to choose a wife from the Canaanite women,' 5 Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and Jacob went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramaean and brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau.D  May he grant you the blessing of Abraham, you and your descendants after you, so that one day you may own the country where you are now living as a stranger -- which God gave to Abraham.'x k May El Shaddai bless you; may he make you fruitful and make you multiply so that you become a group of nations.!= Go off to Paddan-Aram, the home of Bethuel your mother's father, and there choose a wife for yourself from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.~ y So Isaac summoned Jacob and blessed him; and he gave him this order: 'You are not to marry any of the Canaanite women.;q .Rebekah said to Isaac, 'The Hittite women sicken me to death. If Jacob were to marry a Hittite woman like these, one of the local women, what would there be left in life for me?';q -until your brother's anger is diverted from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I shall send someone to bring you back. I do not want to lose you both on one day!'?{ ,Stay with him a while, until your brother's fury cools,[1 +Now, son, listen to me; go at once and take refuge with my brother Laban in Haran.:o *When the words of Esau, her elder son, were repeated to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau means to take revenge and kill you.>w )Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him, and Esau said to himself, 'The time to mourn for my father will soon be here. Then I shall kill my brother Jacob.'  (By your sword you will live, and your brother will you serve. But when you win your freedom, you will shake his yoke off your neck.' 'Then his father Isaac spoke again and said: 'Far from the richness of the earth and the dew of heaven above, your home will be.~ &Esau said to his father, 'Can you bless only once, father? Father, bless me too.' Isaac remained silent, and Esau began to weep aloud.D} %Isaac replied to Esau, 'I have already made him your master; I have given him all his brothers as servants, I have given him grain and wine to sustain him. So what can I do for you, son?'d|C $Esau said, 'His name should be Jacob right enough, for he has now supplanted me twice. First he took my birthright, and look, now he has gone and taken my blessing! But', he added, 'have you not kept a blessing for me?' l~~}}!||0{(zz7yxxMww~vvYvuttt9tssFrrEqqlqppoo~o8nnGnmmm2ll^l$kjjKiiihhYgg\fflee ddGcccCbbYb aaa>```@___5^^^]]e]B]"\\C[KZZYY}XX/W{VVRV UeTTTSS;RRQQxPP>OO NMM'LLhL KVJJrII3HH@GGG?FFFE^EDBCtCBA@@q??[>><==<3;o::~99<8877(6544g322n11\1 0p0//\/..--*,, ++5**))5(( ''&%%Q$$#~# "!!\! Y6]nLV lY6!:0MO 7  qY& g *I hear', he said, 'that there are supplies in Egypt. Go down and procure some for us there, so that we may survive and not die.'}f w *Jacob, seeing that there were supplies to be had in Egypt, said to his sons, 'Why do you keep staring at one another?e )9People came to Egypt from all over the world to get supplies from Joseph, for the famine had grown severe throughout the world.#dA )8There was famine all over the world. Then Joseph opened all the granaries and rationed out grain to the Egyptians, as the famine grew even worse in Egypt.2c_ )7But when all Egypt too began to feel the famine and the people appealed to Pharaoh for food, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'b )6and the seven years of famine set in, as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in every country, but throughout Egypt there was food.Ta# )5Then the seven years of plenty that there had been in Egypt came to an end,u`e )4He named the second Ephraim, 'Because', he said, 'God has made me fruitful in the country of my misfortune.' _ )3Joseph named the first-born Manasseh, 'Because', he said, 'God has made me completely forget my hardships and my father's House.'^ )2Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph: Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore him these. ] )1Joseph gathered in grain like the sand of the sea, in such quantity that he gave up keeping count, since it was past accounting.9\m )0He collected all the food of the seven years while there was an abundance in Egypt, and stored the food in the towns, placing in each the food from the surrounding countryside.G[ )/During the seven years of plenty, the soil yielded generously.9Zm ).Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. After leaving Pharaoh's presence, Joseph travelled throughout the length and breadth of Egypt.%YE )-Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-Paneah, and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph began to journey all over Egypt.X ),Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Although I am Pharaoh, no one is to move hand or foot without your permission throughout Egypt.'W/ )+He made him ride in the best chariot he had after his own, and they shouted 'Abrek!' ahead of him. Thus he became governor of the whole of Egypt.V )*Pharaoh took the ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain round his neck.TU# ))Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I hereby make you governor of the whole of Egypt.'{Tq )(You shall be my chancellor, and all my people shall respect your orders; only this throne shall set me above you.'S )'So Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Since God has given you knowledge of all this, there can be no one as intelligent and wise as you.nRW )&Then Pharaoh asked his ministers, 'Can we find anyone else endowed with the spirit of God, like him?'DQ )%Pharaoh and all his ministers approved of what he had said.-PU )$This food will form a reserve for the country against the seven years of famine which are coming on Egypt, so that the country will not be destroyed by the famine.'0O[ )#They will collect all the food produced during these good years that are coming, and store the grain under Pharaoh's authority, putting it in the towns and keeping it.N% )"Pharaoh should take action and appoint supervisors for the country, and impose a tax of one-fifth on Egypt during the seven years of plenty.OM )!'Pharaoh should now find someone intelligent and wise to govern Egypt. L ) The reason why Pharaoh had the same dream twice is that the event is already determined by God, and God will shortly bring it about.}Ku )The famine that is to follow will be so very severe that no one will remember what plenty the country used to enjoy.J )but seven years of famine will follow them, when all the plenty in Egypt will be forgotten, and famine will exhaust the land.MI )Seven years are coming, bringing great plenty to the whole of Egypt,ZH/ )It is as I have told Pharaoh: God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is going to do.7Gi )The seven gaunt and lean cows coming up behind them are seven years, as are the seven shrivelled ears of grain scorched by the east wind: there will be seven years of famine.|Fs )The seven fine cows are seven years and the seven ripe ears of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.|Es )Joseph said to Pharaoh, 'Pharaoh's dreams are one and the same: God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is going to do.D )Then the shrivelled ears of grain swallowed the seven ripe ears of grain. I have told the magicians, but no one has given me the answer.'tCc )but then sprouting up behind them came seven ears of grain, withered, meagre and scorched by the east wind.mBU )And then again in my dream, there, growing on one stalk, were seven ears of grain, beautifully ripe; A )But when they had eaten them up, it was impossible to tell they had eaten them, for they looked as wretched as ever. Then I woke up.D@ )The lean and wretched cows ate up the first seven fat cows.? )And then seven other cows came up, behind them, starved, very wretched and lean; I have never seen such poor cows in all Egypt.v>g )And there were seven cows, fat and sleek, coming up out of the Nile, and they began to feed among the rushes.\=3 )So Pharaoh told Joseph, 'In my dream there I was, standing on the bank of the Nile.Y<- )'Not I,' Joseph replied to Pharaoh, 'God will give Pharaoh a favourable answer.'3;a )Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can interpret a dream the instant you hear it.':/ )Then Pharaoh had Joseph summoned, and they hurried him from the dungeon. He shaved and changed his clothes, and presented himself before Pharaoh.}9u ) It turned out exactly according to his interpretation: I was restored to my position, but the other man was hanged.'H8 ) There was a young Hebrew with us, one of the slaves belonging to the commander of the guard. We told our dreams to him and he interpreted them for us, telling each of us what his dream meant.d7C ) We had a dream on the same night, he and I, and each man's dream had a meaning for himself. 6 ) When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, he put myself and the chief baker in custody in the house of the commander of the guard.\53 ) Then the chief cup-bearer addressed Pharaoh, 'Today, I recall having been at fault.?4y )In the morning Pharaoh, feeling disturbed, had all the magicians and wise men of Egypt summoned to him. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one to interpret it for Pharaoh.}3u )The scanty ears of grain swallowed the seven full and ripe ears of grain. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.l2S )And then sprouting up, behind them, came seven ears of grain, meagre and scorched by the east wind.x1k )He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: there, growing on one stalk, were seven ears of grain, full and ripe.[01 )The wretched and lean cows ate the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.'/I )And then seven other cows, wretched and lean, came up from the Nile, behind them; and these went over and stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.u.e )and there, coming up from the Nile, were seven cows, sleek and fat, and they began to feed among the rushes.a- ? )Two years later it happened that Pharaoh had a dream: there he was, standing by the Nile,P, (But the chief cup-bearer did not remember Joseph; he had forgotten him.I+ (and by hanging the chief baker, as Joseph had explained to them.k*Q (the chief cup-bearer by restoring him to his cup-bearing, so that he again handed Pharaoh his cup;B) (And so it happened; the third day was Pharaoh's birthday and he gave a banquet for all his officials. Of his officials he lifted up the head of the chief cup-bearer and the chief baker, ( (In another three days Pharaoh will lift up your head by hanging you on a gallows, and the birds will eat the flesh off your bones.'['1 (Joseph replied as follows, 'This is what it means: the three trays are three days.&1 (In the top tray there were all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, such as a baker might make, and the birds were eating them off the tray on my head.'%1 (The chief baker, seeing that the interpretation had been favourable, said to Joseph, 'I too had a dream; there were three wicker trays on my head.$ (I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews in the first place, and even here I have done nothing to warrant being put in the dungeon.'#1 (But be sure to remember me when things go well with you, and keep faith with me by kindly reminding Pharaoh about me, to get me out of this house.5"e ( In another three days Pharaoh will lift up your head by restoring you to your position. Then you will hand Pharaoh his cup, as you did before, when you were his cup-bearer.V!' ( 'This is what it means,' Joseph told him. 'The three branches are three days.  ( I had Pharaoh's cup in my hand; I picked the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.'ym ( On the vine were three branches; no sooner had it budded than it blossomed, and its clusters became ripe grapes.zo ( So the chief cup-bearer described his dream to Joseph, telling him, 'In my dream there was a vine in front of me.*O (They replied, 'We have each had a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.' 'Are not interpretations God's business?' Joseph asked them. 'Tell me about them.'xk (and he asked the two officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, 'Why these sad looks today?'Q (When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they looked gloomy,(K (Now both of them had dreams on the same night, each with its own meaning for the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were prisoners in the gaol.} (The commander of the guard assigned Joseph to them to attend to their wants, and they remained in custody for some time.ue (and put them in custody in the house of the commander of the guard, in the gaol where Joseph was a prisoner.\3 (Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cup-bearer and the chief baker,~ y (It happened some time later that the king of Egypt's cup-bearer and his baker offended their master the king of Egypt.- 'The chief gaoler did not bother about anything put in his charge, since Yahweh was with him, and Yahweh made everything he undertook successful. 'The chief gaoler put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the gaol, making him responsible for everything done there.lS 'But Yahweh was with Joseph. He showed him faithful love and made him popular with the chief gaoler. 'Joseph's master had him arrested and committed to the gaol where the king's prisoners were kept. And there in gaol he stayed.eE 'When his master heard his wife say, 'This was how your slave treated me,' he became furious.H 'But when I screamed, he left his tunic beside me and ran away.'r_ 'Then she told him the same tale, 'The Hebrew slave you brought to us burst in on me to make a fool of me.=w 'She kept his tunic by her until his master came home.\ 3 'and when he heard me scream, he left his tunic beside me and ran out of the house.' - 'she called her servants and said to them, 'Look at this! My husband brought in a Hebrew to make a fool of me! He burst in on me, but I screamed,L  ' When she saw that he had left the tunic in her hands as he ran out,  ' she caught hold of him by his tunic and said, 'Sleep with me.' But he left the tunic in her hand, took to his heels and got out. } ' But one day when Joseph came into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household happened to be indoors,iM ' Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not agree to sleep with her or be with her.I ' He himself wields no more authority in this house than I do. He has exempted nothing from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How could I do anything so wicked, and sin against God?'<s 'But he refused. 'Look,' he said to his master's wife, 'with me here, my master does not concern himself with what happens in the house, having entrusted all his possessions to me.r_ 'and it happened some time later that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, 'Sleep with me.',S 'So he left Joseph to handle all his possessions, and with him there, concerned himself with nothing beyond the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and handsome,p[ 'And from the time he put him in charge of his household and all his possessions, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's household out of consideration for Joseph; Yahweh's blessing extended to all his possessions, both household and estate.$C 'he was pleased with Joseph and made him his personal attendant; and his master put him in charge of his household, entrusting him with all his possessions.p[ 'and when his master saw how Yahweh was with him and how Yahweh made everything he undertook successful,{q 'Yahweh was with Joseph, and everything he undertook was successful. He lodged in the house of his Egyptian master,> y 'Now Joseph had been taken down into Egypt. Potiphar the Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.^~7 &Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah.}+ &Whereupon, he drew back his hand, and out came his brother. Then she said, 'What a breach you have opened for yourself!' So he was named Perez."|? &During the delivery, one of them put out a hand, and the midwife caught it and tied a scarlet thread to it, indicating that this was the first to arrive.N{ &When the time for her confinement came, there were twins in her womb!z3 &Judah recognised them and said, 'She was right and I was wrong, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.' He had no further intercourse with her.@y{ &But as she was being led off, she sent word to her father-in-law, 'It was the owner of these who made me pregnant. Please verify', she said, 'whose seal and cord and staff these are.'[x1 &About three months later, Judah was told, 'Your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; furthermore, she is pregnant, as a result of her misconduct.' 'Bring her out,' Judah ordered, 'and let her be burnt alive!'w' &'Let her keep the things,' Judah said, 'or we shall become a laughing-stock. At least I sent her this kid, even though you did not find her.' v &So returning to Judah he said, 'I did not find her. What is more, the men of the place told me there had been no prostitute there.' u; &He enquired from the men of the place, 'Where is the prostitute who was by the roadside at Enaim?' 'There has been no prostitute there,' they answered.xtk &Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to recover the pledge from the woman. But he did not find her.Zs/ &Then she got up and left him and, taking off her veil, resumed her widow's weeds.5re &'What pledge shall I give you?' he asked. 'Your seal and cord and the staff you are holding,' she replied. He gave them to her and slept with her, and she conceived by him.{qq &'I will send you a kid from the flock,' he said. 'Agreed, if you give me a pledge until you send it,' she replied.9pm &Going up to her on the road, he said, 'Here, let me sleep with you.' He did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. 'What will you give me for sleeping with you?' she asked.Qo &Judah, seeing her, took her for a prostitute, since her face was veiled.n{ &she changed out of her widow's clothes, wrapped a veil around her to disguise herself, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that, although Shelah was grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.mmU & When Tamar was told, 'Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep,'Jl & A long time passed, and then Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. After Judah had been comforted he went up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.Uk% & Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'Go home as a widow to your father, until my son Shelah grows up,' for he was thinking, 'He must not die like his brothers.' So Tamar went home to her father.@j} & What he did was offensive to Yahweh, who killed him too.8ik & But Onan, knowing that the line would not count as his, spilt his seed on the ground every time he slept with his brother's wife, to avoid providing offspring for his brother.h &Then Judah said to Onan, 'Take your brother's wife, and do your duty as her brother-in-law, to maintain your brother's line.'Lg &But Er, Judah's first-born, offended Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him.If &Judah took a wife for his first-born Er, and her name was Tamar.oeY &Yet again she gave birth to a son whom she named Shelah. She was at Chezib when she gave birth to him.Id &She conceived again and gave birth to a son whom she named Onan.@c} &She conceived and gave birth to a son whom she named Er.jbO &There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite called Shua. He made her his wife and slept with her.a  &It happened at about that time that Judah left his brothers, to go down and settle with a certain Adullamite called Hirah.{`q %$Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard.=_u %#All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. 'No,' he said, 'I will go down to Sheol in mourning and join my son.' Thus his father wept for him.h^K %"Tearing his clothes and putting sackcloth round his waist, Jacob mourned his son for many days.v]g %!He recognised it and cried, 'My son's tunic! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph has been torn to pieces!'1\] % Then they sent off the decorated tunic and had it taken to their father, with the message, 'This is what we have found. Do you recognise it as your son's tunic or not?'Z[/ %They took Joseph's tunic and, slaughtering a goat, dipped the tunic in the blood.\Z3 %he went back to his brothers. 'The boy has gone,' he said. 'What am I going to do?']Y5 %When Reuben went back to the well, there was no sign of Joseph. Tearing his clothes,AX} %Now some Midianite merchants were passing, and they pulled Joseph out of the well. They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver, and these men took Joseph to Egypt.-WU %Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, then we shall not have laid hands on him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, and our own flesh.' His brothers agreed.lVS %Then Judah said to his brothers, 'What do we gain by killing our brother and covering up his blood?GU %They then sat down to eat. Looking up, they saw a group of Ishmaelites who were coming from Gilead, their camels laden with gum tragacanth, balsam and resin, which they were taking to Egypt.dTC %and catching hold of him, threw him into the well. The well was empty, with no water in it.sSa %So, when Joseph reached his brothers, they pulled off his tunic, the decorated tunic which he was wearing,@R{ %'Shed no blood,' said Reuben to them, 'throw him down that well out in the desert, but do not kill him yourselves' -- intending to save him from them and to restore him to his father.fQG %But Reuben heard, and he saved him from their clutches. 'We must not take his life,' he said.5Pe %'Come on, let us kill him now and throw him down one of the storage-wells; we can say that some wild animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams.'c %This is the story of Joseph. Joseph was seventeen years old. As he was young, he was shepherding the flock with his brothers, with the sons of his father's wives, Bilhah and Zilpah; and Joseph brought his father bad reports about them.V= ) %But Jacob settled in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.< $+Magdiel and Iram. These are the chieftains of Edom, as settled in the territory which they own. Esau was Edom's ancestor.;7 $*Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, := $)Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 9 $(These are the names of the chieftains of Esau -- according to their clans and localities: the chieftains of Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, 8 $'Baal-Hanan died and Hadad succeeded; his city was called Pau and his wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, from Mezahab.:7q $&Shaul died and Baal-Hanan son of Achbor succeeded.=6w $%Samlah died and Shaul of Rehoboth-ha-Nahar succeeded.45e $$Hadad died and Samlah of Masrekah succeeded.y4m $#Husham died and Hadad son of Bedad succeeded; he defeated the Midianites in Moab, and his city was called Avith.H3 $"Jobab died and Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded.A2 $!Bela died and Jobab son of Zerah, from Bozrah, succeeded.H1 $ In Edom reigned Bela son of Beor; his city was called Dinhabah.J0 $These are the kings who reigned in Edom before an Israelite king.c/A $Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These are the chieftains of the Horites, by their clans, in Seir.X.+ $These are the Horite chieftains: the chieftains of Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,2-a $These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.<,u $These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.I+ $These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran and Cheran.Q* $These are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.) $These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah, Anah -- the Anah who found the hot springs in the desert while pasturing his father Zibeon's donkeys.N( $These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.M' $The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam, and Lotan's sister was Timna.`&; $Dishon, Ezer and Dishan; these were the Horite chieftains descended from Seir, in Edom.d%C $These are the sons of Seir the Horite, natives of the country: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,X$+ $These were the sons of Esau -- that is, Edom -- and these are their chieftains."#? $The descendants of Esau's wife Oholibamah: the chieftains of Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These are the chieftains of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.9"m $The descendants of Esau's son Reuel: the chieftains of Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the chieftains of Reuel in Edom and are descended from Esau's wife Basemath.c!A $Gatam and Amalek. These are the chieftains of Eliphaz in Edom and are descended from Adah.  $These are the chieftains of Esau. The descendants of Eliphaz, Esau's eldest son: the chieftains of Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,{ $And these were the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah, son of Zibeon: she bore him Jeush, Jalam and Korah.vg $ These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.vg $ Eliphaz son of Esau had Timna for concubine and she bore him Amalek. These were the sons of Esau's wife Adah.G $ The sons of Eliphaz were: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.tc $ These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau's wife Basemath.`; $ These are the descendants of Esau, ancestor of Edom, in the mountainous region of Seir.R $That is why Edom settled in the mountainous region of Seir. Esau is Edom./ $For they had acquired too much to live together. The land in which they were at that time could not support them both because of their livestock.Q $Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters, all the members of his household, his livestock, all his cattle and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan and left for Seir, away from his brother Jacob.cA $Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau born to him in Canaan.7k $Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,<u $Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. $Esau chose his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah, son of Zibeon the Horite,8 o $These are the descendants of Esau, that is, Edom.!= #when he breathed his last. He died and was gathered to his people, an old man who had enjoyed his full span of life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.2a #Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old{q #Jacob came home to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.p[ #The sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave-girl: Gad and Asher. These were the sons born to Jacob in Paddan-Aram.C  #The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's slave-girl: Dan and Naphtali.0 ] #The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.e E #The sons of Leah: Jacob's eldest son Reuben, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.% E #While Israel was living in that district, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel found out. The sons of Jacob were now twelve.< u #Israel left and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-Eder.hK #Jacob raised a monument on her grave, that same monument of Rachel's Tomb which is there today.M #So Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, now Bethlehem. #At the moment when she breathed her last, for she was dying, she named him Ben-Oni. His father, however, named him Benjamin.vg #When her labour was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, 'Do not worry, this is going to be another boy.' #They left Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labour, and her pains were severe.A #Jacob named the place Bethel where God had spoken to him. #Jacob raised a monument at the spot where he had spoken to him, a standing-stone, on which he made a libation and poured oil."A # Then God went up from him. # The country which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I now give to you; and this country I shall give to your descendants after you.'+Q # God said to him, 'I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will descend from you, and kings will issue from your loins. ~ # God said to him, 'Your name is Jacob, but from now on you will be called not Jacob but Israel.' Thus he came by the name Israel.U}% # God again appeared to Jacob on his return from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him.| #Deborah, who had been Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel, under the oak tree; so they named it the Oak of Tears.{% #he built an altar there and named the place El-Bethel, since it was there that God had appeared to him when he was fleeing from his brother.\z3 #When Jacob arrived at Luz in Canaan -- that is, Bethel-and all the people with him,myU #They broke camp; a divine terror struck the towns round about, and no one pursued the sons of Jacob.x7 #They gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession, and the earrings that they were wearing. Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.$wC #We must move on and go to Bethel. There I shall make an altar for the God who heard me when I was in distress, and gave me his help on the journey I made.'v3 #Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, 'Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you; cleanse yourselves, and change your clothes.&u I #God said to Jacob, 'Move on, go to Bethel and settle there. Make an altar there for the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.'Dt "They retorted, 'Should our sister be treated like a whore?'s "Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, 'You have done me an ill turn by bringing me into bad odour with the people of the region, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have few men, whereas they will unite against me to defeat me and destroy me and my family.'r "and all their possessions. They took all their children and wives captive and looted everything to be found in the houses.gqI "They seized their flocks, cattle, donkeys, everything else in the town and in the countryside,|ps "When Jacob's other sons came on the slain, they pillaged the town in reprisal for the dishonouring of their sister.po[ "They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, removed Dinah from Shechem's house and came away.Nn "Now on the third day, when the men were still in pain, Jacob's two sons Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and advanced unopposed against the town and slaughtered all the males.m "All the citizens of the town agreed to the proposal made by Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the males were circumcised.l "Will not the livestock they own, all their animals, become ours? Then let us give our assent to this, so that they can settle with us.' ;~}}||.{{{/zz>T==b<m 0Joseph protested to his father, 'Not like that, father! This one is the elder; put your right hand on his head.'Y=- 0Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and this he thought was wrong, so he took his father's hand and tried to shift it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.J< 0the Angel who has saved me from all harm, bless these boys, so that my name may live on in them, and the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and they grow into teeming multitudes on earth!);M 0Then he blessed Joseph saying: May the God in whose presence my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd from my birth until this day,::o 0But Israel held out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands -- Manasseh was, in fact, the elder.U9% 0 Then Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim with his right hand so that he should be on Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand, so that he should be on Israel's right, and brought them close to him.D8 0 Then Joseph took them from his lap and bowed to the ground.7 0 Then Israel said to Joseph, 'I did not think I should ever see you again, and now God has let me see your children as well!' 6 0 Now, Israel's eyes were dim with age, and he could not see. So Joseph made them come closer to him and he kissed and embraced them.5 0 'They are my sons, whom God has given me here,' Joseph told his father. 'Then bring them to me', he said, 'so that I may bless them.'F4 0When Israel saw Joseph's two sons, he asked, 'Who are these?'_39 0'When I was on my way from Paddan, to my sorrow death took your mother Rachel from me in Canaan, on the journey while only a short distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the road to Ephrath -- now Bethlehem.'-2U 0But with regard to the children you have had since them, they shall be yours, and they shall be known by their brothers' names for the purpose of their inheritance.19 0Now your two sons, born to you in Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be as much mine as Reuben and Simeon.:0o 0saying to me, "I shall make you fruitful and numerous, and shall make you into an assembly of peoples and give this country to your descendants after you, to own in perpetuity."]/5 0'El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in Canaan,' Jacob told Joseph, 'and he blessed me,u.e 0When Jacob was told, 'Look, your son Joseph has come to you,' Israel, summoning his strength, sat up in bed.- 0Some time later, Joseph was informed, 'Your father has been taken ill.' So he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.\,3 /'Swear to me,' he insisted. So he swore to him, and Israel sank back on the pillow.+ /When I lie down with my ancestors, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb.' 'I shall do as you say,' he replied.c*A /When Israel's time to die drew near he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, 'If you really love me, place your hand under my thigh as pledge that you will act with faithful love towards me: do not bury me in Egypt!n)W /Jacob lived seventeen years in Egypt; thus Jacob's total age came to a hundred and forty-seven years.( /Thus Israel settled in Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there; they were fruitful and grew very numerous.+'Q /So Joseph made a law, still in force today, as regards the soil of Egypt, that one-fifth should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not go to Pharaoh.k&Q /'You have saved our lives!' they replied. 'If it please my lord, we will become serfs to Pharaoh.'I% /But of the harvest you must give a fifth to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you can have for sowing your fields, to provide food for yourselves and your households, and food for your children.'!$= /Then Joseph said to the people, 'This is how we stand: I have bought you out, with your land, on Pharaoh's behalf. Here is seed for you to sow the land.S#! /The only land he did not acquire belonged to the priests, for the priests received an allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them. Hence they had no need to sell their land.S"! /while the people he reduced to serfdom from one end of Egypt to the other.S!! /Thus Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, since one by one the Egyptians sold their fields, so hard pressed were they by the famine; and the whole country passed into Pharaoh's possession,e E /If we and our land are not to perish, take us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will become Pharaoh's serfs; only give us seed, so that we can survive and not die and the land not revert to desert!' /When that year was over, they came to him the next year, and said to him, 'We cannot hide it from my lord: the truth is, our money has run out and the livestock is in my lord's possession. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our land.oY /So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for horses and livestock, whether sheep or cattle, and for donkeys. Thus he saw them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock. /Joseph replied, 'Hand over your livestock and I shall issue you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money has come to an end.'H /When all the money in Egypt and Canaan was exhausted, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, pleading, 'Give us food, unless you want us to die before your eyes! For our money has come to an end.' ; /Joseph accumulated all the money to be found in Egypt and Canaan, in exchange for the supplies being handed out, and put the money in Pharaoh's palace.1 / And on all the earth around there was now no food anywhere, for the famine had grown very severe, and Egypt and Canaan were both weak with hunger.oY / Joseph provided his father, brothers and all his father's family with food, down to the least of them.)M / Joseph then settled his father and brothers, giving them land holdings in Egypt, in the best part of the country, the region of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.I / Jacob then took leave of Pharaoh and withdrew from his presence.H / Jacob said to Pharaoh, 'The years of my stay on earth add up to one hundred and thirty years. Few and unhappy my years have been, falling short of my ancestors' years in their stay on earth.'=w /Pharaoh asked Jacob, 'How many years have you lived?'dC /Joseph brought his father and presented him to Pharaoh. Jacob paid his respects to Pharaoh.b? /The country of Egypt is open to you: settle your father and brothers in the best region.'>w /Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,'They may stay in the region of Goshen, and if you know of any capable men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.' Jacob and his sons went to Egypt where Joseph was. Pharaoh king of Egypt heard about this and said to Joseph, 'Your father and brothers have come to you.{ /They went on to tell Pharaoh, 'We have come to stay in this country for the time being, since there is no pasturage for your servants' flocks, Canaan being stricken with famine. So now please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen.'3 /Pharaoh asked his brothers, 'What is your occupation?' and they gave Pharaoh the answer, 'Your servants are shepherds, like our fathers before us.'Q /He had taken five of his brothers, and he now presented them to Pharaoh.: q /So Joseph went and told Pharaoh, 'My father and brothers have arrived from Canaan with their flocks and cattle and all their possessions. Here they are, in the region of Goshen.'Z / ."you are to say, "Ever since our boyhood your servants have looked after livestock, we and our fathers before us," so that you can stay in the Goshen region -- for the Egyptians have a horror of all shepherds.'M  .!Thus, when Pharaoh summons you and asks, "What is your occupation?",  . The men are shepherds and look after livestock, and they have brought their flocks and cattle and all their possessions."L  .Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's family, 'I shall go back and break the news to Pharaoh. I shall tell him, "My brothers and my father's family who were in Canaan have come to me.m U .Israel said to Joseph, 'Now I can die, now that I have seen you in person and seen you still alive.'=u .Joseph had his chariot made ready and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as he appeared he threw his arms round his neck and for a long time wept on his shoulder.} .Israel sent Judah ahead to Joseph, so that Judah might present himself to Joseph in Goshen. When they arrived in Goshen, .With Joseph's sons born to him in Egypt -- two persons -- the members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt totalled seventy.)M .Altogether, the members of Jacob's family who arrived with him in Egypt -- his own issue, not counting the wives of Jacob's sons -- numbered sixty-six all told.y .These were the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel; she bore these to Jacob -- seven persons in all.?{ .The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem. = .The sons of Dan: Hushim.R .These were the sons that Rachel bore to Jacob -- fourteen persons in all.eE .The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.p[ .Born to Joseph in Egypt were: Manasseh and Ephraim sons of Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On.>~y .The sons of Rachel wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.x}k .These were the sons of Zilpah whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; she bore these to Jacob -- sixteen persons.}|u .The sons of Asher: Jimnah, Jishvah, Jishvi, Beriah, with their sister Serah; the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.M{ .The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.z1 .These were the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, besides his daughter Dinah; in all, his sons and daughters numbered thirty-three.5yg .The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel.>xy . The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Jashub and Shimron.w . The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (Er and Onan had died in Canaan), and Hezron and Hamul sons of Perez.5vg . The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.juO . The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of the Canaanite woman.@t} . and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.}su .These were the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who arrived in Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's first-born,ure .With him to Egypt, he brought his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters -- all his offspring.qy .Taking their livestock and all that they had acquired in Canaan, they arrived in Egypt -- Jacob and all his offspring. p; .So Jacob left Beersheba. Israel's sons conveyed their father Jacob, their little children and their wives in the waggons Pharaoh had sent to fetch him.|os .I shall go down to Egypt with you and I myself shall bring you back again, and Joseph's hand will close your eyes.' n .'I am El, God of your father,' he said. 'Do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.dmC .God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, 'Jacob, Jacob,' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied.l } .So Israel set out with all his possessions. Arriving at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.mkU -and Israel said, 'That is enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.'*jO -However, when they told him all Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the waggons that Joseph had sent to fetch him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived, i; -they gave him this report, 'Joseph is still alive. He is at this moment governor of all Egypt!' But he was as one stunned, for he did not believe them.Ph -And so they left Egypt. When they reached their father Jacob in Canaan,ygm -And so he sent his brothers on their way. His final words to them were, 'And let there be no upsets on the way!'%fE -And to his father he sent ten donkeys laden with the best that Egypt offered, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain, bread and food for his father's journey.e{ -To each and every one he gave new clothes, and to Benjamin three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes. d -Israel's sons did as they were told. Joseph gave them waggons as Pharaoh had ordered, and he gave them provisions for the journey.Tc# -Never mind about your property, for the best of all Egypt will be yours." 'b+ -And you, for your part, give them this order: "Do this: take waggons from Egypt, for your little ones and your wives. Get your father and come.a5 -Fetch your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best territory in Egypt, where you will live off the fat of the land."i`M -Pharaoh told Joseph, 'Say to your brothers, "Do this: load your beasts and hurry away to Canaan._} -News reached Pharaoh's palace that Joseph's brothers had come, and Pharaoh was pleased to hear it, as were his servants.j^O -He kissed all his brothers, weeping on each one. Only then were his brothers able to talk to him.r]_ -Then throwing his arms round the neck of his brother Benjamin he wept; and Benjamin wept on his shoulder. \ - Give my father a full report of all the honour I enjoy in Egypt, and of all you have seen; and quickly bring my father down here.'g[I - You can see with your own eyes, and my brother Benjamin can see too, that I am who I say I am.%ZE - There I shall provide for you -- for there are five years of famine still to come -- so that you, your household and all yours are not reduced to penury.' "'YI - You will live in the region of Goshen where you will be near me, you, your children and your grandchildren, your flocks, your cattle and all your possessions.X# - 'Return quickly to your father and tell him, "Your son Joseph says this: 'God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay."W? -So it was not you who sent me here but God, and he has set me up as a father to Pharaoh, as lord of all his household and governor of the whole of Egypt.{Vq -God sent me before you to assure the survival of your race on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.U -For this is the second year there has been famine in the country, and there are still five years to come without ploughing or harvest. T -But now, do not grieve, do not reproach yourselves for having sold me here, since God sent me before you to preserve your lives.S5 -Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'Come closer to me.' When they had come closer to him he said, 'I am your brother Joseph whom you sold into Egypt. R; -Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am Joseph. Is my father really still alive?' His brothers could not answer him, they were so dumbfounded at seeing him.cQA -but he wept so loudly that all the Egyptians heard, and the news reached Pharaoh's palace.SP # -Then Joseph could not control his feelings in front of all his retainers, and he exclaimed, 'Let everyone leave me.' No one therefore was present with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers,O ,"How indeed could I go back to my father and not have the boy with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm my father.'N ,!Let your servant stay, then, as my lord's slave in place of the boy, I implore you, and let the boy go back with his brothers. M; , Now your servant went surety to my father for the boy. I said: "If I do not bring him back to you, let me bear the blame before my father all my life."hLK ,and your servants will have sent your servant our father's white head down to Sheol with grief.3Ka ,If I go to your servant my father now, and we do not have the boy with us, he will die as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, for his heart is bound up with him;{Jq ,If you take this one from me too and any harm comes to him, you will send my white head down to Sheol with grief."uIe ,When one of them left me, I supposed that he must have been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.\H3 ,So your servant our father said to us, "You know that my wife bore me two children.7Gi ,we said, "We cannot go down. We shall go only if our youngest brother is with us for, unless our youngest brother is with us, we shall not be admitted to the man's presence."EF ,So when our father said, "Go back and get us a little food,"_E9 ,When we went back to your servant my father, we repeated to him what my lord had said.D ,But you said to your servants, "If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not be admitted to my presence again."iCM ,We replied to my lord, "The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves him, his father will die."_B9 ,Then you said to your servants, "Bring him down to me, so that I can set eyes on him."BA ,And we said to my lord, "We have an old father, and a younger brother born of his old age. His brother is dead, so he is the only one by that mother now left, and his father loves him."G@ ,My lord questioned his servants, "Have you father or brother?"B? ,At this, Judah went up to him and said, 'May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.1>] ,'I could not think of doing such a thing,' he replied. 'The man in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave, but you can go back unhindered to your father.'w=i ,'What can we answer my lord?' Judah replied. 'What can we say? How can we clear ourselves? God himself has uncovered your servants' guilt. Here we are then, my lord's slaves, we no less than the one in whose possession the cup was found.'~<w ,'What do you mean by doing this?' Joseph asked them. 'Did you not know that a man such as I am is a reader of omens?'~;w ,When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph's house he was still there, so they fell on the ground in front of him.k:Q , Then they tore their clothes, and when each man had reloaded his donkey they returned to the city.s9a , He searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, and found the cup in Benjamin's sack.V8' , Each of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each opened his own.7% , 'Very well, then, it shall be as you say,' he replied, 'the one on whom it is found shall become my slave, but the rest of you can go free.'r6_ , Whichever of your servants is found to have it shall die, and the rest of us shall be slaves of my lord.'05[ ,Look, we brought you back the money we found in the mouths of our sacks, all the way from Canaan. Are we likely to have stolen silver or gold from your master's house?h4K ,They asked him, 'What does my lord mean? Your servants would never think of doing such a thing.?3{ ,So when he caught up with them he repeated these words.o2Y ,Is this not what my lord uses for drinking and also for reading omens? What you have done is wrong." 'K1 ,They had gone only a little way from the city, when Joseph said to his chamberlain, 'Away now and follow those men. When you catch up with them, say to them, "Why have you repaid good with evil?>0y ,At daybreak, the men were sent off with their donkeys./+ ,And put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack as well as the money for his rations.' He did as Joseph had instructed.*. Q ,Then Joseph instructed his chamberlain as follows: 'Fill these men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.0-[ +"He had portions carried to them from his own dish, the portion for Benjamin being five times larger than any of the others. And they feasted with him and drank freely. , +!They were placed facing him in order of seniority, from the eldest to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in amazement.=+u + He was served separately; so were they, and so were the Egyptians who ate in his household, for the Egyptians could not take food with Hebrews; Egyptians have a horror of doing so.g*I +After washing his face he returned and, controlling himself, gave the order: 'Serve the meal.') +Joseph hurried out; so strong was the affection he felt for his brother that he wanted to cry. He went into his room and there he wept.4(c +Looking about, he saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son. 'Is this your youngest brother', he asked, 'of whom you told me?' And he added, 'God be good to you, my son.'k'Q +'Your servant our father is well,' they replied, 'he is still alive,' and they bowed respectfully.r&_ +He greeted them pleasantly, asking, 'Is your father well, the old man you told me of? Is he still alive?'n%W +When Joseph arrived at the house they offered him the gift they had with them, bowing low before him.}$u +They arranged their gift while they waited for Joseph to come at midday, for they had heard they were to dine there.#{ +The man then took the men into Joseph's house. He offered them water to wash their feet, and gave their donkeys fodder.D" +'Set your minds at ease,' he replied, 'do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money.' And he brought Simeon out to them.q!] +and we have brought more money with us for the supplies. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.' 7 +and when we reached camp and opened our sacks, there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, to the full. But we have brought it back with us,T# +'By your leave, sir,' they said, 'we came down once before to get supplies,_9 +So they went up to Joseph's chamberlain and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.xk +The men were afraid at being taken to Joseph's house and said, 'We are being taken there because of the money replaced in our sacks the first time. They will set on us; they will fall on us and make slaves of us, and take our donkeys too.'O +The man did as Joseph had ordered, and took the men to Joseph's house.6g +When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to his chamberlain, 'Take these men into the house. Slaughter a beast and prepare it, for these men are to eat with me at midday.''I +The men took this gift; they took double the amount of money with them, and Benjamin. They set off, went down to Egypt and presented themselves before Joseph.+Q +May El Shaddai move the man to be kind to you, and allow you to bring back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I must be bereaved, bereaved I must be.'2a + Take your brother, and go back to the man. + Take double the amount of money with you and return the money put back in the mouths of your sacks; it may have been a mistake.ym + Then their father Israel said to them, 'If it must be so, then do this: take some of the country's best products in your baggage and take them to the man as a gift: some balsam, some honey, gum tragacanth, resin, pistachio nuts and almonds.dC + Indeed, if we had not wasted so much time we should have been there and back twice by now!',S + I will go surety for him, and you can hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and produce him before you, let me bear the blame all my life.7 +Judah then said to his father Israel, 'Send the boy with me, and let us be off and go, if we are to survive and not die, we, you, and our dependants.vg +They replied, 'He kept questioning us about ourselves and our family, asking, "Is your father still alive?" and, "Have you another brother?" That is why we told him. How could we know he was going to say, "Bring your brother down here"?'lS +Then Israel said, 'Why did you bring this misery on me by telling the man you had another brother?'.W +But if you are not ready to send him, we will not go down, in view of the man's warning, "You will not be admitted to my presence unless your brother is with you." '\3 +If you are ready to send our brother with us, we will go down and get food for you. +'But', Judah replied, 'the man expressly warned us, "You will not be admitted to my presence unless your brother is with you." + +and when they had finished eating the supplies which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, 'Go back and get us a little food.'0  _ +But the famine in the country grew worse,e E *&But he replied, 'My son is not going down with you, for now his brother is dead he is the only one left. If any harm came to him on the journey you are undertaking, you would send my white head down to Sheol with grief!'# A *%Then Reuben said to his father, 'You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.': o *$Then their father Jacob said to them, 'You are robbing me of my children; Joseph is no more; Simeon is no more; and now you want to take Benjamin. I bear the brunt of all this!'3 *#As they emptied their sacks, each discovered his bag of money in his sack. On seeing their bags of money they were afraid, and so was their father.K *"but bring me back your youngest brother and then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I shall give your brother back to you and you will be free to move about the country." 'G *!But the man who is lord of the country said to us, "This is how I shall know whether you are honest: leave one of your brothers with me. Take supplies for your starving families and be gone,  * We were twelve brothers, sons of the same father. One of us is no more, and the youngest is at present with our father in Canaan.":q *We told him, "We are honest men, we are not spies.gI *'The man who is lord of the country spoke harshly to us, accusing us of spying on the country.mU *Returning to their father Jacob in Canaan, they gave him a full report of what had happened to them,C *He said to his brothers, 'My money has been put back; here it is, in my sack!' Their hearts sank, and they looked at one another in panic, saying, 'What is this that God has done to us?'#A *But when they camped for the night, one of them opened his sack to give his donkey some fodder and saw his money -- there it was in the mouth of his sack.H *Then they loaded their supplies on their donkeys and went away.0~[ *Joseph gave the order to fill their panniers with grain, to put back each man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them. }; *He turned away from them and wept. When he was able to speak to them again, he chose Simeon out of their number and had him bound while they looked on.a|= *They did not know that Joseph understood, because there was an interpreter between them.{{ *Reuben retorted to them, 'Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. Now comes the accounting.'Yz- *And they said to one another, 'Clearly, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep misery when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen, and now this misery has come home to us.')yM *But you must bring your youngest brother back to me; in this way, what you have said will be verified, and you will not have to die!' And this is what they did.%xE *If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be detained where you are imprisoned; the rest of you, go and take supplies home for your starving families.hwK *On the third day Joseph said to them, 'Do this and you will live, for I am a man who fears God.?v{ *Whereupon, he put them all into custody for three days.^u7 *Send one of your number to fetch your brother; you others will remain under arrest, so that your statements can be tested to see whether or not you are honest. If not, then as sure as Pharaoh lives you are spies.'t *This is the test you are to undergo: as sure as Pharaoh lives you shall not leave unless your youngest brother comes here.Cs *To which Joseph retorted, 'It is as I said, you are spies.)rM * 'Your servants were twelve brothers,' they said, 'sons of the same man in Canaan, but the youngest is at present with our father, and the other one is no more.'Tq# * 'Oh no,' he replied, 'you have come to discover the country's weak points.'Zp/ * We are all sons of the same man. We are honest men, your servants are not spies.'Ho * 'No, my lord,' they said, 'your servants have come to get food.n# * Joseph remembered the dreams he had had about them, and said to them, 'You are spies. You have come to discover the country's weak points.'Qm *Now when Joseph recognised his brothers, but they did not recognise him,Wl) *As soon as Joseph saw his brothers he recognised them. But he did not make himself known to them, and he spoke harshly to them. 'Where have you come from?' he asked. 'From Canaan to get food,' they replied.Kk *It was Joseph, as the man in authority over the country, who allocated the rations to the entire population. So Joseph's brothers went and bowed down before him, their faces touching the ground.tjc *Thus the sons of Israel were among the other people who came to get supplies, there being famine in Canaan.vig *But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers. 'Nothing must happen to him,' he thought.Ih *So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to procure grain in Egypt. $o~~0}}x}5||O{{{Mzzzlz$yyxwwtvvuuttssGrrq;ppKooAnmmcll0kk*j5ii^hh'gg0fUeecddddwdcc>bba``{`3_r^^o]]u\\o\[[EZZ YXXmWWxVVUYTT>ScRR$QQOPPbOONNqNAMLLvKKkJIHH6GGmFEELD9CEBfAN@@]?>>j>=<00K//J..q--,w+**j* )((^''Q&&}%%G$$V##A""!! ? bI'k(QXshJZ`]  H  T 22k\$w5iSo Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.:4 qYahweh then said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, "Stretch out your hand with your staff, over the rivers, the canals and the marshland, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt." 'e3EThe frogs will actually clamber onto you, onto your subjects and onto all your officials." 'Q2The River will swarm with frogs; they will make their way into your palace, into your bedroom, onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and subjects, into your ovens, into your kneading bowls.V1'If you refuse to let them go, I shall strike your whole territory with frogs.v0gThen Yahweh said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh and say to him, "Yahweh says this: Let my people go and worship me.:/qAfter Yahweh struck the River, seven days went by..And the Egyptians all dug holes along the river-bank in search of drinking water, since they could not drink the River water.Z-/Pharaoh turned away and went back into his palace, taking no notice even of this.,9But by their spells the magicians of Egypt did the same; Pharaoh remained obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to Moses and Aaron.!+=The fish in the River died, and the River stank; and the Egyptians could no longer drink the River water. Throughout the whole of Egypt there was blood.B*Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh ordered. He raised his staff and struck the waters of the River, with Pharaoh and his officials looking on, and all the water in the River turned to blood.-)UYahweh said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, "Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt -- over their rivers and canals, their marshland, and all their reservoirs -- and they will turn to blood. There will be blood throughout the whole of Egypt, even in sticks and stones." '(The fish in the river will die, and the River will stink, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink the river water." '0'[This is what Yahweh says: You will know that I am Yahweh by this: with the staff that is in my hand I shall strike the waters of the River and they will turn to blood.&'Say to him, "Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, sent me to say: Let my people go and worship in the desert. Up till now, you have refused to listen."%?Go to Pharaoh tomorrow morning as he makes his way to the water, confront him on the river bank and in your hand take the staff that turned into a snake.Y$-Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Pharaoh is adamant. He refuses to let the people go.p#[ Pharaoh, however, remained obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to Moses and Aaron.i"M Each threw his staff down and these turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up theirs.~!w Then Pharaoh in his turn called for the sages and sorcerers, and by their spells the magicians of Egypt did the same.' I Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as Yahweh had ordered. Aaron threw down his staff in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it turned into a serpent.*O 'If Pharaoh says to you, "Display some marvel," you must say to Aaron, "Take your staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh, and let it turn into a serpent!" ''KYahweh said to Moses and Aaron,W)Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.:qMoses and Aaron did exactly as Yahweh had ordered.%And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand against the Egyptians and lead the Israelites out of their country.'%ESince Pharaoh will not listen to you, I shall lay my hand on Egypt and with great acts of judgement lead my armies, my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.dCBut I myself shall make Pharaoh stubborn and shall perform many a sign and wonder in Egypt.You must say whatever I command you, and your brother Aaron will repeat to Pharaoh that he is to let the Israelites leave his country.} wYahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I have made you as a god for Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron is to be your prophet.mUBut Moses said to Yahweh's face, 'I am a poor speaker, so why should Pharaoh take any notice of me?'eEYahweh said to Moses, 'Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything that I am going to say to you.'8mNow the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in Egypt,xkIt was they who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to lead the Israelites out of Egypt -- namely Moses and Aaron.mUIt was to this Aaron and Moses that Yahweh said, 'Lead the Israelites out of Egypt in their armies.')Eleazar, son of Aaron, married one of Putiel's daughters who bore him Phinehas. These were the Levitical heads of families, according to clan.^7The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites.{Aaron married Elisheba daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.=wAnd the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.9 oThe sons of Izhar were: Korah, Nepheg and Zichri.z oAmram married Jochebed, his aunt, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived for a hundred and thirty-seven years.a =The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of Levi with their descendants.p [The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived for a hundred and thirty-three years.@ }The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, with their clans.'These were the names of the sons of Levi with their descendants: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived for a hundred and thirty-seven years.The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanite woman: these are the clans of Simeon.%These were their heads of families: The sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the clans of Reuben.ue Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and sent them to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.&G But Moses spoke out in Yahweh's presence and said, 'The Israelites have not listened to me, so why should Pharaoh take any notice of a poor speaker like me?'^7 'Go to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and tell him to let the Israelites leave his country.'"A Yahweh then said to Moses, And Moses repeated this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, so crushed was their spirit and so cruel their slavery. ;Then I shall lead you into the country which I swore I would give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and shall give it to you as your heritage, I, Yahweh." '(KI shall take you as my people and I shall be your God. And you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who have freed you from the forced labour of the Egyptians.[~1So say to the Israelites, "I am Yahweh. I shall free you from the forced labour of the Egyptians; I shall rescue you from their slavery and I shall redeem you with outstretched arm and mighty acts of judgement.~}wFurthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, enslaved by the Egyptians, and have remembered my covenant.||sI also made my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the country in which they were living as aliens.o{YTo Abraham, Isaac and Jacob I appeared as El Shaddai, but I did not make my name Yahweh known to them.9zoGod spoke to Moses and said to him, 'I am Yahweh.Ay Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Now you will see what I am going to do to Pharaoh. A mighty hand will force him to let them go, a mighty hand will force him to expel them from his country.'"x?Ever since I came to Pharaoh and spoke to him in your name, he has ill-treated this people, and you have done nothing at all about rescuing your people.'qw]Moses went back to Yahweh and said, 'Lord, why do you treat this people so harshly? Why did you send me?:vo'May Yahweh look down at you and judge!' they said to them. 'You have brought us into bad odour with Pharaoh and his officials; you have put a sword into their hand to kill us.'bu?As they left Pharaoh's presence, they met Moses and Aaron who were standing in their way. tThe Israelites' foremen saw they were in a difficult position on being told, 'You will not reduce your daily production of bricks.'s}Get back to your work at once. You will not be provided with straw; all the same, you will deliver the quota of bricks.'frG'You are lazy, lazy,' he retorted. 'That is why you say, "Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh."q'No straw is provided for your servants, yet still the cry is, "Make bricks!" And now your servants are being flogged! . .'upeThe Israelites' foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh. 'Why do you treat your servants like this?' they said.:ooAnd the Israelites' foremen whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had put in charge of them, were flogged and asked, 'Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks made today as before?'|ns The taskmasters harassed them. 'You must complete your daily quota,' they said, 'just as when the straw was there.'Rm So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for their straw.mlU Go and collect straw for yourselves where you can find it. But your output is not to be any less." 'k- The people's taskmasters and scribes went out to speak to the people and said, 'Pharaoh says this, "I shall not provide you with any more straw.gjI Give these people more work to do, and see they do it instead of listening to lying speeches.'=iuBut you will exact the same quantity of bricks from them as before, not reducing it at all, since they are lazy, and that is why their cry is, "Let us go and sacrifice to our God."~hw'Do not go on providing the people with straw for brickmaking as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.]g5That very day, Pharaoh gave the order to the people's taskmasters and their scribes,fAnd Pharaoh said, 'Now that the people have grown to such numbers in the country, what do you mean by interrupting their forced labour?'e)The king of Egypt said to them, 'Moses and Aaron, what do you mean by distracting the people from their work? Get back to your forced labour.'Yd-'The God of the Hebrews has encountered us,' they replied. 'Give us leave to make a three -days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or he will strike us with a plague or with the sword.'c!'Who is Yahweh,' Pharaoh replied, 'for me to obey what he says and let Israel go? I know nothing of Yahweh, and I will not let Israel go.'?b {After this, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, 'This is what Yahweh, God of Israel, says, "Let my people go, so that they can hold a feast in my honour in the desert." 'a3The people were convinced, and they rejoiced that Yahweh had visited the Israelites and seen their misery, and they bowed to the ground in worship.y`mand Aaron repeated everything that Yahweh had said to Moses, and in the sight of the people performed the signs.Z_/Moses and Aaron then went and gathered all the elders of the Israelites together,y^mMoses then told Aaron all that Yahweh had said when sending him and all the signs he had ordered him to perform.]}Yahweh said to Aaron, 'Go into the desert to meet Moses.' So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.a\=So he let him go. She said, 'Blood-bridegroom' then, with reference to the circumcision. [Then Zipporah, taking up a flint, cut off her son's foreskin and with it touched his feet and said, 'You are my blood-bridegroom!'hZKOn the journey, when he had halted for the night, Yahweh encountered him and tried to kill him.YI told you: Let my son go and worship me; but since you refuse to let him go, well then! I shall put your first-born son to death." '^X7You will then say to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my first-born son.eWEYahweh said to Moses, 'Think of the wonders I have given you power to perform, once you are back in Egypt! You are to perform them before Pharaoh, but I myself shall make him obstinate, and he will not let the people go.VSo Moses took his wife and his son and, putting them on a donkey, started back for Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.nUWYahweh said to Moses in Midian, 'Go, return to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.'@T{Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, 'Give me leave to return to my kinsmen in Egypt and see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'QSAnd take this staff in your hand; with this you will perform the signs.'yRmHe will speak to the people in your place; he will be your mouthpiece, and you will be as the god inspiring him.QYou will speak to him and tell him what message to give. I shall help you speak, and him too, and instruct you what to do.pP[At this, Yahweh's anger kindled against Moses, and he said to him, 'There is your brother Aaron the Levite, is there not? I know that he is a good speaker. Here he comes to meet you. When he sees you, his heart will be full of joy.LO 'Please, my Lord,' Moses replied, 'send anyone you decide to send!'FN Now go, I shall help you speak and instruct you what to say.' M 'Who gave a person a mouth?' Yahweh said to him. 'Who makes a person dumb or deaf, gives sight or makes blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?L9 Moses said to Yahweh, 'Please, my Lord, I have never been eloquent, even since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow and hesitant of speech.'K but should they not be convinced by either of these two signs and refuse to listen to what you say, you are to take some water from the River and pour it on the ground, and the water you have taken from the River will turn to blood on the dry land.'vJg'Even so: should they not believe you nor be convinced by the first sign, the second sign will convince them;9ImYahweh then said, 'Put your hand back inside your tunic.' He put his hand back inside his tunic and when he drew it out, there it was restored, just like the rest of his flesh.)HMNext, Yahweh said to him, 'Put your hand inside your tunic.' He put his hand inside his tunic, then drew it out again: and his hand was diseased, white as snow.G-'Thus they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'$FCYahweh then said to Moses, 'Reach out your hand and catch it by the tail.' He reached out his hand, caught it, and in his hand it turned back into a staff.E 'Throw it on the ground,' said Yahweh. Moses threw it on the ground; the staff turned into a snake and Moses recoiled from it.KDYahweh then said, 'What is that in your hand?' 'A staff,' he said.C Moses replied as follows, 'But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my words, and say to me, "Yahweh has not appeared to you"?'UB%Every woman will ask her neighbour and the woman staying in her house for silver and golden jewellery, and clothing. In these you will dress your own sons and daughters, despoiling the Egyptians of them.'A'I shall ensure that the Egyptians are so much impressed with this people that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.@yhe will not let you go until I have stretched out my arm and struck Egypt with all the wonders I intend to work there.l?SI am well aware that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless he is compelled by a mighty hand;>#They will listen to your words, and you and the elders of Israel are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, "Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has encountered us. So now please allow us to make a three-days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to Yahweh our God."[=1and has said: I shall bring you out of the misery of Egypt to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a country flowing with milk and honey."p<['Go, gather the elders of Israel together and tell them, "Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has appeared to me -- the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob -- and has indeed visited you and seen what is being done to you in Egypt,;God further said to Moses, 'You are to tell the Israelites, "Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you." This is my name for all time, and thus I am to be invoked for all generations to come.: God said to Moses, 'I am he who is.' And he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites, "I am has sent me to you." 'C9 Moses then said to God, 'Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, "The God of your ancestors has sent me to you," and they say to me, "What is his name?" what am I to tell them?'K8 'I shall be with you,' God said, 'and this is the sign by which you will know that I was the one who sent you. After you have led the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.'^77 Moses said to God, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?'e6E So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.'5 Yes indeed, the Israelites' cry for help has reached me, and I have also seen the cruel way in which the Egyptians are oppressing them.'4IAnd I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that country, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey, to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.=3uYahweh then said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for help on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.12]I am the God of your ancestors,' he said, 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.' At this Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.p1['Come no nearer,' he said. 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.0#When Yahweh saw him going across to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses, Moses!' he said. 'Here I am,' he answered.k/QMoses said, 'I must go across and see this strange sight, and why the bush is not being burnt up.').MThe angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing, but the bush was not being burnt up.,- UMoses was looking after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.-,WGod saw the Israelites and took note.]+5God heard their groaning; God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.5*eDuring this long period the king of Egypt died. The Israelites, groaning in their slavery, cried out for help and from the depths of their slavery their cry came up to God.n)WShe gave birth to a son, whom he named Gershom 'because', he said, 'I am an alien in a foreign land.'d(CMoses agreed to stay on there with the man, who gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.n'W'And where is he?' he asked his daughters. 'Why did you leave the man there? Ask him to eat with us.'y&m'An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds,' they said, 'and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.'f%GWhen they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, 'Why are you back so early today?'i$MSome shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses sprang to their help and watered their flock.#!Now there was a priest of Midian with seven daughters. They used to come to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.$"CWhen Pharaoh heard of the matter, he tried to put Moses to death, but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He went into Midianite territory and sat down beside a well.W!)'And who appointed you', the man retorted, 'to be prince over us and judge? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?' Moses was frightened. 'Clearly that business has come to light,' he thought.& G On the following day he came back, and there were two Hebrews, fighting. He said to the man who was in the wrong, 'What do you mean by hitting your kinsman?'nW Looking this way and that and seeing no one in sight, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.@{ It happened one day, when Moses was grown up, that he went to see his kinsmen. While he was watching their forced labour he also saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.*O When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter who treated him like a son; she named him Moses 'because', she said, 'I drew him out of the water.')M Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Take this child away and nurse it for me. I shall pay you myself for doing so.' So the woman took the child away and nursed it.]5'Yes,' said Pharaoh's daughter, and the girl went and called the child's own mother.The child's sister then said to Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and find you a nurse among the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?'She opened it and saw the child: the baby was crying. Feeling sorry for it, she said, 'This is one of the little Hebrews.'7iNow Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe in the river, while her maids walked along the riverside. Among the reeds she noticed the basket, and she sent her maid to fetch it.X+His sister took up position some distance away to see what would happen to him.:oWhen she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the River's edge.zoShe conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months.V )There was a man descended from Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife.} wPharaoh then gave all his people this command: 'Throw every new-born boy into the river, but let all the girls live.'N and since the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.l UFor this, God was good to the midwives, and the people went on increasing and growing more powerful; #The midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women, they are hardy and give birth before the midwife can get to them.'u gSo the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, 'What do you mean by allowing the boys to live?' {But the midwives were God-fearing women and did not obey the orders of the king of Egypt, but allowed the boys to live.  'When you attend Hebrew women in childbirth,' he said, 'look at the two stones. If it is a boy, kill him; if a girl, let her live.'q  _The king of Egypt then spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah, and the other Puah.=  wmaking their lives miserable with hard labour: with digging clay, making bricks, doing various kinds of field -- work -- all sorts of labour that they imposed on them without mercy.E   So the Egyptians gave them no mercy in the demands they made,{  s But the harder their lives were made, the more they increased and spread, until people came to fear the Israelites.+ S Accordingly they put taskmasters over the Israelites to wear them down by forced labour. In this way they built the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh.S # We must take precautions to stop them from increasing any further, or if war should break out, they might join the ranks of our enemies. They might take arms against us and then escape from the country.'f I 'Look,' he said to his people, 'the Israelites are now more numerous and stronger than we are.S #Then there came to power in Egypt a new king who had never heard of Joseph.  But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they became so numerous and powerful that eventually the whole land was full of them.D Then Joseph died, and his brothers, and all that generation._ ;In all, the descendants of Jacob numbered seventy persons. Joseph was in Egypt already.' MDan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.& KIssachar, Zebulun and Benjamin,& KReuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah,m~ YThese are the names of the Israelites who went with Jacob to Egypt, each of them went with his family:d}C 2Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten; he was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt.| 2And Joseph put Israel's sons on oath, saying, 'When God remembers you with kindness, be sure to take my bones away from here.'W{) 2At length Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you out of this country to the country which he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.' z 2Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim's line, as also the children of Machir son of Manasseh, who were born on Joseph's lap.fyG 2So Joseph stayed in Egypt with his father's family; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.x/ 2So there is no need to be afraid; I shall provide for you and your dependants.' In this way he reassured them by speaking affectionately to them.w% 2The evil you planned to do me has by God's design been turned to good, to bring about the present result: the survival of a numerous people.Zv/ 2But Joseph replied, 'Do not be afraid; is it for me to put myself in God's place?wui 2Then his brothers went to him themselves and, throwing themselves at his feet, said, 'Take us as your slaves!'qt] 2"You are to say to Joseph: Now please forgive the crime and faults of your brothers and all the wrong they did you." So now please forgive the crime of the servants of your father's God.' Joseph wept at the message they sent to him.^s7 2So they sent this message to Joseph: 'Before your father died, he gave us this order:!r= 2Seeing that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers said, 'What if Joseph intends to treat us as enemies and pay us back for all the wrong we did him?'sqa 2Then Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had come up with him to bury his father.9pm 2 His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.>B=<;;:99_877%66M65/433V22W11S00I//_.~.$-- ,,e,.++n*d* ))j)A(''&&%v$$"##F"!! 0Y C3)t"[Q"  B  ]R.V'Hearing of this, the peoples tremble; pangs seize on the people of Philistia; In your faithful love you led out the people you had redeemed, in your strength you have guided them to your holy dwelling.E  You stretched your right hand out, the earth swallowed them!~ w Yahweh, who is like you, majestic in sanctity, who like you among the holy ones, fearsome of deed, worker of wonders?i M You blew with your breath, the sea closed over them; they sank like lead in the terrible waters.$ C The enemy said, 'I shall give chase and overtake, 'I shall share out the spoil and glut myself on them, 'I shall draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.' A blast from your nostrils and the waters piled high; the waves stood firm as a dyke; the bed of the sea became firm ground.p[and by your great majesty you fell your assailants; you unleash your fury, it consumes them like chaff.jOYour right hand, Yahweh, wins glory by its strength, your right hand, Yahweh, shatters your foes,S!The ocean has closed over them; they have sunk to the bottom like a stone.yPharaoh's chariots and army he has hurled into the sea the pick of his officers have been drowned in the Sea of Reeds.0]Yahweh is a warrior; Yahweh is his name.Yah is my strength and my song, to him I owe my deliverance. He is my God and I shall praise him, my father's God and I shall extol him.= wIt was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this song in Yahweh's honour: I shall sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.,SWhen Israel saw the mighty deed that Yahweh had performed against the Egyptians, the people revered Yahweh and put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, his servant.That day, Yahweh rescued Israel from the clutches of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the sea-shore.{qThe Israelites, however, had marched through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water to right and left of them.6~gThe returning waters washed right over the chariots and horsemen of Pharaoh's entire army, which had followed the Israelites into the sea; not a single one of them was left.K}Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and, as day broke, the sea returned to its bed. The fleeing Egyptians ran straight into it, and Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. |;Then Yahweh said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand over the sea and let the waters flow back on the Egyptians and on their chariots and their horsemen.'I{ He so clogged their chariot wheels that they drove on only with difficulty, which made the Egyptians say, 'Let us flee from Israel, for Yahweh is fighting on their side against the Egyptians!'z3In the morning watch, Yahweh looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw the Egyptian army into confusion.py[The Egyptians gave chase, and all Pharaoh's horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea after them.txcand the Israelites went on dry ground right through the sea, with walls of water to right and left of them.4wcThen Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh drove the sea back with a strong easterly wind all night and made the sea into dry land. The waters were divided9vmIt came between the army of the Egyptians and the army of Israel. The cloud was dark, and the night passed without the one drawing any closer to the other the whole night long.4ucThen the angel of God, who preceded the army of Israel, changed station and followed behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from their front and took position behind them.tAnd when I have won glory for myself at the expense of Pharaoh and his chariots and horsemen, the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh.'Cswhile I, for my part, shall make the Egyptians so stubborn that they will follow them, and I shall win glory for myself at the expense of Pharaoh and all his army, chariots and horsemen.r7Your part is to raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can walk through the sea on dry ground,Xq+Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Why cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to march on.RpYahweh will do the fighting for you; all you need to do is to keep calm.'1o] Moses said to the people, 'Do not be afraid! Stand firm, and you will see what Yahweh will do to rescue you today: the Egyptians you see today you will never see again./nY Did we not tell you as much in Egypt? Leave us alone, we said, we would rather work for the Egyptians! We prefer to work for the Egyptians than to die in the desert!'#mA To Moses they said, 'Was it for lack of graves in Egypt, that you had to lead us out to die in the desert? What was the point of bringing us out of Egypt?,lS As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up -- and there were the Egyptians in pursuit of them! The Israelites were terrified and cried out to Yahweh for help.Jk but the Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, his horsemen and his army, gave chase and caught up with them where they lay encamped beside the sea near Pi-Hahiroth, facing Baal-Zephon.jYahweh made Pharaoh king of Egypt stubborn, and he gave chase to the Israelites. The Israelites marched confidently away,liStaking six hundred of the best chariots and all the other chariots in Egypt, with officers in each.JhSo Pharaoh had his chariot harnessed and set out with his troops,NgWhen Pharaoh king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, he and his officials changed their attitude towards the people. 'What have we done,' they said, 'allowing Israel to leave our service?'sfaI shall then make Pharaoh stubborn and he will set out in pursuit of them; and I shall win glory for myself at the expense of Pharaoh and his whole army, and then the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh.' And the Israelites did this.eand then Pharaoh will think, "The Israelites are wandering to and fro in the countryside; the desert has closed in on them."@d{'Tell the Israelites to turn back and pitch camp in front of Pi-Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, facing Baal-Zephon. You must pitch your camp opposite this place, beside the sea,&c KYahweh spoke to Moses and said,~bw The pillar of cloud never left its place ahead of the people during the day, nor the pillar of fire during the night.3aa Yahweh preceded them, by day in a pillar of cloud to show them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could march by day and by night.T`# They set out from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.q_] Moses took with him the bones of Joseph, since Joseph had put the Israelites on solemn oath with the words, 'It is sure that God will visit you,' he had said, 'and when that day comes you must take my bones away from here with you.'^ Instead, God led the people a roundabout way through the desert of the Sea of Reeds. The Israelites left Egypt fully armed.}]u When Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not let them take the road to the Philistines' territory, although that was the shortest, 'in case', God thought, 'the prospect of fighting makes the people change their minds and turn back to Egypt.'\5 This will serve as a sign on your hand would serve, or a headband on your forehead, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.'k[Q When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the first-born in Egypt, of man and beast alike. This is why I sacrifice every male first issuing from the womb to Yahweh and redeem every first-born of my sons."=Zu And when your son asks you in days to come, "What does this mean?" you will tell him, "By the strength of his hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour.?Yy But every first-born donkey you will redeem with a lamb or kid; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. All the human first-born, however, among your sons, you will redeem.X9 to Yahweh you must make over whatever first issues from the womb, and every first-born cast by animals belonging to you: these males belong to Yahweh. W 'When Yahweh has brought you into the Canaanites' country, as he swore to you and your ancestors that he would, and given it to you,HV  You shall observe this law at its appointed time, year by year.QU This will serve as a sign on your hand would serve, or a reminder on your forehead, and in that way the law of Yahweh will be ever on your lips: for with a mighty hand Yahweh brought you out of Egypt.|Ts And on that day you will explain to your son, "This is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt."S) During these seven days unleavened bread may be eaten; no leavened bread may be seen among you, no leaven among you throughout your territory.wRi For seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there must be a feast in Yahweh's honour.Q and when Yahweh has brought you into the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, flowing with milk and honey, which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, then you must observe this rite in the same month.;Ps On this day, in the month of Abib, you are leaving,TO# Moses said to the people, 'Remember this day, on which you came out of Egypt, from the place of slave-labour, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought you out of it; no leavened bread may be eaten.N  'Consecrate all the first-born to me, the first birth from every womb, among the Israelites. Whether man or beast, it is mine.'&M K Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,VL' 3and that same day Yahweh brought the Israelites out of Egypt in their armies.FK 2The Israelites all did as Yahweh had ordered Moses and Aaron,UJ% 1The same law will apply to the citizen and the stranger resident among you.'I 0Should a stranger residing with you wish to keep the Passover in honour of Yahweh, all the males of his household must be circumcised: he will then be allowed to keep it and will count as a citizen of the country. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.4He /'The whole community of Israel must keep it.G .It must be eaten in one house alone; you will not take any of the meat out of the house; nor may you break any of its bones.4Fe -No stranger and no hired servant may eat it.RE ,but any slave bought for money may eat it, once you have circumcised him.cDA +Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, 'This is the ritual for the Passover: no alien may eat it,C+ *The night when Yahweh kept vigil to bring them out of Egypt must be kept as a vigil in honour of Yahweh by all Israelites, for all generations.eBE )And on the very day the four hundred and thirty years ended, all Yahweh's armies left Egypt.WA) (The time that the Israelites spent in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.]@5 'And with the dough which they had brought from Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, because the dough had not risen, since they had been driven out of Egypt without time to linger or to prepare food for themselves._?9 &A mixed crowd of people went with them, and flocks and herds, quantities of livestock.> %The Israelites left Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand on the march-men, that is, not counting their families. = $Yahweh made the Egyptians so much impressed with the people that they gave them what they asked. So they despoiled the Egyptians.y<m #The Israelites did as Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for silver and golden jewellery, and clothing.y;m "So the people carried off their dough still unleavened, their bowls wrapped in their cloaks, on their shoulders.: !The Egyptians urged the people on and hurried them out of the country because, they said, 'Otherwise we shall all be dead.'U9% And take your flocks and herds as you have asked, and go! And bless me too!'#8A It was still dark when Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Up, leave my subjects, you and the Israelites! Go and worship Yahweh as you have asked!#7A Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up in the night, and there was great wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.V6' And at midnight Yahweh struck down all the first-born in Egypt from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born of the prisoner in the dungeon, and the first-born of all the livestock.U5% The Israelites then went away and did as Yahweh had ordered Moses and Aaron.Q4 you will tell them, "It is the Passover sacrifice in honour of Yahweh who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, and struck Egypt but spared our houses." ' And the people bowed in worship.F3 And when your children ask you, "What does this ritual mean?"|2s and when you have entered the country which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, you will observe this ritual.V1' You will observe this as a decree binding you and your children for all time,K0 Then, when Yahweh goes through Egypt to strike it, and sees the blood on the lintel and on both door-posts, he will pass over the door and not allow the Destroyer to enter your homes and strike.S/! Then take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and with the blood from the basin touch the lintel and both door-posts; then let none of you venture out of the house till morning.. Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, 'Go and choose a lamb or kid for your families, and kill the Passover victim.e-E You will eat nothing with leaven in it; wherever you live, you will eat unleavened bread." '>,w For seven days there may be no leaven in your houses, since anyone, either stranger or citizen of the country, who eats leavened bread will be outlawed from the community of Israel. + In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you must eat unleavened bread.Q* You must keep the feast of Unleavened Bread because it was on that same day that I brought your armies out of Egypt. You will keep that day, generation after generation; this is a decree for all time.8)k On the first day you must hold a sacred assembly, and on the seventh day a sacred assembly. On those days no work may be done; you will prepare only what each requires to eat.Y(- "For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you must clean the leaven out of your houses, for anyone who eats leavened bread from the first to the seventh day must be outlawed from Israel.6'g This day must be commemorated by you, and you must keep it as a feast in Yahweh's honour. You must keep it as a feast-day for all generations; this is a decree for all time.2&_ The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood I shall pass over you, and you will escape the destructive plague when I strike Egypt..%W That night, I shall go through Egypt and strike down all the first-born in Egypt, man and beast alike, and shall execute justice on all the gods of Egypt, I, Yahweh!:$o This is how you must eat it: with a belt round your waist, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly: it is a Passover in Yahweh's honour.i#M You must not leave any of it over till the morning: whatever is left till morning you must burn.r"_ Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with the head, feet and entrails.}!u That night, the flesh must be eaten, roasted over the fire; it must be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.x k Some of the blood must then be taken and put on both door-posts and the lintel of the houses where it is eaten. You must keep it till the fourteenth day of the month when the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.~w It must be an animal without blemish, a male one year old; you may choose it either from the sheep or from the goats.Z/ If the household is too small for the animal, he must join with his neighbour nearest to his house, depending on the number of persons. When you choose the animal, you will take into account what each can eat.3a Speak to the whole community of Israel and say, "On the tenth day of this month each man must take an animal from the flock for his family: one animal for each household._9 'This month must be the first of all the months for you, the first month of your year./ ] Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,9 Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.{q Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that more of my wonders may be displayed in Egypt.'\3 Then all these officials of yours will come down to me and, bowing low before me, say: Go away, you and all the people who follow you! After which, I shall go." ' And, hot with anger, he left Pharaoh's presence.1 But against the Israelites, whether man or beast, never a dog shall bark, so that you may know that Yahweh discriminates between Egypt and Israel.gI And throughout Egypt there will be great wailing, such as never was before, nor will be again.@{ and all the first-born in Egypt will die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl at the mill, and all the first-born of the livestock.U% Moses then said, 'Yahweh says this, "At midnight I shall pass through Egypt,2_ And Yahweh made the Egyptians impressed with the people, while Moses himself was a man of great importance in Egypt in the opinion of Pharaoh's officials and the people.{ Now instruct the people that every man is to ask his neighbour, and every woman hers, for silver and golden jewellery.'3 c Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I shall inflict one more plague on Pharaoh and Egypt, after which he will let you go away. When he lets you go, he will actually drive you out!Y- Moses then said, 'You yourself have said it. I shall never see your face again.' Pharaoh said to Moses, 'Out of my sight! Be sure you never see my face again, for the next time you see my face you die!'I   But Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he refused to let them go.\ 3 And our livestock will go with us too; not a hoof will be left behind; for we may need animals from these to worship Yahweh our God; for until we get there we ourselves cannot tell how we are to worship Yahweh.'i M Moses said, 'But now you must give us sacrifices and burnt offerings to offer to Yahweh our God. 1 Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, 'Go and worship Yahweh, but your flocks and herds are to stay here. Your wives and children can go with you too.' } No one could see anyone else or move about for three days, but all the Israelites did have light where they were living.}u So Moses stretched out his hand towards heaven, and for three days there was thick darkness over the whole of Egypt. Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand towards heaven, and let darkness, darkness so thick that it can be felt, cover Egypt.'P But Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites go.=u and Yahweh changed the wind into a west wind, very strong, which carried the locusts away and swept them into the Sea of Reeds. There was not one locust left in the whole of Egypt.?{ When Moses left Pharaoh's presence he prayed to Yahweh,{ Now forgive my sin, I implore you, just this once, and entreat Yahweh your God to turn this deadly thing away from me.'tc Pharaoh sent urgently for Moses and Aaron and said, 'I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.ym They covered the surface of the ground till the land was devastated. They devoured whatever was growing in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. No green was left on tree or plant in the fields anywhere in Egypt.#A The locusts invaded the whole of Egypt and settled all over Egypt, in great swarms; never had there been so many locusts before, nor would there be again.2_ Moses stretched his staff over Egypt, and over the country Yahweh sent an east wind which blew all that day and night. By morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.8~k Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand over Egypt for the locusts. Let them invade Egypt and devour whatever is growing in the country, whatever the hail has left!'} Oh no! You men may go and worship Yahweh, since that was your original request.' With that, they were driven from Pharaoh's presence.| Pharaoh said, 'So I must let you go with your wives and children! May Yahweh preserve you! Plainly, you are up to no good!={u Moses replied, 'We shall take our young men and our old men, we shall take our sons and daughters, our flocks and our herds, since we are going to hold a feast in Yahweh's honour.'zy So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh who said to them, 'Go and worship Yahweh your God. But who are to go?'Yy- At which, Pharaoh's officials said to him, 'How much longer are we to be tricked by this fellow? Let the people go and worship Yahweh their God. Do you not finally realise that Egypt is on the brink of ruin?'x) they will fill your houses, all your officials' houses and all the Egyptians' houses -- something your ancestors and your ancestors' ancestors have never seen from the day they first appeared on earth until now." ' Then he turned on his heel and left Pharaoh's presence.gwI They will cover the surface of the soil so that the soil cannot be seen. They will devour the remainder of what has escaped, of what you have been left after the hail; they will devour all your trees growing in the fields;`v; Or, if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I shall send locusts into your country.9um Moses and Aaron then went to Pharaoh and said to him, 'Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this, "How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go and worship me.-tU so that you can tell your sons and your grandsons how I made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I performed among them, so that you would know that I am Yahweh.' s  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh, for I have made him and his officials stubborn, to display these signs of mine among them;r1 #and he and his officials became obstinate again. Pharaoh was stubborn and, as Yahweh had foretold through Moses, refused to let the Israelites go.[q1 "When Pharaoh saw that rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he relapsed into sin,*pO !Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He stretched out his hands to Yahweh and the thunder and hail ceased and the rain stopped pouring down on the earth.Fo but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, being late crops.bn? The flax and the barley were ruined, since the barley was in the ear and the flax in bud,lmS But as for you and your officials, I know very well that you still have no respect for Yahweh God.'Nl Moses said to him, 'The moment I leave the city I shall stretch out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.k} Pray to Yahweh, for we cannot bear any more of this thunder and hail. I promise to let you go. You need stay no longer.'j Pharaoh then sent for Moses and Aaron and said, 'This time, I have sinned. Yahweh is in the right; I and my subjects are in the wrong.eiE The only place where there was no hail was in the Goshen region, where the Israelites lived.8hk All over Egypt the hail struck down everything in the fields, man and beast, and the hail beat down everything growing in the fields and shattered all the trees in the fields.g9 And so there was hail, and lightning accompanied the hail, very severe, such as had never been known anywhere in Egypt since it first became a nation."f? Moses stretched out his staff towards heaven, and Yahweh thundered and rained down hail. Lightning struck the earth and Yahweh rained down hail on Egypt.8ek Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand towards heaven so that it hails throughout the whole of Egypt, on man and beast and on everything growing anywhere in Egypt.'ldS but those who did not take to heart what Yahweh said left their slaves and livestock in the fields.qc] Those of Pharaoh's officials who respected what Yahweh said, brought their slaves and livestock indoors,fbG So now send word to have your livestock and everything else you own in the fields put under cover. On man or beast, all that happen to be in the fields and are not brought indoors, the hail will fall and they will die." 'a5 very well, at about this time tomorrow, I shall cause so severe a hail to fall as was never known in Egypt from the day of its foundation until now.L` Since you take a high hand with my people, refusing to let them go,_ But I have let you survive for this reason: to display my power to you and to have my name talked of throughout the world.^y Had I stretched out my hand to strike you and your subjects with pestilence, you would have been swept from the earth.2]_ For this time I am going to inflict all my plagues on you, on your officials and on your subjects, so that you will know that there is no one like me in the whole world.+\Q Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh. Say to him, "Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me.j[O But Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn and, as Yahweh had foretold to Moses, he did not listen to them.Z1 And the magicians could not compete with Moses in the matter of the boils, for the magicians were covered with boils like all the other Egyptians.%YE So they took soot from the kiln and stood in front of Pharaoh, and Moses threw it in the air, and on man and beast it brought out boils breaking into sores.X! It will turn into fine dust over the whole of Egypt and produce boils breaking into sores on man and beast throughout the whole of Egypt.' W Yahweh then said to Moses and Aaron, 'Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and before Pharaoh's eyes let Moses throw it in the air.2V_ Pharaoh had enquiries made, and found that of the livestock owned by the Israelites not a single beast had died. But Pharaoh was obstinate and did not let the people go.U{ Next day Yahweh did this: all the Egyptians' livestock died, but nothing of the livestock owned by the Israelites died.aT= Yahweh has fixed the time. Tomorrow, he has said, Yahweh will do this in the country." 'S Yahweh will discriminate between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt: nothing of what belongs to the Israelites will die. R look, the hand of Yahweh will strike your livestock in the fields, horses, donkeys, camels, oxen and flocks with a deadly plague.@Q} If you refuse to let them go and detain them any longer, P  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh and say to him, "Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me.ROBut Pharaoh became obstinate this time too and did not let the people go.vNgand Yahweh did as Moses asked; the horseflies left Pharaoh, his officials and his subjects; not one remained.@M}Moses then left Pharaoh's presence and prayed to Yahweh,}Lu'The moment I leave you,' Moses said, 'I shall pray to Yahweh. Tomorrow morning the horseflies will leave Pharaoh, his officials and his subjects. But Pharaoh must stop trifling with us by not allowing the people to go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'K Pharaoh said, 'I will let you go and sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the desert, provided you do not go very far. Pray for me.'sJaWe shall make a three-days' journey into the desert to sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he has ordered us.'KI'That would never do,' Moses said, 'since what we sacrifice to Yahweh our God is outrageous to the Egyptians. If the Egyptians see us offering sacrifices which outrage them, won't they stone us?lHSPharaoh then summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Go and sacrifice to your God, inside the country.'8GkYahweh did this, and great swarms of horseflies found their way into Pharaoh's palace, into his officials' houses and all over Egypt; the country was ruined by the horseflies.mFUI shall make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow." '8EkBut I shall exempt the region of Goshen, where my people are living, that day; there will be no horseflies there, so that you will know that I am Yahweh, here in this country.]D5But if you will not let my people go, I shall send horseflies on you, on your officials, your subjects and your houses. The Egyptians' houses will swarm with horseflies, and so will the very ground they stand on.7CiYahweh then said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he makes his way to the water. Say to him, "Yahweh says this: Let my people go and worship me.B-So the magicians said to Pharaoh, 'This is the finger of God.' But Pharaoh was obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to them. ABy their spells the magicians tried to produce mosquitoes in the same way but failed, and there were mosquitoes on man and beast.T@# Aaron stretched out his hand, with his staff, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were mosquitoes on man and beast; all the dust of the earth turned into mosquitoes throughout the whole of Egypt./?Y Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, "Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and it will turn into mosquitoes throughout the whole of Egypt." '>  But once Pharaoh saw that there had been a respite, he became obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to them.:=q They piled them up in heaps and the country stank.X<+ Yahweh did as Moses asked, and in house and courtyard and field the frogs died.;Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh's presence, and Moses pleaded with Yahweh about the frogs which he had inflicted on Pharaoh.u:eThe frogs will leave you, your houses, your officials and your subjects and will be left only in the River.'9'Tomorrow,' he said. Moses said, 'It shall be as you say, so that you will know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.e8EMoses said to Pharaoh, 'You are the one to gain by it: when would you like me to pray for you, your officials and your subjects, so as to rid you and your houses of the frogs so that they will be left only in the River?'57ePharaoh then summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Entreat Yahweh to take the frogs away from me and my subjects, and I promise to let the people go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'_69But by their spells the magicians did the same, bringing frogs over the land of Egypt. 9v~}}||s{{/zz]ylxTww vutt'srqqPppoo#nmmGll'kk>jji6hh?ggzgfPfeddccbbaq``9_^^]] \[[5ZZ?ZYXXtWWVVUUTSSqRRQBPPKOOkNNPMxLLKK8JJUIIYHH?GGFF E8DDC[BBA@@n??J>>1==dynor will you show partiality to the poor in a lawsuit.c7You will not be led into wrong-doing by the majority nor, when giving evidence in a lawsuit, side with the majority to pervert the course of justice;nb Y'You will not spread false rumours. You will not lend support to the wicked by giving untrue evidence.!a='You must be people consecrated to me. You will not eat the meat of anything in the countryside savaged by wild animals; you will throw it to the dogs.'&`Gyou will do the same with your flocks and herds. For the first seven days the first-born will stay with its mother; on the eighth day you will give it to me._ 'Do not be slow about making offerings from your abundance and your surplus. You will give me the first-born of your children;A^'You will not revile God, nor curse your people's leader.8]kIt is all the covering he has; it is the cloak he wraps his body in; what else will he sleep in? If he appeals to me, I shall listen. At least with me he will find compassion!U\%'If you take someone's cloak in pledge, you will return it to him at sunset.[+'If you lend money to any of my people, to anyone poor among you, you will not play the usurer with him: you will not demand interest from him.Zmy anger will be roused and I shall put you to the sword; then your own wives will be widows and your own children orphans.vYgif you ill-treat them in any way and they make an appeal to me for help, I shall certainly hear their appeal,1X_You will not ill-treat widows or orphans;^W7'You will not molest or oppress aliens, for you yourselves were once aliens in Egypt.YV-'Anyone who sacrifices to other gods will be put under the curse of destruction.IU 'Anyone who has intercourse with an animal will be put to death.0T]'You will not allow a sorceress to live.{SqIf her father absolutely refuses to let him have her, he will pay a sum equivalent to the bride-price of a virgin.xRk'If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married, he will pay her bride-price and make her his wife.Q5But if the animal's owner has been present, he will not have to make good the loss. If the owner has hired it out, he will get the cost of its hire. P 'If anyone borrows an animal from someone else, and it breaks a limb or dies in the owner's absence, he will make full restitution.O/ If it has been savaged by a wild animal, he must bring the savaged remains of the animal as evidence, and will then not have to make restitution.\N3 Only if the animal has been stolen from him, will he make restitution to the owner.RM an oath by Yahweh will decide between the two parties whether the keeper has laid hands on the other's property or not. The owner will take what remains, the keeper will not have to make good the loss.5Le 'If anyone entrusts a donkey, ox, animal from the flock or any other animal to someone else's keeping, and it dies or breaks a limb or is carried off without anyone seeing,K)'In every case of law-breaking involving an ox, donkey, animal from the flock, clothing or lost property of any sort, the ownership of which is disputed, both parties will lay their case before God. The party whom God pronounces guilty will pay back double to the other.-JUShould the thief not be discovered, the owner of the house will come into the presence of God, to declare that he has not laid hands on the other person's property.+IQ'If anyone entrusts money or goods to someone else's keeping and these are stolen from that person's house, the thief, if he can be discovered, will repay double.5He'If a fire breaks out, setting light to thorn bushes and burning stacks, standing corn or the field as a result, the person who started the fire will make full restitution.WG)'If anyone puts his animals out to graze in a field or vineyard and lets them graze in someone else's field, he will make restitution for the part of the field that has been grazed on the basis of its yield. But if he has let the whole field be grazed, he will make restitution in proportion to the best crop of the field or vineyard.FIf the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, be it ox, donkey or animal from the flock, he will pay back double.*EObut if it happens after sunrise, his blood may be avenged. He will make full restitution; if he has not the means, he will be sold to pay for what he has stolen.dD E'If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck a mortal blow, his blood may not be avenged,.CW%'If anyone steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he will pay back five beasts from the herd for the ox, and four animals from the flock for the sheep.'FB$But if it is common knowledge that the ox has been in the habit of goring before, and its owner has not kept it under control, the owner will repay ox for ox, and will keep the dead animal.A/#If anyone's ox injures anyone else's ox causing its death, the owners will sell and share the money for it; they will also share the dead animal.v@g"then the owner of the pit will make good the loss by compensating its owner, and the dead animal will be his.t?c!'If anyone leaves a pit uncovered, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox, or donkey falls into it,> If the ox gores a slave, male or female, its owner will pay the price -- thirty shekels -- to their master, and the ox will be stoned._=9If the ox gores a boy or a girl, it will be treated in accordance with this same rule.b<?If a ransom is imposed on the owner, he will pay whatever is imposed, to redeem his life.Y;-But if the ox has been in the habit of goring before, and if its owner has been warned but has not kept it under control, then should this ox kill a man or woman, it will be stoned and its owner put to death.:!'If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox will be stoned and its meat will not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will not be liable.9}If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he will give the slave his freedom to compensate for the tooth.81'If anyone strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys the use of it, he will give the slave his freedom to compensate for the eye.:7qburn for burn, wound for wound, stroke for stroke.D6eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,H5 If further harm is done, however, you will award life for life,f4G'If people, when brawling, hurt a pregnant woman and she suffers a miscarriage but no further harm is done, the person responsible will pay compensation as fixed by the woman's master, paying as much as the judges decide.3{But should the slave survive for one or two days, he will pay no penalty because the slave is his by right of purchase.o2Y'If someone beats his slave, male or female, and the slave dies at his hands, he must pay the penalty.}1ubut later recovers and can go about, even with a stick, the one who struck the blow will have no liability, other than to compensate the injured party for the enforced inactivity and to take care of the injured party until the cure is complete.0'If people quarrel and one strikes the other a blow with stone or fist so that the injured party, though not dead, is confined to bed,@/}Anyone who curses father or mother will be put to death.y.mAnyone who abducts a person -- whether that person has since been sold or is still held -- will be put to death.C-'Anyone who strikes father or mother will be put to death.,But should any person dare to kill another with deliberate planning, you will take that person even from my altar to be put to death.+ If, however, he has not planned to do it but it comes from God by his hand, he can take refuge in a place which I shall appoint for you.E* 'Anyone who by violence causes a death must be put to death.n)W Should he deprive her of these three things she will leave a free woman, without paying compensation.m(U If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing or conjugal rights of the first one.e'E If he intends her for his son, he must treat her as custom requires daughters to be treated.F&If she does not please her master who intended her for himself, he must let her be bought back: he has not the right to sell her to foreigners, for this would be a breach of faith with her.V%'If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not leave as male slaves do.8$kthen his master will bring him before God and then, leading him to the door or the doorpost, his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and the slave will be permanently his.g#IBut if the slave says, "I love my master and my wife and children; I do not wish to be freed,""1If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and he will depart alone.e!EIf he came single, he will depart single; if he came married, his wife will depart with him. %'When you buy a Hebrew slave, his service will last for six years. In the seventh year he will leave a free man without paying compensation.. ['These are the laws you must give them:_9You must not go up to my altar by steps, in case you expose your nakedness on them." '}If you make me an altar of stone, do not build it of dressed stones; for if you use a chisel on it, you will profane it.Y-"You must make me an altar of earth on which to sacrifice your burnt offerings and communion sacrifices, your sheep and cattle. Wherever I choose to have my name remembered, I shall come to you and bless you.a=You must not make gods of silver to rival me, nor must you make yourselves gods of gold.}uYahweh said to Moses, 'Tell the Israelites this, "You have seen for yourselves how I have spoken to you from heaven._9So the people kept their distance while Moses approached the dark cloud where God was. ;Moses said to the people, 'Do not be afraid; God has come to test you, so that your fear of him, being always in your mind, may keep you from sinning.'ym'Speak to us yourself,' they said to Moses, 'and we will obey; but do not let God speak to us, or we shall die.'"?Seeing the thunder pealing, the lightning flashing, the trumpet blasting and the mountain smoking, the people were all terrified and kept their distance.O'You shall not set your heart on your neighbour's house. You shall not set your heart on your neighbour's spouse, or servant, man or woman, or ox, or donkey, or any of your neighbour's possessions.'C'You shall not give false evidence against your neighbour.7'You shall not steal.'K'You shall not commit adultery.5 'You shall not kill.vg 'Honour your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.@{ For in six days Yahweh made the heavens, earth and sea and all that these contain, but on the seventh day he rested; that is why Yahweh has blessed the Sabbath day and made it sacred.Y- but the seventh day is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God. You shall do no work that day, neither you nor your son nor your daughter nor your servants, men or women, nor your animals nor the alien living with you.; s For six days you shall labour and do all your work,3 c'Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.} u'You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name.f Gbut I act with faithful love towards thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.W )'You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God and I punish a parent's fault in the children, the grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren among those who hate me;''You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth.2a'You shall have no other gods to rival me.W)'I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves./ ]Then God spoke all these words. He said,;sSo Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.H Yahweh said, 'Away with you! Go down! Then come back bringing Aaron with you. But do not allow the priests and people to break through to come up to Yahweh, or he may burst out against them.'"?Moses said to Yahweh, 'The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since you yourself warned us to mark out the limits of the mountain and declare it sacred.'ymEven the priests, who do have access to Yahweh, must sanctify themselves, or Yahweh may burst out against them.'Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go down and warn the people not to break through to look at Yahweh, or many of them will perish. Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.a~=Louder and louder grew the trumpeting. Moses spoke, and God answered him in the thunder.<}sMount Sinai was entirely wrapped in smoke, because Yahweh had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke rose like smoke from a furnace and the whole mountain shook violently.x|kThen Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the bottom of the mountain.D{Now at daybreak two days later, there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, dense cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast; and, in the camp, all the people trembled.az=He then said to the people, 'Be ready for the day after tomorrow; do not touch a woman.'ySo Moses came down from the mountain to the people; he made the people sanctify themselves and they washed their clothes.W"Accordingly, Aaron stored it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.=)!Moses then said to Aaron, 'Take a jar and in it put a full homer of manna and store it in Yahweh's presence, to be kept for your descendants.'R< Moses then said, 'These are Yahweh's orders: Fill a homer with it and preserve it for your descendants, so that they can see the bread on which I fed you in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.';The House of Israel named it 'manna'. It was like coriander seed; it was white and its taste was like that of wafers made with honey.0:]So on the seventh day the people rested.=9uLook, Yahweh has given you the Sabbath; this is why he gives you two days' food on the sixth day; each of you must stay in his place; on the seventh day no one may leave his home.'f8GYahweh then said to Moses, 'How much longer will you refuse to obey my commandments and laws?[71On the seventh day some of the people went out to collect it, but they found none.d6CFor six days you will collect it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.'p5['Eat it today,' Moses said, 'for today is a Sabbath for Yahweh; you will find none in the fields today.4{So, as Moses ordered, they put it aside for the following day, and its smell was not foul nor were there maggots in it.b3?Moses replied, 'This is what Yahweh said, "Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a Sabbath sacred to Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, boil what you want to boil; put aside what is left over, to be kept for tomorrow."23Now, on the sixth day they collected twice the amount of food: two homer per person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses this.1yMorning by morning they collected it, each man as much as he needed to eat, and once the sun grew hot, it melted away.09But some of them took no notice of Moses and kept part of it for the following day, and it bred maggots and smelt foul; and Moses was angry with them.C/Moses then said, 'No one may keep any of it for tomorrow.'O.When they measured out what they had collected by the homer, no one who had collected more had too much, no one who had collected less had too little. Each had collected as much as he needed to eat.J-The Israelites did this. They collected it, some more, some less. , These are Yahweh's orders: Each of you must collect as much as he needs to eat -- a homer per head for each person in his tent.'9+mAs soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that ?' not knowing what it was. 'That', Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you to eat.*When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was something fine and granular, as fine as hoarfrost on the ground.y)m That evening, quails flew in and covered the camp, and next morning there was a layer of dew all round the camp.a(= 'I have heard the Israelites' complaints. Speak to them as follows, "At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have bread to your heart's content, and then you will know that I am Yahweh your God." ','U Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,&- As Aaron was speaking to the whole community of Israelites, they turned towards the desert, and there the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.% Moses then said to Aaron, 'Say to the whole community of Israelites, "Approach Yahweh's presence, for he has heard your complaints." '|$sMoses then said, 'This evening Yahweh will give you meat to eat, and tomorrow morning bread to your heart's content, for Yahweh has heard your complaints about him. What do we count for? Your complaints are not against us, but against Yahweh.''#Iand tomorrow morning you will see the glory of Yahweh, for Yahweh has heard your complaints about him. What are we, that your complaint should be against us?'"%Moses and Aaron then said to the whole community of Israelites, 'This evening you will know that it was Yahweh who brought you out of Egypt,!On the sixth day, however, when they prepare what they have brought in, this must be twice as much as they collect on ordinary days.'t cYahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I shall rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people must go out and collect their ration for the day; I propose to test them in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not.nWand said to them, 'Why did we not die at Yahweh's hand in Egypt, where we used to sit round the flesh pots and could eat to our heart's content! As it is, you have led us into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death!'dCAnd the whole community of Israelites began complaining about Moses and Aaron in the desert? {Setting out from Elim, the whole community of Israelites entered the desert of Sin, lying between Elim and Sinai -- on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt.So they came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees; and there they pitched camp beside the water.#'If you listen carefully to the voice of Yahweh your God and do what he regards as right, if you pay attention to his commandments and keep all his laws, I shall never inflict on you any of the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, for I am Yahweh your Healer.'mUMoses appealed to Yahweh for help, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became sweet. There he laid down a statute and law for them and there he put them to the test. Then he said,G The people complained to Moses saying, 'What are we to drink?'When they reached Marah, they could not drink the Marah water because it was bitter; this is why the place was named Marah.'IMoses led Israel away from the Sea of Reeds, and they entered the desert of Shur. They then travelled through the desert for three days without finding water.%while Miriam took up from them the refrain: Sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.yThe prophetess Miriam, Aaron's sister, took up a tambourine, and all the women followed her with tambourines, dancing,PFor when Pharaoh's cavalry, with his chariots and horsemen, had gone into the sea, Yahweh brought the waters of the sea back over them, though the Israelites went on dry ground right through the sea..YYahweh will be king for ever and ever.?yYou will bring them in and plant them on the mountain which is your heritage, the place which you, Yahweh, have made your dwelling, the sanctuary, Yahweh, prepared by your own hands.5eOn them fall terror and dread; through the power of your arm they are still as stone while your people are passing, Yahweh, while the people you have purchased are passing.the chieftains of Edom are dismayed, Moab's princes -- panic has seized them, all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Ij~~b}}'||${{zzyxx`ww1vvuTtt_ssrr'qppooo nnmmWmllrl!kkk jjiiDhhhCggOfeeVddcc\bbbaaL``^^}]]\\N[[ZZ^YY@XXWWVzUUGTTJSSS?RRvQQ}QPP}OO8NN)MM;LLBKJJIIJHHGFFXEEEDCCmBB#AAM@@?}>>7=<77k6555T44:333[22D11m10u//A.t-,,++**)((''&c%$$i##l#"Q!!!M \q u PvjCery+ y ! B   " !K:_I^)The rich man must not give more, nor the poor man less, than half a shekel when he pays the sum set aside for Yahweh in ransom for your lives.x]kEveryone subject to the census, that is to say of twenty years and over, will pay the sum set aside for Yahweh.-\U Everyone subject to the census will pay half a shekel, reckoning by the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerah to the shekel. This half-shekel will be set aside for Yahweh.8[k 'When you count the Israelites by census, each one of them must pay Yahweh a ransom for his life, to avoid any incidence of plague among them while you are holding the census.,ZU Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,Y Once a year, Aaron will perform the rite of expiation on the horns of the altar; once a year, on the Day of Expiation, with the blood of the sacrifice for sin, he will make expiation for himself, for all your generations to come. It is especially holy for Yahweh.' X You will not offer unauthorised incense, or burnt offering, or cereal offering on it, and you will not pour any libation over it.W+and when Aaron puts back the lamps at twilight, he will burn incense on it, incense perpetually before Yahweh for all your generations to come.rV_On it Aaron will burn fragrant incense each morning; when he trims the lamps, he will burn incense on it;U+'You will put it in front of the curtain by the ark of Testimony, in front of the mercy-seat which is on the Testimony, where I shall meet you.LTYou will make the shafts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.SYou will make two gold rings for it below the moulding on its two opposite sides, to take the shafts used for carrying it.}RuYou will overlay its top, its sides all round and its horns with pure gold and make a gold moulding to go all round.~Qwone cubit long, and one cubit wide -- it must be square -- and two cubits high; its horns must be of a piece with it.ZP 1'You will make an altar on which to burn incense; you will make it of acacia wood,Oy.and they will know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of Egypt to live among them: I, Yahweh their God.'>Ny-And I shall live with the Israelites and be their God,M ,I shall consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar; I shall also consecrate Aaron and his sons, to be priests in my service.QL+'There I shall meet the Israelites in the place consecrated by my glory.$KC*a perpetual burnt offering for all your generations to come, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I shall meet you and speak to you.,JS)The second lamb you will offer at twilight, and do it with a similar cereal offering and libation as at dawn, as a pleasing smell, as an offering burnt for Yahweh,.IW(and with the first lamb, one-tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with one-quarter of a hin of pounded olive oil and, for a libation, one-quarter of a hin of wine.KH'The first lamb you will offer at dawn, and the second at twilight,cGA&'This is what you must offer on the altar: two yearling male lambs each day in perpetuity.-FU%For seven days you will make expiation for the altar, then you will consecrate it; it will then be especially holy, and whatever touches the altar will become holy.^E7$'On each of the days you will also offer a young bull as a sacrifice for sin, in expiation. You will offer a sin sacrifice for the altar when you make expiation for it; then you will consecrate it by anointing it.D+#This is what you will do for Aaron and his sons, implementing all the orders I have given you. You will take seven days over their investiture.+CQ"If any of the meat from the investiture sacrifice, or the bread, should be left till morning, you will burn what is left. It may not be eaten; it is a holy thing.$BC!They will eat what was used in making expiation for them at their investiture and consecration. No unauthorised person may eat these; they are holy things.A Aaron and his sons will eat the meat of the ram and the bread which is in the basket, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.Q@'You will take the ram of investiture and cook its meat in a holy place.?9Whichever of the sons of Aaron succeeds him in the priesthood and enters the Tent of Meeting to serve in the sanctuary, will wear them for seven days.>{'Aaron's sacred vestments must pass to his sons after him, and they will wear them for their anointing and investiture.= This, by perpetual decree, will be the portion that Aaron and his sons will receive from the Israelites, since it is the portion set aside, the portion set aside for Yahweh by the Israelites from their communion sacrifices: a portion set aside for Yahweh.V<'You will consecrate the forequarters that have been thus offered, as also the thigh that is set aside -- what has been offered and what has been set aside from the ram of investiture of Aaron and his sons.";?'You will then take the forequarters of the ram of Aaron's investiture and with it make the gesture of offering before Yahweh; this will be your portion.$:CThen you will take them back and burn them on the altar, on top of the burnt offering, as a smell pleasing before Yahweh, a food offering burnt for Yahweh.k9Qand put it all on the palms of Aaron and his sons, and make the gesture of offering before Yahweh.|8sand a loaf of bread, a cake of bread made with oil, and a wafer, from the basket of unleavened bread before Yahweh,f7G'You will then take the fatty parts of the ram: the tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty mass over the liver, the two kidneys with their covering fat and also the right thigh -- for this is a ram of investiture- 6You will then take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his vestments and on his sons and on his sons' vestments: so that he and his vestments will be consecrated and his sons too, and his sons' vestments.5)You will then slaughter the ram, take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the lobes of his sons' right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the big toes of their right feet, and pour the rest of the blood against the altar, all round.k4Q'Next, you will take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the ram's head. 3Then burn the whole ram on the altar. This will be a burnt offering for Yahweh, a pleasing smell, a food offering burnt for Yahweh.k2QNext, cut the ram into quarters, wash the entrails and legs and put them on the quarters and head.b1?You will then slaughter the ram, take its blood and pour it against the altar, all round.m0U'Next, you will take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the ram's head.x/kBut the young bull's flesh, its skin and its offal, you will burn outside the camp, for this is a sin offering..5 And then take all the fat covering the entrails, the fatty mass over the liver, the two kidneys with their covering fat, and burn them on the altar.*-O You will then take some of the bull's blood and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar. Next, pour out the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar._,9 You will then slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.+ 'You will bring the bull in front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the bull's head.6*g and fasten waistbands round their waists and put the head-dresses on their heads. By perpetual decree the priesthood will be theirs. Then you will invest Aaron and his sons.@)}'Next, you will bring his sons and dress them in tunics,X(+You will then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and so anoint him.c'AThen you will place the turban on his head, and on it put the symbol of holy consecration.2&_You will then take the vestments and dress Aaron in the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and tie the waistband of the ephod round his waist.b%?'You will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and bathe them.s$aand put these into a basket and present them in the basket, at the same time as the bull and the two rams.#also unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, made from fine wheat flour," 'This is what you will do to them, to consecrate them to my priesthood. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish;!+Aaron and his sons will wear these when they go into the Tent of Meeting and when they approach the altar to serve in the sanctuary, as a precaution against incurring mortal guilt. This is a perpetual decree for Aaron and for his descendants after him.'h K*You will also make them linen breeches reaching from waist to thigh, to cover their bare flesh.1)You will dress your brother Aaron and his sons in these; you will then anoint them, invest them and consecrate them to serve me in the priesthood. ('For the sons of Aaron you will make tunics and waistbands. You will also make them head-dresses to give dignity and magnificence.oY'The tunic you will weave of fine linen, and make a turban of fine linen, and an embroidered waistband.r_&This will go on Aaron's brow, and Aaron will thus take on himself the short-comings in the holy things consecrated by the Israelites, in all their holy offerings. It will be on his brow permanently, to make them acceptable to Yahweh.%You will put it on a violet-purple cord; it will go on the turban; the front of the turban is the place where it must go.{$'You will make a flower of pure gold and on it, as you would engrave a seal, you will engrave, "Consecrated to Yahweh".4c#Aaron must wear it when he officiates, and the tinkling will be heard when he goes into the sanctuary into Yahweh's presence, or leaves it, and so he will not incur death.`;"a golden bell and then a pomegranate, alternately, all round the lower hem of the robe.3a!On its lower hem, you will make pomegranates of violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, and finely woven linen all round the hem, with golden bells between them all round:'I In the centre it will have an opening for the head, the opening to have round it a border woven like the neck of a coat of mail, so that it will not get torn.H 'You will make the robe of the ephod entirely of violet-purple.q]To the breastplate of judgement you will add the urim and the thummim, and these will be on Aaron's heart when he goes into Yahweh's presence, and Aaron will bear the Israelites' judgement on his heart, in Yahweh's presence, always.0[Thus Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgement, on his heart, when he enters the sanctuary, as a reminder, before Yahweh, always.I The breastplate will be secured by a violet-purple cord passed through its rings and those of the ephod, so that the breastplate will sit above the waistband and not come apart from the ephod.*Oand you will make two gold rings and put them low down on the front of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, close to the join, above the waistband of the ephod.You will also make two gold rings and put them on the two edges of the breastplate, on the inner side, against the ephod;The other two ends of the cords you will fasten to the two rosettes, putting these on the shoulder-straps of the ephod, on the front.cAand fastening the two gold cords to the two rings on the outside edges of the breastplate. yand on the breastplate you will make two gold rings, putting the two rings on the two outside edges of the breastplateR For the breastplate you will make chains of pure gold twisted like cords,% EThe stones will correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve like their names, engraved like seals, each with the name of one of the twelve tribes.k Qand for the fourth row, a beryl, a cornelian and a jasper. These must be mounted in gold settings.> yfor the third row, a hyacinth, a ruby and an amethyst;;sfor the second row, a garnet, sapphire and diamond;]5In it you will set four rows of stones: a sard, topaz and emerald for the first row;RIt must be square and doubled over, a span in length and a span in width.A}'You will make the breastplate of judgement of the same embroidered work as the ephod; you will make it of gold, violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and finely woven linen.mUand two chains of pure gold twisted like cord, and will attach the cord-like chains to the rosettes.+S You will also make golden rosettes,H  and will put the two stones on the shoulder-straps of the ephod, to commemorate the sons of Israel. In this way Aaron will bear their names on his two shoulders, before Yahweh, as a reminder.)M By the stone-carver's art -- seal engraving -- you will engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You will have them mounted in gold settingslS six of their names on one stone, the remaining six names on the other, in the order of their birth.a= You will then take two cornelians and engrave them with the names of the sons of Israel,F~The waistband on the ephod to hold it in position must be of the same workmanship and be of a piece with it: of gold, violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and finely woven linen.c}AIt will have two shoulder-straps joined to it; it will be joined to them by its two edges.v|g'They will make the ephod of finely woven linen embroidered with gold, violet-purple, red-purple and crimson.`{;They will use gold and violet material, red-purple and crimson, and finely woven linen.jzOThese are the vestments which they must make: a pectoral, an ephod, a robe, an embroidered tunic, a turban and a belt. They must make sacred vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons, for them to be priests in my service.yYou will instruct all the skilled men, whom I have endowed with skill, to make Aaron's vestments for his consecration to my priesthood.`x;For your brother Aaron you will make sacred vestments to give dignity and magnificence.!w ?'From among the Israelites, summon your brother Aaron and his sons to be priests in my service: Aaron and Aaron's sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.Xv+Aaron and his sons will tend it in the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain hanging in front of the Testimony, from dusk to dawn, before Yahweh. This is a perpetual decree for all generations of Israelites.'u'You will order the Israelites to bring you pure pounded olive oil for the light, and to keep a lamp burning all the time.|tsAll the accessories for general use in the Dwelling, all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, must be of bronze.CsThe length of the court must be one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits and its height five cubits. All the curtaining must be made of finely woven linen, and their sockets of bronze.rAll the poles round the court must be connected by silver rods; their hooks must be of silver and their sockets of bronze.Gq and for the gateway to the court there must be a twenty-cubit screen of finely woven linen embroidered with violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, with its four poles and their four sockets.{pqand on the other side of the entrance, fifteen cubits of curtaining, with its three poles and their three sockets;uoewith fifteen cubits of curtaining on one side of the entrance, with its three poles and their three sockets,[n1 The width of the court on the east side, facing the sunrise, must be fifty cubits, m Across the width of the court, on the west side, there must be fifty cubits of curtaining, with its ten poles and their ten sockets.5le So too for the north side, there must be a hundred cubits of curtaining, its twenty poles and their twenty sockets being of bronze, and the poles' hooks and rods of silver.lkS its twenty poles and their twenty sockets being of bronze, and the poles' hooks and rods of silver.3ja 'Then you will make the court of the Dwelling. On the south side, the curtaining of the court must be of finely woven linen, one hundred cubits long (for the first side),kiQYou will make the altar hollow, out of boards; you will make it as you were shown on the mountain.hThe shafts will be passed through the rings in such a way that the shafts are on either side of the altar, for carrying it.`g;You will make shafts for the altar, shafts of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze.ifMYou will put it below the ledge of the altar, underneath, so that it comes halfway up the altar.e You will also make a grating for it of bronze network, and on the four corners of the grating you will make four bronze rings./dYAnd for it you will make pans for taking away the fatty ashes, and shovels, sprinkling basins, hooks and fire pans; you will make all the altar accessories of bronze.|csAt its four corners you will make horns, the horns must be of a piece with it, and you will overlay it with bronze.b 'You will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar will be square and three cubits high.&aG%and for the screen you will make five poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, with golden hooks, and for them you will cast five sockets of bronze.' `$For the entrance to the tent you will make a screen of finely woven linen embroidered with violet-purple, red-purple and crimson,*_O#You will place the table outside the curtain, and the lamp-stand on the south side of the Dwelling, opposite the table; you will put the table on the north side.W^)"You will put the mercy-seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies.\]3!You will put the curtain below the clasps, so that inside behind the curtain, you can place the ark of the Testimony, and the curtain will mark the division for you between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.\y and put it on four poles of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with golden hooks for them, set in four sockets of silver.['You will make a curtain of finely woven linen, dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, and embroidered with great winged creatures,aZ=This is how you must erect the Dwelling, following the design shown you on the mountain.Y#You will overlay the frames with gold, make gold rings for them, through which to place the crossbars, and overlay the crossbars with gold.SX!The middle bar must join the frames from one end to the other, halfway up. W;five crossbars for the frames of the opposite side of the Dwelling, and five crossbars for the frames which form the back of the Dwelling, to the west.hVK'You will make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames of the first side of the Dwelling,U'Thus there will be eight frames with their silver sockets: sixteen sockets; two sockets under one frame and two sockets under the next frame.'TIthese must be coupled together at the bottom, and right up to the top, to the level of the first ring; this for the two frames that must form the two corners.IS and make two frames for the corners at the back of the Dwelling;MRFor the back of the Dwelling, on the west, you will make six frames,aQ=and forty silver sockets, two sockets under one frame, two sockets under the next frame.NPand for the other side of the Dwelling, the north side, twenty frames$OCand make forty silver sockets under the twenty frames, two sockets under one frame for its two tenons, two sockets under the next frame for its two tenons;_N9You will make frames for the Dwelling: twenty frames for the south side, to the south,dMCEach frame must have twin tenons; that is how all the frames for the Dwelling must be made.KLEach frame must be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.HK 'For the Dwelling you will make vertical frames of acacia wood.oJY'And for the tent you will make a cover of rams' skins dyed red and a cover of fine leather over that.I The extra cubit on either side along the length of the tent sheets must hang down the sides of the Dwelling on either side to cover it.fHG 'Of the extra part of the sheets that overlap, half is to hang down the back of the Dwelling. G You will make fifty bronze clasps and insert the clasps into the loops, to draw the tent together and to make it a unified whole.!F= You will make fifty loops along the edge of the first sheet, at the end of the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the sheet of the second set.E You will join five sheets together into one set, and six sheets into another; the sixth you will fold double over the front of the tent.DThe length of a single sheet must be thirty cubits and its width four cubits, the eleven sheets to be all of the same size.nCW'You will make sheets of goats' hair to form a tent over the Dwelling; you will make eleven of these.BYou will also make fifty gold clasps, and join the sheets together with the clasps. In this way the Dwelling will be a unified whole."A?You will make fifty loops on the first sheet and fifty loops along the outer edge of the sheet of the second set, the loops corresponding to one another. @;You will make violet loops along the edge of the first sheet, at the end of the set, and do the same along the edge of the last sheet in the other set.w?iFive of the sheets are to be joined to one another, and the other five sheets are to be joined to one another.>}The length of a single sheet is to be twenty-eight cubits, its width four cubits, all the sheets to be of the same size.8= m'The Dwelling itself you will make with ten sheets of finely woven linen dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson. You will have them embroidered with great winged creatures.R<(and see that you work to the design which was shown you on the mountain.'W;)'You will use a talent of pure gold for the lamp-stand and all its accessories;4:e&The snuffers and trays must be of pure gold.}9u%You will also make seven lamps for it and mount the lamps in such a way that they light up the space in front of it.8$The calyxes and the branches will be of a piece with the lamp-stand, and the whole made from a single piece of pure gold, beaten out.b7?#one calyx under the first two branches springing from the lamp-stand, one calyx under the next pair of branches and one calyx under the last pair of branches -- thus for all six branches springing from the lamp-stand.m6U"The lamp-stand itself must carry four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud:5'!The first branch must carry three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and petals; the second branch, too, must carry three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud, and similarly for all six branches springing from the lamp-stand.4' Six branches must spring from its sides: three of the lamp-stand's branches from one side, three of the lamp-stand's branches from the other.'3I'You will also make a lamp-stand of pure gold; the lamp-stand must be of beaten gold, base and stem. Its cups, calyxes and petals, must be of a piece with it.`2;and on the table, in my presence, you will always put the loaves of permanent offering.f1GYou must make dishes, cups, jars and libation bowls for it; you must make these of pure gold,p0[You must make the shafts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. The table must be carried by these.Z//The rings must lie close to the struts to hold the shafts for carrying the table.q.]You will make four gold rings for it and fix the four rings at the four corners where the four legs are.c-AYou will fit it with struts of a hand's breadth and make a gold moulding round the struts.S,!You will overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold moulding all round it.t+c'You must also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.C*There I shall come to meet you; from above the mercy-seat, from between the two winged creatures which are on the ark of the Testimony, I shall give you all my orders for the Israelites.) You will put the mercy-seat on the top of the ark, and inside the ark you will put the Testimony which I am about to give you./(YThe winged creatures must have their wings spread upwards, protecting the mercy-seat with their wings and facing each other, their faces being towards the mercy-seat.7'iModel one of the winged creatures at one end and the other winged creature at the other end; you will model the winged creatures of a piece with the mercy-seat at either end.|&sand you will model two great winged creatures of beaten gold, you will make them at the two ends of the mercy-seat.r%_'You will also make a mercy-seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide,P$Inside the ark you will put the Testimony which I am about to give you.K#The shafts will stay in the rings of the ark and not be withdrawn.]"5and pass the shafts through the rings on the sides of the ark, by which to carry it.L! You will also make shafts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold  You will cast four gold rings for it and fix them to its four supports: two rings on one side and two rings on the other.cA You will overlay it, inside and out, with pure gold and make a gold moulding all round it.  'You must make me an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and one and a half cubits high. You will make it all according to the design for the Dwelling and the design for its furnishings which I shall now show you.<uMake me a sanctuary so that I can reside among them.Kcornelian and other stones to be set in the ephod and breastplate.Noil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and fragrant incense;8mrams' skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood;W)materials dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, fine linen, goats' hair;MAnd this is what you will accept from them: gold, silver and bronze;'Tell the Israelites to set aside a contribution for me; you will accept a contribution from everyone whose heart prompts him to give it.& KYahweh spoke to Moses and said,Moses went right into the cloud and went on up the mountain. Moses stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.jOTo the watching Israelites, the glory of Yahweh looked like a devouring fire on the mountain top./The glory of Yahweh rested on Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day Yahweh called to Moses from inside the cloud.EMoses then went up the mountain. Cloud covered the mountain.&GHe said to the elders, 'Wait here for us until we come back to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you; if anyone has any matter to settle, let him go to them.'[1 Moses made ready, with Joshua his assistant, and they went up the mountain of God.?y Yahweh said to Moses, 'Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets -- the law and the commandment -- which I have written for their instruction.'i M but he did no harm to the Israelite notables; they actually gazed on God and then ate and drank.   and they saw the God of Israel beneath whose feet there was what looked like a sapphire pavement pure as the heavens themselves,N  Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and seventy elders of Israel then went up,2 _Moses then took the blood and sprinkled it over the people, saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant which Yahweh has made with you, entailing all these stipulations.' ;Then, taking the Book of the Covenant, he read it to the listening people, who then said, 'We shall do everything that Yahweh has said; we shall obey.'mUMoses then took half the blood and put it into basins, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.}Then he sent certain young Israelites to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice bullocks to Yahweh as communion sacrifices.6gMoses put all Yahweh's words into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.-UMoses went and told the people all Yahweh's words and all the laws, and all the people answered with one voice, 'All the words Yahweh has spoken we will carry out!'oYMoses alone will approach Yahweh; the others will not approach, nor will the people come up with him.' !He then said to Moses, 'Come up to Yahweh, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel and bow down at a distance.%!They may not stay in your country or they might make you sin against me, for you would serve their gods, and that would be a snare for you!';s You will make no pact with them or with their gods.fGAnd your frontiers I shall fix from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, for I shall put the inhabitants of the territory at your mercy, and you will drive them out before you. I shall drive them out little by little before you, until your numbers grow sufficient for you to take possession of the land.~#I shall not drive them out ahead of you in a single year, or the land might become a desert where wild animals would multiply to your cost.a}=I shall send hornets ahead of you to drive Hivite, Canaanite and Hittite out before you. |;'I shall send terror of myself ahead of you; I shall throw all the peoples you encounter into confusion, and make all your enemies take to their heels.n{WIn your country no woman will miscarry, none be sterile, and I shall give you your full term of life.uzeYou will worship Yahweh your God, and then I shall bless your food and water, and keep you free of sickness.y You will not bow down to their gods or worship them or observe their rites, but throw them down and smash their cultic stones.3xaMy angel will precede you and lead you to the home of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, whom I shall exterminate.w{If, however, you obey what he says and do whatever I order, I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.vRevere him and obey what he says. Do not defy him: he will not forgive any wrong-doing on your part, for my name is in him.}uu'Look, I am sending an angel to precede you, to guard you as you go and bring you to the place that I have prepared.t'You will bring the best of the first-fruits of your soil to the house of Yahweh your God. 'You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.  7~h~!}c||{{fzzz#yyUxxkww]vvputtt[sssDrr qq@pp8po6nymm@lkjj\iiPOO N7MM2LLK|KGJnJII8HHGGFREEMDdD(CdBAA@@@(?`>>W=w= <";;:99,877O6h55e4433'211120~0///:..U---3,,++[**[)(('@&&;%%s$$/##v#"! /Nf+J  JY`J9:~c z  [ z / ,hK>X  $EC%He made the altar of incense of acacia wood, one cubit long, and one cubit wide -- it was square -- and two cubits high, its horns were of a piece with it.SD!%He made the lamp-stand and all its accessories from a talent of pure gold.KC%He also made its seven lamps, its snuffers and trays of pure gold.B%The calyxes and the branches were of a piece with the lamp-stand, and the whole was made from a single piece of pure gold, beaten out.bA?%one calyx under the first two branches springing from the lamp-stand, one calyx under the next pair of branches and one calyx under the last pair of branches -- thus for all six branches springing from the lamp-stand.j@O%The lamp-stand itself carried four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud: ? %The first branch carried three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud; the second branch, too, carried three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud, and similarly all six branches springing from the lamp-stand.>%Six branches sprang from its sides: three of the lamp-stand's branches from one side, three of the lamp-stand's branches from the other.=3%He also made the lamp-stand of pure gold, making the lamp-stand, base and stem, of beaten gold, its cups, calyxes and bud being of a piece with it.x<k%He made the accessories which were to go on the table: its dishes, cups, jars and libation bowls, of pure gold.j;O%He made the shafts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold; these were for carrying the table.U:%%The rings lay close to the struts to hold the shafts for carrying the table.i9M% He cast four gold rings for it and fixed the rings at the four corners where the four legs were.b8?% He fitted it with struts a hand's breadth wide and made a gold moulding round the struts..7Y% and made a gold moulding all round it.j6O% He made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high,"5?% The winged creatures had their wings spread upwards, protecting the ark with their wings and facing each other, their faces being towards the mercy-seat.!4=%one winged creature at one end and the other winged creature at the other end, making the winged creatures of a piece with the mercy-seat at either end.p3[%and modelled two great winged creatures of beaten gold, putting them at the two ends of the mercy-seat,k2Q%He also made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide,_19%and passed the shafts through the rings on the sides of the ark, by which to carry it.H0 %He also made shafts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold,o/Y%He cast four gold rings for it at its four supports: two rings on one side and two rings on the other._.9%He overlaid it, inside and out, with pure gold, and made a gold moulding all round it.- %Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and one and a half cubits high.,$&as also the five columns for it and their hooks; he overlaid their capitals and rods with gold, but their five sockets were of bronze.+$%For the entrance to the tent he made a screen of finely woven linen embroidered with violet-purple, red-purple and crimson,*)$$and for it he made four poles of acacia wood, overlaying them with gold, with golden hooks for them, for which he cast four sockets of silver. ) $#He made a curtain of finely woven linen, dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson and embroidered with great winged creatures,($"He overlaid the frames with gold, made gold rings for them, through which to place the crossbars, and overlaid the crossbars with gold.Z'/$!He made the middle bar, to join the frames from one end to the other, halfway up.&7$ five crossbars for the frames of the other side of the Dwelling and five crossbars for the frames which formed the back of the Dwelling, to the west.a%=$He made crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames of the first side of the Dwelling,f$G$Thus there were eight frames with their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets under each frame.&#G$these were coupled together at the bottom, staying so up to the top, to the level of the first ring; this he did with the two frames forming the two corners.M"$He also made two frames for the corners at the back of the Dwelling;G! $For the back of the Dwelling, on the west, he made six frames.a =$and forty silver sockets, two sockets under one frame, two sockets under the next frame.N$and for the other side of the Dwelling, the north side, twenty frames$C$and made forty silver sockets under the twenty frames, two sockets under one frame for its two tenons, two sockets under the next frame for its two tenons;Y-$He made frames for the Dwelling: twenty frames for the south side, to the south,Z/$Each frame had twin tenons; this was how he made all the frames for the Dwelling.G $Each frame was ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.@}$For the Dwelling he made vertical frames of acacia wood.iM$And for the tent he made a cover of rams' skins dyed red, and a cover of fine leather over that.\3$He made fifty bronze clasps, to draw the tent together and make it a unified whole.$He made fifty loops along the edge of the last sheet of the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the sheet of the second set.Q$He joined five sheets together into one set and six sheets into another.y$The length of a single sheet was thirty cubits and its width four cubits; the eleven sheets were all of the same size.dC$Next he made sheets of goats' hair for the tent over the Dwelling; he made eleven of these.{$ He made fifty gold clasps and joined the sheets together with the clasps. In this way the Dwelling was a unified whole.3$ He made fifty loops on the first sheet and fifty loops along the outer edge of the sheet of the second set, the loops corresponding to one another.1$ He made violet loops along the edge of the first sheet, at the end of the set, and did the same along the edge of the last sheet in the other set._9$ He joined five of the sheets to one another, and the other five sheets to one another.|s$ The length of a single sheet was twenty-eight cubits, its width four cubits, all the sheets being of the same size.W)$All the most skilled of the men doing the work made the Dwelling. Moses made it with ten sheets of finely woven linen, dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson and embroidered with great winged creatures.] 5$for the material to hand was enough, and more than enough, to complete all the work.d C$Moses then gave the order and proclamation was made throughout the camp, 'No one, whether man or woman, must do anything more towards contributing for the sanctuary.' So the people were prevented from bringing any more,u e$and said to Moses, 'The people are bringing more than is needed for the work Yahweh has ordered to be done.'f G$the skilled men who were doing all the work for the sanctuary, all left their particular workO $From Moses they received everything that the Israelites had brought as contributions for carrying out the work of building the sanctuary, and, as they went on bringing their offerings every morning,/Y$Moses then summoned Bezalel, Oholiab and all the skilled men whose hearts Yahweh had endowed with skill, all whose heart stirred them to come forward and do the work.I $'Bezalel, Oholiab and all the men whom Yahweh has endowed with the skill and knowledge to know how to carry out all the work to be done on the sanctuary, will do exactly as Yahweh has ordered.'!=##and filled them with the skill to carry out every kind of work, that of the engraver, that of the embroiderer, that of the needleworker in violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and fine linen, that of the weaver, and indeed that of every kind of craftsman and designer.'oY#"And on him and on Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, he has bestowed the gift of teaching,Z/#!in cutting stones to be set, in wood carving and in executing every kind of work.J# in designing and carrying out work in gold and silver and bronze,iM#and has filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, knowledge and skill in every kind of craft:{#Moses then said to the Israelites, 'Look, Yahweh has singled out Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,<s#All those Israelites, men and women, whose heart prompted them to contribute to the entire work that Yahweh had ordered through Moses to be done, brought a contribution to Yahweh.b?#and the spices and oil for the light, for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.`~;#The leaders brought cornelians and other stones to be set in the ephod and breastplate,c}A#while all those women whose heart stirred them by virtue of their skill, spun goats' hair.|1#All the skilled women set their hands to spinning, and brought what they had spun: violet-purple, red-purple or crimson materials, and fine linen,D{#All those offering a contribution of silver or bronze brought their contribution for Yahweh and all who happened to own acacia wood, suitable for any of the work to be done, brought that.2z_#while all those who happened to own violet-purple, red-purple or crimson materials, finely woven linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, or fine leather, brought that.?yy#Men and women, they came, all those whose heart prompted them, bringing brooches, rings, bracelets, necklaces, golden objects of every kind -- all those who had vowed gold to Yahweh,Vx'#And all those whose heart stirred them and all those whose spirit prompted them brought a contribution for Yahweh, for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for its general service and for the sacred vestments.Nw#The whole community of Israelites then withdrew from Moses' presence.+vQ#the liturgical vestments for service in the sanctuary -- the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, and the vestments for his sons, for their priestly functions.'Ou#the pegs for the Dwelling and the pegs for the court, and their cords;ltS#the curtaining for the court, its poles, its sockets, and the screen for the entrance to the court;{sq#the altar of burnt offerings and its bronze grating, its shafts, and all its accessories; the basin and its stand;r%#the altar of incense and its shafts, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance, for the entrance of the tent;]q5#the lamp-stand for the light, its accessories, its lamps, and the oil for the light;]p5# the table, its shafts and all its accessories, and the loaves of permanent offering;_o9# the ark, its shafts and all its accessories, the mercy-seat and the screening curtain;xnk# the Dwelling, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its frames, its crossbars, its pillars and its sockets;gmI# And all those of you who have the skill must come and make everything that Yahweh has ordered:Kl# cornelian and other stones to be set in the ephod and breastplate.Vk'#oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;8jm#rams' skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,_i9#materials dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, finely woven linen, goats' hair,0h[#Set aside a contribution for Yahweh out of your possessions. Everyone whose heart prompts him to do so should bring a contribution for Yahweh: gold, silver and bronze;hgK#Moses spoke to the whole community of Israelites. 'This', he said, 'is what Yahweh has ordered:Lf#You will not light a fire on the Sabbath day in any of your homes.'!Then Yahweh said, 'Here is a place near me. You will stand on the rock,\=3!But my face', he said, 'you cannot see, for no human being can see me and survive.'U<%!Yahweh said, 'I shall make all my goodness pass before you, and before you I shall pronounce the name Yahweh; and I am gracious to those to whom I am gracious and I take pity on those on whom I take pity.2;a!He then said, 'Please show me your glory.': !Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Again I shall do what you have asked, because you enjoy my favour and because I know you by name.'J9!for how can it be known that I and my people enjoy your favour, if not by your coming with us? By this we shall be marked out, I and your people, from all the peoples on the face of the earth.'Z8/!To which he said, 'If you do not come yourself, do not make us move on from here,R7!Yahweh then said, 'I myself shall go with you and I shall give you rest.',6S! If indeed I enjoy your favour, please show me your ways, so that I understand you and continue to enjoy your favour; consider too that this nation is your people.'R5! Moses said to Yahweh, 'Look, you say to me, "Make the people move on," but you have not told me whom you are going to send with me, although you have said, "I know you by name and you enjoy my favour."[41! Yahweh would talk to Moses face to face, as a man talks to his friend, and afterwards he would come back to the camp, but the young man who was his servant, Joshua son of Nun, never left the inside of the Tent.(3K! The people could all see the pillar of cloud stationed at the entrance to the Tent and the people would all stand up and bow low, each at the door of his tent."2?! And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and station itself at the entrance to the Tent, while Yahweh spoke with Moses.*1O!Whenever Moses went out to the Tent, the people would all stand up and every man would stand at the door of his tent and watch Moses until he went into the Tent.X0+!Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult Yahweh would go out to the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp.]/5!So, from Mount Horeb onwards, the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments.o.Y!Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Say to the Israelites, "You are an obstinate people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I should annihilate you. So now take off your ornaments, and then I shall decide how to deal with you!" 'b-?!On hearing these stern words the people went into mourning and no one wore his ornaments.0,[!Move on towards a country flowing with milk and honey, but I myself shall not be going with you or I might annihilate you on the way, for you are an obstinate people.'+)!I shall send an angel in front of you and drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.W* +!Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Leave, move on from here, you and the people whom you have brought here from Egypt, to the country that I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that I would give to their descendants.Y)- #And Yahweh punished the people for having made the calf, the one Aaron had made..(W "So now go and lead the people to the place I promised to you. My angel will indeed go at your head but, on the day of punishment, I shall punish them for their sin.'j'O !Yahweh said to Moses, 'Those who have sinned against me are the ones I shall blot out of my book.x&k And yet, if it pleased you to forgive their sin. . .! If not, please blot me out of the book you have written!'%{ Moses then went back to Yahweh and said, 'Oh, this people has committed a great sin by making themselves a god of gold.'$I On the following day Moses said to the people, 'You have committed a great sin. But now I shall go up to Yahweh: perhaps I can secure expiation for your sin.')#M 'Today', Moses said, 'you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh, one at the cost of his son, another of his brother; and so he bestows a blessing on you today.'e"E The Levites did as Moses said, and of the people about three thousand men perished that day.O! He said to them, 'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, "Buckle on your sword, each of you, and go up and down the camp from gate to gate, every man of you slaughtering brother, friend and neighbour." ' } Moses then stood at the gate of the camp and shouted, 'Who is for Yahweh? To me!' And all the Levites rallied round him.! When Moses saw that the people were out of hand -- for Aaron had let them get out of hand to the derision of their enemies all round them- I then said to them, "Anyone with gold, strip it off!" They gave it to me. I threw it into the fire and out came this calf!'5 They said to me, "Make us a god to go at our head; for that Moses, the man who brought us here from Egypt -- we do not know what has become of him."p[ Aaron replied, 'My lord should not be so angry. You yourself know what a bad state these people are in!wi Moses then said to Aaron, 'What have these people done to you for you to have brought so great a sin on them?'! He seized the calf they had made and burned it, grinding it into powder which he scattered on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.F And there, as he approached the camp, he saw the calf and the groups dancing. Moses blazed with anger. He threw down the tablets he was holding, shattering them at the foot of the mountain.zo But he replied: No song of victory is this sound, no lament for defeat this sound; but answering choruses I hear!zo When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, 'There is the sound of battle in the camp!'nW The tablets were the work of God, and the writing on them was God's writing, engraved on the tablets.-U Moses turned and came down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed on both sides, inscribed on the front and on the back._9 Yahweh then relented over the disaster which he had intended to inflict on his people.1] Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom you swore by your very self and made this promise: "I shall make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and this whole country of which I have spoken, I shall give to your descendants, and it will be their heritage for ever." 'mU Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out with evil intention, to slaughter them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth?" Give up your burning wrath; relent over this disaster intended for your people.6g Moses tried to pacify Yahweh his God. 'Yahweh,' he said, 'why should your anger blaze at your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt by your great power and mighty hand?  So leave me now, so that my anger can blaze at them and I can put an end to them! I shall make a great nation out of you instead.'X+ Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I know these people; I know how obstinate they are!b? They have quickly left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it and offered sacrifice to it, shouting, "Israel, here is your God who brought you here from Egypt!" '{ q Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have become corrupt.3 a Early next morning they sacrificed burnt offerings and brought communion sacrifices. The people then sat down to eat and drink, and afterwards got up to amuse themselves.  Observing this, Aaron built an altar before the statue and made this proclamation, 'Tomorrow will be a feast in Yahweh's honour.'; q He received what they gave him, melted it down in a mould and with it made the statue of a calf. 'Israel,' the people shouted, 'here is your God who brought you here from Egypt!'^ 7 The people all stripped off the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.y Aaron replied, 'Strip off the gold rings in the ears of your wives and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.' # When the people saw that Moses was a long time before coming down the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said to him, 'Get to work, make us a god to go at our head; for that Moses, the man who brought us here from Egypt -- we do not know what has become of him.'7When he had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.%EBetween myself and the Israelites, this is a sign for ever, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he rested and drew breath."The Israelites will keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath for all their generations to come: this is an eternal covenant.-UWork must be done for six days, but the seventh day will be a day of complete rest, consecrated to Yahweh. Anyone who works on the Sabbath day will be put to death.9mYou will keep the Sabbath, then; you will regard it as holy. Anyone who profanes it will be put to death; anyone who does any work on that day will be outlawed from his people.Y- 'Speak to the Israelites and say, "You will keep my Sabbaths properly, for this is a sign between myself and you for all your generations to come, so that you will know that it is I, Yahweh, who sanctify you."A Yahweh then said to Moses,vg the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. They will do everything as I have ordered you.' ~ the liturgical vestments, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, and the vestments for his sons, for their priestly functions;W}) the altar of burnt offerings and all its accessories; the basin and its stand;l|Sthe table and all its accessories; the pure lamp-stand and all its equipment; the altar of incense;s{athe Tent of Meeting; the ark of the Testimony; the mercy-seat above it; and all the furniture of the tent;Az}And to help him I have given him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and have endowed the hearts of all the skilled men with the skill to make everything I have ordered you:Zy/in cutting stones to be set, in wood carving and in executing every kind of work.Jxin designing and carrying out work in gold and silver and bronze,jwOand have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, knowledge and skill in every kind of craft:Yv-'Look, I have singled out Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,+u UYahweh then spoke to Moses and said,Vt'%You may not make any incense of similar composition for your own use. You will regard it as holy, reserved for Yahweh Anyone who makes up the same thing to use as perfume will be outlawed from his people.'-sU$You will grind some of this up very fine and put it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I shall meet you. You will regard it as especially holy.br?#and compound an incense, such a blend as the perfumer might make, salted, pure, and holy.q"Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Take sweet spices: storax, onycha, galbanum, sweet spices and pure frankincense in equal parts,spa!Anyone who makes up the same oil or uses it on an unauthorised person will be outlawed from his people." 'o# It must not be used for anointing the human body, nor may you make any of the same mixture. It is a holy thing; you will regard it as holy.nYou will then speak to the Israelites and say, "This anointing oil will be holy for you for all your generations to come.am=You will also anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to be priests in my service.llSconsecrating them, so that they will be especially holy and whatever touches them will become holy.\k3the altar of burnt offerings and all its accessories, and the basin with its stand,ejEthe table and all its accessories, the lamp-stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,RiWith it you will anoint the Tent of Meeting and the ark of the Testimony,hYou will make this into a holy anointing oil, such a blend as the perfumer might make; this will be a holy anointing oil.fgGfive hundred shekels (reckoning by the sanctuary shekel) of cassia, and one hin of olive oil.8fk'Take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of fresh myrrh, half as much (two hundred and fifty shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty shekels of scented reed,/e[Yahweh spoke further to Moses and said,"d?they will wash their hands and feet, to avoid incurring death. This is a perpetual decree for him and his descendants for all their generations to come.':coWhenever they are to enter the Tent of Meeting, they will wash, to avoid incurring death; and whenever they approach the altar for their service, to burn an offering for Yahweh,Dbin which Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and feet.a3'You will also make a bronze basin on its bronze stand, for washing. You will put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it,,`UYahweh then spoke to Moses and said,E_You will take the ransom money of the Israelites and apply it to the service of the Tent of Meeting, for it to be a reminder of the Israelites before Yahweh, as the ransom for your lives.'  ~~V}}[||M{{{zzyyxgx!ww vv u(ttFssr^qppoFnn3mml6kkjiiehh?gggJg ffee0dd:ccbaa=``D__r_ ^]]o\\U[[[ZZZiYY#XqXWW~WVV.UU%TTSSSRRaQQPPPROOWNN9MMgLLLOLKKJJNII>HHYGGvFFbEEDCCC&BAA^@@7??>r=<ay"If he offers a sheep, he will offer it before Yahweh,$`C"If it is an animal from the flock which he offers as a communion sacrifice to Yahweh, be the animal that he offers male or female, it must be unblemished.1_]The priests descended from Aaron will then burn this on the altar, in addition to the burnt offering, on the wood of the fire, food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.y^mboth kidneys, the fat on them and on the loins, the mass of fat which he will remove from the liver and kidneys. ]He will offer part of the communion sacrifice as food burnt for Yahweh: the fat covering the entrails, all the fat on the entrails,;\qHe will lay his hand on the victim's head and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priests descended from Aaron will then pour the blood all around the altar.+[ S' "If his sacrifice is a communion sacrifice, and if he offers an animal from the herd, be it male or female, whatever he offers before Yahweh must be unblemished.Z}and from it the priest will burn the memorial with some bread and oil (and all the incense) as food burnt for Yahweh." 'OYYou will add oil to it and put incense on it; it is a cereal offering;X/If you offer Yahweh a cereal offering of first-fruits, you will offer it in the form of roasted ears of wheat or of bread made from ground wheat.^W7 You will put salt in every cereal offering that you offer, and you will not fail to put the salt of the covenant of your God on your cereal offering; to every offering you will add an offering of salt to your God. V You may offer them to Yahweh as an offering of first-fruits, but they will not make a pleasing smell if they are burnt on the altar.#UA "None of the cereal offerings which you offer to Yahweh must be prepared with leaven, for you must never include leaven or honey in food burnt for Yahweh.T9 The remainder of the cereal offering will revert to Aaron and his descendants: it is especially holy since it is taken from the food burnt for Yahweh. S And from the cereal offering the priest will take the memorial and burn it on the altar, food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.}Ru"You will bring Yahweh the cereal offering thus prepared and present it to the priest; he will take it to the altar.oQY"If your offering is a cereal offering cooked in the pan, the wheaten flour must be prepared with oil.SP!You will break it in pieces and pour oil over it. It is a cereal offering.Oy"If your offering is a cereal offering cooked on the griddle, the wheaten flour mixed with oil must contain no leaven.UN%"When you offer a cereal offering of dough baked in the oven, the wheaten flour must be prepared either in the form of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, or in the form of unleavened wafers spread with oil. M The remainder of the cereal offering will revert to Aaron and his sons, an especially holy portion of the food burnt for Yahweh.wLiHe will bring it to the priests descended from Aaron; he will take a handful of the wheaten flour, some of the oil and all the incense, and this the priest will burn on the altar as a memorial, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh. K ' "If anyone offers Yahweh a cereal offering, his offering must consist of wheaten flour on which he must pour wine and put incense.tJ eHe will then split it in half with a wing on each side, but without separating the two parts. The priest will then burn it on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire, as a burnt offering, food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh." 'I He will then remove the crop and the feathers and throw them on the eastern side of the altar, where the fatty ashes are put.$H EThe priest will offer it at the altar and wring off its head, which he will burn on the altar; its blood must then be squeezed out on the side of the altar.uG g"If his offering to Yahweh is to be a burnt offering of a bird, he must offer a turtledove or a young pigeon.!F ? He will wash the entrails and shins in water, and the priest will burn it all on the altar as a burnt offering, food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.E  He will then quarter it, and the priest will arrange the quarters, the head and the fat on the wood on the fire on the altar.D 1 He will slaughter it on the north side of the altar, before Yahweh, and the priests descended from Aaron will pour the blood all around the altar.C - "If his offering is to be of an animal from the flock, of a lamb or a goat to be offered as a burnt offering, he must offer an unblemished male.!B ? He will wash the entrails and shins in water, and the priest will burn it all on the altar as a burnt offering, food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.A The priests descended from Aaron will then arrange the quarters, the head and the fat on the wood on the fire on the altar.c@ CThe priests descended from Aaron will put a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.3? eHe will then skin the victim and quarter it.M> He will then slaughter the bull before Yahweh, and the priests descended from Aaron will offer the blood. They will pour it all around the altar which stands at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.j= QHe must lay his hand on the victim's head, and it will be accepted as effectual for his expiation.>< y"If his offering is to be a burnt offering from the herd, he must offer an unblemished male; he will offer it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, to make it acceptable to Yahweh.; 5'Speak to the Israelites; say to them, "When any of you brings an offering to Yahweh, he can offer an animal either from the herd or from the flock.Q: !Yahweh summoned Moses and, speaking to him from the Tent of Meeting, said,<9s(&For Yahweh's cloud stayed over the Dwelling during the daytime and there was fire inside the cloud at night, for the whole House of Israel to see, at every stage of their journey.`8;(%If the cloud did not rise, they would not resume their march until the day it did rise.}7u($At every stage of their journey, whenever the cloud rose from the Dwelling, the Israelites would resume their march.6y(#Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, since the cloud stayed over it and the glory of Yahweh filled the Dwelling.`5;("The cloud then covered the Tent of Meeting and the glory of Yahweh filled the Dwelling.4%(!He then set up the court round the Dwelling and the altar and set up the screen at the gate-way to the court. Thus Moses completed the work.t3c( whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar they washed, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.E2(where Moses, Aaron and his sons washed their hands and feet,j1O(He put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for the ablutions,<0s(He put the altar of burnt offerings at the entrance to the Dwelling, to the Tent of Meeting, and on it offered the burnt offering and cereal offering, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.?/{(He then put the screen at the entrance to the Dwelling.G. (and on it burnt fragrant incense, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.U-%(He put the golden altar inside the Tent of Meeting, in front of the curtain,I, (and set up the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.q+](He put the lamp-stand inside the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the Dwelling,R*(and on it arranged the loaves before Yahweh, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.z)o(He put the table inside the Tent of Meeting, against the side of the Dwelling, on the north, outside the curtain,('(He brought the ark into the Dwelling and put the screening curtain in place, screening the ark of the Testimony, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.'{(He took the Testimony and put it in the ark, positioned the shafts on the ark and put the mercy-seat on top of the ark.s&a(He spread the tent over the Dwelling and the covering for the tent over that, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.%}(Moses erected the Dwelling. He fixed its sockets, set up its frames, put its crossbars in position and set up its poles.Y$-(On the first day of the first month in the second year the Dwelling was erected.A#(Moses did this; he did exactly as Yahweh had ordered him.7"i(and anoint them as you anointed their father, to serve me in the priesthood. Their anointing will confer an everlasting priesthood on them for all their generations to come.':!q(You will then bring his sons, dress them in tunicst c( and then dress Aaron in the sacred vestments, and anoint and consecrate him, to serve me in the priesthood.mU( You will then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, bathe them thoroughlyI ( You will then anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.!( You will then anoint the altar of burnt offerings and all its accessories, consecrating the altar; the altar will then be especially holy.1( Then, taking the anointing oil, you will anoint the Dwelling and everything inside, consecrating it and all its accessories; it will then be holy.dC(You will then set up the surrounding court and hang the screen at the gateway of the court.hK(and you will place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and fill it with water.sa(You will place the altar of burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the Dwelling, the Tent of Meeting,(You will place the golden altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and place the screen at the entrance to the Dwelling.(You will then bring in the table and arrange what has to be arranged on it. You will then bring in the lamp-stand and set up its lamps.V'(and place the ark of the Testimony in it and screen the ark with the curtain.`;('On the first day of the first month, you will erect the Dwelling, the Tent of Meeting,+ U(Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,mU'+Moses inspected all the work: they had indeed done it as Yahweh had ordered; and Moses blessed them.R'*The Israelites had done all the work exactly as Yahweh had ordered Moses..W')the liturgical vestments for officiating in the sanctuary -- the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, and the vestments for his sons -- for the priestly functions.Q'(the curtaining for the court, its poles, its sockets, and the screen for the gateway to the court, its cords, its pegs and all the accessories for the service of the Dwelling, for the Tent of Meeting;nW''the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its shafts and all its accessories; the basin and its stand;oY'&the golden altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense and the screen for the entrance to the tent;| s'%the lamp-stand of pure gold, its lamps -- the array of lamps -- and all its accessories, and the oil for the light;M '$the table, all its accessories and the loaves of permanent offering;E '#the ark of the Testimony and its shafts, and the mercy-seat;` ;'"the cover of rams' skins dyed red, the cover of fine leather and the screening curtain; '!They then brought Moses the Dwelling, the Tent and all its accessories: its clasps, frames, crossbars, poles and sockets;' So all the work for the Dwelling, for the Tent of Meeting, was completed. They had done everything exactly as Yahweh had ordered Moses.nW'They put it on a violet-purple cord, to fasten it high up on the turban, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.9'They also made the flower -- the symbol of holy consecration -- of pure gold and on it, like an engraved seal, they engraved, 'Consecrated to Yahweh'.'the waistbands of finely woven linen embroidered with violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.fG'the turban of fine linen, the head-dresses of fine linen, the breeches of finely woven linen,K'They made the tunics of finely woven linen for Aaron and his sons,{'alternately, a bell and then a pomegranate, all round the lower hem of the robe of office, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.ue'and made bells of pure gold, putting the bells between the pomegranates all round the lower hem of the robe:~w'On the lower hem of the robe, they made pomegranates of violet-purple, red-purple and crimson and finely woven linen,'The opening in the centre of the robe was like the neck of a coat of mail; round the opening was a border, so that it would not get torn.I~ 'They made the robe of the ephod woven entirely of violet-purple.^}7'They secured the pectoral by a violet-purple cord passed through its rings and those of the ephod, so that the pectoral would sit above the waistband and not come apart from the ephod, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.+|Q'and they made two more gold rings and put them low down on the front of the two shoulder-straps of the ephod, close to the join, above the waistband of the ephod.{'They also made two gold rings and put them on the two outside edges of the breastplate, on the inner side, against the ephod; z'The other two ends of the cords they fastened to the two rosettes, putting these on the shoulder-straps of the ephod, on the front.cyA'and fastening the two gold cords to the two rings on the outside edges of the breastplate.~xw'and they made two gold rosettes and two gold rings, putting the two rings on the two outside edges of the breastplateNw'For the breastplate they made chains of pure gold twisted like cords,#vA'the stones corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve like their names, engraved like seals, each with the name of one of the twelve tribes.]u5' and for the fourth row, a beryl, a cornelian and a jasper: mounted in gold settings,>ty' for the third row, a hyacinth, a ruby and an amethyst;?s{' for the second row, a garnet, a sapphire and a diamond;_r9' In it they set four rows of stones: a sard, a topaz and an emerald, for the first row;Nq' It was square and doubled over, a span in length and a span in width.p7'They made the breastplate of the same embroidered work as the ephod: of gold, violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and finely woven linen.o{'and put the stones on the shoulder-straps of the ephod, to commemorate the sons of Israel, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.n 'They worked the cornelians, mounted in gold setting, and engraved, like an engraved seal, with the names of the sons of Israel,Gm 'The waistband on the ephod to hold it in position, was of a piece with it and of the same workmanship: of gold, violet-purple, red-purple and finely woven linen, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.Zl/'For the ephod they made shoulder-straps which were joined to it at its two edges.&kG'They beat gold into thin plates and cut these into threads to work into the violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and the fine linen by needlework.pj['They made the ephod of gold, of violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and finely woven linen.Ii 'From the violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials, they made the liturgical vestments for service in the sanctuary. They made the sacred vestments for Aaron, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.h!&the sockets all round the court, the sockets for the gateway to the court, all the pegs for the Dwelling and all the pegs round the court.g%&and from it he made the sockets for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, its bronze grating and all the altar accessories,rf_&The bronze consecrated for the purpose amounted to seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels,e/&From the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made the hooks for the poles, overlaid their capitals and made the rods for them.:do&A hundred talents of silver were used for casting the sockets for the sanctuary and the sockets for the curtain: a hundred sockets from a hundred talents, one talent per socket.Lc&one beqa per head, half a shekel reckoned by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone of twenty years and over included in the census, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty persons.'bI&The silver from the census of the community was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, reckoned by the sanctuary shekel,[a1&The amount of gold used for the work, for the entire work for the sanctuary (the gold consecrated for the purpose) was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, reckoned by the sanctuary shekel.8`k&his assistant being Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, embroiderer and needleworker in violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and fine linen.r__&Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that Yahweh ordered Moses to make,3^a&These are the accounts for the Dwelling -- the Dwelling of the Testimony -- drawn up by order of Moses, the work of Levites, produced by Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.F]&All the pegs round the Dwelling and the court were of bronze.\%&its four poles and their four sockets being of bronze, their hooks of silver, their capitals overlaid with silver, and their rods of silver.`[;&The screen for the gateway to the court was of finely woven linen embroidered with violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, twenty cubits long and five cubits high (all the way along) like the curtaining of the court,0Z[&the sockets for the poles were of bronze, the poles' hooks and rods of silver, their capitals were overlaid with silver and all the poles of the court had silver rods.FY&All the curtaining round the court was of finely woven linen,"X?&and on the other side -- either side of the gateway to the court -- there were fifteen cubits of curtaining with its three poles and their three sockets.oWY&On the one side there were fifteen cubits of curtaining, with its three poles and their three sockets,CV& and on the east side on the east, there were fifty cubits.U%& On the west side there were fifty cubits of curtaining, with its ten poles and their ten sockets, the poles' hooks and rods being of silver;T7& and on the north side, a hundred cubits of curtaining, its twenty poles and their twenty sockets being of bronze, and their hooks and rods of silver.`S;& Its twenty poles and their sockets being of bronze, and their hooks and rods of silver; R & He made the court. On the south side, on the south, the curtaining of the court was of finely woven linen a hundred cubits long.Q &He made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.P&He passed the shafts through the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.IO &He made the shafts of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.ZN/&He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating to take the shafts.pM[&He also made a grating for the altar of bronze network, below its ledge, underneath, coming halfway up.L)&He made all the altar accessories: the ash pans, shovels, sprinkling basins, hooks and fire pans; he made all the altar accessories of bronze.lKS&At its four corners he made horns, the horns being of a piece with it, and overlaid it with bronze.J &He made the altar of burnt offerings of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; it was square and three cubits high.gII%He also made the holy anointing oil and the fragrant incense, blending it as a perfumer would.GH %He made the shafts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.}Gu%He made two gold rings for it below the moulding on its two opposite sides, to take the shafts used for carrying it.sFa%He overlaid its top, its sides all round and its horns with pure gold and made a moulding to go all round. 6~~}}|&{zzwyy+xww vuuNtt>ts7rrqOpp?ooWonnmllLkk:jjihhgggaf?eeLdsdIccVbbb=ba``__*^B]]\s[[[ ZZIYYXXWWcVVsUU9TSSRRGQQ.PONNPMMLYKJIvI:HH"GSFFFE`DD-CBBBA@@@/??c>>@==<yw the priest will then examine the sick person and, if he finds that the skin-disease covers his whole body, declare the sick person clean. Since it has all become white, he is clean. x 'But if the disease spreads all through the skin, if it covers the person entirely from head to foot so far as the priest can see, w this is a dormant skin-disease, and the priest will declare the person unclean. He will not isolate him; he is obviously unclean.v The priest will examine the sick person, and if he finds a whitish swelling with whitening of the hair and an ulcer forming on the skin,Pu 'Someone who has a contagious skin-disease must be taken to the priest.t) After examining him and certifying the spread of the scab over the skin, the priest will declare him unclean: it is a contagious skin-disease.3sa 'But if the scab spreads over the skin after the sick person has been examined by the priest and declared clean, then he will let himself be examined again by the priest.krQ and examine him again on the seventh. If he finds that the disease has faded and has not spread over the skin, the priest will declare the person clean. This was merely a scab. Once he has washed his clothing he will be clean.@q{ On the seventh day he will examine the person, and if he observes that the disease persists though without spreading over the skin, he will isolate the person for a further seven days.pW But if there is a white spot on the skin without any visible depression of the skin or whitening of the hair, the priest will isolate the sick person for seven days.uoe The priest will examine the disease on the skin. If the hair on the diseased part has turned white, or if the disease bites into the skin, the skin-disease is contagious, and after examination the priest will declare the person unclean.En 'If a swelling or scab or spot appears on someone's skin, which could develop into a contagious skin-disease, that person must then be taken to the priest, either Aaron or one of his sons.&m K Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,pl[ If she cannot afford a lamb, she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for the burnt offering and the other for the sacrifice for sin. The priest will perform the rite of expiation for her and she will be purified." '^k7 The priest must offer this before Yahweh, perform the rite of expiation for her, and she will be purified from her discharge of blood. "Such is the law concerning a woman who gives birth to either a boy or a girl.rj_ "When the period of her purification is over, for either boy or girl, she will bring the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a lamb one year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or turtledove as a sacrifice for sin.,iS "If she gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly periods; and will wait another sixty-six days for her blood to be purified.>hw and she will wait another thirty-three days for her blood to be purified. She will not touch anything consecrated nor go to the sanctuary until the time of her purification is over.Dg On the eighth day the child's foreskin must be circumcised,9fm 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "If a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days as when in a state of pollution due to menstruation.&e K Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,d /Its purpose is to distinguish the clean from the unclean, the creatures that may be eaten from those that may not be eaten.c  .Such is the law concerning animals, birds, all living creatures that move in water and all creatures that swarm on the ground.|bs -Yes, it is I, Yahweh, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God: you must therefore be holy because I am holy." ';aq ,For it is I, Yahweh, who am your God. You have been sanctified and have become holy because I am holy: do not defile yourselves with all these creatures that swarm on the ground. ` +Do not make yourselves detestable with all these swarming creatures; do not defile yourselves with them, do not be defiled by them.:_o *Anything that moves on its belly, anything that moves on four legs or more -- in short all the creatures that swarm on the ground -- you will not eat, since they are detestable.`^; )"Any creature that swarms on the ground is detestable for eating; it must not be eaten.G]  (anyone who eats any of the carcase must wash his clothing and will remain unclean until evening; anyone who picks up the carcase must wash his clothing and will remain unclean until evening.x\k '"If one of the animals that you use as food dies, anyone who touches the carcase will be unclean until evening;q[] &but if the seed has been moistened and one of their carcases falls on it, you will regard it as unclean.XZ+ %If one of their carcases falls on any kind of seed, the seed will remain clean;Y $(although springs, wells and stretches of water will remain clean); anyone who touches one of their carcases will be unclean.7Xi #Anything on which the carcase of such a creature may fall will be unclean: be it oven or stove, it must be destroyed; for they are unclean and you will regard them as uncleanW "Any edible food will be unclean if the water touches it; any drinkable liquid will be unclean, no matter what its container.~Vw !If the creature falls into an earthenware vessel, the vessel must be broken; whatever the vessel contains is unclean.uUe "Any object on which one of these creatures falls when it is dead becomes unclean: wooden utensil, clothing, skin, sacking, any utensil whatever. It must be immersed in water and will remain unclean until evening: then it will be clean.*TO "Of all the small creatures, these are the animals which you must regard as disgusting. Anyone who touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.5Sg gecko, koah, letaah, chameleon and tinshamet.#RA "Of the small creatures which crawl along the ground, these are the ones which you will regard as unclean: the mole, the rat, the various kinds of lizard: Q and anyone who picks up their carcases must wash his clothing and will be unclean until evening. You will regard them as unclean.$PC Those four-footed animals which walk on the flat of their paws you will regard as unclean; anyone who touches their carcases will be unclean until evening,O Animals that have hoofs, but not cloven, and that are not ruminant, you will regard as unclean; anyone who touches them will be unclean.eNE Anyone who picks up their carcases must wash his clothing and will be unclean until evening.yMm "By the following you will be made unclean. Anyone who touches the carcase of one will be unclean until evening.\L3 But all other winged insects on four feet you will regard as detestable for eating.K! These are the ones you may eat: the various kinds of migratory locust, the various kinds of solham locust, hargol locust and hagab locust.J3 Of all these winged insects you may eat only the following: those with the sort of legs above their feet which enable them to leap over the ground.ZI/ "All winged insects moving on four feet you will regard as detestable for eating.CH stork, the various kinds of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.%GG ibis, pelican, white vulture,3Fc horned owl, night owl, cormorant, barn owl,NE the ostrich, the screech owl, the seagull, the various kinds of hawk,D3 all kinds of raven,/C[ the kite, the various kinds of buzzard,1B] "Of the birds these are the ones that you will regard as detestable; they may not be eaten, they are detestable for eating: "The tawny vulture, the griffon, the osprey,eAE Anything that lives in water, but not having fins and scales, you will regard as detestable.z@o You will regard them as detestable; you must not eat their meat and you will regard their carcases as detestable.0?[ But anything in sea or river that does not have fins and scales, of all the small water-creatures and all the living things found there, you will regard as detestable.>/ "Of all that lives in water, these you may eat: "Anything that has fins and scales, and lives in the water, whether in sea or river, you may eat.h=K You will not eat the meat of these or touch their dead bodies; you will regard them as unclean.<y you will regard the pig as unclean, because though it has a cloven hoof, divided into two parts, it is not a ruminant.l;S you will regard the hare as unclean, because though it is ruminant, it does not have a cloven hoof;m:U you will regard the coney as unclean, because though it is ruminant, it does not have a cloven hoof;P9 The following, which either chew the cud or have a cloven hoof, are the ones that you may not eat: you will regard the camel as unclean, because though it is ruminant, it does not have a cloven hoof;h8K "You may eat any animal that has a cloven hoof, divided into two parts, and that is a ruminant.n7W 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "Of all animals living on land these are the creatures you may eat:86 o Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and said to them,45e And when Moses heard this, he was satisfied.q4] Aaron said to Moses, 'Look, today they offered their sacrifice for sin and their burnt offering before Yahweh, and these disasters have befallen me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would this have met with Yahweh's approval?'u3e Since its blood was not taken inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten its meat there, as I ordered you.'U2% 'Why did you not eat this victim for sin in the holy place, since it is especially holy and was given to you to take away the community's guilt, by performing the rite of expiation for them before Yahweh?@1{ Moses then enquired carefully about the goat offered as a sacrifice for sin, and found that they had burnt it. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's surviving sons, and said,|0s The thigh presented and the forequarter offered, once the fat has been burnt, revert to you and your sons with you, after they have been presented before Yahweh with the gesture of offering, in virtue of a perpetual law as Yahweh has ordered.'e/E 'You, your sons and daughters with you, will eat in a clean place the forequarter offered and the thigh presented, for these have been given to you and your children as your due from the Israelites' communion sacrifices.$.C Eat it in the holy place, since it is the portion of the food burnt for Yahweh that is prescribed for you and your sons; this is the order I have received.Z-/ Moses said to Aaron and his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Take the cereal offering left over from the food burnt for Yahweh. Eat the unleavened part of it beside the altar, since it is especially holy.q,] and when you teach the Israelites any of the decrees that Yahweh has pronounced for them through Moses.'k+Q And so shall it be also when you separate the sacred from the profane, the unclean from the clean,L* 'When you come to the Tent of Meeting, you and your sons with you, to avoid incurring death you may not drink wine or any other fermented liquor. This is a perpetual law for all your descendants.')K Yahweh spoke to Aaron and said:() To avoid incurring death, do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, for Yahweh's anointing oil is on you.' And they did as Moses said.)'M Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Do not disorder your hair or tear your clothes; or you may incur death and his retribution may overtake the whole community. No, it is for the entire House of Israel to lament your brothers who have been the victims of Yahweh's fire.d&C They came and carried them away, still in their tunics, out of the camp, as Moses had said.*%O Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, 'Come here and take your brothers away from the sanctuary, out of the camp.'?$y Moses then said to Aaron, 'That is what Yahweh meant when he said: In those who are close to me I show my holiness, and before all the people I show my glory.' Aaron remained silent.q#] At this a flame leapt out from Yahweh's presence and swallowed them up, and they perished before Yahweh.>" y Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, put fire in it and incense on the fire, and presented unauthorised fire before Yahweh, which was not in accordance with his orders.0![ a flame leapt out from Yahweh's presence and consumed the burnt offering and fat on the altar. At this sight the entire people shouted for joy and fell on their faces. 1 and entered the Tent of Meeting with Moses. Then they came out together to bless the people and the glory of Yahweh appeared to the entire people:3a Aaron then raised his hands towards the people and blessed them. Having thus performed the sacrifice for sin, the burnt offering and the communion sacrifice, he came downjO With the ribs and the right thigh Aaron made the gesture of offering as Yahweh had ordered Moses.;s he placed on the ribs and then burned on the altar.r_ The fat of the bull and the ram, the tail, the covering fat, the kidneys, the mass of fat over the liver,#A Then he slaughtered the bull and the ram as a communion sacrifice for the people. Aaron's sons handed him the blood and he poured it all around the altar.# He then had the cereal offering brought forward, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.^7 He then had the burnt offering brought forward and proceeded according to the ritual.>w He then presented the people's offering. He took the goat for the people's sacrifice for sin, slaughtered it, and made a sacrifice for sin with it in the same way as with the first.dC He then washed the entrails and shins and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.b? They then handed him the quartered victim and the head, and he burned these on the altar.~w He then slaughtered the burnt offering; Aaron's sons then handed him the blood, which he poured all around the altar.=w and the meat and the skin he burned outside the camp. The fat of the sacrifice for sin and the kidneys and the mass of fat over the liver he burned on the altar, as Yahweh had ordered Moses,9m Aaron's sons then presented the blood to him; he dipped his finger in it and put some on the horns of the altar, and then poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar.Y- Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sacrifice for his own sin.- Moses then addressed Aaron, 'Go to the altar and offer your sacrifice for sin and your burnt offering, and so perform the rite of expiation for yourself and your family. Then present the people's offering and perform the rite of expiation for them, as Yahweh has ordered.'oY Moses then said, 'This is what Yahweh has ordered you to do, so that his glory may be visible to you.'  They brought what Moses had ordered in front of the Tent of Meeting; then the whole community approached and stood before Yahweh.! = a bull and a ram for communion sacrifices to be slaughtered before Yahweh, and a cereal offering mixed with oil. For Yahweh will appear to you today." '# A Then say to the Israelites, "Take a goat to be offered as a sacrifice for sin, a calf and a lamb one year old (both without blemish) for a burnt offering, - he said to Aaron, 'Take a calf to offer a sacrifice for sin, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and bring them before Yahweh.U  ' On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;T #$So Aaron and his sons did everything that Yahweh had ordered through Moses.K#hence, for seven days, day and night, you will remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting observing Yahweh's ritual; do this, and you will not incur death. For this was the order I received.'dC"Yahweh has ordered us to do as we have done today to perform the rite of expiation for you;-U!For seven days you will not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, until the time of your investiture is complete; for your investiture will require seven days.9o What remains of the meat and bread you will burn.'Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, 'Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there, as also the bread of the investiture sacrifice still in the basket of the investiture offerings, as I ordered, when I said, "Aaron and his sons must eat it."Moses then took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled Aaron and his vestments, and his sons and their vestments, with it. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his vestments and his sons and their vestments.<sMoses then took the forequarter and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh. This was the portion of the ram of investiture that reverted to Moses, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.A}Moses then took them away from them and burned them on the altar, with the burnt offering. This was the investiture sacrifice, offered to be a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh.q]and put it all into Aaron's hands and those of his sons, and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh.:oFrom the basket of unleavened bread placed before Yahweh, he took an unleavened cake, a cake of bread made with oil, and a wafer; he placed these on the fat and the right thigh,~3He then took the fat: the tail, all the fat covering the entrails, the mass of fat over the liver, both kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.y}mHe then made Aaron's sons come forward and he put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Next, Moses poured the rest of the blood all around the altar./|Yand Moses slaughtered it. He took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. {He then had the other ram brought forward, the ram for the investiture sacrifice. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its headAz}He then washed the entrails and shins, and burnt the whole ram on the altar, as a burnt offering, offered to be a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.QyHe then quartered the ram and burned the head, the quarters and the fat.Lxand Moses slaughtered it. He poured its blood all around the altar.zwoHe then had the ram for the burnt offering brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's headlvSbut the bull's skin, its meat and its offal he burnt outside the camp, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.u#He then took all the fat covering the entrails, the mass of fat over the liver, both kidneys and their fat; and he burnt this on the altar,t1and Moses slaughtered it. He then took the blood and with his finger put some of it on the horns on the corners of the altar to purify the altar. He then poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar, which he consecrated by performing the rite of expiation over it.s}He then had the bull for the sacrifice for sin brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the victim's head1r] Moses then made Aaron's sons come forward; he dressed them in tunics, passed the waistbands round their waists and put on their head-dresses, as Yahweh had ordered him.eqE He then poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.p He sprinkled the altar seven times and anointed the altar and its accessories, the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.ro_ Moses then took the anointing oil and anointed the Dwelling and everything inside it, to consecrate them.*nO He put the turban on his head, and on the front of the turban, the golden flower; this was the symbol of holy consecration, which Yahweh had prescribed to Moses.NmHe put the breastplate on him, and placed the urim and thummim in it.NlHe then dressed him in the tunic, passed the waistband round his waist, vested him in the robe and put the ephod on him. He then put the waistband of the ephod round his waist, fastening it to him.LkHe made Aaron and his sons come forward and washed them with water.Njand Moses said to them, 'This is what Yahweh has ordered to be done.'diCMoses did as Yahweh ordered; the community gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,Xh+Then call the whole community together at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.'"g?'Take Aaron and with him his sons, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sacrifice for sin, the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.&f KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:e%&which Yahweh laid down for Moses on Mount Sinai, the day he ordered the Israelites to make their offerings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai.d3%Such was the ritual for burnt offering, cereal offering, sacrifice for sin, sacrifice of reparation, investiture sacrifice and communion sacrifice, c$This was what Yahweh ordered the Israelites to give them on the day they were anointed: a perpetual law for all their descendants.b3#Such was the portion of Aaron and his descendants in the food burnt for Yahweh, the day he presented them to Yahweh for them to become his priests.daC"For I have deprived the Israelites of the forequarter offered and the thigh presented in their communion sacrifices, and given them to the priest Aaron and his descendants; this is a perpetual law for the Israelites." '`{!The right thigh will be the portion of the descendant of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the communion sacrifice.d_C You will set aside the right thigh from your communion sacrifice and give it to the priest.w^iThe priest will then burn the fat on the altar, and the forequarters will revert to Aaron and his descendants.m]UHe must bring the food to be burnt for Yahweh, that is to say, the fat adhering to the forequarters, with his own hands. He will bring it, and also the forequarters, with which he will make the gesture of offering before Yahweh.\'Speak to the Israelites and say: "Anyone who offers Yahweh a communion sacrifice must bring him part of his sacrifice as an offering.'[KYahweh spoke to Moses and said,GZ Anyone who eats any blood will be outlawed from his people." 'YY-"Wherever you live, you will never eat blood, whether it be of bird or of beast.pX[Anyone who eats the fat of an animal offered as food burnt for Yahweh will be outlawed from his people.W!The fat of an animal that has died a natural death or been savaged by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you are not to eat it.YV-'Speak to the Israelites and say: "You may not eat the fat of ox, sheep or goat.'UKYahweh spoke to Moses and said,UT%Furthermore, if anyone touches anything unclean, human or animal, or any foul thing, and then eats the meat of a communion sacrifice offered to Yahweh, that individual will be outlawed from his people." 'zSobut anyone unclean who eats the meat of a communion sacrifice offered to Yahweh will be outlawed from his people.sRa"Meat that has touched anything unclean cannot be eaten; it must be burnt. "Anyone clean may eat the meat,Q7"If any of the meat of a victim offered as a communion sacrifice is eaten on the third day, the person who has offered it will not be acceptable and will receive no credit for it. It will count as rotten meat, and the person who eats it will bear the consequences of the guilt.WP)but on the third day whatever is left of the meat of the victim must be burnt.(OK"If the victim is offered as a votive or a voluntary sacrifice, it must be eaten on the day it is offered, and the remainder may be eaten on the following day;vNgThe meat of the victim will be eaten on the day the offering is made; nothing may be left until next morning.'MIOne of the cakes of this offering must be presented as an offering to Yahweh; it will revert to the priest who pours out the blood of the communion sacrifice.vLg This offering, then, must be added to the cakes of leavened bread and to the communion sacrifice with praise.^K7 "If this is offered as a sacrifice with praise, to the latter must be added an offering of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and wheaten flour in the form of cakes mixed with oil.QJ "This is the ritual for the communion sacrifice to be offered to Yahweh:wIi Every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry, will revert to all the descendants of Aaron without distinction.H# Every cereal offering baked in the oven, every cereal offering cooked in the pan or on the griddle will revert to the priest who offers it.GyThe hide of the victim presented by someone to the priest to be offered as a burnt offering will revert to the priest.MF"As with the sacrifice for sin, so with the sacrifice of reparation -- the ritual is the same for both. The offering with which the priest performs the rite of expiation will revert to the priest.nEWEvery male who is a priest may eat it. It will be eaten inside the holy place; it is especially holy.tDcThe priest will burn these pieces on the altar as food burnt for Yahweh. This is a sacrifice of reparation.yCmboth kidneys, the fat on them and on the loins, the mass of fat which he will remove from the liver and kidneys.QBHe will then offer all the fat: the tail, the fat covering the entrails, AThe victim must be slaughtered where the burnt offerings are slaughtered, and the priest will pour the blood all around the altar.V@ )' "This is the ritual for the sacrifice of reparation: "It is especially holy.:?oBut no one may eat any of the victims offered for sin, the blood of which has been taken into the Tent of Meeting to make expiation inside the sanctuary. These must be burnt." 'O>Any male who is a priest may eat the sacrifice. It is especially holy.3=aThe earthenware vessel in which the meat is cooked must be broken; if a bronze vessel has been used for the cooking, it must be scrubbed and thoroughly rinsed with water."<?Everything touching the victim's meat will become holy, and if any of the blood splashes on clothing, the stain will be washed off inside the holy place.; The priest who offers this sacrifice will eat it. It will be eaten inside the holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.Y:-'Speak to Aaron and his sons and say: "This is the ritual for the sacrifice for sin: "The victim must be slaughtered before Yahweh on the spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered. It is especially holy.'9KYahweh spoke to Moses and said,e8EEvery cereal offering made by a priest will be a total sacrifice; none of it will be eaten.'$7CWhen one of his sons is anointed priest to succeed him, he will do the same. This is a perpetual law. 'The entire cereal offering will be burnt for Yahweh.-6UIt will be prepared on the griddle and mixed with oil; you will bring the paste as a cereal offering in several pieces, offering them as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.\53 'This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must make to Yahweh on the day they are anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of wheaten flour as a perpetual cereal offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.'4K Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:F3 All male descendants of Aaron are entitled to eat this portion of the food burnt for Yahweh (this is a perpetual law for all your descendants) and anyone who touches it will become holy." '+2Q The portion I give them of the food burnt for me must not be baked with leaven; it is especially holy, like the sacrifice for sin and the sacrifice of reparation.%1E and Aaron and his sons will eat the remainder in the form of unleavened loaves. They will eat it inside the holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.20_will take a handful of the wheaten flour (with the oil and all the incense which have been added to it) and burn the memorial on the altar as a smell pleasing to Yahweh;/'This is the ritual for the cereal offering: "One of the descendants of Aaron will bring it into Yahweh's presence in front of the altar,L.The fire must always be burning on the altar; it must never go out.i-M"The fire on the altar that consumes the burnt offering must not be allowed to go out. Every morning the priest will make it up with wood, arranging the burnt offering on it and burning the fat from the communion sacrifices.p,[He will then take off his clothes, put on others and carry the ashes to a clean place outside the camp.[+1"The priest will put on his linen tunic and put his linen drawers on to cover himself. He will then remove the fatty ashes of the burnt offering consumed by the altar fire and put them at the side of the altar.V*''Give these orders to Aaron and his sons: "This is the ritual for the burnt offering (that is, the burnt offering that stays on the altar brazier all night until morning and is consumed by the altar fire).&) KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:()and the priest will perform the rite of expiation for him before Yahweh and he will be forgiven, whatever the act by which he incurred guilt.''He will then bring Yahweh an unblemished ram from his flock to the value which you decide, to the priest as a sacrifice of reparation,F&or any object about which he has perjured himself. He will add one-fifth to the principal and pay the whole to the person who held the property rights on the day when he incurred the guilt. ~}}|0{zzHyxwwvv uu tt1ssrqqcqpponmmXllk\jiihh:gg"fee0dPcbb*ay`j__:^]\[[YZY}XXVWfW%VUUTSS5SRgQQPP&OO"NN%MM LL1KKJJ*IYHGGGqG FFF.E~E1DDZCC?CB>=<IwU o q  , ! !3 L|bV?"If you offer a communion sacrifice to Yahweh, make it in such a way as to be acceptable._U9"Do not turn to idols and do not cast metal gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.kTQ"Each of you will respect father and mother. "And you will keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.hSK'Speak to the whole community of Israelites and say: "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.&R KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:-QUso keep my rules and do not observe any of the hateful laws which were in force before you came; then you will not be made unclean by them. I am Yahweh your God." 'PYes, anyone who does any of these hateful things, whatever it may be, any person doing so, will be outlawed from his people;jOOIf you make it unclean, will it not vomit you out as it vomited out the nations there before you?NFor all these hateful things were done by the people who lived in the country before you, and the country became unclean.M"You, however, must keep my laws and customs and not do any of these hateful things: none of your citizens, none of your resident aliens. LThe country has become unclean; hence I am about to punish it for its guilt, and the country itself will vomit out its inhabitants.(KK"Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these practices, for it was by such things that the nations that I am driving out before you made themselves unclean.UJ%"You will not have intercourse with any kind of animal; you would become unclean by doing so. Nor will a woman offer herself to an animal, to have intercourse with it. This would be a violation of nature.fIG"You will not have intercourse with a man as you would with a woman. This is a hateful thing.Hy"You will not allow any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am Yahweh.{Gq"Furthermore, you will not have intercourse with your fellow-citizen's wife; you would become unclean by doing so.kFQ"You will not approach and have intercourse with a woman who is in a state of menstrual pollution.E-"You will not take a woman and her sister into your harem at the same time, to have intercourse with the latter while the former is still alive.TD#"You will not have intercourse with a woman and her daughter; nor will you take her son's or her daughter's daughter, to have intercourse with them. They are your own flesh and blood; it would be incest.jCO"You will not have intercourse with your brother's wife; it is your brother's sexual prerogative.B"You will not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; you will not have intercourse with her.uAe"You will not have intercourse with your father's brother; you will not approach his wife. She is your aunt.p@[ "You will not have intercourse with your mother's sister; for she is your mother's own flesh and blood.p?[ "You will not have intercourse with your father's sister; for she is your father's own flesh and blood.!>= "You will not have intercourse with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father. She is your sister; you will not have intercourse with her.z=o "You will not have intercourse with your son's or your daughter's daughter; for their sexual privacy is your own.N< "You will not have intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father's or your mother's daughter. Whether she was born in the same house or elsewhere, you will not have intercourse with her.h;K"You will not have intercourse with your father's wife; it is your father's sexual prerogative.:"You will not have intercourse with your father or your mother. She is your mother -- you will not have intercourse with her.u9e"None of you will approach a woman who is closely related to him, to have intercourse with her. I am Yahweh.u8ehence you will keep my laws and my customs. Whoever complies with them will find life in them. "I am Yahweh._79You must observe my customs and keep my laws, following them. "I, Yahweh, am your God:(6KYou must not behave as they do in Egypt where you used to live; you must not behave as they do in Canaan where I am taking you, nor must you follow their laws.@5}'Speak to the Israelites and say: "I am Yahweh your God:&4 KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:c3ABut anyone who does not wash clothing and body will bear the consequences of his guilt." '=2u"Anyone, citizen or alien, who eats an animal that has died a natural death or been savaged, must wash clothing and body, and will be unclean until evening, but will then be clean._19For the life of every creature is its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You will not consume the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood, and anyone who consumes it will be outlawed.60g "Anyone, whether Israelite or resident alien, who hunts and catches game, whether animal or bird, which it is lawful to eat, must pour out its blood and cover it with earth.v/g That is why I told the Israelites: None of you will consume blood, nor will any resident alien consume blood.:.o For the life of the creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you for performing the rite of expiation on the altar for your lives, for blood is what expiates for a life.E- "If any member of the House of Israel or any resident alien consumes blood of any kind, I shall set my face against that individual who consumes blood and shall outlaw him from his people.|,s without bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to offer it to Yahweh, will be outlawed from his people.+'You will also say to them, "Any member of the House of Israel or any resident alien who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice2*_No longer may they offer their sacrifices to the satyrs in whose service they used to prostitute themselves. This is a perpetual law for them and for their descendants.")5and the priest will sprinkle the blood on Yahweh's altar at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and will burn the fat as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.(The purpose of this is that the Israelites should instead bring their sacrifices, which they would otherwise offer in the countryside, to Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and offer them as communion sacrifices to Yahweh;n'Wwithout bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to make an offering of it to Yahweh in front of his Dwelling, that man will be answerable for bloodshed; he has shed blood, and that man will be outlawed from his people.t&c"Any man of the House of Israel who slaughters a bull, lamb or goat, whether inside the camp or outside it,o%Y'Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and say: "This is the order that Yahweh has given:&$ KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:2#_"This will be a perpetual law for you; once a year the rite of expiation will be made for the Israelites for all their sins.' And as Yahweh ordered Moses, so it was done.F"!and perform the rite of expiation for the holy sanctuary, the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and will then perform the rite of expiation for the priests and all the people of the community.G!  'The rite of expiation will be performed by the priest who has been anointed and installed to officiate in succession to his father. He will put on the linen vestments, the sacred vestments,Y -It will be a sabbatical rest for you and you will fast. This is a perpetual law.#for this is the day on which the rite of expiation will be performed for you to purify you, to purify you before Yahweh from all your sins.3'This will be a perpetual law for you. 'On the tenth day of the seventh month you will fast and refrain from work, both citizen and resident alien;X+The man who burns them will wash his clothes and body before entering the camp.[1The bull and the goat offered as a sacrifice for sin, the blood of which was taken into the sanctuary for the rite of expiation, must be taken outside the camp, where their skin, meat and offal are to be burnt.jO'The man who led the goat away to Azazel will wash his clothes and body before entering the camp.?{and burn the fat of the sacrifice for sin on the altar.X+He will then wash his body inside the holy place, put on his vestments and come outside to offer his own and the people's burnt offering. He will perform the rite of expiation for himself and for the people,Aaron will go back into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen vestments which he wore to enter the sanctuary and leave them there.zoand the goat will bear all their guilt away into some desolate place. 'When he has sent the goat into the desert,!Aaron will then lay both his hands on its head and over it confess all the guilt of the Israelites, all their acts of rebellion and all their sins. Having thus laid them on the goat's head, he will send it out into the desert under the charge of a man waiting ready, 'Once expiation for the sanctuary, the Tent of Meeting and the altar is complete, he will bring the goat which is still alive.-and sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times with his finger, thus purifying it and setting it apart from the uncleanness of the Israelites.lShe must come outside, go to the altar before Yahweh and perform the rite of expiation for it. He will take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on the horns at the corners of the altar all around it,mUNo one must be inside the Tent of Meeting, from the moment he enters to make expiation in the sanctuary until the time he comes out. 'When he has made expiation for himself, for his family, and for the whole community of Israel,This is how he must perform the rite of expiation for the sanctuary for the uncleanness of the Israelites, for their acts of rebellion and all their sins. 'And this is what he must do for the Tent of Meeting which remains with them, surrounded by their uncleanness.nW'He will then slaughter the goat for the sacrifice for the sin of the people, and take its blood inside the curtain, and with this blood do as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it on the mercy-seat and in front of it.U%He will then take some of the bull's blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the eastern side of the mercy-seat. He will sprinkle some of the blood seven times with his finger in front of the mercy-seat.)M He will then put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, so that the cloud of incense hides the mercy-seat which is on the Testimony and he does not incur death.+ Q Aaron will then fill a censer with live coals from the altar before Yahweh, take two handfuls of finely ground aromatic incense and bring this inside the curtain.5 e 'Having offered the bull as a sacrifice for his own sin and performed the rite of expiation for himself and for his family, and slaughtered the bull as a sacrifice for sin,J  But the goat on which the lot "For Azazel" has fallen, will be placed alive before Yahweh, for the rite of expiation to be performed with it, and for it then to be sent to Azazel in the desert.u e Aaron will then take the goat on which the lot "For Yahweh" has fallen, and offer it as a sacrifice for sin.m UAaron will then draw lots over the two goats, one lot to be for Yahweh and the other lot for Azazel.kQhe will take the two he-goats and place them before Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.{After offering the bull as a sacrifice for his own sin and performing the rite of expiation for himself and his family,y'From the community of Israelites he will receive two he-goats for a sacrifice for sin and a ram for a burnt offering.]5He will put on a tunic of consecrated linen, wear linen drawers on his body, a linen waistband round his waist, and a linen turban on his head. These are the sacred vestments he will put on after washing himself.|s'This is how he must enter the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sacrifice for sin and a ram for a burnt offering.wiYahweh spoke to Moses and said: 'Tell Aaron your brother that he may not enter the sanctuary inside the curtain in front of the mercy-seat on the ark whenever he chooses, in case he incurs death, for I appear in a cloud on the mercy-seat.p ]Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when offering unauthorised fire.-!a woman in a state of pollution due to menstruation, a man or a woman with a discharge, or a man who sleeps with a woman when she is unclean." 'iM "Such is the law governing a man with a discharge or who is made unclean by a seminal discharge,!="Hence you will warn the Israelites against contracting a state of uncleanness, rather than incurring death by defiling my Dwelling which is among them.b~?The priest will offer one of them as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a burnt offering. And in this way the priest will perform the rite of expiation for her before Yahweh for the discharge which made her unclean.}On the eighth day she will take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.o|Y"Once she is cured of her discharge, she will allow seven days to go by; after that she will be clean.q{]Anyone who touches it will be unclean and must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.Yz-Any bed she lies on during the time this discharge lasts will be polluted in the same way as the bed she lies on during her monthly periods. Anything she sits on will be unclean as during her monthly periods.[y1"If a woman has a prolonged discharge of blood outside the period, or if the period is prolonged, during the time this discharge lasts she will be in the same state of uncleanness as during her monthly periods.%xE"If a man goes so far as to sleep with her, he will contract her menstrual pollution and will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will be unclean.vwgIf there is anything on the bed or where she is sitting, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.sva"Anyone who touches anything she has sat on must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.cuA"Anyone who touches her bed must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.ltS"Anything she lies on in this polluted state will be unclean; anything she sits on will be unclean.Ps"Whenever a woman has a discharge and the discharge from her body is of blood, she will remain in a state of menstrual pollution for seven days. "Anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.orYWhen a woman has had intercourse with a man, both of them must wash and will be unclean until evening.sqaAny clothing or leather touched by the seminal discharge must be washed and will be unclean until evening.wpi"When a man has a seminal discharge, he must wash his whole body with water and will be unclean until evening.KoThe priest will offer one of them as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a burnt offering. And in this way the priest will perform the rite of expiation for him before Yahweh for his discharge.'nIOn the eighth day he will take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest.4mc "Once the man with the discharge is cured, he will allow seven days for his purification. He will wash his clothes and wash his body in running water and he will be clean.al= "The earthenware vessel he touches must be broken and any wooden utensil must be rinsed.k/ "All those whom the man with the discharge touches without having washed his hands must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.Bj "All those who touch any object that has been under him will be unclean until evening. "Anyone who picks up such an object must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.:iq "Any saddle the man has ridden on will be unclean.h"If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.g"Anyone who touches the body of the man with the discharge must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.nfW"Anyone who sits where the man has sat must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.ceA"Anyone who touches his bed must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.Jd"Any bed the man lies on and anything he sits on will be unclean.,cSWhile the discharge continues, the nature of his uncleanness is as follows: "Whether his body allows the discharge to flow or whether it retains it, he is unclean.xbk'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: "When a man has a discharge from his body, that discharge is unclean.0a _Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:*`Q9Such is the law on skin-diseases.'e_E8swellings, scabs and spots. It defines the occasions when things are unclean and when clean.(^M7diseases of clothing and houses,H] 6'Such is the law governing all kinds of skin-disease and tinea,.\W5he will set the live bird free to fly out of the town into the countryside. Once the rite of expiation has been performed for the house in this way it will be clean.<[s4and after offering the sacrifice for the defilement of the house with the blood of the bird, the running water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet material,MZ3He will then take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet material and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird and into the running water and sprinkle the house seven times;UY%2He will slaughter one of the birds in an earthenware pot over running water.Xy1'As a sacrifice for the defilement of the house, he will take two birds, some cedar wood, scarlet material and hyssop.BW0But if the priest finds, when he comes to examine the infection, that it has not spread in the house since it was plastered, he will declare the house clean, for the infection is cured.dVC/Anyone who sleeps there will wash his clothes. Anyone who eats there will wash his clothes.WU).'Anyone who enters the house while it is closed will be unclean until evening.{Tq-It must be pulled down and the stones, woodwork and all the plaster be taken to an unclean place outside the town.#SA,the priest will come and examine it. If he finds that the infection has spread, this means that there is a contagious disease in the house: it is unclean.rR_+'If the infection spreads again after the stones have been removed and the house scraped and replastered,bQ?*The stones will then be replaced with new ones and the house given a new coat of plaster.P#)He will then have all the inside of the house scraped, and the plaster that comes off will be emptied in an unclean place outside the town.mOU(he will order the infected stones to be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the town.N'On the seventh day, the priest will come back and if on examination he finds that the infection has spread over the walls of the house,^M7&the priest will then go out of the house, to the door, and shut it up for seven days.L!%and if on examination he finds the walls of the house pitted with reddish or greenish depressions which appear to be eating away the wall,MK$The priest will order the house to be emptied before he goes to examine the infection, or everything in the house will become unclean; after which, the priest will go inside and examine the house;uJe#the owner will come and inform the priest and say, "I have seen something like a skin-disease in the house."I'"'When you reach Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, if I infect a house with a disease in the country which you are to possess,1H_!Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:yGm 'Such is the law concerning someone with a contagious skin-disease who cannot afford the means of purification.'wFia sacrifice for sin with one, and with the other a burnt offering with a cereal offering -- whatever he has been able to afford. This is how the priest will perform before Yahweh the rite of expiation for the person who is being purified.lESOf the two turtledoves or two young pigeons -- whatever he has been able to afford -- he will offer5DeThe remainder of the oil in the hollow of his hand he will put on the head of the person who is being purified, thus performing the rite of expiation for him before Yahweh.cCAHe will then put some of the oil on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand and the big toe of the right foot of the person who is being purified, as he did with the blood of the sacrifice of reparation.gBIand with his finger sprinkle the oil in the hollow of his left hand seven times before Yahweh.>AyHe will pour the oil into the hollow of his left hand,l@SHe will then slaughter the lamb for the sacrifice of reparation, take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand and the big toe of the right foot of the person who is being purified.?)The priest will take the lamb for the sacrifice of reparation and the log of oil, and present them before Yahweh with the gesture of offering.> He will bring these on the eighth day to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, for his purification. =and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one for a sacrifice for sin and the other for the burnt offering.G< 'If he is poor and cannot afford all this, he need take only one lamb, the one for the sacrifice of reparation, and this will be presented with the gesture of offering to perform the rite of expiation for him. And for the cereal offering he will only take one-tenth of wheaten flour mixed with oil, and the log of oil,;)and offer this and the cereal offering on the altar. So, when the priest has performed the rite of expiation for him the person will be clean.D:'The priest will then offer the sacrifice for sin, and perform the rite of expiation for uncleanness for the person who is being purified. After this, he will slaughter the burnt offeringN9The rest of the oil in the hollow of his hand he will put on the head of the person who is being purified. This is how the priest will perform the rite of expiation for such a person before Yahweh.8 He will then take some of the oil left in the hollow of his hand and put it on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified, in addition to the blood of the sacrifice of reparation.73He will dip a finger of his right hand into the oil in the hollow of his left hand, and sprinkle the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.]65He will then take the log of oil and pour a little into the hollow of his left hand.L5The priest will then take some blood of this sacrifice and put it on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person who is being purified. 4 He will then slaughter the lamb on that spot inside the holy place where the victims for the sacrifice for sin and for the burnt offering are slaughtered. This reparatory offering, like the sacrifice for sin, will revert to the priest: it is especially holy.-3U He will then take one of the lambs and offer it as a sacrifice of reparation, as also the log of oil. With these he will make the gesture of offering before Yahweh.22_ The priest who is performing the purification will place the person who is being purified, with all his offerings, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.:1o 'On the eighth day he will take two unblemished lambs, an unblemished ewe one year old, three-tenths of wheaten flour mixed with oil for the cereal offering, and one log of oil..0W On the seventh day he will shave off all his hair-head, beard and eyebrows; he will shave off all his hair. After washing his clothing and his body he will be clean.\/3The person who is being purified will then wash all clothing, shave off all hair, and wash, and will then be clean. After this he will return to the camp, although he will remain outside his tent for seven days.<.sHe will then sprinkle the person to be purified of the skin-disease seven times, and having declared the person clean, will set the live bird free to fly off into the countryside.C-He will then take the live bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet material and the hyssop and dip all this (including the live bird) into the blood of the bird slaughtered over running water.h,KHe will then order one of the birds to be slaughtered in an earthenware pot over running water.+%he will order the following to be brought for his purification: two live birds that are clean, some cedar wood, scarlet material and hyssop.|*sand the priest will go outside the camp. If he finds on examination that the person has recovered from the disease,-)U'This is the law to be applied on the day of the purification of someone who has suffered from a contagious skin-disease. Such a person will be taken to the priest,&( KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:@'{ ;'Such is the law governing disease in a linen or woollen garment, a fabric or covering or leather object whatever it may be, when it is a question of declaring them clean or unclean.';&q :The clothing, fabric, covering or leather object whatever it may be, from which the infection disappears after being washed, will be clean after it has been washed a second time.A%} 9But if the infection reappears on the same clothing, fabric, covering or leather object whatever it may be, this means that the infection is active; you will burn whatever is infected.#$A 8'But if on examination the priest finds that the infection has diminished after washing, he will tear it out of the clothing, leather, fabric or covering.a#= 7After the washing, he will examine the infection and if he finds that there is no change in its appearance, even though it has not spread, the article is unclean. You will burn it; it is infected through and through.m"U 6he will order the infected object to be washed and will isolate it again for a period of seven days.!1 5'But if on examination the priest finds that the infection has not spread on the clothing, fabric, covering, or leather object whatever it may be,S ! 4He will burn this clothing, fabric, linen or woollen covering or leather object whatever it may be, on which the infection has appeared; for this is a contagious disease which must be destroyed by fire.Z/ 3If on the seventh day he observes that the infection has spread on the clothing, fabric, covering, leather or object made of leather, whatever it may be, this is a contagious disease and the object is unclean.U% 2The priest will examine the infection and isolate the object for seven days.%E 1if the spot on the clothing, leather, fabric, covering or object made of leather is a greenish or reddish colour, it is a disease to be shown to the priest.U% 0linen or woollen fabric or covering, or leather or anything made of leather,[1 /'When a piece of clothing is infected with mould, be it woollen or linen clothing, .As long as the disease lasts, such a person will be unclean and, being unclean, will live alone and live outside the camp.+ -'Anyone with a contagious skin-disease will wear torn clothing and disordered hair; and will cover the upper lip and shout, "Unclean, unclean."   ,the person has such a disease: he is unclean. The priest will declare him unclean; he has a contagious skin-disease of the head.  +The priest will examine it, and if he finds a reddish-white swelling on scalp or forehead, looking like a contagious skin-disease,  *If, however, a reddish-white sore appears on scalp or forehead, a contagious skin-disease has broken out on the scalp or forehead.nW )If he loses hair off the front of the head, this is baldness of the forehead but the person is clean.hK ('If someone loses the hair of the scalp, this is baldness of the scalp but the person is clean. ; 'the priest will examine them. If he finds that the spots are of a dull white, this is a rash that has broken out on the skin: the sick person is clean.Y- &'If spots break out on the skin of a man or woman, and if these spots are white,8k %Whereas if, so far as he can see, the tinea is arrested and dark hair is beginning to grow on it, the sick person is cured. He is clean, and the priest will declare him clean.?y $the priest will examine the person; if he finds that the tinea has indeed spread over the skin, the sick person is unclean, and there is no need to verify whether the hair is yellow.L #But if after this purification the tinea does spread over the skin,  "He will examine the infected part on the seventh day, and if he finds that it has not spread over the skin, and that there is no visible depression of the skin, the priest will declare the sick person clean. After washing his clothes the person will be clean.  !the sick person will shave his hair off, all except the part affected with tinea, and the priest will again isolate him for seven days.E  He will examine the infected part on the seventh day, and if he finds that the tinea has not spread, that the hair on it is not yellow, and that there is no visible depression in the skin,) M If on examining this case of tinea the priest finds no visible depression in the skin and no yellow hair, he will isolate the person so affected for seven days.x k the priest will examine the sore; and if he finds a depression visible in the skin, with the hair on it yellow and thin, he will declare the sick person unclean: this is tinea, that is to say, a contagious skin-disease of the head or chin.< u 'If a man or a woman has a sore on the head or chin,Q If the mark has stayed where it was and has not spread over the skin, but has faded instead, it was only a swelling due to the burn. The priest will declare the person clean: it is merely a burn scar.8k He will examine the person on the seventh day and, if the disease has spread over the skin, he will declare the sick person unclean: this is a case of contagious skin-disease.D If on the other hand the priest on examination does not find white hair on the mark or depression of the skin, but a fading of the mark, the priest will isolate the person for seven days. the priest will then examine it. If he finds a whitening of the hair or a visible depression of the mark on the skin, a contagious disease has broken out in the burn. The priest will declare the sick person unclean: this is a contagious skin-disease.mU 'If someone has a burn on the skin and an abscess, a reddish-white or white spot, forms on the burn, @~~ }r}||,{zzzyyAxtwrvv4uhutt7ssorrrqqEpp*oo9onMmll?kk?jj?iihqgg"feed c?baaN`_^^S]]\\)[[DZ{YYTXWWVVV$UUUTTtTSDRRBQQQP)OANNMM3LL3KK7JwJII HGGvGF>a>=w=<&wIf your brother becomes impoverished and sells off part of his ancestral property, his nearest male relative will come and exercise his family rights over what his brother has sold.J%You will allow a right of redemption over any ancestral property.v$g"Land will not be sold absolutely, for the land belongs to me, and you are only strangers and guests of mine.B#You will have the old produce to eat while you are sowing in the eighth year, and even in the ninth year, you will be eating the old produce, while waiting for the harvest of that year.w"iI shall order my blessing to be on you in the sixth year, which will yield you enough produce for three years.q!]"In case you should ask: What shall we eat in this seventh year if we do not sow or harvest our produce?W )The land will give its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live in security./"Hence, you will put my laws and customs into practice; you will keep them and put them into practice, and you will live securely in the country.Z/So you will not exploit one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.I The greater the number of years, the higher the price you will ask for it; the fewer the number of years, the greater the reduction; for what he is selling you is a certain number of harvests.KIn buying from your fellow-countryman, you will take account of the number of years since the jubilee; the sale-price he fixes for you will depend on the number of productive years still to run.mUIf you buy land from, or sell land to, your fellow-countryman, neither of you may exploit the other.U% "In this year of jubilee, each of you will return to his ancestral property.fG The jubilee will be a holy thing for you; during it you will eat whatever the fields produce.?y This fiftieth year will be a jubilee year for you; in it you will not sow, you will not harvest the grain that has come up on its own or in it gather grapes from your untrimmed vine.a= You will declare this fiftieth year to be sacred and proclaim the liberation of all the country's inhabitants. You will keep this as a jubilee: each of you will return to his ancestral property, each to his own clan.' And on the tenth day of the seventh month you will sound the trumpet; on the Day of Expiation you will sound the trumpet throughout the land. "You will count seven weeks of years -- seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years.lSfor your cattle too, and the wild animals of your country, whatever it produces will serve as food.'But what the land produces in its Sabbath will serve to feed you, your slave, male or female, your employee and your guest residing with you;'nor reap any grain which has grown of its own accord, nor gather the grapes from your untrimmed vine. It will be a year of rest for the land.'But in the seventh year the land will have a sabbatical rest, a Sabbath for Yahweh. You will neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard,r_For six years you will sow your field, for six years you will prune your vineyard and gather its produce.%'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: "When you enter the country which I am giving you, the land must keep a Sabbath's rest for Yahweh.5 iYahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and said:9 mMoses having told the Israelites this, they took the man who had pronounced the curse out of the camp and stoned him. And so the Israelites carried out Yahweh's order to Moses.q ]The sentence you pass will be the same, whether on native-born or on alien; for I am Yahweh your God." ' Whoever strikes down an animal will make restitution for it, and whoever strikes down a human being will be put to death.| sbroken limb for broken limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As the injury inflicted, so will be the injury suffered.J "Anyone who injures a neighbour shall receive the same in return,\3"Anyone who strikes down an animal will make restitution for it: a life for a life.M"Anyone who strikes down any other human being will be put to death.?yand anyone who blasphemes the name of Yahweh will be put to death; the whole community will stone him; be he alien or native-born, if he blasphemes the Name, he will be put to death.fGThen say to the Israelites: "Anyone who curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin,-U'Take the man who pronounced the curse outside the camp. All those who heard him must then lay their hands on his head, and the whole community must then stone him.'K Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:V' He was then put under guard until Yahweh's will should be made clear to them.3a Now the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed it. He was then taken to Moses (his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan).\3 There was a man whose mother was an Israelite woman and whose father was an Egyptian. He came out of his house and, in the camp, surrounded by the Israelites, he began to quarrel with a man who was an Israelite.A} They will belong to Aaron and his sons, who will eat them inside the holy place since, for him, they are an especially holy part of the food burnt for Yahweh. This is a permanent law.'u~eEvery Sabbath they will be arranged before Yahweh. The Israelites will provide them as a permanent covenant.h}Kand put pure incense on each row, to make it food offered as a memorial, food burnt for Yahweh.T|#You will then place them in two rows of six on the pure table before Yahwehe{E'You will take wheaten flour and with it bake twelve loaves, each of two-tenths of an ephah.\z3Aaron will keep the lamps permanently trimmed on the pure lamp-stand before Yahweh.EyAaron will keep it permanently in trim from evening to morning, outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh. This is a perpetual decree for your descendants:}xu'Order the Israelites to bring you crushed-olive oil for the lamp-stand, and keep a flame burning there continually.&w KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:Lv,Moses then promulgated Yahweh's solemn festivals to the Israelites.u+so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out of Egypt, I, Yahweh your God." 'dtC*For seven days you will live in shelters: all the citizens of Israel will live in shelters,3sa)You will celebrate a feast for Yahweh in this way for seven days every year. This is a perpetual law for your descendants. "You will keep this feast in the seventh month.@r{(On the first day you will take choice fruit, palm branches, boughs of leafy trees and flowering shrubs from the river bank, and for seven days enjoy yourselves before Yahweh your God.Rq'"But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you will celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven days. The first and eighth days will be days of rest.vpg&besides Yahweh's Sabbaths, and your presents and all your votive and voluntary gifts that you make to Yahweh.o %"These are Yahweh's solemn festivals to which you will summon the Israelites, the sacred assemblies for the purpose of offering food burnt for Yahweh, consisting of burnt offerings, cereal offerings, sacrifices and libations, each on its appropriate day,Sn!$For seven days you will offer food burnt for Yahweh. On the eighth day you will hold a sacred assembly and you will offer food burnt for Yahweh. It is a day of solemn meeting; you will do no heavy work.Sm!#The first day will be a day of sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work.l7"'Speak to the Israelites and say: "On the fifteenth day of this seventh month there will be the feast of Shelters for Yahweh, lasting for seven days.'kK!Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:9jm It must be a day of complete rest for you. You will fast; on the evening of the ninth day of the month, from this evening till the following evening, you will rest completely.'`i;No work will be done -- this is a perpetual law for your descendants wherever you live.Ehanyone who works that day I shall eliminate from his people.LgAnyone who fails to fast that day will be outlawed from his people;f)You will do no work that day, for it is the Day of Expiation, on which the rite of expiation will be performed for you before Yahweh your God.e9'But the tenth day of this seventh month will be the Day of Expiation. You will hold a sacred assembly. You will fast and offer food burnt for Yahweh.'dKYahweh spoke to Moses and said:OcYou will do no heavy work and you will offer food burnt for Yahweh." ' b;'Speak to the Israelites and say: "The first day of the seventh month will be a day of rest for you, of remembrance and acclamation, a sacred assembly.'aKYahweh spoke to Moses and said:e`E"When you reap the harvest in your country, you will not reap to the very edges of your field, nor will you gather the gleanings of the harvest. You will leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am Yahweh your God." '9_m"On the same day, you will hold an assembly; for you this will be a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work. This is a perpetual law for your descendants, wherever you live.T^#The priest will present them before Yahweh with the gesture of offering, in addition to the bread of the first-fruits. These, and the two lambs, are holy things for Yahweh, and will revert to the priest.l]SYou will also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and two lambs a year old as communion sacrifice.b\?In addition to the bread, you will offer seven unblemished lambs a year old, a young bull and two rams, as a burnt offering to Yahweh with a cereal offering and a libation, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.>[wYou will bring bread from your homes to present with the gesture of offering -- two loaves, made of two-tenths of wheaten flour baked with leaven; these are first-fruits for Yahweh.ZyYou will count fifty days, to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then you will offer Yahweh a new cereal offering.|Ys"From the day after the Sabbath, the day on which you bring the sheaf of offering, you will count seven full weeks.DXYou will eat no bread, roasted ears of wheat or fresh produce before this day, before making the offering to your God. This is a perpetual law for all your descendants, wherever you live.;Wq The cereal offering for that day will be two-tenths of wheaten flour mixed with oil, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh. The libation will be a quarter of a hin of wine.V and on the same day as you make this offering, you will offer Yahweh an unblemished lamb one year old as a burnt offering."U? and he will present it to Yahweh with the gesture of offering, for you to be acceptable. The priest will make this offering on the day after the Sabbath,3Ta 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "When you enter the country which I am giving you and reap the harvest there, you will bring the priest the first sheaf of your harvest,'SK Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:RFor seven days you will offer food burnt for Yahweh. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work." 'UQ%On the first day you will hold a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work. Pand the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread for Yahweh. For seven days you will eat unleavened bread.XO+"The fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, is the Passover of Yahweh;N"These are Yahweh's solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you will summon the Israelites on the appointed day:DM"You will work for six days, but the seventh will be a day of complete rest, a day for the sacred assembly on which you do no work at all. Wherever you live, this is a Sabbath for Yahweh.#LA'Speak to the Israelites and say: (The solemn festivals of Yahweh to which you will summon them are my sacred assemblies.) "These are my solemn festivals:&K KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:DJ!I who brought you out of Egypt, to be your God, I, Yahweh.'I You will not profane my holy name -- so that I may be honoured as holy among the Israelites, I, Yahweh, who make you holy,LH'You will keep my commands and put them into practice. I am Yahweh.cGAit must be eaten the same day; you will leave nothing over till next morning. I am Yahweh.VF''If you offer Yahweh a sacrifice with praise, do it in the acceptable manner;]E5But no animal, whether cow or ewe, will be slaughtered on the same day as its young.#DA'A calf, lamb, or kid will stay with its dam for seven days after being born. From the eighth day onwards, it will be acceptable as food burnt for Yahweh.'CKYahweh spoke to Moses and said:3Baand you may not accept any such from the hands of a stranger, to be offered as food for your God. Their deformity is a blemish, and they would not make you acceptable." 'AYou will not offer Yahweh an animal if its testicles have been bruised, crushed, torn or cut off. You may not do that in your country,@-As a voluntary offering, you may offer a bull or a lamb that is underdeveloped or deformed; but such will not be acceptable in payment of a vow.E?You will not offer Yahweh any animal which is blind, lame, mutilated, ulcerous, scabby or covered in sores. No part of such an animal will be offered on the altar as food burnt for Yahweh.Y>-"If anyone offers Yahweh a communion sacrifice, either to fulfil a vow or as a voluntary offering, the animal, be it from the herd or flock, must be perfect, if he is to be acceptable; it must be unblemished.Z=/You will not offer anything with a blemish, for it would not make you acceptable.a<=must, if he is to be acceptable, offer an unblemished male, be it bull or sheep or goat.;'Speak to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the Israelites and say: "Any member of the House of Israel or any alien resident in Israel who brings an offering either in payment of a vow or as a voluntary gift, and offers it as a burnt offering to Yahweh,':KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:9!By eating these, they would burden them with guilt requiring a sacrifice of reparation; for I, Yahweh, have sanctified these offerings." 'a8="They may not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites have set aside for Yahweh.n7Wanyone who does eat a holy thing by inadvertence, will restore it to the priest with one-fifth added.<6s but if she is widowed or divorced and, being childless, has had to return to her father's house as when she was young, she may share her father's food. No lay person may share it;g5I "If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she will have no share in the holy things set aside,4 But if the priest has acquired a slave by purchase, the slave may eat it like anyone born in his household; they will share his food.f3G "No lay person may eat anything holy; no guest or employee of a priest may eat anything holy.2! "They must keep my rules and not burden themselves with sin. If they profane them, they will incur death; I, Yahweh, have sanctified them.1"He must not eat an animal that has died a natural death or been savaged; he would contract uncleanness from it. I am Yahweh.Y0-At sunset he will be clean and may then eat holy things, for these are his food./in short, anyone who has had any such contact will be unclean until evening, and must not eat holy things until he has washed his body..or who is made unclean by touching any kind of reptile or any one who has contaminated him with his own uncleanness, be it what it may,d-C"Anyone of Aaron's line who is afflicted with a contagious skin-disease or a discharge will not eat holy things until he is clean. Anyone who touches anything made unclean by a dead body, or who has a seminal discharge,V,'Say to them: "Any one of your descendants, for all time, who in a state of uncleanness approaches the holy offerings consecrated to Yahweh by the Israelites, will be outlawed from my presence. I am Yahweh.:+o'Speak to Aaron and his sons. They must be consecrated by the holy offerings of the Israelites and must not profane my holy name; for my sake they must sanctify it; I am Yahweh.&* KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:U)%And Moses promulgated this to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the Israelites.*(Obut he will not go near the curtain or approach the altar, since he has an infirmity and must not profane my holy things; for I, Yahweh, have sanctified them." 'Q'"He may eat the food of his God, things especially holy and things holy,F&No descendant of the priest Aaron may come forward to offer the food burnt for Yahweh if he has any infirmity; if he has an infirmity, he will not come forward to offer the food of his God.c%Aa hunchback, someone with rickets or ophthalmia or the scab or running sores, or a eunuch.'$Kor with an injured foot or arm,g#Ifor none may come forward if he has an infirmity, be he blind or lame, disfigured or deformed,"'Speak to Aaron and say: "None of your descendants, for all time, may come forward to offer the food of his God if he has any infirmity,'!KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:Z /he must not make his own children profane, for I, Yahweh, have sanctified him." ' He will not marry a woman who has been widowed or divorced or profaned by prostitution, but will marry a virgin from his own people:5g "He will marry a woman who is still a virgin.+Q He will not leave the holy place in such a way as to profane the sanctuary of his God; for he bears the consecration of the anointing oil of his God. I am Yahweh.^7 he will not go near any corpse or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.]5 "The priest who is pre-eminent over his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who, robed in the sacred vestments, has received investiture, will not disorder his hair or tear his clothes;sa "If a priest's daughter profanes herself by prostitution, she profanes her father and will be burnt alive.'"You will treat him as holy, for he offers the food of your God. For you, he will be a holy person, for I, Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.  "They will not marry a woman profaned by prostitution, or one divorced by her husband, for the priest is consecrated to his God.EThey will be consecrated to their God and will not profane the name of their God. For their function is to offer the food burnt for Yahweh, the food of their God, and so they must be holy.lS"They will not make tonsures on their heads, shave the edges of their beards, or gash their bodies.sabut for a close female relation who is married he will not make himself unclean; he would profane himself.vgor virgin sister, since she being unmarried is still his close relation: he can make himself unclean for her;]5unless it be of one of his closest relations-father, mother, son, daughter, brother,& IYahweh said to Moses: 'Speak to the priests descended from Aaron and say: "None of them must make himself unclean by touching the corpse of one of his people,#A"Any man or woman of yours who is a necromancer or magician will be put to death; they will be stoned to death; their blood will be on their own heads." '}u"Be consecrated to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and I shall set you apart from all these peoples, for you to be mine.{qyou for your part will make a distinction between clean animals and unclean ones and between unclean birds and clean ones, and will not make yourselves detestable with any animal or bird or reptile, which I have set apart from you as unclean._9As I have already told you, you will take possession of their soil, I myself shall give you possession of it, a country flowing with milk and honey. "Since I, Yahweh your God, have set you apart from these peoples, %You will not follow the laws of the nations whom I am driving out before you; they practised all these things, which is why I detested them. 3"You will keep all my laws, all my decisions, and put them into practice, so that the country where I am taking you to live will not vomit you out. "The man who marries his brother's wife: this is pollution; he has infringed his brother's sexual prerogative; they will die childless.9 m"The man who has intercourse with the wife of his paternal uncle has infringed his uncle's sexual prerogative; they will bear the consequences of their guilt and die childless.F "You will not have intercourse with your mother's sister or your father's sister. Whoever does so, has had intercourse with a close relation; they will bear the consequences of their guilt.tc"The man who has intercourse with a woman during her monthly periods and exposes her nakedness: he has laid bare the source of her blood, and she has exposed the source of her blood, and both of them will be outlawed from their people.ym"The man who marries his father's or his mother's daughter: if they have intercourse together, this is an outrage. They will be executed in public, for the man has had intercourse with his sister; he will bear the consequences of his guilt.5e"The woman who approaches any animal to have intercourse with it: you will kill the woman and the animal. They will be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.hK"The man who has intercourse with an animal will be put to death; you will kill the animal too. "The man who marries a woman and her mother: this is incest. They will be burnt alive, he and they; you will not tolerate incest.=u "The man who has intercourse with a man in the same way as with a woman: they have done a hateful thing together; they will be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.%E "The man who has intercourse with his daughter-in-law: both of them will be put to death; they have violated nature, their blood will be on their own heads.6g "The man who has intercourse with his father's wife has infringed his father's sexual prerogative. Both of them will be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.hK "The man who commits adultery with his neighbour's wife will be put to death, he and the woman.' Hence: "Anyone who curses father or mother will be put to death. Having cursed father or mother, the blood will be on that person's own head.c~A"You will keep my laws and put them into practice, for it is I, Yahweh, who make you holy.D}"Sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God.5|e"If anyone has recourse to the spirits of the dead or to magicians, to prostitute himself by following them, I shall set my face against him and outlaw him from his people.:{oI myself shall turn my face against that man and his clan. I shall outlaw them from their people, both him and all those after him who prostitute themselves by following Molech.z-If the people of the country choose to close their eyes to the man's action when he gives a child of his to Molech, and do not put him to death,/yYand I shall set my face against that man and outlaw him from his people; for by giving a child of his to Molech he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.?xy'Say to the Israelites: "Anyone, be he Israelite or alien resident in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech, will be put to death. The people of the country must stone him,&w KYahweh spoke to Moses and said:ivM%hence you are to keep all my laws and all my customs and put them into practice. I am Yahweh." 'u}$You will have just scales, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt;ltS#"You will not be unjust in administering justice as regards measures of length, weight or capacity.(sK"You will treat resident aliens as though they were native-born and love them as yourself -- for you yourselves were once aliens in Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.Pr!"If you have resident aliens in your country, you will not molest them.q{ "You will stand up in the presence of grey hair, you will honour the person of the aged and fear your God. I am Yahweh.xpk"Do not have recourse to the spirits of the dead or to magicians; they will defile you. I, Yahweh, am your God.Io "You will keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.n "Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the country itself will become prostituted and filled with incest.jmOYou will not gash your bodies when someone dies, and you will not tattoo yourselves. I am Yahweh.Xl+"You will not round off your hair at the edges or trim the edges of your beard.[k1"You will eat nothing with blood in it. You will not practise divination or magic.ojYand in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, so that it may yield you even more. I am Yahweh your God.^i7in the fourth year, all its fruit will be consecrated to Yahweh in a feast of praise;Hh "Once you have entered the country and planted any kind of fruit tree, you will regard its fruit as uncircumcised. For three years you will count it as uncircumcised and it will not be eaten;1g]and with the ram of reparation the priest will perform the rite of expiation for him before Yahweh for the sin committed; and the sin he has committed will be forgiven.fHe will bring a sacrifice of reparation for Yahweh to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. This will be a ram of reparation,~ew"If someone has intercourse with a woman who is the concubine slave of a man from whom she has not been redeemed and she has not been given her freedom, he will be liable for a fine, but they will not incur death, since she was not a free woman.Id "You will keep my laws. "You will not mate your cattle with those of another kind; you will not sow two kinds of grain in your field; you will not wear a garment made from two kinds of fabric.c7You will not exact vengeance on, or bear any sort of grudge against, the members of your race, but will love your neighbour as yourself. I am Yahweh.b!You will not harbour hatred for your brother. You will reprove your fellow-countryman firmly and thus avoid burdening yourself with a sin.{aqYou will not go about slandering your own family, nor will you put your neighbour's life in jeopardy. I am Yahweh.8`k"You will not be unjust in administering justice. You will neither be partial to the poor nor overawed by the great, but will administer justice to your fellow-citizen justly.u_eYou will not curse the dumb or put an obstacle in the way of the blind, but will fear your God. I am Yahweh.p^[ You will not exploit or rob your fellow. You will not keep back the labourer's wage until next morning.q]] You will not swear by my name with intent to deceive and thus profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.\\3 "You will not steal, nor deal deceitfully or fraudulently with your fellow-citizen.[) nor will you strip your vineyard bare, nor pick up the fallen grapes. You will leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am Yahweh your God.Z% "When you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap to the very edges of the field, nor will you gather the gleanings of the harvest;Y'Anyone who eats it must bear the consequences of this guilt, having profaned Yahweh's holiness; that person will be outlawed from his people.QXIf eaten on the third day it would be rotten food and not be acceptable.iWMIt must be eaten the same day or the day after; whatever is left on the third day must be burnt. +~~'}>|{{{ zyyy'xxwOwv|uuuEtt^^Z]] \M[[b[ZtYY$XWW{WVhUU*TTCSRQQQPP+O]ONQMM@LLLYL+KKKeK7K JJJJIHHGG\FF=E}EDZCC:BBA@@{??Z>>7=w=<]<;?::U999H98766v5}5&44'33A222P21y000T0//..--P,,,W,++**n*2))(('&&q& %$$$ #""d!! >N/h yQgn97rN-   f  (qbK!U+'4K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:3(in such a way that they have no need to incur the death penalty by going in and setting eyes on the holy things, even for an instant.'W2)(But deal with them in this way, so that they may survive and not incur death by approaching those things that are especially holy. Aaron and his sons will go in and assign to each of them his task and load,[11('You must not let the group of Kohathite clans be lost to the rest of the Levites.'0K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:/!(But Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, is responsible for looking after the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the daily cereal offering and the anointing oil, and for supervising the entire Dwelling and everything in it, the holy things and their accessories.'.7('Once Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy things and all their accessories at the breaking of camp, the Kohathites will come and carry them, but without touching any of the holy things on pain of death. Such is the load for the Kohathites in the Tent of Meeting.i-M(and on this place all the objects used in the liturgy, the fire pans, hooks, scoops, sprinkling basins and all the altar accessories. Over this they will spread a covering of fine leather. They will then fix the poles to it.d,C( 'When they have removed the ashes from the altar, they will spread a scarlet cloth over it,4+c( 'They will then take all the other objects used in the service of the sanctuary, put them in a violet cloth, with a covering of fine leather, and put it all on the litter.*#( 'Over the golden altar they will spread a violet cloth, and cover that with a covering of fine leather. They will then fix the poles to it.h)K( and will lay it and all its accessories in a covering of fine leather and put it on the litter.(( 'They will then take a violet cloth and cover the lamp-stand, its lamps, snuffers, trays and all the oil jars used for it,'#(Over these they will spread a scarlet cloth and cover the whole with a covering of fine leather. They will then fix the poles to the table.0&[('Over the offertory table they will spread a violet cloth, and on it put the dishes, cups, bowls and libation jars; the bread of permanent offering will also be on it.%%E(Over this, they will put a covering of fine leather, over which they will spread a cloth entirely of violet-purple. They will then fix the poles to the ark. $('When camp is broken, Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.f#G('These are the duties of the Kohathites: looking after those things that are especially holy."(all the men between thirty and fifty years of age and eligible for military service, who will have their duties in the Tent of Meeting.S!!('Take a census by clans and families of the Levites descended from Kohath:&  K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:y(3and Moses then handed over their ransom money to Aaron and his sons, at Yahweh's bidding, as Yahweh had ordered Moses. (2he took the money for the first-born of the Israelites: one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the sanctuary shekel;R(1Moses took the ransom money for the extra ones unransomed by the Levites;a=(0you will then give this money to Aaron and his sons as the ransom for the extra number.'eE(/you will take five shekels for each, by the sanctuary shekel, at twenty gerah to the shekel;}u(.For the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three first-born of the Israelites in excess of the number of Levites, ;(-'Take the Levites instead of all the first-born of the Israelites, and the Levites' cattle instead of their cattle; the Levites will be mine, Yahweh's.,U(,Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said:(+The total count, by name, of the first-born from the age of one month and over came to twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.X+(*As Yahweh ordered, Moses took a census of all the first-born of the Israelites.#A()You will then present the Levites to me, Yahweh, instead of Israel, and similarly the Levites' cattle instead of the first-born cattle of the Israelites.''I((Yahweh said to Moses: 'Take a census of all the first-born of the Israelites, all the males from the age of one month and over; take a census of them by name.1('The total number of male Levites of the age of one month and over, whom Moses counted by clans as Yahweh had ordered, came to twenty-two thousand.)(&Finally, on the east side, in front of the Dwelling, in front of the Tent of Meeting, towards the east, was the camp of Moses and Aaron and his sons, who had charge of the sanctuary on behalf of the Israelites. Any unauthorised person coming near was to be put to death.P(%and also the poles round the court, with their sockets, pegs and cords.($The Merarites were in charge of the framework of the Dwelling, with its crossbars, poles, sockets and all its accessories and fittings, (#The leader of the House of the Merarite clans was Zuriel, son of Abihail. They pitched their camp on the north side of the Dwelling.gI("Their full number, counting the males of one month and over, came to six thousand two hundred.a =(!From Merari were descended the Mahlite and Mushite clans; these were the Merarite clans. ( The chief of the Levite leaders was Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest. He supervised the people responsible for the sanctuary. 7(They were in charge of the ark, the table, the lamp-stand, the altars, the sacred vessels used in the liturgy, and the curtain with all its fittings.T #(The leader of the house of the Kohathite clans was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.R (The Kohathite clans pitched their camp on the south side of the Dwelling.(Their full number, counting the males of one month and over, came to eight thousand three hundred. They were in charge of the sanctuary.zo(From Kohath were descended the Amramite, Izharite, Hebronite and Uzzielite clans; these were the Kohathite clans.'I(the curtaining of the court, the screen for the entrance to the court surrounding the Dwelling and the altar, and the cords required in dealing with all this.#A(As regards the Tent of Meeting, the Gershonites had charge of the Dwelling, the Tent and its covering, the screen for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,E(The leader of the House of Gershon was Eliasaph son of Lael.W)(The Gershonite clans pitched their camp behind the Dwelling, on the west side.jO(Their full number, counting the males of one month and over, came to seven thousand five hundred.eE(From Gershon were descended the Libnite and Shimeite clans; these were the Gershonite clans.jO(Merari's sons by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, grouped by families.G (Kohath's sons by their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;Q~(These were the names of Gershon's sons by their clans: Libni and Shimei;I} (These were the names of Levi's sons: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.M|(At Yahweh's word Moses took a census of them, as Yahweh had ordered.{('You must take a census of Levi's descendants by families and clans; all the males of the age of one month and over will be counted.'>zy(Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai and said:My( For every first-born belongs to me. On the day when I struck down all the first-born in Egypt, I consecrated all the first-born in Israel, human and animal, to be my own. They are mine, Yahweh's.'7xi( 'Look, I myself have chosen the Levites from the Israelites instead of all the first-born, those who emerge first from the womb in Israel; the Levites therefore belong to me.'wK( Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:v-( 'You will register Aaron and his sons, who will carry out their priestly duty. But any unauthorised person who comes near must be put to death.'zuo( You will present the Levites to Aaron and his sons as men dedicated; they will be given to him by the Israelites.t9(and they will be in charge of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and undertake the duties incumbent on the Israelites in serving the Dwelling.s(They will undertake the duties incumbent on him and the whole community before the Tent of Meeting, in serving the Dwelling,orY('Muster the tribe of Levi and put it at the disposal of the priest Aaron: they must be at his service.'qK(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:opY(Nadab and Abihu died in Yahweh's presence, in the desert of Sinai, when they offered unauthorised fire before Yahweh. They left no children and so it fell to Eleazar and Ithamar to exercise the priesthood under their father Aaron.noW(Such were the names of Aaron's sons, priests anointed and invested with the powers of the priesthood.an=(These were the names of Aaron's sons: Nadab the eldest, then Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.mm W(These were the descendants of Aaron and Moses, at the time when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.Ll("The Israelites did exactly as Yahweh had ordered Moses. This was how they pitched camp, grouped by standards. This was how they broke camp, each man in his own clan, each man with his own family.ikM(!But, as Yahweh had ordered Moses, the Levites were not included in the census of the Israelites.Dj( Such was the tally of the Israelites when the census was taken by families. The full count of the entire camp, unit by unit, came to six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.:io('The tribal forces in the camp of Dan number in all a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They will be the last to break camp. 'All under their appropriate standards.';hs(His company: fifty-three thousand four hundred men.Ng('The tribe of Naphtali. Leader of the Naphtalites: Ahira son of Enan.9fo(His company: forty-one thousand five hundred men.Ze/('Next to him: 'The tribe of Asher. Leader of the Asherites: Pagiel son of Ochran.:dq(His company: sixty-two thousand seven hundred men.~cw('On the north side, the standard of the camp of Dan, unit by unit. Leader of the Danites: Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. b('The tribal forces in the camp of Ephraim number in all a hundred and eight thousand one hundred. They will be third to break camp.;as(His company: thirty-five thousand four hundred men.S`!('The tribe of Benjamin. Leader of the Benjaminites: Abidan son of Gideoni.9_o(His company: thirty-two thousand two hundred men.d^C('Next to him: 'The tribe of Manasseh. Leader of the Manassehites: Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.5]g(His company: forty thousand five hundred men.\('On the west side, the standard of the camp of Ephraim, unit by unit. Leader of the Ephraimites: Elishama son of Ammihud.R[('Next, the Tent of Meeting will move, since the camp of the Levites is situated in the middle of the other camps. The order of movement will be the order of encampment, each man under his own standard.Z1('The tribal forces in the camp of Reuben number in all a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They will be second to break camp.DY(His company: forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty men.IX ('The tribe of Gad. Leader of the Gadites: Eliasaph son of Reuel.;Ws( His company: fifty-nine thousand three hundred men.dVC( 'Next to him: 'The tribe of Simeon. Leader of the Simeonites: Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.9Uo( His company: forty-six thousand five hundred men.Ty( 'On the south side, the standard of the camp of Reuben, unit by unit. Leader of the Reubenites: Elizur son of Shedeur.S%( 'The tribal forces in the camp of Judah number in all a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. These will be the first to break camp.;Rs(His company: fifty-seven thousand four hundred men.NQ('The tribe of Zebulun. Leader of the Zebulunites: Eliab son of Helon.:Pq(His company: fifty-four thousand four hundred men.`O;('Next to him: 'The tribe of Issachar. Leader of the Issacharites: Nethanel son of Zuar.;Ns(His company: seventy-four thousand six hundred men.$MC('Encamped on the east side: 'Furthest towards the east, the standard of the camp of Judah, unit by unit. Leader of the Judahites: Nahshon son of Amminadab.EL('The Israelites must pitch their tents, each man by his own standard, under their family emblems. They must pitch their tents round the Dwelling where the Testimony is, some distance away.3K e(Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron and said:TJ %(6The Israelites did exactly as Yahweh had ordered Moses. They did as he said.uI g(5but the Levites will pitch their tents round the Dwelling where the Testimony is. In this way Retribution will be kept from falling on the whole community of Israelites, and the Levites will keep charge of the Dwelling of the Testimony.'zH q(4The Israelites will pitch their tents, each in their own encampment and by their own standard, company by company,IG (3Whenever the Dwelling is moved, the Levites will dismantle it; whenever the Dwelling stops for the night, the Levites will erect it. Any unauthorised person coming near it will be put to death.uF g(2but enrol the Levites to take charge of the Dwelling where the Testimony is and of all its furnishings and belongings. They must carry the Dwelling and all its furnishings; they must look after the Dwelling and pitch their camp round it.cE C(1'Do not, however, take a census of the Levites, or register them with the other Israelites,&D K(0Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:HC  (/But the Levites and their tribes were not included in the count.\B 5(.Altogether, the total came to six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.`A =(-All the Israelites of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were counted by families.@  (,Such were the men registered by Moses, Aaron and the leaders of Israel, of whom there were twelve, each representing his family.[? 3(+The total of these for the tribe of Naphtali was fifty-three thousand four hundred.A> (*Once the pedigrees of Naphtali's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.V= )()The total of these for the tribe of Asher was forty-one thousand five hundred.>< y((Once the pedigrees of Asher's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.U; '('The total of these for the tribe of Dan was sixty-two thousand seven hundred.<: u(&Once the pedigrees of Dan's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.[9 3(%The total of these for the tribe of Benjamin was thirty-five thousand four hundred.A8 ($Once the pedigrees of Benjamin's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.Y7 /(#The total of these for the tribe of Manasseh was thirty-two thousand two hundred.A6 ("Once the pedigrees of Manasseh's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.T5 %(!The total of these for the tribe of Ephraim was forty thousand five hundred.f4 I( As regards the descendants of Joseph: once the pedigrees of Ephraim's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.Z3 1(The total of these for the tribe of Zebulun was fifty-seven thousand four hundred.@2 }(Once the pedigrees of Zebulun's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.Z1 1(The total of these for the tribe of Issachar was fifty-four thousand four hundred.A0 (Once the pedigrees of Issachar's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.X/ -(The total of these for the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand six hundred.>. y(Once the pedigrees of Judah's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.^- 9(The total of these for the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.<, u(Once the pedigrees of Gad's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.Y+ /(The total of these for the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred.?* {(Once the pedigrees of Simeon's descendants had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.W) +(The total of these for the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.Z( 1(Once the pedigrees of the descendants of Reuben, Israel's first-born, had been established by clans and families, the names of all the males of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms, were recorded one by one.L' (As Yahweh had ordered, Moses registered them in the desert of Sinai.a& ?(and on the first day of the second month they mustered the whole community. The Israelites established their pedigrees by clans and families, and one by one the names of all men of twenty years and over were recorded.8% o(Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named$ (These were men of repute in the community; they were the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel's thousands.(# O(For Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.'&" K(For Gad, Eliasaph son of Reuel.'! M( For Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran.+  U( For Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.+ U( For Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni.l U( Of the sons of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.' M( For Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon.* S(For Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar.+ U(For Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab.0 _(For Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.[ 3('These are the names of those who must help you: For Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur.S #(you will have one man from each tribe, the head of his family, to help you.| u(You and Aaron will register all those in Israel, twenty years of age and over, fit to bear arms, company by company; ('Take a census of the whole community of Israelites by clans and families, taking a count of the names of all the males, head by head.- Y(Yahweh spoke to Moses, in the desert of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after the exodus from Egypt, and said:X+"Such were the orders which Yahweh gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.J!there will be no examining whether it is good or bad, and no substitution. If substitution takes place, the animal and its substitute will both become holy without possibility of redemption." '  "In all tithes on herds or flocks, the tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff will be consecrated to Yahweh;Z/If anyone wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he will add one-fifth to its value. "All tithes on land, levied on the produce of the soil or on the fruit of trees, belong to Yahweh; they are consecrated to Yahweh.Y-A human being vowed unconditionally cannot be redeemed but will be put to death.xk"Nothing, however, that someone vows unconditionally to Yahweh may be redeemed, nothing he possesses, be it a human being or animal or field of his ancestral property. What is vowed unconditionally is especially holy and belongs to Yahweh./ YBut if it is an unclean animal, it may be redeemed at the valuation price with one-fifth added; if the animal is not redeemed, it will be sold at the valuation price. "The first-born of livestock is born to Yahweh; no one may consecrate it, whether it be cattle or sheep, for it belongs to Yahweh anyway.j OAll your valuations will be made in sanctuary shekels, at the rate of twenty gerah to the shekel.w iIn the jubilee year the field will revert to the vendor, the man to whose ancestral property the land belongs.D the priest will calculate the valuation in terms of the number of years still to run before the jubilee year; and the man will pay this sum the same day since it is consecrated to Yahweh.sa"If he consecrates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, but which is not part of his ancestral property,-Uwhen the purchaser has to vacate it at the jubilee year, it becomes consecrated to Yahweh, like a field vowed unconditionally; ownership of it passes to the priest._9If he does not redeem it but sells it to someone else, the right of redemption ceases;ue"If he wishes to redeem the field, he will add one-fifth to the valuation, and the field will revert to him.KBut if he consecrates it after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price in terms of the number of years still to run until the next jubilee and the valuation will be reduced accordingly._9"If he consecrates the field during the jubilee year, he will abide by this valuation.E"If a man consecrates one of the fields of his ancestral property to Yahweh, its value will be calculated in terms of its yield, at the rate of fifty silver shekels to one homer of barley.If the man who has vowed his house wishes to redeem it, he will add one-fifth to the valuation, and it will revert to him."If a man consecrates his house to Yahweh, the priest will set a value on it, in relation to its worth. His valuation will be decisive.W) but if the person wishes to redeem it, he will add one-fifth to the valuation.a~= and he will set a value on it, in relation to its worth. His valuation will be decisive;} In the case of an unclean animal unsuitable for offering to Yahweh, whatever it may be, it will be presented to the priest:|o It cannot be exchanged or replaced, a good one instead of a bad one, or a bad one instead of a good one. If one animal is substituted for another, both of them will become holy.q{] "In the case of an animal suitable for offering to Yahweh, any such animal given to Yahweh will be holy.Wz)"If the person who made the vow cannot meet this valuation, he will present the person concerned to the priest, and the priest will set a value proportionate to the resources of the person who made the vow.fyG"at sixty years and over, a man will be valued at fifteen shekels and a woman at ten shekels.xxk"between one month and five years, a boy will be valued at five silver shekels, a girl at three silver shekels;gwI"between five and twenty years, a boy will be valued at twenty shekels, a girl at ten shekels;1v_a woman will be valued at thirty shekels;uue"a man between twenty and sixty years of age will be valued at fifty silver shekels -- the sanctuary shekel;{tq'Speak to the Israelites and say: "If anyone vows the value of a person to Yahweh and wishes to discharge the vow:&s KYahweh spoke to Moses and said: r.Such were the decrees, customs and laws which Yahweh established between himself and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses.?qy-For their sake I shall remember the covenant I made with those first generations that I brought out of Egypt while other nations watched, so that I should be their God, I, Yahweh." 'Wp),"Yet, in spite of all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not so utterly reject or detest them as to destroy them completely and break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.Po+"Abandoned, the country will keep its Sabbaths, as it lies deserted in their absence, and they will have to accept the punishment for their guilt, since they detested my customs and rejected my laws.n5*I shall remember my covenant with Jacob, I shall remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham; and I shall remember the country too.Em)"I in my turn will go against them and bring them into the land of their enemies. Then their uncircumcised hearts will grow humble and then they will accept the punishment for their guilt.l3("Then they shall admit their guilt and that of their ancestors and their infidelities against me, and further, their setting themselves against me.*kO'Those of you who survive will pine away in their guilt in the countries of their enemies and, bearing the guilt of their ancestors too, will pine away like them.]j5&you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will swallow you up.i1%They will stumble over one another as though fleeing before the sword, when no one is pursuing. You will be powerless to stand up to your enemies;zho$I shall strike such fear into the hearts of those of you who survive in the countries of their enemies that the sound of a falling leaf will set them fleeing; they will flee as though fleeing from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.kgQ#And as it lies deserted it will rest, as it never did on your Sabbaths when you were living there.Ef"Then the country will indeed observe its Sabbaths, all the while it lies deserted, while you are in the country of your enemies. Then indeed the country will rest and observe its Sabbaths.e%!And I shall scatter you among the nations. I shall unsheathe the sword against you, reducing your country to desert and your towns to ruins.wdi I shall make such a desolation of the country that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.c I shall reduce your cities to ruins; I shall lay waste your sanctuary and refuse to inhale from you smells intended to please.b/I shall destroy your high places and smash your incense-altars; I shall pile your corpses on the corpses of your foul idols and shall reject you._a9You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.V`'I shall go against you in fury and punish you seven times over for your sins.P_"And if, in spite of this, you will not listen to me but go against me,=^uWhen I take away the bread which supports you, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven and will then dole your bread out by weight; you will eat but not be satisfied.?]yI shall bring the sword on you, which will avenge the covenant, and when you huddle inside your towns, I shall send pestilence among you, and you will fall into the enemy's clutches.[\1then I shall go against you and punish you another seven times over for your sins.G[ "And if that does not reform you, and you still go against me,Z-I shall send wild animals to attack you and rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.yYm"And if you go against me and will not listen to me, I shall heap seven times more plagues on you for your sins.X}You will wear out your strength in vain, your land will not yield its produce, nor the trees of the country their fruit.nWWI shall break your proud strength. I shall make the sky like iron for you, and your soil like bronze.qV]"And if, in spite of this, you will not listen to me, I shall punish you seven times over for your sins.$UCI shall turn against you and you will be defeated by your enemies. Your foes will have the mastery over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.IT this is how I shall treat you: "I shall subject you to terror, consumption and fever, making you dim of sight and short of breath. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.S}if you reject my laws and detest my customs, and you break my covenant by not putting all my commandments into practice,_R9"But if you will not listen to me and do not put all these commandments into practice,3Qa I, Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you should be their slaves no longer, and who broke the bonds of your yoke and made you walk with head held high.OP I shall live among you; I shall be your God and you will be my people, 1His paternal uncle, his uncle's son, or a member of his own family may redeem him; if he has the means, he may redeem himself.h=K0he will enjoy the right of redemption after being sold, and one of his brothers may redeem him._<9/"If a stranger or guest living with you gets rich and your brother, in the course of dealings with him, becomes impoverished and sells himself to this stranger or guest, or to the descendant of a stranger's family, &~~}|S{{uzzyjxxawwvv{uutttss6rr/qq:qp_ooEonmmllkkjihhLgfedccVbbZaa__l^^]]]\G[ZZYYXXkWjVUU3T{TSKRQPOOjNNNNMMMLKKKJJVII1HHGFFF4FEhEDCCCXBBXAlA+@@@?>>|>)==`<<;;q;C::<9P9887766Y655;4333M32212000p//k..>---,+++4+*l*)(((W'&&6%$##""O!! @[^meRBe Qz  a  ~ K!Y;H1S!( 'When in your country you go to war against an enemy who is oppressing you, you will sound trumpets with a battle cry, and Yahweh your God will remember you, and you will be delivered from your enemies.oY( The Aaronite priests will sound the trumpets; this is a perpetual decree for you and your descendants.Z/( but for assembling the community the trumpets will be sounded without battle cry.6g( At the second blast accompanied by a battle cry, the encampments pitched to the south will set out. For breaking camp, the trumpet blast will be accompanied by a battle cry,r_( 'When the trumpet blast is accompanied by a battle cry, the encampments pitched to the east will set out.{q( But if only one trumpet is sounded, then only the leaders, the heads of Israel's thousands, must gather round you.vg( Whenever they are sounded, the whole community must gather round you, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.!=( 'Make yourself two trumpets; make them of beaten silver, so that you can use them for summoning the community, and for sounding the order to break camp.& K( Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:1( At Yahweh's order they pitched camp, and at Yahweh's order they set out. They performed their duty to Yahweh, as Yahweh had ordered through Moses.<s( Sometimes it stayed there for two days, a month, or a longer time; however long the cloud rested on the Dwelling, the Israelites remained in camp, and when it lifted they set out.B( If the cloud happened to remain only from evening to morning, they set out when it lifted the next morning. Or, if it stayed for a whole day and night, they set out only when it lifted. ;( But if the cloud happened to stay for only a few days on the Dwelling, just as they had pitched camp at Yahweh's order, at Yahweh's order they set out.~w( If the cloud stayed for many days on the Dwelling, the Israelites performed their duty to Yahweh and did not set out..W( At Yahweh's order, the Israelites set out and, at Yahweh's order, the Israelites pitched camp. They remained in camp for as long as the cloud rested on the Dwelling. ( Whenever the cloud rose from the Tent, the Israelites broke camp, and wherever the cloud halted, there the Israelites pitched camp.P ( So the cloud covered it all the time, and at night it looked like fire.6 g( On the day the Dwelling was erected, the cloud covered the Dwelling, the Tent of the Testimony. From nightfall until morning it remained over the Dwelling looking like fire.9 m( "A resident alien who keeps a Passover for Yahweh, will keep it in accordance with the ritual and customs of the Passover. You will have one law for alien and citizen alike." ' ( But anyone who is clean, or who is not on a journey, but fails to keep the Passover, such a person will be outlawed from his people. For not having brought the offering to Yahweh at its appointed time, the person will bear the consequences of the sin. '( nothing of it must be left over until morning, nor will they break any of its bones. They will keep it, following the entire Passover ritual.#( Such persons will keep it in the second month, on the fourteenth day, at twilight. They will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;;q( 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "Any of you or your descendants who becomes unclean by touching a dead body, or is away on a long journey, can still keep a Passover for Yahweh.'K( Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,S!( Moses replied, 'Wait here until I hear what order Yahweh gives about you.'6g( and said, 'We have become unclean by touching a dead body. Why should we be excluded from bringing an offering to Yahweh at the proper time with the rest of the Israelites?'$C( It happened that some men had become unclean by touching a dead body; they could not keep the Passover that day. They came the same day to Moses and Aaron,.W( They kept it, in the desert of Sinai, in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight. The Israelites did everything as Yahweh had ordered Moses.7k( Moses told the Israelites to keep the Passover.9( The fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, is the time appointed for you to keep it. You will keep it with all the laws and customs proper to it.'F( 'The Israelites must keep the Passover at its appointed time.~ ( Yahweh spoke to Moses, in the desert of Sinai, in the second year after the exodus from Egypt, in the first month, and said:Q}(but he will still help his brothers to assure the services in the Tent of Meeting, though he himself will no longer have any ministry. That is how you will act as regards the ministry of the Levites.'g|I(After the age of fifty, he is no longer bound to the ministry; he will have no further duties;{!('This concerns the Levites. From the age of twenty-five onwards, the Levite will exercise his ministry and do duty in the Tent of Meeting.'zK(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:Ly(The Levites were then allowed to perform their ministry in the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. As Yahweh had ordered Moses concerning the Levites, so it was done with them.Hx (The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aaron presented them with the gesture of offering before Yahweh. He then performed the rite of expiation for them to purify them.2w_(Moses, Aaron and the whole community of Israelites dealt with the Levites exactly as Yahweh had ordered Moses concerning them; this is what the Israelites did with them.v9(Of the Israelites, I give the Levites to Aaron and his sons, as dedicated men, to minister in the Tent of Meeting on behalf of the Israelites and perform the rite of expiation for them, so that no disaster befalls the Israelites when the Israelites come close to the sanctuary.']u5(and now, in place of all the first-born of the Israelites, I have taken the Levites.4tc(For all the first-born of the Israelites, whether human or animal, do indeed belong to me: the day I struck down all the first-born in Egypt, I consecrated them to myself,Is (because, of the Israelites, they have been dedicated to me in place of all those who first emerge from the womb, instead of the first-born; of all the Israelites, I have taken them for my own. r(The Levites will then begin their ministry in the Tent of Meeting. 'You will purify them and offer them with the gesture of offering]q5(That is how you will set the Levites apart from the Israelites, for them to be mine.|ps( Having brought the Levites before Aaron and his sons, you will present them to Yahweh with the gesture of offering.]o5( 'The Levites will then lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, one of which you will offer as a sacrifice for sin, and the other as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to perform the rite of expiation for the Levites.n-( Aaron will then offer the Levites, making the gesture of offering before Yahweh on behalf of the Israelites, admitting them to Yahweh's service.fmG( Once you have brought the Levites before Yahweh, the Israelites will lay their hands on them.ylm( You will then bring the Levites in front of the Tent of Meeting, and assemble the whole community of Israelites.-kU(They will then take a young bull, with the accompanying cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second young bull for a sacrifice for sin.2j_(This is how you must purify them: you will sprinkle them with purifying water, and they will shave their bodies all over and wash their clothes. They will then be clean.Ci('Separate the Levites from the Israelites and purify them.'hK(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,Hg (This lamp-stand was worked in beaten gold, including its stem and its petals, which were also of beaten gold. This lamp-stand had been made according to the pattern Yahweh had shown to Moses.ifM(Aaron did this. He set up the lamps to the front of the lamp-stand, as Yahweh had ordered Moses. e('Speak to Aaron and say, "When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps must throw their light towards the front of the lamp-stand." '&d K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:ac=(YWhen Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy-seat on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two great winged creatures. He then spoke to him.`b;(XThe sum total of animals for the communion sacrifice: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty he-goats and sixty male yearling lambs. Such were the offerings for the dedication of the altar, after it had been anointed.9am(WThe sum total of animals for the burnt offering: twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male yearling lambs, with their cereal offerings. For the sacrifice for sin, twelve he-goats.$`C(VThe twelve golden bowls full of incense each weighed ten shekels (sanctuary shekels), the gold of these bowls weighing in all a hundred and twenty shekels.:_o(UEach silver bowl weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy, the silver of these objects weighing in all two thousand four hundred sanctuary shekels.H^ (TSuch were the offerings made by the leaders of Israel for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed: twelve silver bowls, twelve silver sprinkling bowls, and twelve golden bowls.]!(Sand two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.+\S(Rone he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P[(Qone young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>Zy(Pone golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,hYK(OHis offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,dXC(NOn the twelfth day an offering was brought by Ahira son of Enan, leader of the Naphtalites.W'(Mand two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Pagiel son of Ochran.+VS(Lone he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,PU(Kone young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>Ty(Jone golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,hSK(IHis offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,fRG(HOn the eleventh day an offering was brought by Pagiel son of Ochran, leader of the Asherites.Q3(Gand two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.+PS(Fone he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,PO(Eone young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>Ny(Done golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,hMK(CHis offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,gLI(BOn the tenth day an offering was brought by Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of the Danites.K)(Aand two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.+JS(@one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,PI(?one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>Hy(>one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,aG=(=His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,gFI(By(8one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,hAK(7His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,k@Q(6On the eighth day an offering was brought by Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the Manassehites.?-(5and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.+>S(4one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P=(3one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,><y(2one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,h;K(1His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,j:O(0On the seventh day an offering was brought by Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the Ephraimites.9)(/and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Eliasaph son of Reuel.+8S(.one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P7(-one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>6y(,one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,h5K(+His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,b4?(*On the sixth day an offering was brought by Eliasaph son of Reuel, leader of the Gadites.37()and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.+2S((one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P1('one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>0y(&one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,h/K(%His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,l.S($On the fifth day an offering was brought by Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the Simeonites.-)(#and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.+,S("one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P+(!one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>*y( one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,h)K(His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,f(G(On the fourth day an offering was brought by Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the Reubenites.'#(and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.+&S(one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P%(one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>$y(one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,h#K(His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,c"A(On the third day an offering was brought by Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites.!'(and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.+ S(one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P(one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>y(one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,hK(His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,_9(On the second day an offering was brought by Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar./(and two bulls, five rams, five he-goats and five male yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. Such was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.+S(one he-goat as a sacrifice for sin,P(one young bull, one ram and one male yearling lamb as a burnt offering,>y(one golden bowl weighing ten shekels, full of incense,hK( His offering consisted of: one silver bowl weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels (sanctuary shekels), both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering,eE( On the first day an offering was brought by Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.ym( and Yahweh said to Moses, 'Each day one of the leaders must bring his offering for the dedication of the altar.'%( The leaders then made an offering for the dedication of the altar, on the day it was anointed. They brought their offering before the altar,( But to the Kohathites he gave none at all, because the sacred charge entrusted to them had to be carried on their shoulders.+(To the Merarites he gave four wagons and eight oxen for the duties they had to perform under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.`;(To the Gershonites he gave two wagons and four oxen for the duties they had to perform.F(Moses took the wagons and oxen, and gave them to the Levites.&G('Accept these from them, and let them be set apart for the service of the Tent of Meeting. You will give them to the Levites, to each as his duties require.''K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,4 c(They brought their offering before Yahweh: six covered wagons and twelve oxen, one wagon for every two leaders and one ox each. They brought them in front of the Dwelling. (the leaders of Israel made an offering; they were the heads of their families, the tribal leaders who had presided over the census.G  (On the day Moses finished erecting the Dwelling, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furniture, as well as the altar and all its equipment. When he had anointed and consecrated it all,a =(This is how they must call down my name on the Israelites, and then I shall bless them.': q(May Yahweh show you his face and bring you peace."E(May Yahweh let his face shine on you and be gracious to you.*Q(May Yahweh bless you and keep you.hK('Speak to Aaron and his sons and say: "This is how you must bless the Israelites. You will say:'K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,  ("Such is the ritual for the nazirite. If, besides his hair, he has also vowed a personal offering to Yahweh, he will (apart from anything else that his means allow) fulfil the vow that he has made, in addition to what the ritual prescribes for his hair." 'y(With these he will make the gesture of offering before Yahweh; as it is a holy thing, it reverts to the priest, in addition to the forequarter that has been presented and the thigh that has been set aside. After this, the nazirite may drink wine.^7(The priest will take the shoulder of the ram, as soon as it is cooked, with an unleavened cake from the basket, and an unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the nazirite once he has shaved off his hair.A}(The nazirite will then shave off his vowed hair at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and, taking the locks of his vowed head, he will put them in the fire of the communion sacrifice.2_(The latter will then offer the ram as a communion sacrifice with the basket of unleavened bread, and the priest will offer the accompanying cereal offering and libation.wi(The priest, having brought all this before Yahweh, will offer the nazirite's sin sacrifice and burnt offering.4~c(and a basket of unleavened loaves made of fine flour mixed with oil, and of unleavened wafers spread with oil, with the cereal offerings and libations appropriate to them.A}}(bringing his offering to Yahweh: an unblemished male yearling lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished yearling ewe lamb as a sacrifice for sin, an unblemished ram as a peace offering,|+( "This is the ritual for the nazirite on the day when the period of his vow is completed. He will be led to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,R{( he will vow himself to Yahweh for the period of his nazirate, and will bring a male yearling lamb as a sacrifice of reparation. The time already spent will not count, since his hair had become unclean.}zu( The priest will offer one as a sacrifice for sin, and the other as a burnt offering and will then perform for the person the rite of expiation for the pollution which he has contracted from the corpse. He will consecrate his head that same day;y( On the eighth day, he will bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.'xI( "If anyone suddenly dies near him, making his vowed hair unclean, he will shave his head on the day he is purified, he will shave his head on the seventh day.Nw(Throughout the whole of his vow he is a person consecrated to Yahweh.'vI(he will not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, or his brother or his sister, should they die, since on his head he carries his vow to his God.Ru(For the entire period of his vow to Yahweh, he will not go near a corpse,It (As long as he is bound by his vow, no razor will touch his head; until the time for which he has vowed himself to Yahweh is completed, he remains consecrated and will let his hair grow freely.s(For the duration of his vow he will eat nothing that comes from the vine, not even juice of unripe grapes or skins of grapes.6rg(he will abstain from wine and fermented liquor, he will not drink vinegar derived from one or the other, he will not drink grape-juice or eat grapes, be they fresh or dried.q}('Speak to the Israelites and say: "If a man or a woman wishes to make a vow, the nazirite vow, to vow himself to Yahweh,&p K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,ao=(The husband will be guiltless, but the woman will bear the consequences of her guilt." 'Cn(or when a spirit of suspicion has come over a man and made him suspicious of his wife. When a husband brings such a woman before Yahweh, the priest will apply this ritual to her in full.m("Such is the ritual in cases of suspicion, when a woman has gone astray and made herself unclean while under her husband's authority,rl_(But if she has not made herself unclean, but is clean, then she will go unscathed and will bear children.*kO(After he has made her drink it, if it is true that she has made herself unclean and been unfaithful to her husband, the water of cursing then entering into her will indeed be bitter: her belly will swell and her sexual organs shrivel, and she will be an object of execration to her people.j(He will take a handful of it as a memorial and burn it on the altar. "After this, he will make the woman drink the water.Ai}("The priest will then take the cereal offering for a case of suspicion from the woman's hands, and hold it up before Yahweh with a gesture of offering, and so carry it up to the altar.h#(the priest will make the woman drink the water of bitterness and cursing; when the water of cursing enters into her, it will become bitter.ag=("Having written these curses on a scroll and washed them off in the water of bitterness,f-(May this water of cursing entering your bowels, make your belly swell and your sexual organs shrivel! To which the woman will reply: Amen! Amen!be?(Here the priest will impose an imprecatory oath on the woman. He will say to her: . . . May Yahweh make you the object of your people's execration and curses, by making your sexual organs shrivel and your belly swell!>dw(But if it is true that you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, that you have made yourself unclean and that a man other than your husband has slept with you . . . c("The priest will then put the woman on oath. He will say to her: If it is not true that a man has slept with you, that you have gone astray and made yourself unclean while under your husband's authority, may this water of bitterness and cursing do you no harm. b (After he has placed the woman before Yahweh, he will unbind her hair and put the commemorative cereal offering (that is, the cereal offering for a case of suspicion) into her hands. In his own hands the priest will hold the water of bitterness and cursing.a(The priest will then take fresh water in an earthen jar, and on the water throw dust that he has taken from the floor of the Dwelling.S`!("The priest will then bring the woman forward and place her before Yahweh._7(the man will bring his wife before the priest, and on her behalf make an offering of one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He will not pour oil over it or put incense on it, because this is a cereal offering for a case of suspicion, a memorial offering to recall guilt to mind.s^a(if, then, a spirit of suspicion comes over the husband and makes him suspicious of the wife who has disgraced herself, or again if this spirit of suspicion comes over him and makes him suspicious of his wife even when she is innocent,F]( if some other man sleeps with the woman without the husband's knowledge, and she secretly makes herself unclean, without any witness against her, and without anyone catching her in the act;j\O( 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "If anyone has a wife who goes astray and is unfaithful to him,'[K( Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,jZO( Whatever anyone consecrates is his own; whatever is given to the priest belongs to the priest." 'uYe( For of everything the Israelites consecrate and bring to the priest he has a right to the portion set aside.cXA("If, however, the latter has no relation to whom restitution can be made, the restitution due to Yahweh reverts to the priest, apart from the ram of expiation with which the priest makes expiation for the guilty party.W1("The person must confess the sin committed and restore in full the amount owed, with one-fifth added. Payment is to be made to the person wronged.V('Speak to the Israelites: "If a man or woman commits any of the sins by which people break faith with Yahweh, that person incurs guilt.'UK(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,nTW(The Israelites did so: they expelled them from the camp. The Israelites did as Yahweh had told Moses.%SE(Whether man or woman, you will expel them; you will expel them from the camp, so that they do not pollute their encampments, in the heart of which I dwell.'.RW('Order the Israelites to expel from the camp all those suffering from a contagious skin-disease or from a discharge, or who have become unclean by touching a corpse.&Q K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:7Pi(1At Yahweh's bidding through Moses, a census was taken of them and each man was assigned his duty and load. And so the census was conducted by Moses as Yahweh had ordered him.7Ok(0came to eight thousand five hundred and eighty. N(/all the men between thirty and fifty years of age, eligible for religious duties and for those of transporting the Tent of MeetinguMe(.The total number of Levites whom Moses, Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted in their clans and families,L{(-Such was the total number of men in the Merarite clans, whom Moses and Aaron counted at Yahweh's bidding through Moses.UK%(,The number of men counted in their clans came to three thousand two hundred.}Ju(+all the men between thirty and fifty years of age, eligible for military service, for duties in the Tent of Meeting.HI (*A census was taken of the Merarite clans by clans and families:,HS()Such was the total number of men in the Gershonite clans who were eligible for duties in the Tent of Meeting, and whom Moses and Aaron counted at Yahweh's bidding.kGQ((The number of men counted in their clans and families came to two thousand six hundred and thirty.}Fu('all the men between thirty and fifty years of age, eligible for military service, for duties in the Tent of Meeting.EE(&A census was taken of the Gershonites by clans and families:8Dk(%Such was the total number of men in the Kohathite clans who were eligible for duties in the Tent of Meeting and whom Moses and Aaron counted at Yahweh's bidding through Moses._C9($The number of men counted in their clans came to two thousand seven hundred and fifty.}Bu(#all the men between thirty and fifty years of age, eligible for military service, for duties in the Tent of Meeting.mAU("Moses, Aaron and the leaders of the community took a census of the Kohathites by clans and families:@%(!'Such are the duties of the Merarite clans. All their duties in the Tent of Meeting will be supervised by Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.'-?U( the poles round the court with their sockets, pegs, cords and all their tackle. You will draw up a list of their names with the loads for which each is responsible.+>Q('The load they carry and the duties incumbent on them in the Tent of Meeting will be as follows: the framework of the Dwelling, its cross-bars, poles and sockets,'=I(You will take a census of all the men between thirty and fifty years of age, eligible for military service, who will have their duties in the Tent of Meeting.H< ('You will take a census of the Merarites by clans and families.;(Such are the duties of the Gershonite clans in the Tent of Meeting. Their work will be supervised by Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.7:i(All the duties of the Gershonites, their functions and their loads, will be carried out under the direction of Aaron and his sons: you will see that they fulfil their charge.o9Y(the curtaining of the court, the screen for the entrance to the court surrounding the Dwelling and the altar, the cords, all the accessories for worship, and all the necessary equipment. 'They will be responsible for these things.F8(They will carry the curtaining of the Dwelling, the Tent of Meeting with its covering and the covering of fine leather that goes over it, the screen for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,X7+('These are the duties of the Gershonite clans, their functions and their loads. 6(all the men between thirty and fifty years of age, eligible for military service, who will have their duties in the Tent of Meeting.F5('Take a census of the Gershonites by families and clans, too: !~~}} ||s|{|{ zz_yyyyxkxwwhvhv uu8trtss'r]rqppp-oo nn;mll+kkEjzihhKgffDee dXcjbbaa``*_^^^]]J\\%[[GZZrYY*XXcWWVVUUU1TTTTLTSSSQSRRR QQPOONN MMpLKKpJJ0IHHPGGEFF7EE6DDC:BAAV@??1>>5=[<< l ~ , S MmYU& G(On the following day, the whole community of Israelites were muttering against Moses and Aaron and saying, 'You are responsible for killing Yahweh's people!'m U(They are a reminder to the Israelites that no unauthorised person, no one not of Aaron's line, may approach and offer incense before Yahweh, on pain of suffering the fate of Korah and his party, as Yahweh had said through Moses. 9(The priest Eleazar took the bronze censers which had been carried by the men destroyed by the fire. They were hammered into sheets to cover the altar.{(for these sinful censers have become sanctified at the price of human lives. Since they were brought before Yahweh and thus became consecrated, they must be hammered into sheets to cover the altar. They will be an object-lesson to the Israelites.'('Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick the censers out of the smouldering remains and scatter the fire from them away from here,+ U(Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,dC(#Fire then shot out from Yahweh and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering incense.}("At their cries, all the Israelites round them took to their heels, saying, 'We do not want the earth to swallow us too!'(!They went down alive to Sheol with all their belongings. The earth closed over them and they disappeared in the middle of the community.r_( the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their families, all Korah's people and all their property.Y-(The moment he finished saying all this, the ground split apart under their feet,\3(But if Yahweh does something utterly new, if the earth should open its mouth and swallow them and all their belongings, so that they go down alive to Sheol, then you will know that they held Yahweh in contempt.'fG(If these people die a natural death such as people commonly die, then Yahweh has not sent me.~-(Moses said, 'This is how you will know that Yahweh himself has sent me to perform all these tasks and that I am not doing them of my own accord.(}K(So they moved away from Korah's tent. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at their tent doors, with their wives, their sons and their little ones.M|(He spoke to the community and said, 'Stand away, I tell you, from the tents of these sinners, and touch nothing that belongs to them, for fear that with all their sins you too will be swept away.'Y{-(Moses stood up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed him.Oz('Speak to the community and say, "Stand well clear of Korah's tent." '"yA(Yahweh then said to Moses,Ex(They threw themselves on their faces and cried out, 'O God, God of the spirits that give life to every living thing, will you be angry with the whole community because one man has sinned?'Qw('Get away from this community. I am going to destroy them here and now.'6vi(Yahweh then spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said,'uI(Then, Korah having assembled the whole community to confront them at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the glory of Yahweh appeared to the whole community.t'(Each of them took his censer, put fire in it and placed incense on it, and stood at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.*sO(Each will take his censer, put incense in it, and bring his censer before Yahweh -- two hundred and fifty censers. You and Aaron too will each bring his censer.'pr[(Moses said to Korah, 'You and all your party, come before Yahweh tomorrow, you and they, and Aaron too.&qG(Moses flew into a rage and said to Yahweh, 'Disregard their cereal offering! I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.'Wp)(What is more, you have not brought us to a country flowing with milk and honey and you have not given us fields and vineyards for our heritage. Do you think you can hoodwink these people? We will not come.'/oY( Is it not enough for you to have brought us away from a country flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, without your making yourself our absolute ruler?^n7( Moses then summoned Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab. They replied, 'We will not come.m-( For which reason, you and all in your party have banded together against Yahweh himself: for what is Aaron, that you should mutter against him?'}lu( He has called you to be near him, you and all your brother Levites with you, and now you want to be priests as well!bk?( Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has singled you out of the community of Israel, and called you to be near him, to serve in Yahweh's Dwelling and to represent the community by officiating on its behalf?;js(Moses then said to Korah, 'Now listen, you Levites!1i](put fire in them and put incense in them before Yahweh tomorrow, and the one whom Yahweh chooses will be the consecrated man. Levites, you take too much on yourselves!'Rh(This is what you must do: take the censers of Korah and all in his party,^g7(Then he said to Korah and all in his party, 'Tomorrow morning Yahweh will reveal who is his, who the consecrated man whom he will allow to approach him. The one he allows to approach is the one whom he has chosen.9fo(On hearing this, Moses threw himself on his face.re_(These banded together against Moses and Aaron and said to them, 'You take too much on yourselves! The whole community, all its members, are consecrated, and Yahweh lives among them. Why set yourselves higher than Yahweh's community?'d1(and rebelled against Moses with two hundred and fifty Israelites who were leaders of the community, prominent at the solemn feasts, men of repute. c (Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath the Levite, and the Reubenites Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth were proud`b;()I, Yahweh your God, have brought you out of Egypt, to be your God, I, Yahweh your God.'qa](('This will remind you of all my orders; put them into practice, and you will be consecrated to your God.h`K('You will thus have a tassel, and the sight of it will remind you of all Yahweh's orders and how you are to put them into practice, and not follow the dictates of your own heart and eyes, which have led you to be unfaithful.._W(&'Speak to the Israelites and tell them, for all generations to come, to put tassels on the hems of their clothes and work a violet thread into the tassel at the hem.'^K(%Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,t]c($The whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him till he was dead, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.t\c(#Yahweh said to Moses, 'This man must be put to death. The whole community will stone him outside the camp.'^[7("He was kept in custody, because the penalty he should undergo had not yet been fixed.eZE(!Those who caught him gathering wood brought him before Moses, Aaron and the whole community.eYE( While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath day.-XU(Since he has treated Yahweh's word with contempt and has disobeyed his order, such a man will be outlawed absolutely and will bear the consequences of his guilt." 'W9("But the individual who acts deliberately, be he citizen or alien, commits an outrage against Yahweh, and such a man will be outlawed from his people.{Vq(whether he is an Israelite citizen or a resident alien, you will have one law for anyone who sins by inadvertence.GU (The priest will perform the rite of expiation before Yahweh for the person who has gone astray owing to this sin of inadvertence and, expiation having been made for him, he will be forgiven;uTe("If it is an individual who has sinned by inadvertence, he will offer a yearling kid as a sacrifice for sin.S(the whole community of Israelites will be forgiven, as also the alien residing with them, since the entire people acted by inadvertence.7Ri(The priest will perform the rite of expiation for the entire community of Israelites, and they will be forgiven, since it was an inadvertence. Once they have brought their offering as food burnt for Yahweh, and have presented their sacrifice for sin before Yahweh to make amends for their inadvertence,%QE(this is what must be done: "If it is an inadvertence on the part of the community, the community as a whole will offer a young bull as a burnt offering, as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, with the prescribed accompanying cereal offering and libation, and a he-goat as a sacrifice for sin.|Ps((whatever orders Yahweh has given you or your descendants through Moses, from the day when Yahweh gave his orders),aO=("If through inadvertence you fail in any of these orders which Yahweh has given to MosesZN/(For all future generations you will set a portion of your dough aside for Yahweh.M#(You will set one cake aside as the first-fruits of your dough; you will set this offering aside like the one set aside from your threshing.SL!(you will set a portion aside for Yahweh when you eat that country's bread.iKM('Speak to the Israelites and say: "When you have entered the country to which I am bringing you,'JK(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,LI(One law, one statute, will apply for you and the resident alien." 'DH(There will be one law for you, members of the community, and the resident alien alike, a law binding your descendants for ever: before Yahweh you and the resident alien are no different.'G#(and if an alien residing with you or with your descendants intends to offer food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, he will do as you do.xFk( "Every citizen of the country will act in this way whenever he offers food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh;{Eq( Whatever the number of victims you intend to offer, you will do the same for each of them, however many there are.HD ( This will be done for every bull, every ram, every lamb or kid.jCO( and you will offer a libation of half a hin of wine, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh. B( in addition to the animal you will offer a cereal offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,zAo(If you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, in payment of a vow or as a communion sacrifice for Yahweh,T@#(and a libation of one-third of a hin of wine as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.?}(For a ram, you will make a cereal offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,>(You will also make a libation of wine, one-quarter of a hin to each lamb, in addition to the burnt offering or sacrifice.!==(the offerer will, as his personal gift to Yahweh, bring a cereal offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-quarter of a hin of oil.<}(and you burn food as an offering to Yahweh either as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, whether in payment of a vow, or as a voluntary gift, or on the occasion of one of your solemn feasts, from your herds and flocks as a smell pleasing to Yahweh:;('Speak to the Israelites and say: "When you have arrived in the country where you are to live and which I am giving to you,&: K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,9(-The Amalekites and Canaanites living in those highlands then came down, defeated them and harried them all the way to Hormah.8/(,All the same, they presumptuously set off for the heights of the hill country. Neither the ark of the covenant of Yahweh nor Moses left the camp.'7I(+For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are ahead of you, and you will be put to the sword, since you have turned away from Yahweh, and Yahweh is not with you.'Z6/(*Do not go, for Yahweh is not among you, and you will be defeated by your enemies.]55()To which, Moses said, 'Why disobey Yahweh's order? No success will come of doing so.'4I((Early next morning they set out for the heights of the hill country saying, 'Look, we will set out for the place about which Yahweh said that we have sinned.'a3=('When Moses told all the Israelites what had been said, the people set up a great outcry.2y(&Of the men who had gone to reconnoitre the country, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh were left alive.U1%(%these men who had disparaged the country were all struck dead before Yahweh.(0K($The men whom Moses had sent to reconnoitre the country and who on their return had incited the whole community of Israel to mutter about him by disparaging it,!/=(#I, Yahweh, have spoken: this is how I swear to treat this entire perverse community united against me. In this desert, to the last man, they shall die.'8.k("For forty days you reconnoitred the country. Each day will count as a year: for forty years you will bear the consequences of your guilt and learn what it means to reject me."+-Q(!and your children will be nomads in the desert for forty years, bearing the consequences of your faithlessness, until the last one of you lies dead in the desert.C,( but, as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this desert+-(Your children, who you said would be seized as booty, will be the ones whom I shall bring in so that they get to know the country you disdained,*#(I swear none of you will enter the country where I swore most solemnly to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.)9(In this desert your dead bodies will fall, all you who were counted in the census, from the age of twenty years and over who have muttered against me.b(?(Say to them, "As I live, Yahweh declares, I shall do to you what I have heard you saying. '('How much longer am I to endure this perverse community muttering against me? I have heard what the Israelites mutter against me.6&i(Yahweh then spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:%/((the Amalekites and Canaanites occupy the plain). Tomorrow you will turn about and go back into the desert, in the direction of the Sea of Suph.':$o(However, since my servant Caleb is of another spirit and since he has obeyed me completely, I shall bring him into the country where he has been, and his descendants will own it#(not one shall see the country which I promised to give their ancestors. Not one of those who have treated me contemptuously will see it.2"_(of all these people who have seen my glory and the signs that I worked in Egypt and in the desert, who have put me to the test ten times already and not obeyed my voice,L!(But -- as I live, and as the glory of Yahweh fills the whole world-0 ](Yahweh said, 'I forgive them as you ask.p[(In your most faithful love, please forgive this people's guilt, as you have done from Egypt until now.'V'("Yahweh, slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving faults and transgression, and yet letting nothing go unchecked, punishing the parents' guilt in the children to the third and fourth generation."b?(No, my Lord! Now is the time to assert your power as you promised when you said, earlier,!("Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the country which he had sworn to give them, and so he has slaughtered them in the desert."sa(If you kill this people now as though it were one man, then the nations who have heard about you will say,7(and tell the people living in this country. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are with this people, and that you, Yahweh, show yourself to them face to face; that your cloud stands over them and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.  ( Moses said to Yahweh: 'Suppose the Egyptians hear about this -- for by your power you brought these people out of their country- ( I shall strike them with pestilence and disown them. And of you I shall make a new nation, greater and mightier than they are.'B( and Yahweh said to Moses: 'How much longer will these people treat me with contempt? How much longer will they refuse to trust me, in spite of all the signs I have displayed among them?( The whole community was talking of stoning them, when the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the Israelites, inside the Tent of Meeting,W)( But do not rebel against Yahweh or be afraid of the people of the country, for we shall gobble them up. Their protecting shade has deserted them, while we have Yahweh on our side. Do not be afraid of them.' (If Yahweh is pleased with us, he will lead us into this country and give it to us. It is a country flowing with milk and honey.(and addressed the whole community of Israelites as follows, 'The country we went to reconnoitre is a good country, an excellent country.{(while Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of the men who had reconnoitred the country, tore their clotheszo(At this, Moses and Aaron threw themselves on their faces in front of the whole assembled community of Israelites,V'(And they said to one another, 'Let us appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.'1](Why has Yahweh brought us to this country, for us to perish by the sword and our wives and children to be seized as booty? Should we not do better to go back to Egypt?'+Q(All the Israelites muttered at Moses and Aaron, and the whole community said to them, 'Would to God we had died in Egypt, or even that we had died in this desert!Y  /(The whole community then cried out in dismay, and the people wept all that night. y( !We saw giants there too (the Anakim, descended from the Giants). We felt like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.'g I( And they began disparaging to the Israelites the country they had reconnoitred, saying, 'The country we have been to reconnoitre is a country that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there were of enormous size.p [( But the men who had been with him said, 'We cannot attack these people; they are stronger than we are.' )( Caleb called the people round Moses to silence and then said, 'We must march in immediately and take it; we are certainly able to conquer it.'!=( The Amalekites occupy the Negeb area, the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites the highlands, and the Canaanites the sea coast and the banks of the Jordan.'  ( At the same time, its inhabitants are a powerful people; the towns are fortified and very big; yes, and we saw the Anakim there.9( This was the report they gave: 'We made our way into the country where you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey; here is what it produces.L( Making their way to Moses, Aaron and the whole community of Israel, in the desert of Paran, at Kadesh, they made their report to them and the whole community, and displayed the country's produce.G ( After forty days they returned from reconnoitring the country.cA( This place was called the Vale of Eshcol after the cluster which the Israelites cut there./Y( Reaching the Vale of Eshcol, there they lopped off a vine branch with a cluster of grapes, which two of them carried away on a pole, as well as pomegranates and figs.(K( They went up by way of the Negeb as far as Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Tanis in Egypt.)gI( They went up and reconnoitred the country from the desert of Zin to Rehob, the Pass of Hamath. ;( what sort of land it is, fertile or barren, wooded or open. Be bold, and bring back some of the country's produce.' It was the season for early grapes. ~ ( what sort of land they live on, whether it is good or poor; what sort of towns they live in, whether they are open or fortified;}( See what sort of country it is, and what sort of people the inhabitants are, whether they are strong or weak, few or many,||s( Moses sent them to reconnoitre the land of Canaan, 'Go up into the Negeb,' he said, 'then go up into the highlands.{( Such were the names of the men whom Moses sent to reconnoitre the country. Moses then gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.1z_( for the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.7yk( for the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;6xi( for the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;4we( for the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;Ov( for the tribe of Joseph, for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;6ui( for the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;6ti( for the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;4se( for the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;9ro( for the tribe of of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;7qk( for the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;5pg( for the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;Po( These were their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur:mnU( At Yahweh's order, Moses sent them from the desert of Paran. All of them were leading men of Israel.#mA( 'Send out men, one from each tribe, to reconnoitre the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites. Each of them is to be a leading man of the tribe.'&l K( Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,Xk+( Then the people moved on from Hazeroth and pitched camp in the desert of Paran.gjI( Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days. The people did not set out until she returned.Vi'( Yahweh then said to Moses, 'If her father had done no more than spit in her face, would she not be unclean for seven days? Have her shut out of the camp for seven days, and then have her brought in again.'Sh!( Moses pleaded with Yahweh. 'O God,' he said, 'I beg you, please heal her!'ngW( Do not let her be like some monster with its flesh half eaten away when it leaves its mother's womb!'vfg( Aaron said to Moses: 'Oh, my Lord, please do not punish us for the sin we have been foolish enough to commit.Ke( and as soon as the cloud left the Tent, there was Miriam covered with a virulent skin-disease, white as snow! Aaron turned to look at her and saw that she had contracted a virulent skin-disease.9do( Yahweh's anger was aroused by them. He went away,c%( to him I speak face to face, plainly and not in riddles, and he sees Yahweh's form. How, then, could you dare to criticise my servant Moses?Nb( Not so with my servant Moses; to him my whole household is entrusted; a ( Yahweh said: Listen to my words! if there is a prophet among you, I reveal myself to him in a vision, I speak to him in a dream.`( and Yahweh descended in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the Tent. He called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forward. _( Suddenly Yahweh said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, 'Come out, all three of you, to the Tent of Meeting.' They went, all three of them,C^( Now Moses was extremely humble, the humblest man on earth.]{( They said, 'Is Moses the only one through whom Yahweh has spoken? Has he not spoken through us too?' Yahweh heard this.}\ w( Miriam, and Aaron too, criticised Moses over the Cushite woman he had married. He had indeed married a Cushite woman.c[A( #From Kibroth-ha-Taavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and at Hazeroth they pitched camp. Z( "The name given to this place was Kibroth-ha-Taavah, because it was there that they buried the people who had indulged their greed.Y5( !The meat was still between their teeth, not even chewed, when Yahweh's anger was aroused by the people. Yahweh struck them with a very great plague.0X[( The people were up all that day and night and all the next day collecting quails: the least gathered by anyone was ten homer; then they spread them out round the camp.OW( A wind, sent by Yahweh, started blowing from the sea bringing quails which it deposited on the camp. They lay for a distance of a day's march either side of the camp, two cubits thick on the ground.DV( Moses then went back to the camp with the elders of Israel. U ( Moses replied, 'Are you jealous on my account? If only all Yahweh's people were prophets, and Yahweh had given them his spirit!'sTa( Joshua son of Nun, who had served Moses since he was a boy, spoke up and said, 'My lord Moses, stop them!'lSS( A young man ran to tell Moses this. 'Look,' he said, 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'jRO( Two men had stayed back in the camp; one was called Eldad and the other Medad. The spirit came down on them; though they had not gone to the Tent, their names were enrolled among the rest. These began to prophesy in the camp.DQ( Yahweh descended in the cloud. He spoke to him and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the spirit came on them they prophesied -- but only once.P%( Moses went out and told the people what Yahweh had said. Then he collected seventy of the people's elders and stationed them round the Tent.O ( Yahweh said to Moses, 'Is the arm of Yahweh so short? You shall see whether the promise I have made to you comes true or not.'!N=( If all the flocks and herds were slaughtered, would that be enough for them? If all the fish in the seas were collected, would that be enough for them?'M#( Moses said, 'The people round me number six hundred thousand foot soldiers, and you say, "I shall give them meat to eat for a whole month"!FL( but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and sickens you, since you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him saying: Why did we ever leave Egypt?" 'LK( You will eat it not for one day, or two, or five, or ten or twenty,wJi( 'And say to the people, "Purify yourselves for tomorrow and you will have meat to eat, since you have wept in Yahweh's hearing, saying: Who will give us meat to eat? How happy we were in Egypt! Very well, Yahweh will give you meat to eat.aI=( I shall come down and talk to you there and shall take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them. Then they will bear the burden of the people with you, and you will no longer have to bear it on your own.GH ( Yahweh said to Moses, 'Collect me seventy of the elders of Israel, men you know to be the people's elders and scribes. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand beside you there. G( If this is how you mean to treat me, please kill me outright! If only I could win your favour and be spared the sight of my misery!'RF( I cannot carry all these people on my own; the weight is too much for me.{Eq( Where am I to find meat to give all these people, pestering me with their tears and saying, "Give us meat to eat"?[D1( Was it I who conceived all these people, was I their father, for you to say to me, "Carry them in your arms, like a foster-father carrying an unweaned child, to the country which I swore to give their fathers"?/CY( and he said to Yahweh: 'Why do you treat your servant so badly? In what respect have I failed to win your favour, for you to lay the burden of all these people on me?B( Moses heard the people weeping, each family at the door of its tent. Yahweh's anger was greatly aroused; Moses too found it disgraceful,MA( When the dew fell on the camp at night-time, the manna fell with it.8@k( The people went round gathering it, and ground it in a mill or crushed it with a pestle; it was then cooked in a pot and made into pancakes. It tasted like cake made with oil.N?( The manna was like coriander seed and had the appearance of bdellium.]>5( But now we are withering away; there is nothing wherever we look except this manna!'j=O( 'Think of the fish we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic!"<?( The rabble who had joined the people were feeling the pangs of hunger, and the Israelites began to weep again. 'Who will give us meat to eat?' they said._;9( So the place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh had broken out among them.X:+( The people appealed to Moses who interceded with Yahweh and the fire died down.F9 ( Now the people began to complain, which was offensive to Yahweh's ears. When Yahweh heard, his anger was aroused and the fire of Yahweh broke out among them; it devoured one end of the camp.c8A( $And when it halted, he would say: Come back, Yahweh, to the countless thousands of Israel! 7( #Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say: Rise, Yahweh, may your enemies be scattered and those who hate you flee at your approach!Q6( "In the daytime, Yahweh's cloud was over them, once they had broken camp.B5( !They set out from Yahweh's mountain and travelled for three days, while the ark of the covenant of Yahweh preceded them on the three-day journey, searching out a place for them to halt.Z4/( If you come with us, we shall share with you whatever blessings Yahweh gives us.'s3a( 'Do not leave us,' Moses said, 'for you know where we can camp in the desert, and so you will be our eyes.Z2/( 'I will not come with you,' he replied, 'but shall go to my own country and kin.'|1s( Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, his father-in-law, 'We are setting out for the country of which Yahweh has said: I shall give it to you. Come with us, and we will treat you well, for Yahweh has promised good things for Israel.'W0)( Such was the order of march for the Israelites, unit by unit. So they set out.S/!( and Ahira son of Enan commanding the tribal contingent of the Naphtalites.P.( Pagiel son of Ochran commanding the tribal contingent of the Asherites;/-Y( Last of all, the rearguard of all the camps, came the standard of the camp of the Danites and their units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai commanding that contingent;X,+( and Abidan son of Gideoni commanding the tribal contingent of the Benjaminites.W+)( Gamaliel son of Pedahzur commanding the tribal contingent of the Manassehites;* ( Then came the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites and their units, with Elishama son of Ammihud commanding that contingent;h)K( Then came the Kohathites carrying the sanctuary (the Dwelling was erected before they arrived).S(!( and Eliasaph son of Reuel commanding the tribal contingent of the Gadites.Y'-( Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai commanding the tribal contingent of the Simeonites;&( Then came the standard of the camp of the Reubenites and their units, with Elizur son of Shedeur commanding that contingent;k%Q( The Dwelling was then dismantled and the Gershonites and Merarites set out, carrying the Dwelling.T$#( and Eliab son of Helon commanding the tribal contingent of the Zebulunites.S#!( Nethanel son of Zuar commanding the tribal contingent of the Issacharites;" ( first went the standard of the camp of the Judahites and their units, with Nahshon son of Amminadab commanding that contingent;Y!-( These were the men who set out in the vanguard, at Yahweh's order through Moses: {( and the Israelites set out, in marching order, from the desert of Sinai. The cloud came to rest in the desert of Paran.( In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud rose from where the Dwelling of the Testimony was,[1( At your festivals, solemnities and new-moon feasts, you will sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and communion sacrifices, so that they recall you to the remembrance of your God. I am Yahweh your God.' G@~~~R}e||C{{]{3zzyxxYxw/vuufutssrDqq!probnmllkk[jjciih=gffeked cKc!bLa``Y__^^^+]u\\Q[[ZZZLYBX{XWVzUUU T_SURzQPPROOONNhMLLKKmJJIEHHGFEEJDD CC_CBOBArA@^??G>>=<55r5*4H322f11[000//l..^-,,~,1+**)(y'''H&&)%%/$$g##8"",!!% L9*J2{;<Yz~^.U  t  c x ' ':dx^G*fO(God has brought him out of Egypt, is like the wild ox's horns to him. He devours the corpses of his enemies, breaking their bones, piercing them with his arrows. e(A hero arises from their stock, he reigns over countless peoples. His king is greater than Agag, and his kingship held in honour. d(like valleys that stretch afar, like gardens by the banks of a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars beside the waters!Ic (How fair your tents are, Jacob, how fair your dwellings, Israel,b(the prophecy of one who hears the words of God. He sees what Shaddai makes him see, receives the divine answer, and his eyes are opened.a}(and he declaimed his poem, as follows: The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of the man with far-seeing eyes,a`=(Raising his eyes Balaam saw Israel settled tribe by tribe; the spirit of God came on him_ (Balaam then saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel. He did not go as before to seek omens but turned towards the desert.e^E(Balak did as Balaam said and offered a burnt offering of one bull and one ram on each altar.k]Q(Balaam then said to Balak, 'Build me seven altars here and prepare me seven bulls and seven rams.'O\(So Balak led Balaam to the summit of Peor, overlooking the wastelands.[)(Balak then said to Balaam, 'Come with me now and I shall take you somewhere else. From there perhaps it will please God to curse them for me.'YZ-(Balaam retorted to Balak, 'Did I not tell you? Whatever Yahweh says, I must do.'^Y7(Balak said to Balaam, 'Very well! Do not curse them. But at least do not bless them!''XI(for here is a people like a lioness rising, poised like a lion to spring; nor will he lie down till he has devoured his prey and drunk the blood of his slain.W#(There is no omen whatever against Jacob, no augury at all against Israel. Well may people say of Jacob, of Israel, 'What has God achieved?'NV(God has brought him out of Egypt, is like the wild ox's horns to him.U(I have perceived no guilt in Jacob, have seen no perversity in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him, and a royal acclamation to greet him.ST!(The charge laid on me is to bless, I shall bless, and I cannot reverse it.S/(God is no human being that he should lie, no child of Adam to change his mind. Is it his to say and not to do, is it his to speak and not fulfil?pR[(Balaam then declaimed his poem, as follows: Stand up, Balak, and listen, give ear to me, son of Zippor.$QC(So Balaam went to him and found him still standing beside his burnt offering and all the chiefs of Moab with him. 'What did Yahweh say?' Balak said to him. P(God came to meet Balaam, he put a prophecy into his mouth and said to him, 'Go back to Balak, and that is what you must say to him.'`O;(Balaam said to Balak, 'Stand here beside your burnt offerings while I wait over there.' N;(He led him to the Lookouts' Field on the top of Pisgah. There he built seven altars and offered a burnt offering of one bull and one ram on each altar.M5( Balak then said, 'Please come somewhere else. From here you can see only the fringe of them, you cannot see them all. Curse them for me over there.'NL( Balaam replied, 'Am I to depart from what Yahweh puts into my mouth?'K( Balak said to Balaam, 'What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, and you have heaped blessings on them!'J( Who can count the dust of Jacob? Who can number the cloud of Israel? May I die the death of the just, and may my future be like theirs!I+( Yes, from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I descry him: a people that dwells on its own, not to be reckoned among other nations!gHI(How shall I curse someone whom God has not cursed, how denounce someone God has not denounced?2G_(He then declaimed his poem as follows: Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the hills of Kedem: 'Come and curse Jacob for me, come and denounce Israel!'yFm(So Balaam went back to him, and found him still standing beside his burnt offering, with all the chiefs of Moab.}Eu(Yahweh then put a prophecy into his mouth and said to him, 'Go back to Balak, and that is what you must say to him.'D-(God came to meet Balaam, who said to him, 'I have prepared the seven altars and offered a burnt offering of one bull and one ram on each altar.'VC'(Balaam then said to Balak, 'Stand beside your burnt offerings while I go away. Perhaps Yahweh will come and meet me. If he does, I shall tell you whatever he reveals to me.' And he withdrew to a bare hill.eBE(Balak did as Balaam said and offered a burnt offering of one bull and one ram on each altar.eA G(Balaam said to Balak, 'Build me seven altars here and prepare me seven bulls and seven rams.'x@k()Next morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-Baal, from where he could see the edge of the camp.j?O((Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and offered portions to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.?>{('Balaam set out with Balak. They came to Kiriath-Huzoth.)=M(&Balaam said to Balak, 'I have come to you after all. I suppose you know I cannot say anything on my own? The words God puts into my mouth are what I shall say.'<9(%Balak said to Balaam, 'Did I not send messengers to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Did you think, perhaps, I could confer no honours on you?'!;=($Balak learned that Balaam was coming and went out to meet him, in the direction of Ar in Moab, at the Arnon frontier on the country's furthest boundary.:)(#The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, 'Go with these men, but say only what I tell you to say.' So Balaam went on with the chiefs sent by Balak.39a("Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, 'I have sinned. I did not know you were standing in the road to stop me. But if what I am doing displeases you, I will go home again.'-8U(!The donkey saw me and turned aside because of me three times. You are lucky she did turn aside, or I should have killed you by now, though I would have spared her.'-7U( And the angel of Yahweh said to him, 'Why did you strike your donkey three times like that? I myself had come to bar your way; while I am here your road is blocked.26_(Yahweh then opened Balaam's eyes and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head and threw himself on his face.*5O(The donkey said to Balaam, 'Am I not your donkey, and have I not been your mount all your life? Have I ever behaved like this with you before?' 'No,' he replied.4(Balaam answered the donkey, 'Because you have been making a fool of me! If I had been carrying a sword, I should have killed you by now.'3+(Yahweh then gave the donkey the power to talk, and she said to Balaam, 'What harm have I done you, for you to strike me three times like this?' 2(When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she lay down under Balaam. Balaam flew into a rage and struck the donkey with his stick.~1w(The angel of Yahweh then moved and stood in a place so narrow that there was no room to pass either to right or left.0(The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh and scraped against the wall, scraping Balaam's foot against it, so he struck her again./ (The angel of Yahweh then went and stood on a narrow path among the vineyards, with a wall to the right and a wall to the left.U.%(Now the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, and she turned off the road into the open country. Balaam then struck the donkey to turn her back onto the road..-W(His going kindled Yahweh's anger, and the angel of Yahweh took his stand on the road to bar his way. Balaam was riding his donkey and his two servants were with him.R,(Balaam got up and saddled his donkey and set out with the chiefs of Moab.+9(God came to Balaam during the night and said to him, 'Have not these men come to summon you? Get up, go with them, but do only what I tell you to do.'f*G(Now please stay the night here yourselves, and I will learn what else Yahweh has to tell me.':)o(In reply, Balaam said to Balak's envoys, 'Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the order of Yahweh my God in anything, great or small.n(W(I will load you with honours and do whatever you say. I beg you come and curse this people for me." 'm'U(They came to Balaam and said, 'A message from Balak son of Zippor, "Now do not refuse to come to me.U&%(And again Balak sent chiefs, more numerous and more renowned than the first.e%E(So the chiefs of Moab got up, went back to Balak and said, 'Balaam refuses to come with us.'$( In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs sent by Balak, 'Go back to your country, for Yahweh will not let me go with you.'r#_( God said to Balaam, 'You are not to go with them. You are not to curse the people, for they are blessed.'&"G( "Look, a people coming from Egypt has overrun the whole countryside. Come now and curse them for me; I may then be able to defeat them and drive them out." 'Z!/( Balaam said to God, 'Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent me this message,K ( God came to Balaam and said, 'Who are these men staying with you?'(He said to them, 'Stay the night here, and I will answer as Yahweh directs me.' So the chiefs of Moab stayed with Balaam./(The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian set out, taking the fee for the divination with them. They found Balaam and gave him Balak's message.iM(I beg you come and curse this people for me, for they are stronger than I am. We may then be able to defeat them and drive them out of the country. For this I know: anyone you bless is blessed, anyone you curse is accursed.'b?(He sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, at Pethor on the River, in the territory of the Amawites, saying, 'Look, a people coming from Egypt has overrun the whole countryside; they have halted at my very door.K(he said to the elders of Midian, 'This horde will soon have cropped everything round us as closely as an ox crops grass in the countryside.' Now Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at the time.ue(and Moab was terrified of the people, because there were so many of them. Moab was afraid of the Israelites;J(Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,u g(The Israelites then set out and pitched their camp in the Plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho./(#So they pressed their attack against him, his sons and all his people until there was no one left alive. And they took possession of his country.F("Yahweh said to Moses, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I have put him, all his people and his country at your mercy. Treat him as you treated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.'(!They then turned and marched on Bashan. Og king of Bashan and all his people marched to meet them and give battle at Edrei.( Moses then sent men to reconnoitre Jazer, and Israel took it and its dependencies, evicting the Amorites who lived there.5g(Thus Israel occupied the Amorites' territory. (Their posterity has been destroyed from Heshbon all the way to Dibon, and we have lit a fire all the way from Nophah to Medeba. ;(Oh, unhappy Moab! People of Chemosh, you are lost! He has resigned his sons as fugitives, and his daughters as prisoners to Sihon king of the Amorites.(For fire has burst from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon, devouring Ar of Moab, engulfing the heights of the Arnon.dC(Hence the poets say: Come to Heshbon! Let the city of Sihon be rebuilt on firm foundations! ;(Heshbon being the capital of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had made war on the first king of Moab and captured all his territory as far as the Arnon.n W(Israel took all these towns. Israel occupied all the Amorite towns, Heshbon and all its dependencies,& G(Israel defeated him by force of arms and conquered his country from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for Jazer marked the Ammonite frontier.C (But Sihon would not give Israel leave to pass through his country. He assembled all his people, marched into the desert to meet Israel, and reached Jahaz, where he gave battle to Israel.^ 7('I wish to pass through your country. We shall not stray into the fields or vineyards; we shall not drink the water from the wells; we shall keep to the king's highway until we have passed through your territory.'E (Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites,}(and from Bamoth to the valley that opens into the country of Moab, towards the heights of Pisgah overlooking the desert.D(and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,{(sunk by the princes, dug by the people's leaders with the sceptre, with their staves! -and from the desert to Mattanah,X+(Then it was that Israel sang this song: Spring up, well! Sing out for the well,(K(And from there they went to Beer, that being the well in connection with which Yahweh had said to Moses, 'Call the people together and I will give them water.'kQ(and the slope of the ravine running down to the site of Ar and over against the frontier of Moab.'tc(That is why it says in the Book of the Wars of Yahweh: '. . . Waheb near Suphah and the gorges of the Arnon[1( They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon. This gorge in the desert begins in the territory of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the frontier of Moab, between the Moabites and the Amorites.F( They set out from there and camped in the gorge of the Zered.dC( Then they left Oboth and camped at Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.3~c( The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.}9( Moses then made a serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard, and anyone who was bitten by a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived.|(and Yahweh replied, 'Make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will survive.'F{(The people came and said to Moses, 'We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and against you. Intercede for us with Yahweh to save us from these serpents.' Moses interceded for the people,gzI(At this, God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel.7yi(They spoke against God and against Moses, 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.'vxg(They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience.6wg(Yahweh heard Israel's words and delivered the Canaanites into their power, and they destroyed them in accordance with their curse. Hence the place was given the name Hormah.v(Israel then made this vow to Yahweh, 'If you deliver this people into my power, I shall curse their towns with destruction.'u 1(The king of Arad, the Canaanite living in the Negeb, learned that Israel was coming by way of Atharim. He attacked Israel and took some prisoners.vtg(The whole community saw that Aaron had died, and for thirty days the whole House of Israel mourned for Aaron.-sU(Moses took Aaron's robes off him and dressed his son Eleazar in them, and there Aaron died, on the mountain-top. Moses and Eleazar then came back down the mountain.`r;(Moses did as Yahweh ordered. With the whole community watching, they went up Mount Hor.q(Then take Aaron's robes off him and dress his son Eleazar in them. Aaron will then be gathered to his people; that is where he will die.'Dp(Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.0o[('Aaron is to be gathered to his people; he will not enter the country which I have given to the Israelites, since you both disobeyed my order at the Waters of Meribah.Yn-(Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the frontier of Edom, and said,^m7(They set out from Kadesh, and the Israelites, the whole community, came to Mount Hor.]l5(At Edom's refusal to grant Israel passage through his territory, Israel turned away.dkC(Edom replied: 'You shall not pass,' and Edom opposed them in great numbers and great force.?jy(To which the Israelites replied, 'We shall keep to the high road; if I and my flocks drink any of your water, I am willing to pay for it. All I am asking is to pass through on foot.'xik(To which, Edom replied, 'You will not pass through my country; if you do, I shall oppose you by force of arms.' h (We ask permission to pass through your country. We shall not go through the fields or vineyards; we shall not drink the water from the wells; we shall keep to the king's highway without turning to right or left until we have passed through your territory.'/gY(When we appealed to Yahweh, he heard our cry and, sending an angel, brought us out of Egypt, and here we are, now, at Kadesh, a town on the borders of your territory. f(Our ancestors went down to Egypt and there we stayed for a long time. But the Egyptians treated us badly, as they had our ancestors.e/(Moses sent messengers from Kadesh: 'To the king of Edom. Your brother Israel says this: You are aware of the great hardships we have encountered. d( These were the Waters of Meribah, where the Israelites laid the blame on Yahweh and where, by their means, he asserted his holiness.Qc( Yahweh then said to Moses and Aaron, 'Because you did not believe that I could assert my holiness before the Israelites' eyes, you will not lead this assembly into the country which I am giving them.'b/( Moses then raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the branch; water gushed out in abundance, and the community and their livestock drank.1a]( Moses and Aaron then called the assembly together in front of the rock. He then said to them, 'Listen now, you rebels. Shall we make water gush from this rock for you?'M`( Moses took up the branch from before Yahweh, as he had directed him._{('Take the branch and call the community together, you and your brother Aaron. Then, in full view of them, order this rock to release its water. You will release water from the rock for them and provide drink for the community and their livestock.',^U(Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,+]Q(Leaving the assembly, Moses and Aaron went to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. They threw themselves on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.E\(Why did you lead us out of Egypt, only to bring us to this wretched place? It is a place unfit for sowing, it has no figs, no vines, no pomegranates, and there is not even water to drink!'h[K(Why have you brought Yahweh's community into this desert, for us and our livestock to die here?yZm(The people laid the blame on Moses. 'We would rather have died', they said, 'as our brothers died before Yahweh!_Y9(There was no water for the community, so they banded together against Moses and Aaron.X 7(The Israelites, the whole community, arrived in the first month at the desert of Zin. The people settled at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.{Wq(Anything that an unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.'OV('This will be a perpetual decree for them. The person who sprinkles the water for purification will wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water for purification will be unclean until evening.SU!(Anyone who fails to be purified in this way will be outlawed from the community, and would defile Yahweh's sanctuary. Such a person is unclean, not having been sprinkled with the water for purification.WT)(On the third and the seventh day the clean one will sprinkle the unclean, who on the seventh day will be clean. The latter will then wash his clothes and bathe in water, and in the evening he will be clean.S(Someone who is ritually clean will then take some hyssop and dip it in the water. This person will then sprinkle the tent, all the vessels and people who were there, and similarly anyone who has touched human bones, a murder victim, a corpse or a grave.&RG('For someone thus unclean, some of the ashes of the victim burnt as a sacrifice for sin will be taken and spring water must be poured over them, in a vessel.Q('Anyone in the open country who touches a murder victim, a corpse, human bones or a grave will be unclean for seven days.OP(and every open vessel with no cover tied over it will also be unclean.O%('This is the law when someone dies in a tent. Anyone who goes into the tent, or anyone who is already in it, will be unclean for seven days,N( Anyone who touches the corpse of anyone who has died and is not purified, defiles Yahweh's Dwelling; such a person will be outlawed from Israel, since the water for purification has not been sprinkled over him; he is unclean, and his uncleanness remains in him.M( Such a person must be purified with these waters on the third and seventh day and will then be clean; otherwise he will not be clean.ZL/( 'Anyone who touches the corpse of anyone whatever will be unclean for seven days.CK( The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening. For the Israelites as for the resident alien, this will be a perpetual decree.J( The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must be ritually clean; he will deposit them outside the camp, in a clean place. They will be kept for the ritual use of the Israelite community for making water for purification; it is a sacrifice for sin.xIk(The man who has burnt the heifer will wash his clothes and bathe himself and will remain unclean until evening.H(He will then wash his clothes and bathe himself; after which he will go back to the camp, though he will remain unclean until evening.G (The priest will then take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet material and throw them on the fire where the heifer is burning.iFM(The heifer will then be burnt while he looks on; its hide, flesh, blood and offal will be burnt.%EE(The priest Eleazar will then take some of the victim's blood on his finger, and sprinkle this blood seven times towards the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.xDk(You will give it to the priest Eleazar. It will then be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.2C_('This is a decree of the Law which Yahweh has prescribed. Tell the Israelites, they are to bring you a red heifer without fault or blemish that has never borne the yoke.0B _(Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:2A_( and you will not incur sin by doing so, once you have set aside the best; you will not be profaning the things consecrated by the Israelites and will not incur death." ' @(You may consume this anywhere, you and the members of your households; this is your recompense for serving in the Tent of Meeting,2?_('You will say to them, "After you have set the best aside, the remainder will take the place, in the Levites' case, of the produce of the threshing-floor and wine-press.>7(Out of all the gifts you receive, you will set a portion aside for Yahweh. Out of all these things, you will set aside the best, the sacred portion."6=g(Thus you too will set a portion aside for Yahweh out of all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. You will give what you have set aside for Yahweh to the priest Aaron.<!(It will take the place of the portion set aside that is due from you, like the wheat from the threshing-floor and new wine from the press.Q;('Speak to the Levites and say: "When from the Israelites you receive the tithe which I have given you from them as your heritage, you will set a portion of this aside for Yahweh: a tithe of the tithe.':K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,>9w(for the tithe which the Israelites set aside for Yahweh is the heritage I have given the Levites. This is why I have told them that they will have no heritage among the Israelites.'o8Y(Levi will discharge the duties of the Tent of Meeting, and the Levites will bear the consequences of their own guilt. This is a perpetual decree binding all your descendants: the Levites will have no heritage among the Israelites,h7K(The Israelites will no longer approach the Tent of Meeting, on pain of committing a deadly sin.%6E('Look, as heritage I give the Levites all the tithes collected in Israel, in return for their services, for the ministry they render in the Tent of Meeting.25_(Yahweh said to Aaron: 'You will have no heritage in their country, you will not have a portion like them; I shall be your portion and your heritage among the Israelites.c4A(Everything the Israelites set aside for Yahweh from the holy things, I give to you and your sons and daughters, by perpetual decree. This is a covenant of salt for ever before Yahweh, for you and your descendants too.'3 (the meat will revert to you, as will the forequarter that has been presented with the gesture of offering, and the right thigh.B2(But you will not redeem the first-born of cow, sheep and goat. They are holy: you will sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn the fat as food burnt to be a smell pleasing to Yahweh; 1 (You will redeem it in the month in which it is born, valuing it at five shekels, at the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerah.O0(Every first-born of all creatures brought to Yahweh, human or animal, will revert to you, but you will have to redeem the first-born of man; you will also redeem the first-born of an unclean animal.T/#(Everything in Israel put under the curse of destruction will revert to you..5( All the first produce of the country brought by them to Yahweh will revert to you. All members of your household may eat it unless they are unclean.-( All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and wheat, these first-fruits offered by them to Yahweh I give to you.,)( 'To you will revert also whatever is set aside from the offerings of the Israelites, whatever is held out with the gesture of offering; this I give to you and your sons and daughters, by perpetual decree. All members of your household may eat it unless they are unclean.j+O( You will eat the things especially holy. Every male may eat them. You will regard them as sacred.%*E( Of the things especially holy, of the food offered, this is what will revert to you: every offering that the Israelites give back to me, whether it be a cereal offering, a sacrifice for sin or a sacrifice of reparation, is a thing especially holy and will revert to you and your sons.I) (Yahweh said to Aaron: 'I myself have put you in charge of everything set aside for me. Everything consecrated by the Israelites I give to you and your sons as your portion by perpetual decree. ((You and your sons will undertake the priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and all that lies behind the curtain. You will perform the liturgy, the duties of which I entrust to your priesthood. But an unauthorised person approaching will incur death.'+'Q(Of the Israelites, I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites as a gift to you. As men dedicated, they will belong to Yahweh, to serve at the Tent of Meeting.&y(You will take charge of the sanctuary and charge of the altar, and retribution will never again befall the Israelites.%5(They must join you, they must take charge of the Tent of Meeting for the entire ministry of the Tent, and no unauthorised person will come near you.:$o(They must be at your service and the service of the whole Tent. Provided they do not come near the sacred vessels or the altar, they will be in no more danger of death than you.(#K(You will admit your brothers of the branch of Levi, your ancestor's tribe, to join you and serve you, yourself and your sons, before the Tent of the Testimony.^" 9(Yahweh then said to Aaron: 'You, your sons and your ancestor's line with you will be answerable for offences against the sanctuary. You and your sons with you will be answerable for the offences of your priesthood.q!](Anyone who approaches Yahweh's Dwelling with an offering will die. Are we to be doomed to the last man?'_ 9(The Israelites then said to Moses, 'We are lost! We are dead men! We are all dead men!=w(Moses did as Yahweh had ordered. That is what he did.mU(Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Put Aaron's branch back in front of the Testimony, where it will have its ritual place as a warning to the rebellious; thus you will rid me of their muttering for good, without their incurring death.'#(Moses then brought out all the branches from before Yahweh to all the Israelites; they examined them and each one took back his own branch.]5(On the following day Moses went to the Tent of the Testimony and there, already sprouting, was Aaron's branch, representing the House of Levi; buds had formed, flowers had bloomed and almonds had already ripened.F(Moses placed them before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.!=(Moses spoke to the Israelites, and all their leaders gave him one branch each, twelve branches in all for their families; Aaron's branch was among them.!(The man whose branch sprouts will be the one I have chosen; this is how I shall put an end to the mutterings of the Israelites about you.'wi(You will then put them inside the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I make myself known to you.tc(and on the branch of Levi write Aaron's name, since the head of the Levite families must have a branch too.)M('Tell the Israelites to give you a branch for each of their families, one for each leader of each family: twelve branches. Write the name of each on his branch;'K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,jO(Aaron then went back to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting; the plague had been halted.vg(There were fourteen thousand seven hundred victims of the plague, apart from those who died because of Korah.O( Then he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.L( Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the middle of the community, but plague had already broken out among the people. He put in the incense and performed the rite of expiation for the people.iM( Moses then said to Aaron, 'Take a censer, put fire in it from the altar, place incense on it and hurry to the community to perform the rite of expiation for them: for retribution has come from Yahweh, plague has broken out.'wi( 'Get away from this community. I am going to destroy them here and now.' They threw themselves on their faces.'K( Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,G  (Moses and Aaron then went to the front of the Tent of Meeting.< s(Now, as the community was banding together against Moses and Aaron, they turned towards the Tent of Meeting, and there was the cloud covering it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared. [[~~}||n{{"zDyy}xxXxww*vvruuutissrNrqppoo4nnnQmlmlykkk jjWj3iGhhqgggEfffEeeedd@ccc-bbLbaa0```__^^H]]n]\\+[[TZZZ^YYY$XXX WZVVCUUTwT8SS&RQQPP\OONNcN5MfLLLWKvJJIInHH6GGIFEEWDDD%CvCBB*A@@?m>>={<<;;E::g999:87766o555=443|222K1_00://t.-->,,V++`**S))p((('v'&& %%'$$6##*"">w(Moses put them in the field, one thousand from each tribe, with Phinehas, son of the priest Eleazar, to go with them carrying the sacred objects and the trumpets for the battle cry.t=c(In this way Israel's thousands provided twelve thousand men equipped for war, one thousand from each tribe:U<%(You will put a thousand men in the field from each of the tribes of Israel.';-(Moses said to the people, 'Some of you are to take up arms for Yahweh's campaign against Midian, to carry out the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian.y:m('Exact the full vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites. Afterwards you will be gathered to your people.'&9 K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,N8(Such were the laws which Yahweh prescribed to Moses, concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter while still young and living in her father's home.t7c(But if, having learnt of them, he annuls them later, he will bear the consequences for his wife's guilt." 'b6?("If by the following day the husband has said nothing to her, it means that he endorses her vow, whatever it may be, or her pledge, whatever it may be. He endorses them if he says nothing on the day he learns of them.c5A("Every vow or oath that is binding on the wife may be endorsed or annulled by the husband.V4'( But if the husband when he hears of it annuls it on the day he learns of it, no undertaking of hers, be it vow or pledge, will be binding. Since the husband has annulled it, Yahweh will not hold her to it.M3( and if when the husband learns of it he says nothing to her and does not express disapproval to her, then the vow, whatever it is, will be binding, and the pledge, whatever it is, will be binding.Z2/( "If she has made a vow or taken a pledge under oath while in her husband's house,a1=( "The vow of a widow or a divorced woman and all pledges taken by her are binding on her.V0'( But if on the day he learns of it he expresses his disapproval to her, this will annul the vow that she has made or the pledge that binds her, voiced without due reflection. Yahweh will not hold her to it./3(and if her husband hears of it but says nothing on the day he learns of it, her vows will be binding and the pledges she has taken will be binding.a.=("If, being bound by vows or by a pledge voiced without due reflection, she then marries,f-G(But if her father on the day he learns of it expresses his disapproval of it, then none of the vows or pledges she has taken will be binding. Yahweh will not hold her to it, since her father has expressed his disapproval.O,(and if her father hears about this vow or pledge made by her and says nothing to her, her vow, whatever it may be, will be binding, and the pledge she has taken, whatever it may be, will be binding.y+m("If a woman makes a vow to Yahweh or a formal pledge during her youth, while she is still in her father's house,*%("If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or a formal pledge under oath, he must not break his word: whatever he promises by word of mouth he must do.h)K(Moses spoke to the tribal leaders of the Israelites and said, 'This is what Yahweh has ordered:F( (Moses told the Israelites exactly what Yahweh had ordered him.\'3('"This is what you are to do for Yahweh at your solemn feasts, over and above your votive offerings and your voluntary offerings, your burnt offerings, cereal offerings and libations, and your peace offerings." '& (&also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libation.}%u(%the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;$'($As a burnt offering, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, you will offer one bull, one ram and seven yearling lambs, without blemish;Q#(#"On the eighth day you will hold an assembly; you will do no heavy work." ("also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libation.}!u(!the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;a =( "On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish;  (also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libations.}u(the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;_9("On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libation.}u(the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;^7("On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libation.}u(the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;^7("On the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish;  (also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libations.}u(the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;`;("On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish;  (also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libations.}u(the accompanying cereal offering and libations, as prescribed, in proportion to the number of bulls, rams and lambs;gI("On the second day: twelve young bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (also one goat as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering and libation.5g(and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;,S(The accompanying cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil will be three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,& G( As a burnt offering, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, you will offer thirteen young bulls, two rams and fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish.) M( "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will hold a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work, and for seven days you will celebrate a feast for Yahweh.[ 1( And a goat will be offered as a sacrifice for sin. This is in addition to the victim for sin at the feast of Expiation, to the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their accompanying libations.2 a( and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. ( The accompanying cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil will be three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,.W(As a burnt offering for Yahweh, as a pleasing smell, you will offer one young bull, one ram and seven yearling lambs, which you will choose as being without blemish.p[("On the tenth day of this seventh month, you will hold a sacred assembly; you will fast and do no work.hK(This is in addition to the monthly burnt offering and its cereal offering, the perpetual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and the accompanying libations enjoined by law, as a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh.hK(There will also be a goat as a sacrifice for sin, for performing the rite of expiation for you.2a(and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. (The accompanying cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil will be three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,(As a burnt offering, as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, you will offer one young bull, one ram and seven yearling lambs, without blemish.' K(' "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will hold a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work. For you this will be a day of Acclamations.{(You will offer these in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its accompanying cereal offering and libations." 'hK(There will also be a goat as a sacrifice for sin, for performing the rite of expiation for you.2~a(and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.}(The accompanying cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil will be three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the ram,}|u(As a burnt offering as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, you will offer two young bulls, one ram and seven yearling lambs.1{]("On the day of the first-fruits, when you make your offering of new fruits to Yahweh at your feast of Weeks, you will hold a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work.Wz)(On the seventh day you will hold a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work.Hy (You will do this every day for seven days. It is sustenance, food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, to be offered in addition to the perpetual burnt offering and its accompanying libation.mxU(You will offer these in addition to the morning burnt offering, which is a perpetual burnt offering.hwK(There will also be a goat as a sacrifice for sin, for performing the rite of expiation for you.2va(and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. u (The accompanying cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil will be three-tenths of an ephah for a bull, two-tenths for a ram,t(As food burnt as a burnt offering you will offer Yahweh two young bulls, a ram and seven yearling lambs, without blemish.Us%(On the first day there will be a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work.krQ(and the fifteenth day of this month is a feast day. For seven days unleavened bread will be eaten.Jq("The fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of Yahweh,p(In addition to the perpetual burnt offering, a goat will be offered to Yahweh, as a sacrifice for sin, with its accompanying libation.doC(The accompanying libations will be of half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram and one-quarter of a hin for a lamb. This will be the monthly burnt offering, month after month, every month of the year.n+( for each lamb, a cereal offering of one-tenth of fine flour mixed with oil: as a burnt offering, as a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh..mW( for each bull a cereal offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil; for each ram, a cereal offering of two-tenths of fine flour mixed with oil; l;( "At the beginning of each of your months you will offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram and seven yearling lambs, without blemish;k)( The Sabbath burnt offering will be offered every Sabbath in addition to the perpetual burnt offering, and the accompanying libation similarly.@j{( "On the Sabbath day, you will offer two unblemished yearling lambs and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a cereal offering, mixed with oil, as well as the accompanying libation.4ic(The second lamb you will offer at twilight, offering it with the same cereal offering and the same libation as in the morning, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh."h?(The accompanying libation will be of one-quarter of a hin for each lamb; the libation of fermented liquor for Yahweh will be poured inside the sanctuary.qg](Such was the perpetual burnt offering made on Mount Sinai as a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh.|fs(with a cereal offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-quarter of a hin of crushed-olive oil.Ve'(You will offer the first lamb in the morning and the second lamb at twilight,+dQ('You will then say to them: "This is the food which you will burn in offering to Yahweh: "Every day, two unblemished yearling lambs as a perpetual burnt offering.%cE('Give the Israelites this order: "Take care to bring me my offering, my sustenance in the form of food burnt as a smell pleasing to me, at the proper time."&b K(Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,]a5(laid his hands on him and gave him his orders, as Yahweh had directed through Moses.x`k(Moses did as Yahweh had ordered. He took Joshua, brought him before the priest Eleazar and the whole community,_}(He will present himself to the priest Eleazar who will consult Yahweh on his behalf by means of the rite of the urim; at his command, they will go out and, at his command, they will come in, he and all the Israelites with him, the whole community.'o^Y(conferring some of your own authority on him, so that the whole community of Israelites will obey him.p][(Bring him before the priest Eleazar and the whole community and give him your orders in their presence,w\i(Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom the spirit dwells, and lay your hand on him..[W(to be at their head in all their undertakings, a man who will lead them out and bring them in, so that Yahweh's community will not be like sheep without a shepherd.'Z('May it please Yahweh, God of the spirits that give life to all living creatures, to appoint a leader for this community,"YA(Moses then said to Yahweh,rX_(For you both rebelled in the desert of Zin when the community disputed with me and when I ordered you to assert my holiness before their eyes by means of the water.' (These were the Waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the desert of Zin.)`W;( After you have seen it, you will be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.V( Yahweh said to Moses, 'Climb this mountain of the Abarim range, and look at the country which I have given to the Israelites.]U5( If his father has no brothers, his heritage will go to the member of his clan who is most nearly related; it will become his property. This will be a legal rule for the Israelites, as Yahweh has ordered Moses." 'NT( If he has no brothers, his heritage will go to his father's brothers.ES( If he has no daughter, the heritage will go to his brothers.sRa(Then speak to the Israelites and say, "If a man dies without sons, his heritage will pass to his daughter.KQ('Zelophehad's daughters are right in what they say. You will indeed give them a property to be their heritage among their father's kinsmen; see that their father's heritage is passed on to them.+PS(and Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,,OU(Moses took their case before Yahweh,N}(Why should our father's name be lost to his clan? Since he had no son, give us some property like our father's kinsmen.'.MW('Our father died in the desert. He was not a member of the party who banded together against Yahweh, Korah's party; it was for his own sin that he died without sons.L(They appeared before Moses, the priest Eleazar, the leaders and the whole community, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and said,pK ](There then came forward the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh; he belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. His daughters' names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.J9(Afor Yahweh had told them that these were to die in the desert and that none of them would be left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.I(@Not one of them was among those whom Moses and the priest Aaron had registered when they counted the Israelites in the desert of Sinai;H1(?Such were the men registered by Moses and the priest Eleazar who took a census of the Israelites on the Plains of Moab near the Jordan by Jericho.;Gq(>Altogether twenty-three thousand males of one month and over were registered. They were not registered with the Israelites, since they were given no heritage with the Israelites.PF(=Nadab and Abihu died when they brought unauthorised fire before Yahweh.e(5'The country must be shared out among these as a heritage, proportionately to the number of those inscribed.,=U(4Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,o<Y(3Of the Israelites thus numbered, there were six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty men.;(2These were the clans of Naphtali as divided into clans. The sons of Naphtali numbered forty-five thousand four hundred men.H: (1for Jezer, the Jezerite clan; for Shillem, the Shillemite clan.d9C(0The sons of Naphtali by clans: for Jahzeel, the Jahzeelite clan; for Guni, the Gunite clan;\83(/These were the clans of Asher. They numbered fifty-three thousand four hundred men./7[(.The daughter of Asher was called Serah.b6?(-For the sons of Beriah: for Heber, the Heberite clan; for Malchiel, the Malchielite clan.5}(,The sons of Asher by clans: for Imnah, the Imnahite clan; for Ishvi, the Ishvihite clan; for Beriah, the Beriahite clan.O4(+All the Shuhamite clans numbered sixty-four thousand four hundred men.r3_(*These were the sons of Dan by clans: for Shuham, the Shuhamite clan. These were the sons of Dan by clans.e2E()These were the sons of Benjamin by clans. They numbered forty-five thousand six hundred men.c1A((Bela's sons were Ard and Naaman; for Ard, the Ardite clan; for Naaman, the Naamanite clan.P0('for Shephupham, the Shephuphamite clan; for Hupham, the Huphamite clan./(&The sons of Benjamin by clans: for Bela, the Belaite clan; for Ashbel, the Ashbelite clan; for Ahiram, the Ahiramite clan;.(%These were the clans of Ephraim. They numbered thirty-two thousand five hundred men. These were the sons of Joseph by clans.F-($These were the sons of Shuthelah: for Eran, the Eranite clan.,%(#These were the sons of Ephraim by clans: for Shuthelah, the Shuthelahite clan; for Becher, the Becherite clan; for Tahan, the Tahanite clan.^+7("These were the clans of Manasseh. They numbered fifty-two thousand seven hundred men.*(!Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters; the names of Zelophehad's daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.A)( Shemida, the Shemidaite clan; Hepher, the Hepherite clan.A((Asriel, the Asrielite clan; Shechem, the Shechemite clan;c'A(These were the sons of Gilead: for Iezer, the Iezerite clan; for Helek, the Helekite clan;v&g(The sons of Manasseh: for Machir, the Machirite clan; Machir fathered Gilead: for Gilead, the Gileadite clan.:%q(The sons of Joseph by clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.X$+(These were the clans of Zebulun. They numbered sixty thousand five hundred men.#(The sons of Zebulun by clans: for Sered, the Seredite clan; for Elon, the Elonite clan; for Jahleel, the Jahleelite clan._"9(These were the clans of Issachar. They numbered sixty-four thousand three hundred men.J!(for Jashub, the Jashubite clan; for Shimron, the Shimronite clan.a =(The sons of Issachar by clans: for Tola, the Tolaite clan; for Puvah, the Puvahite clan;\3(These were the clans of Judah. They numbered seventy-six thousand five hundred men.^7(The sons of Perez were: for Hezron, the Hezronite clan; for Hamul, the Hamulite clan. (The other sons of Judah became clans: for Shelah, the Shelahite clan; for Perez, the Perezzite clan; for Zerah, the Zerahite clan.P(The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.`;(These were the clans of the sons of Gad. They numbered forty thousand five hundred men.@}(for Arod, the Arodite clan; for Areli, the Arelite clan.;s(for Ozni, the Oznite clan; for Eri, the Erite clan;|s(The sons of Gad by clans: for Zephon, the Zephonite clan; for Haggi, the Haggite clan; for Shuni, the Shunite clan;[1(These were the Simeonite clans. They numbered twenty-two thousand two hundred men.D( for Zerah, the Zerahite clan; for Shaul, the Shaulite clan.( The sons of Simeon by clans: for Nemuel, the Nemuelite clan; for Jamin, the Jaminite clan; for Jachin, the Jachinite clan;.Y( Korah's sons, however, did not perish.!=( The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them (with Korah when that group perished), when fire consumed the two hundred and fifty men. They were a sign.hK( The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. These two, Dathan and Abiram, men of repute in the community, were the ones who revolted against Moses and Aaron; they belonged to Korah's group when it revolted against Yahweh.!?(The sons of Pallu: Eliab.iM(These were the Reubenite clans. They numbered forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty men.E(for Hezron, the Hezronite clan; for Carmi, the Carmite clan.|s(Reuben, the first-born of Israel. The sons of Reuben: for Hanoch, the Hanochite clan; for Pallu, the Palluite clan;k Q((as Yahweh had ordered Moses and the Israelites after leaving Egypt) men of twenty years and over:~ w(So Moses and the priest Eleazar took a census of them on the Plains of Moab, near the Jordan by Jericho. They counted ('Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, by families: all those of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms in Israel.'a  ?(After this plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to the priest Eleazar son of Aaron and said:a =(for harassing you with their guile in the Peor affair and in the affair of their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, the woman who was killed the day the plague came on account of the business of Peor.'1_('Harass the Midianites, strike them down,,U(Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,}u(The woman, the Midianite who was killed, was called Cozbi, daughter of Zur, chief of a clan, of a family, in Midian.#A(The Israelite who had been killed (the one who was killed with the Midianite woman) was called Zimri son of Salu, leader of one of the Simeonite families.T#( To him and his descendants after him, this covenant will assure the priesthood for ever. In reward for his zeal for his God, he will have the right to perform the ritual of expiation for the Israelites.'D( For this reason I say: To him I grant my covenant of peace.kQ( 'The priest Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron has deflected my wrath from the Israelites, he being the only one of them to have the same zeal as I have; for which reason, I did not make an end of the Israelites in my zeal.#C( Yahweh then spoke and said,<u( In the plague twenty-four thousand of them had died.A}(followed the Israelite into the alcove, and there ran them both through, the Israelite and the woman, through the stomach. Thus the plague which had struck the Israelites was arrested.w~i(The priest Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, on seeing this, stood up, left the assembly, seized a lance,X}+(One of the Israelites came along, bringing the Midianite woman into his family, under the very eyes of Moses and the whole community of Israelites as they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.|!(Moses said to the judges of Israel, 'Each of you will put to death those of his people who have committed themselves to the Baal of Peor.'{'(Yahweh said to Moses, 'Take all the leaders of the people. Impale them facing the sun, for Yahweh, to deflect his burning anger from Israel.'az=(With Israel thus committed to the Baal of Peor, Yahweh's anger was aroused against them.qy](These invited them to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down before their gods.fx I(Israel settled at Shittim. The people gave themselves over to prostitution with Moabite women.Lw(Balaam then got up, left and went home, and Balak too went his way.}vu(the vessels from the coasts of Kittim. They will bear down on Asshur, bear down on Eber; he too will perish forever.[u1(He then declaimed his poem, as follows: The Sea-people are gathering in the north,Mt(But the nest belongs to Beor; how long will you be Asshur's captive? s(He then looked at the Kenites and declaimed his poem, as follows: Your dwelling was firm, Kain, your nest perched high in the rock.r(Balaam then looked at Amalek and declaimed his poem, as follows: Amalek, the earliest of nations! But his posterity will perish forever.Rq(when Jacob tramples on his enemies and destroys the last survivors of Ar.opY(Edom too will be a conquered land, Seir too will be a conquered land, when Israel exerts his strength,Zo/(I see him -- but not in the present. I perceive him -- but not close at hand: a star is emerging from Jacob, a sceptre is rising from Israel, to strike the brow of Moab, the skulls of all the children of Seth.Bn(the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, of one who knows the knowledge of the Most High. He sees what Shaddai makes him see, receives the divine answer, and his eyes are opened.m(He then declaimed his poem, as follows: The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of the man with far-seeing eyes,|ls(Now that I am going back to my own folk, let me warn you what this people will do to your people, in days to come.'Mk( "Even if Balak gave me his house full of gold and silver I could not go against Yahweh's order and do anything of my own accord, whether for good or ill; whatever Yahweh says is what I shall say"?Nj( Balaam retorted to Balak, 'Did I not tell the messengers you sent me, i( So now go home as fast as your legs can carry you. I promised to load you with honours. Yahweh himself has deprived you of them.':ho( Balak flew into a rage with Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to Balaam, 'I brought you to curse my enemies, and you have insisted on blessing them three times over!!g=( He has crouched, he has lain down, like a lion, like a lioness; who dare rouse him? Blessed be those who bless you, and accursed be those who curse you! 7W(~2}}-|Q{{F{z0yyxx wwvvCuuMttsbrrLqppoo|nn6mmemll0kjj8ii:h(gggtg5ff4ee|ed|ccbjb-aag``L`___V^^^i^)]]]]M]\\\f\0[[[[\["ZZZuZ>D==X<R7Cb2"On your way! Break camp and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I am putting Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, at your mercy, and his country too. Set about the conquest; engage him in battle.$aC2It was the same with the Avvites who occupied encampments as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, coming from Caphtor, exterminated them and settled there instead.)(`K2just as he had done for the children of Esau who live in Seir, so that they dispossessed the Horites and settled there instead of them and are still there now.$_C2a great and numerous people, and tall like the Anakim. Yahweh exterminated them for the Ammonites who dispossessed them and settled there in place of them,^2(This used also to be considered as Rephaim territory; at one time the Rephaim lived there, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,p][2and soon you will encounter the children of Ammon. Do not attack them, do not provoke them, for I shall give you none of the land belonging to the children of Ammon as your domain. I have given it to the children of Lot as theirs."6\i2"You are now crossing Ar, the country of Moab,[;2Yahweh said this to me,`Z;2'When death had carried off from the people those of age to bear arms, to the last man,YY-2Yahweh's hand had been against them, to eliminate them completely from the camp.eXE2From Kadesh-Barnea to the crossing of the Wadi Zered our wanderings had taken thirty-eight years; as a result of which, the entire generation of those of age to bear arms had been eliminated, as Yahweh had sworn to them.VW'2 "On your way, then! Cross the Wadi Zered!" 'And so we crossed the Wadi Zered.qV]2 The Horites, too, lived in Seir at one time; these, however, were dispossessed and exterminated by the children of Esau who settled there in place of them, just as Israel has done in the country given to it by Yahweh as a heritage.)fUG2 and, like the Anakim, they were considered to be Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.\T32 (At one time the Emim lived there, a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim;8Sk2 Yahweh then said to me, "Do not attack Moab, do not provoke him to fight, for I shall give you none of his land, since I have given Ar to the children of Lot as their domain."[R12'So we passed beyond those relatives of ours, the children of Esau who live in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, Elath and Ezion-Geber; then, changing direction, we took the road towards the Plains of Moab.KQ2Yahweh your God has blessed you in all you do; he has watched over your journeying through this vast desert. Yahweh your God has been with you these forty years and you have never been in want."`P;2Pay them in money for what food you eat; and pay them in money for the water you drink.*OO2Do not provoke them, for I shall give you none of their land, no, not so much as a foot's length of it. I have given the highlands of Seir to Esau as his domain.@N{2And give the people this order: You are about to pass through the territory of your kinsmen, the sons of Esau who live in Seir. They are afraid of you, and you will be well protected.GM 2"You have gone far enough round this mountain; now turn north.L;2Yahweh then said to me,K 12'We then turned round and made for the desert, in the direction of the Sea of Suph, as Yahweh had ordered me. For many days we skirted Mount Seir.CJ 2.That was why you had to stay at Kadesh as long as you did.'nI Y2-On your return, you wept in Yahweh's presence, but he would not listen to your cries or pay attention.H 2,The Amorites, who live in that country of hills, came swarming out against you like bees, pursued you and beat you from Seir to Hormah. G 2+So I told you, but you would not listen, and you rebelled against the voice of Yahweh; presumptuously you marched into the highlands.F 2*But Yahweh said to me, "Tell them this: Do not go up and fight. I am not with you. Do not let yourselves be defeated by your enemies."mE W2)'In reply, you then said to me, "We have sinned against Yahweh our God. We shall go up and fight just as Yahweh our God has ordered us." And each one of you buckled on his arms and equipped himself to march up into the highlands.bD A2(But, as regards yourselves, turn round, go back into the desert, towards the Sea of Suph."EC 2'And your little ones too, who, you said, would be seized as booty, these children of yours who do not yet know good from evil, they will go in; I shall give it to them and they will own it.B 2&"Your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will be the one to enter. Encourage him, since he is to bring Israel into possession of the country.[A 32%Yahweh was angry with me too, because of you. "You will not go in either," he said.*@ Q2$except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it. To him and to his children I shall give the land he has set foot on, for he has been perfectly obedient to Yahweh."u? g2#"Not one of these people, this perverse generation, will see the fine country I swore to give your ancestors,L> 2"'Yahweh heard what you were saying and in his anger swore this oath, = 2!going ahead of you on the journey to find you a camping ground, by night in the fire to light your path, and in the cloud by day.=< y2 But for all this, you put no faith in Yahweh your God,*; Q2You have seen him in the desert too: Yahweh your God continued to support you, as a man supports his son, all along the road you followed until you arrived here."n: Y2Yahweh your God goes ahead of you and will be fighting on your side, just as you saw him act in Egypt.J9 2'And I said to you, "Do not take fright, do not be afraid of them.e8 G2What kind of place are we making for? Our brothers have discouraged us by saying that the people are stronger and taller than we are, the cities immense, with walls reaching to the sky. And we have seen Anakim there too."#7 C2You muttered in your tents, saying, "Yahweh hates us, and that is why he has brought us out of Egypt, to put us into the Amorites' power and so destroy us._6 ;2You, however, refused to go up there and rebelled against the voice of Yahweh your God. 5 =2They collected some of the produce of the country and brought it down to us; and they made us this report, "Yahweh our God has given us a fine country."z4 q2These men made towards the highlands and went up into them; they reached the Valley of Eshcol and reconnoitred it.d3 E2This seemed good advice to me and I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.32 c2Then you all came to me and said, "Let us send men ahead of us to explore the country; they shall report to us which way we ought to take and what towns we shall come to."+1 S2Look, Yahweh your God has given you this country. March in, take possession of it as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has said; do not be afraid or discouraged."d0 E2I then said, "You have now reached the Amorite highlands, which Yahweh our God has given us.B/ 2'So, as Yahweh our God had ordered, we left Horeb and made our way through that vast and terrible desert, which you saw on the way to the Amorite highlands, and arrived at Kadesh-Barnea.V. )2And on that occasion I gave you instructions about everything you were to do."W- +2You must be impartial in judgement and give an equal hearing to small and great alike. Do not be afraid of any human person, for the verdict is God's. Should a case be too difficult, bring it for me to hear.3, c2At that same time I told your judges, "You must give your brothers a fair hearing and see justice done between one person and his brother or the foreigner living with him.0+ ]2So I took your tribal leaders, wise, experienced men, and appointed them to lead you, as captains of thousands, hundreds, fifties, tens, and as scribes for your tribes.(* O2You replied, "Your plan is good."d) E2 From each of your tribes pick wise, shrewd and experienced men for me to make your leaders."a( ?2 So how can I cope by myself with the bitter burden that you are, and with your bickering?q' _2 And Yahweh your God is going to increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he has promised you.i& O2 Yahweh your God has increased your numbers, until you are now as numerous as the stars of heaven.R% !2 'At the same time, I told you, "I cannot be responsible for you by myself.Q$ 2Look, that is the country I have given you; go and take possession of the country that Yahweh promised on oath to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and to their descendants after them."z# q2Move on, continue your journey, go to the highlands of the Amorites, to all those who live in the Arabah, in the highlands, in the lowlands, in the Negeb and in the coastland; go into Canaan and to Lebanon as far as the great River Euphrates.[" 32'Yahweh our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain.V! )2There, in Moab beyond the Jordan, Moses resolved to expound this Law. He said:  2He had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei.  =2It was in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moses told the Israelites everything that Yahweh had ordered him to tell them.T %2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-Barnea.2 c2These are the words which Moses addressed to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the desert, in the Arabah facing Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.'($ Such were the commandments and laws that Yahweh prescribed for the Israelites through Moses on the Plains of Moab near the Jordan by Jericho. ($ Since they married into clans descended from Manasseh son of Joseph, their heritage reverted to the tribe of their father's clan.wi($ Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, daughters of Zelophehad, married the sons of their father's brothers.?{($ Zelophehad's daughters did as Yahweh had ordered Moses.zo($ No heritage may be transferred from one tribe to another; each Israelite tribe will stick to its own heritage." '6g($Any daughter who owns a heritage in an Israelite tribe will marry into a clan of her own paternal tribe, so that the Israelites may each preserve the heritage of his father.!($But the heritages of Israelites are not to be transferred from tribe to tribe; each Israelite will stick to the heritage of his own tribe.+($This is Yahweh's ruling for Zelophehad's daughters: "They may marry whom they please, providing they marry into a clan of their father's tribe.tc($At Yahweh's bidding, Moses gave the Israelites this order. He said: 'What the Josephite tribe says is true.Y-($And when the jubilee for the Israelites comes round, these women's heritage will become part of the heritage of the tribe to which they then belong, and be alienated from the heritage of our ancestral tribe.'y($Now, if they marry someone from another Israelite tribe, their heritage will be alienated from our ancestral heritage. The heritage of the tribe to which they will then belong will be increased, and the heritage allotted to us will be diminished.T#($they said: 'Yahweh has ordered my lord to apportion the Israelites' heritages in the country by lot and my lord has been ordered by Yahweh to give the heritage of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.b A($Then the heads of families of the clan descended from Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, one of the clans descended from Joseph, came forward and, addressing Moses and the leaders, the Israelite heads of families,vg(#"So do not defile the country which you live in and where I live; for I, Yahweh, live among the Israelites." '2_(#!Do not profane the country you live in. Blood profanes the country and, for the country, the only expiation for the blood shed in it is the blood of the man who shed it.- U(# Nor will you accept a ransom for anyone who, having taken sanctuary in his city or refuge, wishes to come back and live at home before the death of the high priest.a =(#You will not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer condemned to death; he must die.4 c(#"In any case of homicide, the evidence of witnesses will determine whether the killer must be put to death; but a single witness is not enough to sustain a capital charge.Y -(#Such will be the legal rule for you and your descendants, wherever you may live.; q(#since the killer should stay in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest is he free to go back to his own piece of property.%(#and the avenger of blood encounter him outside the bounds of his city of refuge, the avenger of blood may kill him without fear of reprisal;a=(#Should the killer leave the bounds of the city of refuge in which he has taken sanctuary{q(#and will save the killer from the clutches of the avenger of blood. They will send him back to the city of refuge where he had taken sanctuary, and there he will stay until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with the holy oil.(#then the community will decide in accordance with these rules between the one who struck the blow and the avenger of blood,%(#or, without seeing him, dropped on him a stone meant for killing and so killed him, so long as he bore him no malice and wished him no harm,(#If, however, he has manhandled his victim by chance, without malice, or thrown some missile at him not meaning to hit himG (#or out of enmity dealt him the death-blow with his fist, then he who struck the blow will be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood will put him to death whenever he finds him.p[(#"If the killer has maliciously manhandled his victim, or thrown some lethal missile to strike him down,nW(#The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death. Whenever he finds him, he will put him to death.%(#Or if he has struck him with a wooden instrument meant for killing, and has killed him, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death.~(#If he has struck him with a stone meant for killing, and has killed him, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death.} (#"But if he has struck the person with an iron object so as to cause death, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death.4|c(#These six towns will serve as refuge for the Israelites, for the foreigner and for the resident alien, where anyone who has accidentally killed someone can take sanctuary.|{s(#as cities of refuge, you will give three towns on the other side of the Jordan and will give three towns in Canaan.Gz (# Of the towns you give, six will serve you as cities of refuge:y7(# These towns will afford you refuge from the avenger of blood, so that the killer will not be put to death before standing trial before the community.x3(# you will find towns, some of which you will make into cities of refuge where those who have accidentally committed manslaughter can take sanctuary.Yw-(# 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "Once you have crossed the Jordan into Canaan,'vK(# Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:uy(#Of the towns which you give from the Israelites' possessions, you will give more from those who have more, and less from those who have less. Each will give some of his towns to the Levites, in proportion to the heritage he himself has received.'Zt/(#Altogether you will give the Levites forty-eight towns, with their pasture lands.4sc(#The towns you give to the Levites will be six cities of refuge, ceded by you as sanctuary for those who commit manslaughter; and you will give forty-two towns in addition.yrm(#'Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits to the east, two thousand cubits to the south, two thousand cubits to the west and two thousand cubits to the north, the town lying in the centre; such will be the pasture lands of these towns.q+(#The pasture land surrounding the towns which you give to the Levites will extend, from the walls of the towns, for a thousand cubits all round. p(#The towns must be their homes and the surrounding pasture land must be for their cattle, their possessions and all their animals.0o[(#'Order the Israelites, from the heritage they possess, to give the Levites towns in which to live and pasture land round the towns. You will give these to the Levites.Zn 1(#Yahweh spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab, near the Jordan by Jericho, and said:cmA("These were the men whom Yahweh ordered to divide Canaan into heritages for the Israelites.Ol("'for the tribe of the Naphtalites, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud.'Kk("'for the tribe of the Asherites, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi;Mj("'for the tribe of the Issacharites, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan;Pi("'for the tribe of the Zebulunites, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach;Nh("'for the tribe of the Ephraimites, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan;]g5("'for the sons of Joseph: for the tribe of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod;Ff("'for the tribe of the Danites, the leader Bukki son of Jogli;:eq("'for the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;Ad("'for the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud;Zc/("Here are the names of these men: 'For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;^b7("and you will take one leader from each tribe to divide the country up into heritages.yam("'Here are the names of the men who will divide the country up for you: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun,'`K("Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:_+("These two tribes and the half-tribe have received their heritage on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho, to the east, towards the sunrise.'N^("for the tribe of the Reubenites with their families and the tribe of the Gadites with their families have already received their heritage; the half-tribe of Manasseh has also received its heritage.G] (" Moses then gave the Israelites this order: 'This is the country, where your heritages will be assigned by lot, and which Yahweh has ordered to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe, \(" The frontier will then follow the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. "Such will be your country with the boundaries surrounding it." '![=(" The boundary will run down from Shepham towards Riblah on the east side of Ain. Further down it will keep to the eastern shore of the Sea of Chinnereth.NZ(" "You will then draw your eastern boundary from Hazar-Enan to Shepham.iYM(" From there it will run on to Ziphron and end at Hazar-Enan. This will be your northern boundary.lXS("then from Mount Hor you will draw a line to the Pass of Hamath, and the boundary will end at Zedad.jWO(""Your northern boundary will be as follows: you will draw a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor,UV%(""Your seaboard will be on the Great Sea; this will be your western boundary.[U1("From Azmon the boundary will turn towards the Torrent of Egypt and end at the Sea.5Te("It will then turn south towards the Ascent of the Scorpions and go by Zin to end in the south at Kadesh-Barnea. It will then run towards Hazar-Addar and pass through Azmon.0S[(""The southern part of your country will start from the desert of Zin, on the borders of Edom. Your southern boundary will start on the east at the end of the Salt Sea.5Re("'Give the Israelites this order. Say: "When you enter the country (Canaan), this will be the country which forms your heritage. This is Canaan as defined by its boundaries:&Q K("Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,=Pw(!8and I shall treat you as I intended to treat them." 'YO-(!7If, however, you do not drive out the local inhabitants before you, the ones you allow to remain will be thorns in your eyes and thistles in your sides and will harass you in the country where you are living,N(!6You will share it out by lot among your clans. To a large clan you will give a larger heritage, and to a smaller clan you will give a smaller heritage. Where the lot falls for each, that will be his. Your heritage will depend on the size of your tribe.uMe(!5You will take possession of the country and settle in it, for I have given you the country as your property.BL(!4you will drive out all the local inhabitants before you. You will destroy all their painted images, you will destroy all their metal statues and you will demolish all their high places.YK-(!3'Speak to the Israelites and say: "When you have crossed the Jordan into Canaan,[J1(!2Yahweh spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab, near the Jordan by Jericho, and said:lIS(!1They encamped near the Jordan between Beth-ha-Jeshimoth and Abel-ha-Shittim, on the Plains of Moab.mHU(!0They left the Abarim mountains and encamped on the Plains of Moab, near the Jordan opposite Jericho.UG%(!/They left Almon-Diblathaim and encamped in the Abarim mountains facing Nebo.=Fw(!.They left Dibon-Gad and encamped at Almon-Diblathaim.1E_(!-They left Iyim and encamped at Dibon-Gad.ID (!,They left Oboth and encamped in Moabite territory at Iye-Abarim..CY(!+They left Punon and encamped at Oboth.1B_(!*They left Zalmonah and encamped at Punon.5Ag(!)They left Mount Hor and encamped at Zalmonah.l@S(!(The king of Arad, the Canaanite who lived in the Negeb of Canaan, heard of the Israelites' arrival.R?(!'Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.A>}(!&The priest Aaron went up Mount Hor on Yahweh's orders and died there in the fortieth year of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.X=+(!%They left Kadesh and encamped at Mount Hor, on the borders of the land of Edom.U<%(!$They left Ezion-Geber and encamped in the desert of Zin, that is, at Kadesh.6;i(!#They left Abronah and encamped at Ezion-Geber.4:e(!"They left Jotbathah and encamped at Abronah.79k(!!They left Hor-Gidgad and encamped at Jotbathah.98o(! They left Bene-Jaakan and encamped at Hor-Gidgad.77k(!They left Moseroth and encamped at Bene-Jaakan.56g(!They left Hashmonah and encamped at Moseroth.45e(!They left Mithkah and encamped at Hashmonah.04](!They left Terah and encamped at Mithkah./3[(!They left Tahath and encamped at Terah.32c(!They left Makheloth and encamped at Tahath.41e(!They left Haradah and encamped at Makheloth.80m(!They left Mount Shepher and encamped at Haradah.;/s(!They left Kehelathah and encamped at Mount Shepher.4.e(!They left Rissah and encamped at Kehelathah.0-](!They left Libnah and encamped at Rissah.6,i(!They left Rimmon-Perez and encamped at Libnah.7+k(!They left Rithmah and encamped at Rimmon-Perez.3*c(!They left Hazeroth and encamped at Rithmah.=)w(!They left Kibroth-ha-Taavah and encamped at Hazeroth.I( (!They left the desert of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth-ha-Taavah.?'{(!They left Rephidim and encamped in the desert of Sinai.\&3(!They left Alush and encamped at Rephidim; the people found no drinking water there.0%](! They left Dophkah and encamped at Alush.<$u(! They left the desert of Sin and encamped at Dophkah.F#(! They left the Sea of Reeds and encamped in the desert of Sin.8"m(! They left Elim and encamped by the Sea of Reeds.!(! They left Marah and reached Elim. At Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; they encamped there. (!They left Pi-Hahiroth, crossed the sea into the desert, and after marching for three days in the desert of Etham they encamped at Marah.gI(!They left Etham, turned back to Pi-Hahiroth, opposite Baal-Zephon, and encamped before Migdol.Y-(!Then they left Succoth and encamped at Etham which is on the edge of the desert.:q(!The Israelites left Rameses and camped at Succoth."?(!The Egyptians were burying those of their own people whom Yahweh had struck down, all the first-born; Yahweh had carried out his judgement on their gods.A}(!They left Rameses in the first month. It was the fifteenth day of the first month, the day following the Passover, when the Israelites confidently set out, under the eyes of all Egypt.#A(!Moses recorded their starting-points in writing whenever they moved on at Yahweh's order. The stages, from one starting-point to another, were as follows: %(!These were the stages of the journey made by the Israelites when they left Egypt in their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.eE( *Nobah went and seized Kenat with its dependent townships, and called it Nobah after himself.gI( )Jair son of Manasseh went and seized their encampments, renaming them the Encampments of Jair.K( (Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled there.y( 'The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead. They conquered it and drove out the Amorites who were there.|s( &Nebo and Baal-Meon (the names of which were altered), and Sibmah, giving new names to the towns which they rebuilt.<u( %The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,Q( $Beth-Nimrah and Beth-Haran as fortified towns with folds for the flocks.(M( #Atroth-Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,2a( "The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,( !Moses then gave them -- the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph -- the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the country and the towns within its territory, and the country's frontier-towns. ( Under arms, we shall cross in Yahweh's name into Canaan, so that ownership of our heritage on this side of the Jordan will be ours.'j O( To this, the Gadites and Reubenites replied, 'What Yahweh has said to your servants, we shall do.y m( But if they will not cross with you under arms, they will receive their domains in Canaan with the rest of you.'o Y( Moses said to them, 'If the Gadites and Reubenites, all those under arms, cross the Jordan with you to fight in Yahweh's name, then, once the country has become subject to you, you will give them the territory of Gilead as theirs. ( So Moses gave orders about them to the priest Eleazar, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of families in the Israelite tribes.h K( but your servants, each armed for war, will cross in Yahweh's name and fight, as my lord says.'gI( Our little ones, our wives, our flocks and all our livestock will stay in the towns of Gilead,]5( The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, 'Your servants will do as my lord directs.kQ( Build towns, then, for your little ones and folds for your flocks; but do what you have promised.'`;( But if you do not, you will sin against Yahweh, and be sure your sin will find you out.<s( then, once the country has become subject to Yahweh, you may go back, and will have discharged your obligation to Yahweh and Israel, and Yahweh will consider this territory yours.( and if all those of you who bear arms cross the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven all his enemies out before him,eE( Moses said to them, 'If you do as you have said, if you are prepared to fight before Yahweh,/( For we shall have no heritage with them on the other bank of the Jordan or beyond, since our heritage has fallen to us here, east of the Jordan.'p[( We will not return to our homes until every one of the Israelites has taken possession of his heritage.T#( We ourselves will take up arms and lead the Israelites until we have brought them to the place appointed for them, while our little ones stay in the fortified towns to be safe from the local inhabitants.|~s( They came to Moses and said, 'We should like to build sheepfolds here for our flocks and towns for our little ones.}( If you turn away from him, he will prolong the time spent in the desert, and you will bring about this entire people's ruin.'| ( And now you rise up in your father's place, offshoot of sinful stock, to increase Yahweh's burning anger with Israel even more!"{?( Yahweh's anger being aroused by Israel, he made them wander in the desert for forty years, until the generation that offended Yahweh had all disappeared.zy( except for Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun: these indeed have followed Yahweh absolutely."?yy( "No man of twenty years and over, who left Egypt, shall set eyes on the country which I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob . . . , for they have not followed me absolutely,Jx( Hence Yahweh's anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath,%wE( for, having gone as far as the Valley of Eshcol and seen the country, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the country which Yahweh had given them.evE( Your fathers behaved in the same way when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the country,juO( Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing to the country which Yahweh has given them?vtg( Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, 'Do you intend your brothers to go into battle while you stay here?wsi( So', they said, 'if you approve, give your servants this land for us to own; do not make us cross the Jordan.'r%( which Yahweh has conquered before the advancing community of Israel, is ideal land for raising stock, and your servants are cattle breeders.aq=( 'The territory of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon,ypm( the Gadites and Reubenites went to Moses, the priest Eleazar and the leaders of the community, and said to them,(o M( Now, the Reubenites and Gadites owned very large herds of cattle. Having seen that the territories of Jazer and Gilead formed an ideal region for raising stock,_n9(6But Moses and the priest Eleazar, having accepted the gold from the commanders of the thousands and commanders of the hundreds, brought it into the Tent of Meeting, to be a reminder of the Israelites before Yahweh.0m](5Each of the soldiers took his own booty.-lU(4This portion of gold given to Yahweh by the commanders of the thousands and commanders of the hundreds amounted to sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.Wk)(3Moses and the priest Eleazar accepted this gold from them, all this jewellery.Xj+(2So, as an offering for Yahweh, we have brought what each of us has found in the way of gold ornaments, armlets and bracelets, rings, earrings and breastplates, to make expiation for ourselves before Yahweh.'miU(1and said, 'Your servants have numbered the soldiers under their command: none of our men is missing.h(0The officers of the thousands who had fought the campaign, the commanders of the thousands and commanders of the hundreds, came to MosesJg(/From this half, the Israelites' share, Moses took one out of every fifty, human and animal, and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for Yahweh's Dwelling, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.%fG(.and sixteen thousand persons.,eU(-thirty thousand five hundred donkeys+dS(,thirty-six thousand head of cattle,xck(+this half, the community's share, came to three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep and goats, ?~~j}}|H{{i{zvzyYxx w9vvufttassrr.qpoonnImmkk8jjji}hh^ggEf^eedd"cAbbKaa`a__B^^]\\\>[GZZY}XXWVV2UUTSRRqQPPP==<%;u::9x8877G6554G333S22<11*0b//w/3..=--%,,7++&**)n(_''&Y%%+$#"" ! #spF[ IK3(PW E Q  R@z!3=2 Leave me, I am going to destroy them and wipe out their name under heaven; and I shall make you into a mightier and more numerous nation than they are!"a2=2 Yahweh then said to me, "I have seen this people, and what an obstinate people they are!l1S2 Yahweh said to me, "Get up, go down quickly, for your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt, are corrupting one another. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have cast themselves a metal idol."o0Y2 After forty days and forty nights, having given me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant,K/2 Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God, exactly corresponding to what Yahweh had said to you on the mountain, from the heart of the fire, on the day of the Assembly.R.2 I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh was making with you. I stayed forty days and forty nights on the mountain, with nothing to eat or drink.j-O2 At Horeb, you provoked Yahweh, and Yahweh was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.3,a2 'Remember; never forget how you provoked Yahweh your God in the desert. From the very day that you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebels against Yahweh."+?2 Be clear about this: Yahweh is not giving you possession of this fine country because of any right conduct on your part, for you are an obstinate people.0*[2 You are not going into their country to take possession because of any right behaviour or uprightness on your part; rather, it is because of their wickedness that Yahweh is dispossessing these nations for you, and also to keep the pact which he swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.l)S2 Do not think to yourself, once Yahweh your God has driven them before you, "Yahweh has brought me into possession of this country because I am upright," when Yahweh is dispossessing these nations for you, because they do wrong.z(o2 Know then today that Yahweh your God himself will go ahead of you, destroying them like a devouring fire, and that he himself will subdue them before you so that you can dispossess and quickly make an end of them, as Yahweh has already said.}'u2 A people great and tall, these Anakim, as you know; you have heard the saying: Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?6& i2 'Listen, Israel; today you are about to cross the Jordan, to go and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourself, and cities immense, with walls reaching to the sky.%!2Like the nations Yahweh is to destroy before you, so you yourselves will perish, for not having listened to the voice of Yahweh your God.'$92Be sure: if you forget Yahweh your God, if you follow other gods, if you serve them and bow down to them -- I testify to you today -- you will perish.5#e2Remember Yahweh your God; he was the one who gave you the strength to act effectively like this, thus keeping then, as today, the covenant which he swore to your ancestors."2'Beware of thinking to yourself, "My own strength and the might of my own hand have given me the power to act like this."O!2who in this waterless place brought you water out of the flinty rock; who in this desert fed you with manna unknown to your ancestors, to humble you and test you and so make your future the happier.i M2who guided you through this vast and dreadful desert, a land of fiery snakes, scorpions, thirst;  2do not become proud of heart. Do not then forget Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour,|s2 when you have seen your flocks and herds increase, your silver and gold abound and all your possessions grow great,V'2 When you have eaten all you want, when you have built fine houses to live in, 2 'Be careful not to forget Yahweh your God, by neglecting his commandments, customs and laws which I am laying down for you today.zo2 You will eat and have all you want and you will bless Yahweh your God in the fine country which he has given you.%E2 a land where you will eat bread without stint, where you will want nothing, a land where the stones are iron and where the hills may be quarried for copper.lS2a land of wheat and barley, of vines, of figs, of pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, of honey,32'But Yahweh your God is bringing you into a fine country, a land of streams and springs, of waters that well up from the deep in valleys and hills,[12and keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and so follow his ways and fear him.Z/2'Learn from this that Yahweh your God was training you as a man trains his child,iM2The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet were not swollen, all those forty years.tc2He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that human beings live not on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Yahweh.H 2Remember the long road by which Yahweh your God led you for forty years in the desert, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart -- whether you would keep his commandments or not.k S2'You must keep and put into practice all the commandments which I enjoin on you today, so that you may survive and increase in numbers and enter the country which Yahweh promised on oath to your ancestors, and make it your own.Y-2You must not bring any detestable thing into your house: or you, like it, will come under the curse of destruction. You must regard them as unclean and loathsome, for they are under the curse of destruction.'5e2'You must burn the statues of their gods, not coveting the gold and silver that covers them; take it and you will be caught in a snare: it is detestable to Yahweh your God.&G2He will put their kings at your mercy and you will blot out their names under heaven; no one will be able to resist you -- until you have destroyed them all. 2But Yahweh your God will put them at your mercy, and disaster after disaster will overtake them until they are finally destroyed./ Y2Little by little, Yahweh your God will clear away these nations before you; you cannot destroy them all at once, or wild animals will breed and be disastrous for you._ 92'Do not be afraid of them, for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and terrible God.q ]2And what is more, Yahweh your God will send hornets to destroy those who are left and who hide from you.o Y2the great ordeals that you yourselves have seen, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm with which Yahweh your God brought you out. This is how Yahweh your God will treat all the peoples whom you fear to face.^ 72Do not be afraid of them: remember how Yahweh your God treated Pharaoh and all Egypt,jO2'You may say in your heart, "These nations outnumber me; how shall I be able to dispossess them?"2'So, devour all the peoples whom Yahweh your God puts at your mercy, show them no pity, do not serve their gods: or you will be ensnared.,S2Yahweh will deflect all illness from you; he will not afflict you with those evil plagues of Egypt which you have known, but will inflict them on all who hate you. 2You will be the most blessed of all peoples. None of you, man or woman, will be sterile, no male or female of your beasts infertile.$C2 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers; he will bless the fruit of your body and the produce of your soil, your corn, your new wine, your oil, the issue of your cattle, the young of your flock, in the country which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you.8k2 'Listen to these ordinances, be true to them and observe them, and in return Yahweh your God will be true to the covenant and love which he promised on oath to your ancestors.r_2 Hence, you must keep and observe the commandments, laws and customs which I am laying down for you today."?2 punishes in their own persons those that hate him. He destroys anyone who hates him, without delay; and it is in their own persons that he punishes them.fG2 From this you can see that Yahweh your God is the true God, the faithful God who, though he is true to his covenant and his faithful love for a thousand generations as regards those who love him and keep his commandments,q]2but because he loved you and meant to keep the oath which he swore to your ancestors: that was why Yahweh brought you out with his mighty hand and redeemed you from the place of slave-labour, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.~%2'Yahweh set his heart on you and chose you not because you were the most numerous of all peoples -- for indeed you were the smallest of all-}+2For you are a people consecrated to Yahweh your God; of all the peoples on earth, you have been chosen by Yahweh your God to be his own people.|2Instead, treat them like this: tear down their altars, smash their standing-stones, cut down their sacred poles and burn their idols.%{E2for your son would be seduced from following me into serving other gods; the wrath of Yahweh would blaze out against you and he would instantly destroy you.z'2You must not intermarry with them; you must not give a daughter of yours to a son of theirs, or take a daughter of theirs for a son of yours,?yy2Yahweh your God will put them at your mercy and you will conquer them. You must put them under the curse of destruction. You must not make any treaty with them or show them any pity. x 2'When Yahweh your God has brought you into the country which you are going to make your own, many nations will fall before you: Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than yourselves.w!2For us, right living will mean this: to keep and observe all these commandments in obedience to Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us." 'v12And Yahweh has commanded us to observe all these laws and to fear Yahweh our God, so as to be happy for ever and to survive, as we do to this day.uy2And he brought us out of there, to lead us into the country which he had sworn to our ancestors that he would give us.t2Before our eyes, Yahweh worked great and terrible signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh and his entire household.s2you are to tell your child, "Once we were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt by his mighty hand.r92'In times to come, when your child asks you, "What is the meaning of these instructions, laws and customs which Yahweh our God has laid down for you?"Hq 2driving out your enemies before you; such was Yahweh's promise.!p=2and do what Yahweh regards as right and good, so that you may prosper and take possession of the fine country which Yahweh swore to give your ancestors,po[2Keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his instructions and laws which he has laid down for you,Ln2Do not put Yahweh your God to the test as you tested him at Massah.#mA2for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God; the wrath of Yahweh your God would blaze out against you, and he would wipe you off the face of the earth.Al2'Do not follow other gods, gods of the peoples round you,uke2 Yahweh your God is the one you must fear, him alone you must serve, his is the name by which you must swear.pj[2 be careful you do not forget Yahweh who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour.Di2 with houses full of good things you have not provided, with wells you have not dug, with vineyards and olive trees you have not planted, and then, when you have eaten as much as you want,=hu2 'When Yahweh has brought you into the country which he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give you, with great and prosperous cities you have not built,Ng2 you must write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.Xf+2you must fasten them on your hand as a sign and on your forehead as a headband;8ek2You shall tell them to your children, and keep on telling them, when you are sitting at home, when you are out and about, when you are lying down and when you are standing up;?d{2Let the words I enjoin on you today stay in your heart.gcI2You must love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.Eb2'Listen, Israel: Yahweh our God is the one, the only Yahweh.Ca2Listen then, Israel, keep and observe what will make you prosperous and numerous, as Yahweh, God of your ancestors, has promised you, in giving you a country flowing with milk and honey.Q`2And hence, if, throughout your lives, you fear Yahweh your God and keep all his laws and commandments, which I am laying down for you today, you will live long, you and your child and your grandchild.A_ 2'Such, then, are the commandments, the laws and the customs which Yahweh your God has instructed me to teach you, for you to observe in the country which you are on your way to possess.^12!Follow the whole way that Yahweh has marked for you, and you will survive to prosper and live long in the country which you are going to possess.'t]c2 'Keep them and put them into practice: such is Yahweh's command to you. Stray neither to right nor to left.f\G2But you yourself stay here with me, and I shall tell you all the commandments, the laws and the customs which you are to teach them and which they are to observe in the country which I am giving them as their possession."3[c2Go and tell them to go back to their tents.Z'2If only their heart were always so, set on fearing me and on keeping my commandments, so that they and their children might prosper for ever!Y72'Yahweh heard what you were saying to me, and he then said to me, "I have heard what these people are saying. Everything they have said is well said.:Xo2Go nearer yourself and listen to everything that Yahweh our God may say, and then tell us everything that Yahweh our God has told you; we shall listen and put it into practice!"W-2For what creature of flesh could possibly live after hearing, as we have heard, the voice of the living God speaking from the heart of the fire?,VS2So why should we expose ourselves to death again? For this great fire might devour us if we go on listening to the voice of Yahweh our God, and then we should die.YU-2and said, "Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the heart of the fire. Today we have seen that God can speak with a human being and that person still live.T72'Now, having heard this voice coming out of the darkness, while the mountain was all on fire, you came to me, all of you, heads of tribes and elders,S2'These were the words Yahweh spoke to you when you were all assembled on the mountain. Thunderously, he spoke to you from the heart of the fire, in cloud and thick darkness. He added nothing, but wrote them on two tablets of stone which he gave to me.YR-2' "You must not set your heart on your neighbour's spouse, you must not set your heart on your neighbour's house, or field, or servant-man or woman -- or ox, or donkey or any of your neighbour's possessions."@Q}2' "You must not give false evidence against your fellow.P92' "You must not steal.(OM2' "You must not commit adultery.N72' "You must not kill.8Mk2' "Honour your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God has commanded you, so that you may have long life and may prosper in the country which Yahweh your God is giving you.L!2so that your servants, male and female, may rest, as you do. Remember that you were once a slave in Egypt, and that Yahweh your God brought you out of there with mighty hand and outstretched arm; this is why Yahweh your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.K92but the seventh day is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God. You must not do any work that day, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servants -- male or female -- nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your animals, nor the foreigner who has made his home with you;1J_2 Labour for six days, doing all your work,[I12 ' "Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as Yahweh your God has commanded you. H2 ' "You must not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who uses his name for what is false.^G72 but I show faithful love to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.]F52 you must not bow down to these gods or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God and I punish the parents' fault in the children, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren, among those who hate me;E#2' "You must not make yourselves any image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth;/D[2' "You will have no gods other than me.`C;2' "I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour."B?2while I stood between you and Yahweh to let you know what Yahweh was saying, since you were afraid of the fire and had not gone up the mountain. He said:WA)2On the mountain, from the heart of the fire, Yahweh spoke to you face to face,h@K2Yahweh made this covenant not with our ancestors, but with us, with all of us alive here today.9?o2'Yahweh our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.+> S2Moses called all Israel together and said to them, 'Listen, Israel, to the laws and customs that I proclaim to you today. Learn them and take care to observe them.y=m21and of the whole Arabah east of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.b<?20from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, all the way to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon) - ;2/and had taken possession of his country, as well as that of Og king of Bashan -- two Amorite kings to the east beyond the Jordan,;:q2.beyond the Jordan in the valley near Beth-Peor, in the country of Sihon the Amorite king who had lived at Heshbon. Moses and the Israelites had defeated him when they left Egypt,x9k2-These are the stipulations, the laws and the customs which Moses gave the Israelites after they had left Egypt,@8}2,This is the Law which Moses presented to the Israelites.7+2+These were, for the Reubenites, Bezer in the desert on the tableland; for the Gadites, Ramoth in Gilead; for the Manassehites, Golan in Bashan.*6O2*to which any killer might flee who had accidentally, without any previous feud, killed his fellow; by taking refuge in one of these towns he could save his life.I5 2)Moses then set aside three towns in the east, beyond the Jordan,C42(Keep his laws and commandments as I give them to you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and live long in the country that Yahweh your God is giving you for ever.' 32''Hence, grasp this today and meditate on it carefully: Yahweh is the true God, in heaven above as on earth beneath, he and no other.'2I2&dispossessing for you nations who were larger and stronger than you, to make way for you and to give you their country as your heritage, as it still is today.152%Because he loved your ancestors and, after them, chose their descendants, he has brought you out of Egypt, displaying his presence and mighty power,!0=2$To instruct you, he made you hear his voice from heaven, and on earth he let you see his great fire, and from the heart of the fire you heard his words.l/S2#'This he showed you, so that you might know that Yahweh is the true God and that there is no other..52"Has it ever been known before that any god took action himself to bring one nation out of another one, by ordeals, signs, wonders, war with mighty hand and outstretched arm, by fearsome terrors -- all of which things Yahweh your God has done for you before your eyes in Egypt?- 2!Did ever a people hear the voice of the living God speaking from the heart of the fire, as you have heard it, and remain alive?p,[2 'Put this question, then, to the ages that are past, that have gone before you, from when God created the human race on earth: Was there ever a word so majestic, from one end of heaven to the other? Was anything like it ever heard?+!2For Yahweh your God is a merciful God and will not desert or destroy you or forget the covenant which he made on oath with your ancestors.*!2You will suffer; everything I have said will befall you, but in the final days you will return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.)-2'If, however, from there you start searching once more for Yahweh your God, and if you search for him honestly and sincerely, you will find him.s(a2There you will serve gods made by human hand, of wood and of stone, that cannot see or hear, eat or smell.'!2Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and only a small number of you will remain among the nations where Yahweh will have driven you.a&=2today I call heaven and earth to witness against you -- you will quickly vanish from the country which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. Your days will not be prolonged there, for you will be utterly destroyed.N%2'When you have fathered children and grandchildren and have grown old in the country, when you have grown corrupt and made some image, doing what Yahweh regards as wrong and so provoking his anger-?${2for Yahweh your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.7#i2Be careful not to forget the covenant which Yahweh your God has made with you, by sculpting an image or making a statue of anything, since Yahweh your God has forbidden this;"}2Yes, I am to die in this country; I shall not cross this Jordan; you will go over and take possession of that rich land.0![2'Yahweh is angry with me because of you; he has sworn that I shall not cross the Jordan or enter the fine country which Yahweh your God is giving you as your heritage. 2but Yahweh has chosen you, bringing you out of the iron-foundry, Egypt, to be his own people, his own people as you still are today.sa2When you raise your eyes to heaven, when you see the sun, the moon, the stars -- the entire array of heaven -- do not be tempted to worship them and serve them. Yahweh your God has allotted these to all the other peoples under heaven,cA2or of any reptile that crawls on the ground, or of any fish in the waters under the earth.Q2or of any animal on the earth, or of any bird that flies in the heavens,2see that you do not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the shape of anything whatever: be it statue of man or of woman, 2'Hence, be very careful what you do. Since you saw no shape that day at Horeb when Yahweh spoke to you from the heart of the fire,&G2Yahweh then ordered me to teach you the laws and customs that you were to observe in the country into which you are about to cross, to take possession of it.2 He revealed his covenant to you and commanded you to observe it, the Ten Words which he inscribed on two tablets of stone.2 Yahweh then spoke to you from the heart of the fire; you heard the sound of words but saw no shape; there was only a voice.!2 So you came and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain flamed to the very sky, a sky darkened by cloud, murky and thunderous.|s2 The day you stood at Horeb in the presence of Yahweh your God, Yahweh said to me, "Summon the people to me; I want them to hear me speaking, so that they will learn to fear me all the days they live on earth, and teach this to their children."fG2 'But take care, as you value your lives! Do not forget the things which you yourselves have seen, or let them slip from your heart as long as you live; teach them, rather, to your children and to your children's children.{2And what great nation has laws and customs as upright as the entirety of this Law which I am laying down for you today?oY2And indeed, what great nation has its gods as near as Yahweh our God is to us whenever we call to him?]52Keep them, put them into practice, and other peoples will admire your wisdom and prudence. Once they know what all these laws are, they will exclaim, "No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation!"72Look: as Yahweh my God commanded me, I have taught you laws and customs, for you to observe in the country of which you are going to take possession.U%2but those of you who stayed faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.72You can see for yourselves what Yahweh has done about the Baal of Peor; Yahweh your God has destroyed all those of you who followed the Baal of Peor;32You must add nothing to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of Yahweh your God just as I lay them down for you.c  C2'And now, Israel, listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you.; s2'We then stayed in the valley, close to Beth-Peor.'W )2Give Joshua your instructions; encourage him, strengthen him; for he will be the one to cross at the head of this people; he will be the one to bring them into possession of the country which you will see." #2Climb to the top of Pisgah; turn your eyes to the west, the north, the south, the east. Look well, for across this Jordan you shall not go. 2But, because of you, Yahweh was angry with me and would not listen. "Enough!" he said, "Do not mention this subject again!2may I not go across and see this fine country on the other side of the Jordan, that fine upland country and the Lebanon?"7i2"My Lord Yahweh," I said, "now that you have begun to reveal your greatness and your power to your servant with works and mighty deeds no God in heaven or on earth can rival,$E2'I then pleaded with Yahweh.P2Do not be afraid of them: Yahweh your God himself is fighting for you."A}2I then gave Joshua this order, "You can see for yourself everything that Yahweh our God has done to these two kings; Yahweh will do the same to all the kingdoms through which you pass.2until Yahweh has brought your brothers to rest as he has already brought you, and they too possess the territory which Yahweh your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan; after that, you can go home, each to the domain I have given you." 2Only your wives, your children and your flocks (you have many flocks, I know) must stay behind in the towns which I have given you,2_2'I then gave you this order: "Yahweh your God has given you this country to be yours. Armed, every one of you fit to fight must go ahead of your brothers the Israelites.$C2The Arabah and the Jordan serve as frontiers from Chinnereth down to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.Y-2To the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the region from Gilead to the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the ravine marking the boundary, and up as far as the Jabbok, the ravine marking the frontier of the Ammonites. ~=2To Machir I gave Gilead.H} 2Since Jair son of Manasseh occupied the whole confederation of Argob as far as the frontiers of the Geshurites and Maacathites, after him Bashan is called the Encampments of Jair even today.)G| 2 To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and the whole of Bashan, Og's kingdom. (The whole confederation of Argob and the whole of Bashan is called the country of the Rephaim."{?2 'Then we took possession of this country, from Aroer on the Wadi Arnon. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave half the highlands of Gilead with its towns.Fz2 (Og king of Bashan was the last survivor of the Rephaim; his bed was the iron bed that can be seen at Rabbah-of-the-Ammonites, nine cubits long and four wide, according to the human cubit.)y2 all the towns of the tableland, all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, the capital cities of Og in Bashan.Ox2 (the Sidonians call Hermon 'Sirion' and the Amorites call it 'Senir'): w2'Thus, by then we had taken the country of the two Amorite kings beyond the Jordan, stretching from the Wadi Arnon to Mount HermonTv#2but we seized the livestock and spoils of the towns as booty for ourselves.*uO2We laid them under the curse of destruction as we had done Sihon king of Heshbon, laying all these towns under the curse of destruction: men, women and children-t)2all of them fortresses defended by high walls and fortified with gates and bars, not to mention the Perizzite towns, which were very numerous.(sK2That was when we captured all his towns; there was not a town of theirs we did not take: sixty towns, the whole confederation of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan,r 2So, Yahweh our God put Og king of Bashan at our mercy too, with all his people. We beat him so thoroughly that nobody was left.Pq2Yahweh said to me, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have put him at your mercy, him, all his people and his country. You will treat him as you treated Sihon king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon."p 2'We then turned on Bashan and invaded that. And Og king of Bashan marched out against us, he and all his people, to give battle at Edrei.3oa2%You did not, however, go near the country of the Ammonites, or the region of the River Jabbok, or the towns in the highlands, or anywhere forbidden us by Yahweh our God.'7ni2$From Aroer on the edge of the Arnon valley and from the town down in the valley, as far as Gilead, not one town was beyond our reach; Yahweh our God delivered them all to us._m92#except the livestock which we took as our booty, and the spoils of the captured towns. l 2"We captured all his towns and laid all these towns under the curse of destruction: men, women and children, we left no survivorsckA2!And Yahweh our God handed him over to us: we defeated him and his sons and all his people.Vj'2 Sihon marched out against us, he and all his people, to give battle at Jahaz.i2Yahweh said to me, "You see, I am starting to give you Sihon and his country. Begin the conquest by seizing his country."Ih 2'But Sihon king of Heshbon would not give us leave to pass through his territory; Yahweh our God had made his spirit obstinate and his heart stubborn, to put him at your mercy, as he still is.6gg2just as the children of Esau who live in Seir permitted, as well as the Moabites who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the country that Yahweh our God is giving us."f)2I shall eat and pay for the food you choose to sell me, and I shall drink and pay for the water you let me have. I only want to march through,ceA2"I intend to cross your country. I shall go my way, straying neither to right nor to left.ldS2'So, from the desert of Kedemoth I sent envoys to Sihon king of Heshbon with this peaceful message,=cu2Today and henceforth, I shall fill the peoples under all heaven with fear and terror of you; whoever hears word of your approach will tremble and writhe in anguish because of you." 7~~[}d||H{{.z>yyZxwwvvuurttsrrr_qqponnnmSmlkkk8jjihh1g]gf9ee)dxccbqaa,``U_|^^6]];\\[Z~Z=_C2You may eat any clean fowl.N=2You are to class all winged insects as unclean and must not eat them.:<q2stork, the several kinds of heron, hoopoe and bat.*;Q2pelican, white vulture, cormorant,:52owl, barn owl, ibis,N92the ostrich, the screech owl, the seagull, the several kinds of hawk,832all kinds of raven,27a2 the kite and the several kinds of buzzard,^672 but the following birds you must not eat: the tawny vulture, the griffon, the osprey,%5G2 'You may eat all clean birds,]452 But you must not eat anything without fins and scales: you must class it as unclean.n3W2 'Of whatever lives in water you may eat the following: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.72i2So also the pig, which though it has a cloven hoof is not a ruminant; you must class it as unclean. You must neither eat the meat of such animals nor touch their dead bodies.n1W2Of those, however, that are ruminants and of those that have a divided and cloven hoof you may not eat the following: the camel, the hare and the coney, which are ruminants but have no cloven hoof; you must class them as unclean.Z0/2You may eat any animal that has a divided and cloven hoof and that is a ruminant.F/2deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx, mountain sheep.;.s2These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat,.-Y2'You must not eat anything disgusting.,2For you are a people consecrated to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be his own people from all the peoples on the earth.p+ ]2'You are children of Yahweh your God. You must not gash yourselves or shave your foreheads for the dead.D*2 on condition that you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping all his commandments which I am enjoining on you today, and by doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.'|)s2 From what is thus put under the curse of destruction you must keep nothing back, so that Yahweh may turn from the ferocity of his anger and show you mercy, and have pity on you and increase your numbers, as he swore he would to your ancestors,7(i2 You must pile up all its loot in the public square and burn the town and all its loot, offering it all to Yahweh your God. It is to be a ruin for all time, and never rebuilt.'2 you must put the inhabitants of that town to the sword; you must lay it under the curse of destruction -- the town and everything in it.,&S2 it is your duty to look into the matter, examine it, and enquire most carefully. If it is proved and confirmed that such a hateful thing has taken place among you,%%E2 there are men, scoundrels from your own stock, who have led their fellow-citizens astray, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," hitherto unknown to you,^$72 'If you hear that in one of the towns which Yahweh your God has given you for a home,h#K2 All Israel, hearing of this, will be afraid, and none of you will do such a wicked thing again."-2 You must stone him to death, since he has tried to divert you from Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, from the place of slave-labour.!2 No, you must kill him, your hand must strike the first blow in putting him to death and the hands of the rest of the people following. 2 you must not consent, you must not listen to him; you must show him no pity, you must not spare him or conceal his guilt.jO2 gods of the peoples surrounding you, whether near you or far away, anywhere throughout the world,2 'If your brother, the son of your father or of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the spouse whom you embrace, or your most intimate friend, tries secretly to seduce you, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," unknown to you or your ancestors before you,Q2 That prophet or that dreamer of dreams must be put to death, since he has preached apostasy from Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slave-labour; and he would have diverted you from the way in which Yahweh your God has commanded you to walk. You must banish this evil from among you.4c2 Yahweh your God is the one whom you must follow, him you must fear, his commandments you must keep, his voice you must obey, him you must serve, to him you must hold fast.;q2 you must not listen to that prophet's words or to that dreamer's dreams. Yahweh your God is testing you to know if you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul. 2 and the sign or wonder comes about; and if he then says to you, "Let us follow other gods (hitherto unknown to you) and serve them,"a=2 'If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, offering you some sign or wonder,p ]2 'Whatever I am now commanding you, you must keep and observe, adding nothing to it, taking nothing away.dC2 This is not the way to treat Yahweh your God. For in honour of their gods they have done everything detestable that Yahweh hates; yes, in honour of their gods, they even burn their own sons and daughters as sacrifices!'a=2 beware of being entrapped into copying them, after they have been destroyed to make way for you, and do not enquire about their gods, saying, "How did these nations worship their gods? I am going to do the same too."6g2 'When Yahweh your God has annihilated the nations confronting you, whom you are going to dispossess, and when you have dispossessed them and made your home in their country,D2 Faithfully keep and obey all these orders which I am giving you, so that you and your children after you may prosper for ever, doing what is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.Y-2 The burnt offerings of meat and blood must be presented on the altar of Yahweh your God; whereas, in your sacrifices, the blood must be poured on the altar of Yahweh your God; the meat you yourselves may eat.2 But the holy things of yours and the things which you have dedicated, you must go and take to the place chosen by Yahweh.|s2 You must not eat it -- so that you, and your children after you, may prosper, doing what is right in Yahweh's eyes.H 2 You must not eat it, but must pour it like water on the ground.tc2 Take care, however, not to eat the blood, since blood is life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.a=2 But you must eat it as you would gazelle or deer; clean and unclean may eat it together.m U2 If the place in which Yahweh your God chooses to set his name is too far away, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock that Yahweh has given you, as I have prescribed for you; you may eat as much of it as you please at home.1 ]2 'When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory as he has promised you, and you say, "I should like to eat meat," if you want to eat meat you may eat as much as you like.P 2 As long as you live on your soil, be careful not to neglect the Levite.. W2 You must eat these in the presence of Yahweh your God in the place Yahweh your God chooses and there alone, you, your son and your daughter, your serving man and serving woman, and the Levite living in your community, expressing your joy in all your labours in the presence of Yahweh your God.e E2 'You must not eat the tithe of your wheat, of your new wine or of your oil, or the first-born of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings or voluntary offerings, or your offerings held high to Yahweh, at home.[12 You will not, however, eat the blood, but will pour that like water on the ground.Y-2 'This notwithstanding, and whenever you wish, you may slaughter and eat meat wherever you live -- as much as the blessing of Yahweh affords you. Clean or unclean may eat it, as though it were gazelle or deer.-2 only in the place that Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes may you offer your burnt offerings and do all the things which I have commanded you.[12 'Take care you do not offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see;hK2 That is where you will rejoice in the presence of Yahweh your God, you and your sons and daughters, your serving men and women, and the Levite living in your community since he has no share or heritage of his own among you."?2 To the place chosen by Yahweh your God as a home for his name, to that place you must bring all the things that I am laying down for you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and offerings held high, and all the best of your possessions dedicated by you to Yahweh.L2 You are about to cross the Jordan and live in the country given you by Yahweh your God as your heritage; he will grant you peace from all the enemies surrounding you, and you will live in safety.ue2 since you have not yet come to the resting place and the heritage that Yahweh your God is going to give you.hK2 'You must not behave as we are behaving here today, each of you doing what he himself sees fit,*O2 and that is where you must eat in the presence of Yahweh your God, rejoicing over your labours, you and your households, because Yahweh your God has blessed you.S~!2 That is where you must bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and offerings held high, your votive offerings and your voluntary offerings, and the first-born of your herd and flock;#}A2 You must seek Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose from all your tribes, there to set his name and give it a home: that is where you must go.8|m2 'Not so must you behave towards Yahweh your God./{Y2 you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, burn their sacred poles, hack to bits the statues of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.$zC2 'You must completely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess have served their gods, on high mountains, on hills, under any spreading tree;Py 2 'Now, these are the laws and customs which you must keep in the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you as yours, and which you must observe every day that you live in that country.`x;2 and you must keep and observe all the laws and customs promulgated by me to you today.'#wA2 For you are about to cross the Jordan, to enter and take possession of the country given you by Yahweh your God. You will possess it, you will live in it,Kv2 (These mountains, as everyone knows, are on the other side of the Jordan on the westward road, in the territory of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the Oak of Moreh.):uo2 And when Yahweh your God has brought you into the country which you are about to enter and make your own, you must set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal..tW2 a curse, if you disobey the commandments of Yahweh your God and leave the way which today I have marked out for you, by following other gods hitherto unknown to you.as=2 a blessing, if you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God which I enjoin on you today;?r{2 'Today, look, I am offering you a blessing and a curse:q+2 No one will be able to resist you; Yahweh your God will make you feared and dreaded throughout the territory you tread, as he has promised you.bp?2 Wherever the sole of your foot treads will be yours; your territory will run from the desert all the way to the Lebanon; and from the River, from the River Euphrates, as far as the Western Sea, will be your territory.o 2 Yahweh will dispossess all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and more powerful than yourselves.+nQ2 'For if you faithfully keep and observe all these commandments that I enjoin on you today, loving Yahweh your God, following all his ways and holding fast to him,/mY2 so that you and your children may live long in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors that he would give them for as long as there is a sky above the earth.El2 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,/kY2 Teach them to your children, and keep on telling them, when you are sitting at home, when you are out and about, when you are lying down and when you are standing up.j2 'Let these words of mine remain in your heart and in your soul; fasten them on your hand as a sign and on your forehead as a headband.Ui%2 Yahweh's anger will be kindled against you, he will shut the heavens, there will be no more rain, the soil will not yield its produce and, in the fine country given you by Yahweh, you will quickly perish.jhO2 Beware of letting your heart be seduced: if you go astray, serve other gods and bow down to them,ggI2 I shall provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat to your heart's content.f/2 I shall give your country rain at the right time, rain in autumn, rain in spring, so that you can harvest your wheat, your new wine and your oil.#eA2 Depend on it: if you faithfully obey the commandments I enjoin on you today, loving Yahweh your God and serving him with all your heart and all your soul, d2 Yahweh your God looks after this country, the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end. c 2 No, the country which you are about to enter and make your own, is a country of hills and valleys watered by the rain of heaven.gbI2 'For the country which you are about to enter and make your own is not like the country of Egypt from which you have come, where, having done your sowing, you had to water the seed by foot, as though in a vegetable garden.-aU2 and so that you may live long in the country which Yahweh promised on oath to bestow on your ancestors and their descendants, a country flowing with milk and honey.?`y2 'You must keep all the commandments which I enjoin on you today, so that you may have the strength to conquer the country into which you are about to cross, to take possession of it,J_2 All these great deeds of Yahweh you have seen with your own eyes.Z^/2 what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when, with all Israel standing round, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their families, their tents and all their supporters.C]2 what he did for you in the desert, until you arrived here;P\2 what he did to the armies of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots, by overwhelming them with the waters of the Sea of Reeds when they were pursuing you, and leaving no trace of them to this day;[{2 the signs and the deeds which he performed in the heart of Egypt, against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his entire country,\Z32 You are the ones who have had the experience, not your children. They have not had the experience, they have not witnessed the lessons of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,pY ]2 'You must love Yahweh your God and always keep his observances, his laws, his customs, his commandments.#XA2 and, although your ancestors numbered only seventy persons when they went down to Egypt, Yahweh your God has now made you as many as the stars of heaven.'W2 Him you must praise, he is your God: for you he has done these great and terrible things which you have seen for yourselves;yVm2 Yahweh your God is the one whom you must fear and serve; to him you must hold firm; in his name take your oaths.HU 2 (Love the stranger then, for you were once strangers in Egypt.)}Tu2 He it is who sees justice done for the orphan and the widow, who loves the stranger and gives him food and clothing.S2 for Yahweh your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, triumphant and terrible, free of favouritism, never to be bribed.>Ry2 Circumcise your heart then and be obstinate no longer;FQ2 yet it was on your ancestors, for love of them, that Yahweh set his heart to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, you yourselves, out of all nations, up to the present day.kPQ2 'Look, to Yahweh your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth and everything on it;mOU2 to keep the commandments and laws of Yahweh, which I am laying down for you today for your own good.IN 2 'And now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask of you? Only this: to fear Yahweh your God, to follow all his ways, to love him, to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul,2 'So I fell prostrate before Yahweh and lay there those forty days and forty nights, Yahweh having said that he was going to destroy you.L=2 You have been rebels against Yahweh from the day he first knew you.l<S2 And when Yahweh, meaning you to leave Kadesh-Barnea, said, "Go up and take possession of the country which I have given you," you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God and would not believe him or listen to his voice.R;2 'At Taberah too and at Massah and Kibroth-ha-Taavah, you provoked Yahweh.A:}2 That work of sin, the calf you had made, I took and burned and broke to pieces; having ground it to the finest dust, I threw its dust into the stream that comes down from the mountain.s9a2 Yahweh was enraged with Aaron and was ready to destroy him too; I also pleaded for Aaron on that occasion."8?2 For I was afraid of this anger, of the fury which so roused Yahweh against you that he was ready to destroy you. And, once again, Yahweh heard my prayer.s7a2 Then I fell prostrate before Yahweh; as before, I spent forty days and forty nights with nothing to eat or drink, on account of all the sins which you had committed, by doing what was displeasing to Yahweh and thus arousing his anger.h6K2 I seized the two tablets and with my two hands threw them down and broke them before your eyes.85k2 When I looked, I saw that you had been sinning against Yahweh your God. You had cast yourselves a metal calf; you had been quick to leave the way marked out for you by Yahweh.{4q2 'I went back down the mountain, which was blazing with fire, and in my hands were the two tablets of the covenant. ~J}}|b{zz]yyxCww8vv.u{u.tut(sVsr,r qpp#onnmllk j iih6gffAee dBccybbkba``b__;^k]]=\\$[[U[ ZYY_XXWqVfUUTSS RQQ!PvOOwNNMM0L~KJJIHHQGGF{EEDsCCBB AmA1@@@"?l>>c==x<`;;:<988.77655u44I3221100T///I.--c,,]++*%)s)3((#'&&3%N$;#|#"T!q! ?1F!Shylf0=  U !X+b!P=2And today Yahweh has obtained this declaration from you: that you will be his own people -- as he has said -- but only if you keep all his commandments;EO2'Today you have obtained this declaration from Yahweh: that he will be your God, but only if you follow his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, his customs, and listen to his voice.N/2'Yahweh your God commands you today to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.GM 2Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the country which you have given us, as you swore to our ancestors, a country flowing with milk and honey." 'kLQ2When in mourning, I have not eaten any of it; when unclean, I have taken none of it away; I have given none of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh my God and I have behaved in every way as you have commanded me.5Ke2 in the presence of Yahweh your God, you must say: "I have cleared my house of what was consecrated. Yes, I have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, in accordance with all the commandments you have imposed on me, neither going beyond your commandments nor neglecting them.sJa2 'In the third year, the tithing year, when you have finished taking the tithe of your whole income and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow so that, in your towns, they may eat to their heart's content,!I=2 You must then rejoice in all the good things that Yahweh your God has bestowed on you and your family-you, the Levite and the foreigner living with you.EH2 Hence, I now bring the first-fruits of the soil that you, Yahweh, have given me." 'You will then lay them before Yahweh your God, and prostrate yourself in the presence of Yahweh your God.aG=2 He brought us here and has given us this country, a country flowing with milk and honey.F}2and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders.Ey2But we called on Yahweh, God of our ancestors. Yahweh heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression;[D12The Egyptians ill-treated us, they oppressed us and inflicted harsh slavery on us.wCi2In the presence of Yahweh your God, you will then pronounce these words: "My father was a wandering Aramaean, who went down to Egypt with a small group of men, and stayed there, until he there became a great, powerful and numerous nation.mBU2'The priest will then take the basket from your hand and lay it before the altar of Yahweh your God.?Ay2You will go to the priest then in office and say to him, "Today I declare to Yahweh my God that I have reached the country which Yahweh swore to our ancestors that he would give us."r@_2you must set aside the first-fruits of all the produce of the soil raised by you in your country, given you by Yahweh your God. You must put these in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your God chooses to give his name a home.? )2'When you have entered the country which Yahweh your God is giving you as heritage, when you have taken possession of it and are living in it,c>A2When Yahweh your God has granted you peace from all the enemies surrounding you, in the country given you by Yahweh your God to own as your heritage, you must blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.'*=O2He met you on your way and, after you had gone by, he fell on you from the rear and cut off the stragglers; when you were faint and weary, he had no fear of God.Q<2'Remember how Amalek treated you when you were on your way out of Egypt.g;I2For anyone who does things of this kind and acts dishonestly is detestable to Yahweh your God.:}2You must keep one weight, full and accurate, so that you may have long life in the country given you by Yahweh your God.V9'2You must not keep two different measures in your house, one large, one small.T8#2 'You must not keep two different weights in your bag, one heavy, one light.37c2 you must cut off her hand and show no pity.-6U2 'If, when two men are fighting, the wife of one intervenes to protect her husband from the other's blows by reaching out and seizing the other by his private parts,R52 and his family must henceforth be known in Israel as House of the Unshod. 4 2 then the woman to whom he owes duty as brother must go up to him in the presence of the elders, take the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and pronounce the following words, "This is what is done to the man who refuses to restore his brother's house,"32The elders of the town must summon the man and talk to him. If, on appearing before them, he says, "I refuse to take her,"t2c2But if the man declines to take his brother's wife, she must go to the elders at the gate and say, "I have no brother-in-law willing to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he declines to exercise his duty as brother in my favour."12and the first son she bears must assume the dead brother's name; by this means his name will not be obliterated from Israel.c0A2'If brothers live together and one of them dies childless, the dead man's wife may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother must come to her and, exercising his duty as brother, make her his wife,E/2'You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the corn..92He may impose forty strokes but no more; otherwise, by the infliction of more, serious injury may be caused and your brother be humiliated before you.8-k2If the one who is in the wrong deserves a flogging, the judge must have him laid on the ground and flogged in his presence, the number of strokes proportionate to his offence.+, S2'If people fall out, they must go to court for judgement; the judges must declare the one who is right to be in the right, the one who is wrong to be in the wrong.`+;2'Remember that you were once a slave in Egypt. That is why I am giving you this order.'*2'When you harvest your vineyard, you must not pick it over a second time. The foreigner, the orphan and the widow shall have the rest.)2'When you beat your olive tree, you must not go over the branches twice. The foreigner, the orphan and the widow shall have the rest.g(I2'If, when reaping the harvest in your field, you overlook a sheaf in that field, do not go back for it. The foreigner, the orphan and the widow shall have it, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all your undertakings.'2Remember that you were once a slave in Egypt and that Yahweh your God redeemed you from that. That is why I am giving you this order.y&m2'You must not infringe the rights of the foreigner or the orphan; you must not take a widow's clothes in pledge.% 2'Parents may not be put to death for their children, nor children for parents, but each must be put to death for his own crime.J$2You must pay him his wages each day, not allowing the sun to set before you do, since he, being poor, needs them badly; otherwise he may appeal to Yahweh against you, and you would incur guilt.#2'You must not exploit a poor and needy wage-earner, be he one of your brothers or a foreigner resident in your community."/2 you must return it to him at sunset so that he can sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be an upright action on your part in God's view.[!12 And if the man is poor, you must not go to bed with his pledge in your possession;m U2 You must stay outside, and the man to whom you are making the loan must bring the pledge out to you.2 'If you are making your brother a loan on pledge, you must not go into his house and seize the pledge, whatever it may be.\32 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam when you were on your way out of Egypt._92'In a case of a virulent skin-disease, take care you faithfully observe and exactly carry out everything that the levitical priests direct you to do. You must keep and observe everything that I have commanded them.:o2'If anyone is caught, having kidnapped one of his brother-Israelites, whether he makes him his slave or sells him, that thief must die. You must banish this evil from among you.gI2'No one may take a mill or a millstone in pledge; that would be to take life itself in pledge.;q2'If a man is newly married, he must not join the army, nor must he be pestered at home; he must be left at home, free of all obligations for one year, to make his new wife happy.2her first husband, who has repudiated her, may not take her back as his wife now that she has been made unclean in this way. For that is detestable in Yahweh's eyes and you must not bring guilt on the country which Yahweh your God is giving you as your heritage.a=2Then suppose this second man who has married her takes a dislike to her and makes out a writ of divorce for her and hands it to her and dismisses her from his house or if this other man who took her as his wife dies,M2she leaves his home and goes away to become the wife of another man.  2'Suppose a man has taken a wife and consummated the marriage; but she has not pleased him and he has found some impropriety of which to accuse her; he has therefore made out a writ of divorce for her and handed it to her and then dismissed her from his house; 2If you go into your neighbour's standing corn, you may pick ears by hand, but you must not put a sickle into your neighbour's corn.'2'If you go into your neighbour's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not put any in your basket.2Whatever passes your lips you must keep to, and the vow that you have made to Yahweh, your generous God, you must fulfil.=w2If, however, you make no vow, you do not incur guilt..W2'If you make a vow to Yahweh your God, you must not be slack about fulfilling it: Yahweh your God will certainly hold you answerable for it and you will incur guilt.hK2You may demand interest on a loan to a foreigner, but you must not demand interest from your brother; so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all your labours, in the country which you are about to enter and make your own. 2'You must not lend on interest to your brother, whether the loan be of money, of food, or of anything else that may earn interest.9m2You must not bring the wages of a prostitute or the earnings of a 'dog' to the house of Yahweh your God, whatever vow you may have made: both are detestable to Yahweh your God.y m2'There must be no sacred prostitute among the women of Israel, and no sacred prostitute among the men of Israel. 2Let him make his home with you and yours, wherever he pleases in whichever of your towns he prefers; you must not molest him.c A2'You must not allow a master to imprison a slave who has escaped from him and come to you.] 52For Yahweh your God goes about the inside of your camp to guard you and put your enemies at your mercy. Your camp must therefore be a holy place; Yahweh must not see anything indecent there or he will desert you. 12you must have a trowel in your equipment and, when you squat outside, you must scrape a hole with it, then turn round and cover up your excrement.G 2 'You must have a latrine outside the camp, and go out to this;H 2 but towards evening wash himself, and return to camp at sunset.sa2 If any one of you is unclean by reason of a nocturnal emission, he must leave and not come back into camp,V'2 'When you are in camp, at war with your enemies, you must avoid anything bad.b?2 The third generation of children born to these may be admitted to the assembly of Yahweh.0[2'You must not regard the Edomite as detestable, for he is your brother; you must not regard the Egyptian as detestable, since you were once a foreigner in his country.U%2Never, as long as you live, must you seek their welfare or their prosperity.-2But Yahweh your God refused to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse on you into a blessing, because Yahweh your God loved you.F2since they did not come to meet you with food and drink when you were on your way out of Egypt, and even hired Balaam son of Beor to oppose you by cursing you, from Pethor in Aram Naharaim.@{2No Ammonite or Moabite may be admitted to the assembly of Yahweh; not even his descendants to the tenth generation may be admitted to the assembly of Yahweh, and this is for all time;~52No half-breed may be admitted to the assembly of Yahweh; not even his descendants to the tenth generation may be admitted to the assembly of Yahweh.} 2'A man whose testicles have been crushed or whose male member has been cut off must not be admitted to the assembly of Yahweh.n| Y2'A man must not take his father's wife; he must not withdraw the skirt of his father's cloak from her.+{Q2her ravisher must give the girl's father fifty silver shekels; since he has exploited her, she must be his wife and, as long as he lives, he may not divorce her.'vzg2'If a man meets a young virgin who is not betrothed and seizes her, sleeps with her and is caught in the act,y2since he came across her in the open country, the betrothed girl may have called out, without anyone's coming to her rescue.x!2you must do nothing to the girl, she has not committed a capital offence. The case is like that of a man who attacks and kills his fellow:w!2But if the man ran into the betrothed girl in the open country and slept with her, having taken her by force, her ravisher alone must die;vvg2you will take them both to the gate of the town in question and stone them to death: the girl, for not having called for help in the town; the man, for having exploited his fellow-citizen's wife. You must banish this evil from among you.zuo2'If a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the town and has sexual intercourse with her,Gt 2'If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with another man's wife, both must be put to death: the man who has slept with her and the woman herself. You must banish this evil from Israel.qs]2she must be taken out, and at the door of her father's house her fellow-citizens must stone her to death for having committed an infamy in Israel by bringing disgrace on her father's family. You must banish this evil from among you.ar=2'But if the accusation that the girl cannot show evidence of virginity is substantiated,q#2The elders of the town in question will have the man arrested and flogged, and fine him a hundred silver shekels for publicly defaming a virgin of Israel, and give this money to the girl's father. She will remain his wife; as long as he lives, he may not divorce her.Dp2They must then display the cloth to the elders of the town. o;2and now he taxes her with misconduct, saying, I have found no evidence of virginity in your daughter. Here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!"zno2To the elders, the girl's father will say, "I gave this man my daughter for a wife and he has turned against her,m 2the girl's father and mother must take the evidence of her virginity and produce it before the elders of the town, at the gate.2l_2taxes her with misconduct and publicly defames her by saying, "I married this woman and when I had sexual intercourse with her I did not find evidence of her virginity,"bk?2 'If a man marries a woman, has sexual intercourse with her and then, turning against her,]j52 'You must make tassels for the four corners of the cloak in which you wrap yourself.Gi 2 'You must not wear clothing woven part of wool, part of linen.9ho2 'You must not plough with ox and donkey together.g12 'You must not sow any other crop in your vineyard, or the whole yield may become forfeit, both the crop you have sown and the yield of your vines.f+2'When you build a new house, you must give your roof a parapet; then your house will not incur blood-vengeance, should anyone fall off the top.meU2Let the mother go; the young you may take for yourself. Thus will you have prosperity and long life.Yd-2'If, when out walking, you come across a bird's nest, in a tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs and the mother bird sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you must not take the mother as well as the chicks.{cq2'A woman must not dress like a man, nor a man like a woman; anyone who does this is detestable to Yahweh your God.b)2'If you see your brother's donkey or ox fall over on the road, you must not disregard it, but must help your brother get it on its feet again.%aE2'You must do the same with his donkey, the same with his cloak, the same with anything that your brother loses and that you find; you must not disregard it.@`{2And if he is not close at hand or you do not know who he is, you must take it home with you and keep it by you until your brother comes to look for it; you will then return it to him._ 2'If you see your brother's ox or one of his sheep straying, you must not disregard it: you must take it back to your brother.c^A2his body must not remain on the tree overnight; you must bury him the same day, since anyone hanged is a curse of God, and you must not bring pollution on the soil which Yahweh your God is giving you as your heritage.'c]A2'If a man guilty of a capital offence is to be put to death, and you hang him from a tree,\%2All his fellow-citizens must then stone him to death. You must banish this evil from among you. All Israel, hearing of this, will be afraid.[12To the elders of his town, they will say, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious and will not listen to us; he is a wastrel and a drunkard."{Zq2his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.AY}2'If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to the voice either of his father or of his mother and, even when they punish him, still will not pay attention to them,TX#2As his first-born he must acknowledge the son of the wife whom he does not love, giving him a double share of his estate; this son being the first-fruit of his vigour, the right of the first-born is his.VW'2when the man comes to bequeath his goods to his sons, he may not treat the son of the wife whom he loves as the first-born, at the expense of the son of the wife whom he does not love, the true first-born..VW2'If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and the loved one and the unloved both bear him children, and if the first-born son is of the unloved wife,0U[2Should she cease to please you, you will let her go where she wishes, not selling her for money: you must not make any profit out of her, since you have exploited her.GT 2 and take off her prisoner's garb; she must stay inside your house and mourn her father and mother for a full month. You may then go to her and be a husband to her, and she will be your wife.GS 2 and bring her home; she must shave her head and cut her nails,{Rq2 and among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman, and you fall in love with her, and you take her to be your wife{Qq2 'When you go to war against your enemies and Yahweh your God delivers them into your power and you take prisoners,~Pw2 You must banish all shedding of innocent blood from among you, if you mean to do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.'OI2O Yahweh, forgive your people Israel whom you have redeemed, and let no innocent blood be shed among your people Israel. May this bloodshed be forgiven them!"mNU2They must pronounce these words, "Our hands have not shed this blood and our eyes have seen nothing. M2All the elders of the town nearest to the victim of murder must then wash their hands in the stream, over the slaughtered heifer.jLO2The priests, the sons of Levi, will then step forward, these being the men whom Yahweh your God has chosen to serve him and to bless in Yahweh's name, and it being their business to settle all cases of dispute or of violence.HK 2The elders of that town must bring the heifer down to a permanently flowing river, to a spot that has been neither ploughed nor sown, and there by the river they must break the heifer's neck.=Ju2and establish which town is the nearest to the victim. The elders of that town must then take a heifer that has not yet been put to work or used as a draught animal under the yoke.hIK2your elders and scribes must measure the distance between the victim and the surrounding towns,5H g2'If, in the country which Yahweh your God gives you as your possession, a victim of murder is found lying in the open country and it is not known who has killed that person,$GC2Any trees, however, which you know are not fruit trees, you may destroy and cut down and use to build siege-works against the hostile town until it falls.'F 2'If, when attacking a town, you have to besiege it for a long time before you capture it, you must not destroy its trees by taking the axe to them: eat their fruit but do not cut them down. Is the tree in the fields human, that you should besiege it too?"E?2so that they may not teach you to do all the detestable things which they do to honour their gods: in doing these, you would sin against Yahweh your God.(DK2Instead, you must lay them under the curse of destruction: Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, as Yahweh your God has commanded,C+2But as regards the towns of those peoples whom Yahweh your God is giving you as your heritage, you must not spare the life of any living thing.^B72'That is how you will treat towns far away and not belonging to the nations near you.YA-2But the women, children, livestock and whatever the town contains by way of spoil, you may take for yourselves as booty. You will feed on the spoils of the enemies whom Yahweh your God has handed over to you.k@Q2 Yahweh your God having handed it over to you, you will put the whole male population to the sword.G? 2 But if it refuses peace and gives battle, you must besiege it.{>q2 If it accepts these and opens its gates to you, all the people inside will owe you forced labour and work for you.N=2 'When you advance on a town to attack it, first offer it peace-terms.q<]2 'Then, when the scribes have finished speaking to the people, commanders will be appointed to lead them.!;=2'Finally, the scribes will say to the people: "Is anyone frightened or faint hearted? Let him go home, in case he makes his brothers faint hearted too!":2"Has anyone contracted to marry a girl and not yet married her? Let him go home, in case he dies in battle and someone else marries her."9#2"Has anyone planted a vineyard and not yet enjoyed its fruit? Let him go home, in case he dies in battle and someone else enjoys its fruit.L82'The scribes will then address the people, as follows: "Has anyone built a new house and not yet dedicated it? Let him go home, in case he dies in battle and someone else performs the dedication.f7G2Yahweh your God is marching with you, to fight your enemies for you and make you victorious.":6o2He must say to them, "Listen, Israel: today you are about to join battle with your enemies. Do not be faint hearted. Let there be no fear or trembling or alarm as you face them.`5;2When you are about to join battle, the priest must come forward and address the people.M4 2'When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, you must not be afraid of them; Yahweh your God is with you, he who brought you out of Egypt.l3S2You must show no pity. 'Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.'c2A2The rest, hearing of this, will be afraid and never again do such an evil thing among you.s1a2you must treat the witness as he would have treated his brother. You must banish this evil from among you.0#2The judges will make a careful enquiry, and if it turns out that the witness is a liar and has made a false accusation against his brother,m/U2both parties to this dispute before Yahweh must appear before the priests and judges then in office.V.'2'If someone gives false evidence against anyone, laying a charge of apostasy,E-2'A single witness will not suffice to convict anyone of a crime or offence of any kind; whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two witnesses or three is required to sustain the charge.5,e2'You must not displace your neighbour's boundary mark, positioned by men of old in the heritage soon to be yours, in the country which Yahweh your God is about to give you.z+o2 You must show him no pity. You must banish the shedding of innocent blood from Israel, and then you will prosper.*2 the elders of his own town must send there and have him taken and handed over to the avenger of blood, to be put to death.>)w2 'But if it happens that a man has a feud with his fellow and lies in wait for him and attacks him and fatally wounds him and he dies, and the man takes refuge in one of these towns,((K2 In this way, innocent blood will not be shed in the country which Yahweh your God is going to give you as your heritage; otherwise you would incur blood-guilt.L'2 provided that you keep and observe all the commandments which I am enjoining on you today, loving Yahweh your God and always following his ways-then, to those three towns you will add three more.2&_2and if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors that he would, and gives you the whole country which he promised to give to your ancestors-K%2'Hence I am giving you this order: You must set aside three towns,$2It must not be allowed that the avenger of blood, in the heat of his anger, should pursue the killer and that the length of the road should help him to overtake and wound him fatally; for the man has not deserved to die, having had no previous feud with his victim.s#a2(for example, he goes with his fellow into the forest to cut wood; his arm swings the axe to fell a tree; the head slips off the handle and strikes his companion dead), that man may take refuge in one of these towns and save his life.""?2Here is an example of how someone may save his life by fleeing to them. 'If anyone has struck his fellow accidentally, without any previous feud with himQ!2You will keep the approaches to them in good order, dividing the area of the country which Yahweh your God is giving you as your heritage, into three parts, so that any killer can flee to these towns.z o2you must set aside three towns, centrally placed in the country which Yahweh your God is giving you for your own.? {2'When Yahweh your God has annihilated the nations whose country Yahweh your God is going to give you, and you have dispossessed them and are living in their towns and in their houses,a=2When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh and the thing does not happen and the word is not fulfilled, then it has not been said by Yahweh. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. You have nothing to fear from him.'iM2'You may be privately wondering, "How are we to tell that a prophecy does not come from Yahweh?")M2But the prophet who presumes to say something in my name which I have not commanded him to say, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die."F2I shall put my words into his mouth and he will tell them everything I command him. Anyone who refuses to listen to my words, spoken by him in my name, will have to render an account to me.mU2"What they have said is well said. From their own brothers I shall raise up a prophet like yourself;;2Then Yahweh said to me,R2This is exactly what you asked Yahweh your God to do -- at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, when you said, "Never let me hear the voice of Yahweh my God or see this great fire again, or I shall die."Q2Yahweh your God will raise up a prophet like me; you will listen to him.N2For these nations whom you are going to dispossess have listened to soothsayers and mediums, but Yahweh your God does not permit you to do this. From among yourselves, from among your own brothers,J2 'You must be faultless in your relationship with Yahweh your God.5e2 For anyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God; it is because of these detestable practices that Yahweh your God is driving out these nations before you.J2 weaver of spells, consulter of ghosts or mediums, or necromancer./Y2 There must never be anyone among you who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire of sacrifice, who practises divination, who is soothsayer, augur or sorcerer,72 'When you have entered the country given you by Yahweh your God, you must not learn to imitate the detestable practices of the nations there already.eE2eating equal shares with them -- what he has from the sale of his patrimony notwithstanding.2he shall minister there in the name of Yahweh his God like all his fellow Levites who stand ministering there in the presence of Yahweh,sa2'If a Levite living in one of your towns anywhere in Israel decides to move to the place chosen by Yahweh,J 2For Yahweh your God has chosen him from all your tribes to stand before Yahweh your God, to do the duties of the sacred ministry, and to bless in Yahweh's name -- him and his sons for all time. 2You must give him the first-fruits of your wheat, of your new wine and of your oil, as well as the first-fruits of your sheep-shearing.4 c2'This is what is due to the priests from the people, from those who offer an ox or a sheep in sacrifice: the priest must be given the shoulder, the cheeks and the stomach.w i2Levi will have no heritage of his own among his brothers; Yahweh will be his heritage, as he has promised him.4  e2'The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi will be without share or heritage of their own in Israel; they will live on the foods offered to Yahweh and on his heritage.O2so that he will not think himself superior to his brothers, and not deviate from these commandments either to right or to left. So doing, long will he occupy his throne, he and his sons, in Israel.',S2It must never leave him, and he must read it every day of his life and learn to fear Yahweh his God by keeping all the words of this Law and observing these rules,)2Once seated on his royal throne, and for his own use, he must write a copy of this Law on a scroll, at the dictation of the levitical priests.-2Nor must he keep on acquiring more and more wives, for that could lead his heart astray. Nor must he acquire vast quantities of silver and gold.I 2'He must not, however, acquire more and more horses, or send the people back to Egypt with a view to increasing his cavalry, since Yahweh has told you, "You must never go back that way again."eE2the king whom you appoint to rule you must be chosen by Yahweh your God; the appointment of a king must be made from your own brothers; on no account must you appoint as king some foreigner who is not a brother of yours. ,J~~,}E||P{{Qzz^yyxxx/wlvvv%uttxsserrqq ppOoovo-nmmHll k'j.ihhwh=ggpffete(dcckbbaa`&_~^^^]0\\I[[:ZZpYYvXX@WVV]VUSS8RQPOO-NNMxLKKJhII1H@GFFuF EfDDJCCnBBJAA@@?]>>=Dy2 !their wine is snakes' poison, the vipers' cruel venom.'2 For their vine springs from the stock of Sodom and from the groves of Gomorrah: their grapes are poisonous grapes, their clusters are bitter;M2 But their rock is not like our Rock; our enemies cannot pray for us!(K2 How else could one man rout a thousand, how could two put ten thousand to flight, were it not that their Rock has sold them, that Yahweh has delivered them up?V'2 Were they wise, they would succeed, they would be able to read their destiny.J2 What a short-sighted nation this is, how thoroughly imperceptive!.W2 did I not fear the boasting of the enemy.' But do not let their foes be mistaken! Do not let them say, 'We have got the upper hand and Yahweh plays no part in this.'S!2 I should crush them to dust, I said, I should wipe out all memory of them,2 Outside, the sword bereaves, while inside terror will reign. Young man and girl alike will perish, suckling and greybeard both together.:o2 They will be weakened by hunger, eaten away by plague and the bitter scourge. Against them I shall send the fang of wild animals and the poison of snakes that glide in the dust.N2 I shall hurl disasters on them, on them I shall use up all my arrows.?y2 Yes, a fire has blazed from my anger, it will burn right down to the depths of Sheol; it will devour the earth and all its produce, it will set fire to the footings of the mountains.N2 They have roused me to jealousy with a non-god, they have exasperated me with their idols. In my turn I shall rouse them to jealousy with a non-people, I shall exasperate them with a stupid nation.+2 'I shall hide my face from them,' he said, 'and see what will become of them. For they are a deceitful brood, children with no loyalty in them.H 2 Yahweh saw it and, in anger, he spurned his sons and daughters.^72 (You forget the Rock who fathered you, the God who made you, you no longer remember.)-2 They sacrificed to demons who are not God, to gods hitherto unknown to them, to newcomers of yesterday whom their ancestors had never respected.`;2 whose jealousy they aroused with foreigners -- with things detestable they angered him.N 2 Jacob has eaten to his heart's content, Jeshurun, grown fat, has now lashed out. (You have grown fat, gross, bloated.) He has disowned the God who made him, and dishonoured the Rock, his salvation,F 2 curds from the cattle, milk from the flock, and the richness of the pasture, rams of Bashan's breed, and goats, the richness of the wheat kernel; the fermented blood of the grape for drink.+ Q2 He gives him the heights of the land to ride, he feeds him on the yield of the mountains, he gives him honey from the rock to taste, and oil from the flinty crag;8 m2 Yahweh alone is his guide; no alien god for him!  2 Like an eagle watching its nest, hovering over its young, he spreads out his wings to hold him, he supports him on his pinions.2 In the desert he finds him, in the howling expanses of the wastelands. He protects him, rears him, guards him as the pupil of his eye.]52 but Yahweh's portion was his people, Jacob was to be the measure of his inheritance.?y2 When the Most High gave the nations each their heritage, when he partitioned out the human race, he assigned the boundaries of nations according to the number of the children of God,72 Think back on the days of old, think over the years, down the ages. Question your father, let him explain to you, your elders, and let them tell you!72 Is this the return you make to Yahweh? O people brainless and unwise! Is this not your father, who gave you being, who made you, by whom you subsist?hK2 They have acted perversely, those he fathered without blemish, a deceitful and underhand brood.%2 He is the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are equitable. A trustworthy God who does no wrong, he is the Honest, the Upright One!T#2 For I shall proclaim the name of Yahweh. Oh, tell the greatness of our God! 2 May my teaching fall like the rain, may my word drop down like the dew, like showers on the grass, like light rain on the turf!P 2 Listen, heavens, while I speak; hear, earth, the words that I shall say!n~W2In the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel, Moses then recited the words of this song to the end: }2For I know that after my death you are certain to grow corrupt; you will leave the way which I have marked out for you; in the final days disaster will befall you for having done what is evil in Yahweh's eyes, for having provoked his anger by your behaviour.'#|A2'Gather all your tribal elders and scribes round me, so that I may be sure that they hear these words, as I call heaven and earth to witness against them.>{w2For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If today, while I am still alive and with you, you rebel against Yahweh, how much more will you rebel against him after my death! z2'Take the book of this Law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God. Let it lie there as evidence against you.Vy'2he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant:Tx#2When Moses had completely finished writing the words of this Law in a book,Yw-2To Joshua son of Nun, Yahweh gave this order, 'Be strong and stand firm, for you are to be the one to bring the Israelites into the country which I have promised them on oath, and I myself shall be with you.'Qv2So, that day, Moses wrote out this song and taught it to the Israelites.-uU2When a host of disasters and misfortunes overtakes him, this song, like a witness, will give evidence against him, since his descendants will not have forgotten it. Yes, even today, before I have brought him to the country which I have promised him on oath, I know what plans he has in mind.'3ta2against Israel, whom I am bringing into the country which I swore to his ancestors that I would give him, a country flowing with milk and honey: against Israel, who will eat to his heart's content and grow fat, and will then turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant.$sC2'Now write down this song for you to use; teach it to the Israelites, put it into their mouths, for it to be a witness on my behalf against the Israelites:r2Yes indeed, I shall hide my face that day, on account of all the evil which they will have done by turning to other gods. q;2That very day, my anger will blaze against them; I shall desert them and hide my face from them. A host of disasters and misfortunes will overtake them to devour them, and when that day comes they will say, "If such disasters overtake me, surely Yahweh my God cannot be with me?"p52Yahweh said to Moses, 'You will soon be sleeping with your ancestors, and this people is about to play the harlot by following the gods of the foreigners of the country, among whom they are going to live. They will desert me and break my covenant, which I have made with them.woi2and Yahweh showed himself at the Tent in a pillar of cloud; the pillar of cloud stood at the door of the Tent.nnW2Yahweh said to Moses, 'And now the time is near when you must die. Summon Joshua and take your places at the Tent of Meeting, so that I can give him his orders.' Moses and Joshua went and took their places at the Tent of Meeting,7mi2 Their children, who as yet do not know it, will hear it and learn to fear Yahweh your God, all the time you live in the country which you are crossing the Jordan to possess.'Il 2 Call the people together, men, women, children, and the foreigner residing with you, so that, hearing it, they may learn to fear Yahweh your God and keep and observe all the words of this Law.k/2 when all Israel assembles in the presence of Yahweh your God in the place chosen by him, you must proclaim this Law in the hearing of all Israel.j!2 And Moses gave them this command, 'At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the year of remission, at the feast of Shelters,%iE2 Moses committed this Law to writing and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.h}2Yahweh himself will lead you; he will be with you; he will not fail you or desert you. Have no fear, do not be alarmed.'&gG2Moses then summoned Joshua and, in the presence of all Israel, said to him, 'Be strong, stand firm; you will be the one to go with this people into the country which Yahweh has sworn to their ancestors that he would give them; you are to be the one who puts them into possession of it.f!2Be strong, stand firm, have no fear, do not be afraid of them, for Yahweh your God is going with you; he will not fail you or desert you.'e2Yahweh will put them at your mercy, and you will deal with them exactly as prescribed by the commandments which I have laid down for you.xdk2Yahweh will treat them as he has treated Sihon and Og the Amorite kings and their country -- he destroyed them.1c]2Yahweh your God himself will lead you across, he himself will destroy and dispossess these nations confronting you; Joshua too will lead you across, as Yahweh has said.b2'Today, I am one hundred and twenty years old, and can no longer act as leader. Yahweh has told me, "You shall not cross this Jordan."5a i2Moses went and spoke to all Israel as follows, `2in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.'1_]2Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live,^32I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live for long in the country which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. ]2But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them,K\2If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws and his customs, you will live and grow numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the country which you are about to enter and make your own.P[2'Look, today I am offering you life and prosperity, death and disaster.nZW2No, the word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to put into practice.Y72 Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, "Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we can hear and practise it?"X-2 It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, "Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we can hear and practise it?"mWU2 'For this Law which I am laying down for you today is neither obscure for you nor beyond your reach.>Vw2 if you obey the voice of Yahweh your God, by keeping his commandments and decrees written in the book of this Law, and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.U!2 Yahweh your God will make you prosper in all your labours, in the offspring of your body, in the yield of your cattle and in the yield of your soil. For once again Yahweh will delight in your prosperity as he used to take delight in the prosperity of your ancestors,T52And once again you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God and you will put all his commandments into practice, which I am laying down for you today.tSc2Yahweh your God will make all these curses recoil on your foes and on your enemies who have persecuted you.-RU2'Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul, and so will live.9Qm2and bring you back to the country which belonged to your ancestors, so that you may possess it in your turn, and be made prosperous there and more numerous than your ancestors.P!2Should you have been banished to the very sky's end, Yahweh your God will gather you again even from there, will come there to reclaim you,OS2then Yahweh your God will bring back your captives, he will have pity on you and gather you back from all the peoples among whom Yahweh your God has scattered you.6Ng2if you return to Yahweh your God, if with all your heart and with all your soul you obey his voice, you and your children, in everything that I am laying down for you today,TM %2'And when all these words have come true for you -- the blessing and the curse, which I have offered you -- if you meditate on them in your heart wherever among the nations Yahweh your God has driven you,'LI2Things hidden belong to Yahweh our God, but things revealed are ours and our children's for ever, so that we can put all the words of this Law into practice.'K#2In anger, in fury, in fierce wrath, Yahweh has torn them from their own country and flung them into another country, where they are today."|Js2this is why Yahweh's anger has blazed against this country, afflicting it with all the curses written in this book.I)2because they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods hitherto unknown to them, gods that were no part of their heritage from him:-HU2'And people will say, "Because they deserted the covenant of Yahweh, God of their ancestors, the covenant which he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt;zGo2And all the nations will exclaim, "Why has Yahweh treated this country like this? Why this great blaze of anger?"bF?2"Sulphur! Salt!-The whole country is burning! No one will sow, nothing grow, no vegetation spring ever again! Devastation like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, devastated by Yahweh in his furious wrath!"RE2'The future generation, that of your children coming after you, and the foreigner arriving from some far-away land, on seeing the plagues and diseases inflicted on this country by Yahweh, will exclaim,"D?2Yahweh will single him out of all the tribes of Israel for misfortune, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in the book of this Law.JC2Yahweh will not pardon him. The wrath and jealousy of Yahweh will blaze against such a person; every curse written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot his name out under heaven.=Bu2If, after hearing this imprecation, anyone, blessing himself, should say in his heart, "I shall do well enough if I follow the dictates of my heart; much water drives away thirst,"]A52'Let there be no man or woman of you, no clan or tribe, whose heart turns away from Yahweh your God today, to go and serve the gods of these nations. Among you let there be no root which bears poison or wormwood.t@c2You have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were there.&?G2'Yes, you know the people with whom we used to live in Egypt, and those through whose countries we have travelled -- the nations through whom we have passed.>)2not only on behalf of those standing here with us in the presence of Yahweh our God today, but also on behalf of those not here with us today.c=A2 Not only on your behalf am I today making this covenant and pronouncing this solemn curse,8<k2 and by which, today, he makes you a nation for himself and he himself becomes a God to you, as he has promised you, and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.;2 and you are about to pass into the covenant of Yahweh your God, sworn with imprecation, which he has made with you today,:2 with your children and your wives (and the foreigner too who is in your camp, be he your wood-cutter or your water-carrier),9)2 'All of you are standing here today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your tribal leaders, your elders, your scribes, all the men of Israel,l8S2'Keep the words of this covenant, put them into practice, and you will thrive in everything you do.j7O2We conquered their country and gave it as heritage to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.62'When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to do battle against us; we defeated them.52You have had no bread to eat, you have had no wine or fermented liquor to drink, so that you would learn that I, Yahweh, am your God."4?2'I have been leading you for forty years in the desert, yet the clothes which you have been wearing have not worn out, nor have the sandals on your feet.f3G2But until today Yahweh has not given you a heart to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.]252the great ordeals which you yourselves witnessed, those signs and the great wonders.51 g2Moses called all Israel together and said to them: 'You have seen everything that Yahweh did before your eyes in Egypt, to Pharaoh, to his servants and to his whole country-.0W2EThese are the words of the covenant which Yahweh ordered Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant which he had made with them at Horeb.m/U2DYahweh will send you back to Egypt, either by ship or by a road which I promised you would never see again. And there you will want to offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as serving men and women, but no one will buy you.'C.2CIn the morning you will say, "How I wish it were evening!", and in the evening you will say, "How I wish it were morning!", such terror will grip your heart and such sights you will see!m-U2BYour life ahead of you will hang in doubt; you will be afraid day and night, uncertain of your life.(,K2AAmong these nations there will be no repose for you, no rest for the sole of your foot; there Yahweh will give you a quaking heart, weary eyes, halting breath.N+2@Yahweh will scatter you throughout every people, from one end of the earth to the other; there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone, hitherto unknown either to you or to your ancestors.i*M2?just as Yahweh used to delight in making you happy and in making your numbers grow, so will he take delight in ruining you and destroying you. You will be torn from the country which you are about to enter and make your own.!)=2>There will only be a small group of you left, you who were once as numerous as the stars of heaven. 'For not having obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God,(72=What is more, Yahweh will afflict you with all the plagues and all the diseases not mentioned in the book of this Law, until you have been destroyed.q']2vuuiutBssZrrqq/p]oo&nn mmclkk^jj.iMi hgggffedeccbb>aaM`___^^2]]#\m[[?ZcYYXWW|VV TTgSS[R{QQJPP OONMLLLLKJVII$HHGFFEoDDGCCWBCAAd@??8>===.<3;:9988U77-6g544 3X2e11D0010//^._--S,,++*))u)(T'&?%% $v##Y"!! g}GT2&V"H6C w p v  l"0f[<Tomorrow morning, therefore, you will come forward tribe by tribe, and then the tribe which Yahweh selects by lot will come forward clan by clan, and the clan which Yahweh selects by lot will come forward family by family, and the family which Yahweh selects by lot will come forward man by man.Fe< 'Get up, sanctify the people and say, "Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, since Yahweh, the God of Israel, declares: The curse of destruction has now fallen on you, Israel; you will not be able to stand up to your enemies, until you have rid yourselves of that object which has been put under the curse of destruction..dW< That is why the Israelites cannot stand up to their foes, why they have turned tail on their enemies: because they have come under the curse of destruction themselves. Unless you get rid of the object among you which has been put under the curse of destruction, I shall be with you no longer.'ycm< Israel has sinned; they have violated the covenant which I imposed on them. They have gone so far as to take what was under the curse of destruction, they have even stolen it; they have actually hidden it; they have put it in their baggage.Qb< Yahweh said to Joshua, 'Stand up! Why are you lying prostrate like this?8ak< The Canaanites, all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it; they will unite against us to wipe our name from the earth. And what will you do about your great Name then?'\`3<Forgive me, Lord, but what can I say, now that Israel has turned tail on the enemy?r__<And Joshua said, 'Alas, Lord Yahweh, why did you bother to bring this nation across the Jordan, if it was only to put us at the mercy of the Amorites and destroy us? If only we could have settled down on the other side of the Jordan!,^S<Joshua then tore his clothes and prostrated himself before the ark of Yahweh till nightfall; the elders of Israel did the same, and all poured dust on their heads.B]<who killed some thirty-six of them and pursued them from the town gate as far as Shebarim, and on the slope cut them to pieces. The hearts of the people melted away and turned to water.`\;<Of the people, some three thousand marched up, but these broke before the people of Ai,R[<Coming back to Joshua, they said, 'There is no need for the whole people to go up; let some two or three thousand go and attack Ai. Spare the whole people such an effort; there are only a few of them!'=Zu<Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is near Beth-Aven), to the east of Bethel, having said to them, 'Go up and reconnoitre the country.' They went up and reconnoitred Ai.Y <But the Israelites were unfaithful to the curse of destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took something that fell under the curse of destruction, and the anger of Yahweh was aroused against the Israelites.MX<So Yahweh was with Joshua, whose fame spread throughout the country.jWO<At that time Joshua made them take this oath before Yahweh: Accursed before Yahweh be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city (Jericho)! On his first-born will he lay its foundations, on his youngest son set up its gates!\V3<But Rahab the prostitute, her father's family and all who belonged to her, these Joshua spared. She is still living in Israel even today, for having hidden the messengers whom Joshua sent to reconnoitre Jericho.*UO<They burned the city and everything inside it, except the silver, the gold and the things of bronze and iron; these they put into the treasury of Yahweh's house.oTY<The young men who had been spies went and brought Rahab out, with her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. They brought out all her clansmen too, and put them in a place of safety outside the camp of Israel.?Sy<Joshua said to the two men who had reconnoitred the country, 'Go into the prostitute's house, and bring the woman out with all who belong to her, as you swore to her that you would.',RS<They enforced the curse of destruction on everyone in the city: men and women, young and old, including the oxen, the sheep and the donkeys, slaughtering them all.Q!<The people raised the war cry, the trumpets sounded. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a mighty war cry and the wall collapsed then and there. At once the people stormed the city, each man going straight forward; and they captured the city.P<All the silver and all the gold, everything made of bronze or iron, will be consecrated to Yahweh and put in his treasury.'VO'<But beware of the curse of destruction, yourselves, for fear that, moved by greed, you take something lying under the curse; that would put the camp of Israel under the same curse and bring disaster on it.bN?<'The city and everyone in it must be devoted to Yahweh under the curse of destruction; the life of Rahab the prostitute alone must be spared, with all those with her in her house, since she hid the messengers we sent.M!<At the seventh time, the priests blew their trumpets and Joshua said to the people, 'Raise the war cry, for Yahweh has given you the city!3La<On the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched (in the same manner) round the city seven times. (This was the only day when they marched round the city seven times.)lKS<They marched once round the city (on the second day) and went back to camp; and so on for six days.J< Carrying the seven ram's-horn trumpets, the seven priests walked ahead of the ark of Yahweh, blowing their trumpets as they went, while the vanguard marched ahead of them and the rearguard behind the ark of Yahweh, and the march went on to the sound of the trumpet.HI < Joshua got up early, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.zHo< He made the ark go round the city (going round it once), then they went back to camp, where they spent the night.mGU< Joshua had given the people the following orders, 'Do not raise a war cry, do not let your voice be heard (not a word must pass your lips), until the day when I say, "Raise the war cry." That is when you must raise the war cry.'F/< the vanguard marched ahead of the priests, who blew their trumpets, the rearguard followed behind the ark; the men marched, the trumpets sounded.eEE<(Everything was done as Joshua had given orders to the people.) Seven priests, carrying seven ram's-horn trumpets ahead of Yahweh, moved forward blowing their trumpets; the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came behind them,|Ds<To the people he then said, 'Forward! March round the city, and let the vanguard march ahead of the ark of Yahweh!'6Cg<Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven ram's-horn trumpets ahead of the ark of Yahweh.'oBY<When the ram's horn sounds (when you hear the sound of the trumpet), the entire people must utter a mighty war cry and the city wall will collapse then and there; the people will then go into the assault, each man straight ahead.'6Ag<Seven priests must carry seven ram's-horn trumpets in front of the ark. On the seventh day, you will go seven times round the city and the priests will blow their trumpets).y@m<All you warriors must march round the city (go right round the city once, doing the same on six successive days.p?[<Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Look, I am putting Jericho, its picked troops and its king, at your mercy.t> e<Now, Jericho had shut and barricaded its gates (against the Israelites): no one came out and no one went in.=9<The captain of the army of Yahweh answered Joshua, 'Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.' And Joshua did so.I< <He replied, 'On neither side. I have come now as the captain of the army of Yahweh.' Joshua fell on his face to the ground, worshipping him, and said, 'What has my Lord to say to his servant?'S;!< Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him, grasping a naked sword. Joshua walked towards him and said to him, 'Are you on our side or on that of our enemies?'':I< The manna stopped the day after they had eaten the produce of the land. The Israelites from that year onwards ate the produce of Canaan and had no more manna.}9u< On the very next day after the Passover, they ate what the land produced, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn.8-< The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plain of Jericho.7< Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.' Hence, the place has been called Gilgal ever since.{6q<When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they stayed resting in the camp till they were well again.45c<But in place of these he set their sons, and these were the ones whom Joshua circumcised: they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised during the journey.i4M<for the Israelites walked the desert for forty years, until the whole nation had died out, that is, the men who had come out of Egypt of age to bear arms; they had not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and Yahweh had sworn to them never to let them see the land which he had sworn to their ancestors that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.$3C<Now, all the people who came out had been circumcised; but none of those born in the desert, during the journey, after leaving Egypt, had been circumcised;@2{<The reason why Joshua circumcised them was this. All the males of the people who had come out of Egypt of age to bear arms had died in the desert on their journey after leaving Egypt.Z1/<Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of Foreskins.t0c<At this time Yahweh said to Joshua, 'Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again (a second time).:/ q<When all the kings of the Amorites living to westward across the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living on the seaboard, heard that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed, their hearts failed and they lost all courage to resist the Israelites.. <so that all the peoples of the earth may know how mighty the hand of Yahweh is, and always stand in awe of Yahweh your God." 'K-<For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of you until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God did to the Sea of Reeds, which he dried up before us until we had crossed it;Q,<you will explain to your children, "Israel crossed this Jordan dry-shod.x+k<He then said to the Israelites, 'When, in the future, your children ask their fathers, "What are these stones?"l*S<As regards those twelve stones, which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set them up at Gilgal.)-<It was the tenth day of the first month when the people came up from the Jordan and made their camp at Gilgal, on the eastern border of Jericho.{(q<Now, when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came up out of mid-Jordan, no sooner had the soles of the priests' feet touched solid ground, than the waters of the Jordan returned to their bed and ran on, in spate as before.P'<And Joshua gave the order to the priests, 'Come up, out of the Jordan!'\&3<'Order the priests carrying the ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan.'%9<Yahweh said to Joshua, $<That day, Yahweh made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, who respected him as they had respected Moses, as long as he lived.#}< Some forty thousand warriors in arms, they crossed in Yahweh's presence, ready for battle, towards the plain of Jericho."7< The sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed in battle formation at the head of the Israelites, as Moses had told them.|!s< When the people had finished crossing, the ark of Yahweh then crossed, with the priests, to the head of the people.o Y< The priests carrying the ark stood still in mid-Jordan, until everything had been done that Yahweh had ordered Joshua to tell the people (in accordance with everything that Moses had ordered Joshua); and the people hurried across./Y< Joshua then erected twelve stones in mid-Jordan, on the spot where the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are still there today.b?<The Israelites did as Joshua ordered; they took twelve stones from mid-Jordan corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel, as Yahweh had told Joshua; they carried them over to the camp and set them down there.sa<you will then tell them, "The waters of the Jordan separated before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the river separated. These stones are an everlasting reminder of this to the Israelites."|s<to make this a sign among you; and when, in the future, your children ask you, "What do these stones mean for you?"B<and Joshua said to them, 'Go on ahead of the ark of Yahweh your God into mid-Jordan, and each of you take one stone on his shoulder, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel,hK<Joshua called the twelve men whom he had selected from the Israelites, one man from each tribe,9m<"Here, from mid-Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet were standing, take twelve stones; carry them with you and set them down in the camp where you pass the night." '_9<'Choose twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe, and give them this order,` =<When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua and said,P<The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in mid-Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until the whole nation had completed its crossing of the Jordan.wi<the upper waters stood still and formed a single mass over a great distance, at Adam, the town near Zarethan, while those flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely separated. The people crossed opposite Jericho.6g<As soon as the bearers of the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the waters -- the Jordan is in spate throughout the harvest season- <Accordingly, when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of the people.wi< As soon as the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of the whole earth, have set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off; the upper waters flowing down will stop as a single mass.'R< Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe.tc< Look, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth is about to move into the Jordan at your head.U%< Joshua said, 'By this, you are to know that the living God is with you and without a doubt will expel the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites before you.b?< To the Israelites, Joshua then said, 'Come closer and hear the words of Yahweh your God.'3 a<Now, give this order to the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, "When you have reached the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you must halt in the Jordan itself." '3 a<Yahweh said to Joshua, 'This very day, I shall begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel so that they will know that, as I was with Moses, so I shall be with you.: o<Joshua then said to the priests, 'Take up the ark of the covenant and cross at the head of the people.' They took up the ark of the covenant and moved to the head of the people.m U<Joshua said to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves, since tomorrow Yahweh will work wonders among you.'l S<Between you and the ark, however, keep a distance of about two thousand cubits: do not go near it.'<and gave the people these instructions, 'When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God being carried by the levitical priests, you will leave your position and follow it, so that you may know which way to take, since you have never gone this way before.=w<Three days later, the officials went through the camp, U<Early in the morning, Joshua struck camp and set out from Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and there they camped before they crossed. <To Joshua they said, 'Yahweh has put the whole country at our mercy, and its inhabitants are all panic-stricken at our approach.''<The two men then came down again from the hills, crossed over and, going to Joshua son of Nun, told him everything that had happened to them.%E<They left and made for the hills. They stayed there for three days, until their pursuers had gone home, having scoured the countryside without finding them.{q<She replied, 'Let it be as you say.' She let them go, and they left. She then tied the scarlet cord to the window.ue<But if you divulge our mission in the meanwhile, we shall be free of the oath which you have made us swear.'ue<If anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head and we shall not be to blame; but the blood of all staying inside the house with you will be on our heads if a hand is laid on any of them.<s<when we invade the country, you must tie this scarlet cord to the window from which you let us down, and collect your father, mother, brothers and entire family inside your house.Z~/<The men said, 'This is how we shall fulfil the oath which you have made us swear:%}E<'Make for the hills,' she said, 'or you may run into your pursuers. Hide there for three days, until your pursuers have come back, and then go on your way.'|<She then let them down from the window on a rope, as her house was against the city wall and she actually lived in the wall.5{e<The men replied, 'We pledge you our lives, provided that you say nothing about our mission. When Yahweh has given us the country, we shall treat you kindly and faithfully.'pz[< that you in your turn will be kind to my father's family; and give me a sure sign of this: that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters and all who belong to them, and will preserve us from death.'Fy< So, swear to me now by Yahweh, since I have been kind to you,-xU< When we heard this, our hearts failed us, and now no one has any courage left to resist you, since Yahweh your God is God both in heaven above and on earth beneath.]w5< for we have heard how Yahweh dried up the Sea of Reeds before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you put under the curse of destruction.;vq< She said to them, 'I know that Yahweh has given you this country, that we are afraid of you and that everyone living in this country has been seized with terror at your approach;cuA<The two men had not yet settled down for the night when Rahab came up to them on the roof.t<The men hurried in pursuit of them towards the Jordan, as far as the fords, and the gate was shut once the pursuers had gone through.rs_<She had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax which she had laid out there.)rM<When the city gate was about to be closed at nightfall, the men went out and I cannot say where they have gone. Follow them quickly and you will overtake them.'q<But the woman took the two men and hid them. 'It is true,' she said, 'the men did come to me, but I did not know where they came from.1p]<The king of Jericho then sent a message to Rahab, 'Send out the men who came to you and are lodging in your house, for they have come to reconnoitre the whole country.'yom<The king of Jericho was told, 'Some men have come here tonight from the Israelites, to reconnoitre the country.'\n 5<From Shittim, Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men to reconnoitre. He said, 'Go and explore the country and Jericho.' They left; they went into the house of a prostitute called Rahab, to spend the night there. m <If anyone rebels against your orders or will not listen to your commands, let him be put to death. Only be strong and stand firm.'{l s<We obeyed Moses in everything, and now we will obey you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you as he was with Moses!ek G<They answered Joshua, 'We will do whatever you order us, and wherever you send us we will go.9j o<until Yahweh grants rest to your brothers and you alike, when they too have taken possession of the land which Yahweh your God is giving to them. Then you may go back and take possession of the land which belongs to you and which Moses, servant of Yahweh, has given you on the eastern side of the Jordan.'Wi +<Your wives, your little ones and your cattle must stay in the country given you by Moses beyond the Jordan. But all you fighting men must cross in battle formation at the head of your brothers and help them,h < 'Remember the order given you by Moses, servant of Yahweh: Yahweh your God, in bringing you to rest, has given you the land where we are.Vg )< Joshua then said to the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,df E< 'Go through the camp and give the people this order, "Make provisions ready, for in three days' time you will cross this Jordan and go on to take possession of the land which Yahweh your God is giving you as your own." '@e < Joshua then gave the people's officials this instruction:d < Have I not told you: Be strong and stand firm? Be fearless and undaunted, for go where you may, Yahweh your God is with you.'Vc )<Have the book of this Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may carefully keep everything that is written in it. Then your undertakings will prosper, then you will have success.Xb -<Only be strong and stand very firm and be careful to keep the whole Law which my servant Moses laid down for you. Do not swerve from this either to right or to left, and then you will succeed wherever you go.a 1<'Be strong and stand firm, for you are the man to give this people possession of the land which I swore to their ancestors that I would give them. ` <As long as you live, no one will be able to resist you; I shall be with you as I was with Moses; I shall not fail you or desert you.2_ a<From the desert and the Lebanon, to the Great River, the Euphrates (the entire country of the Hittites), and as far as the Great Sea to westward, is to be your territory.p^ ]<Every place you tread with the soles of your feet I shall give you, as I declared to Moses that I would.] -<'Moses my servant is dead; go now and cross this Jordan, you and this whole people, into the country which I am giving to them (the Israelites).l\ WHy2!Of Dan he said: Dan is a lion cub leaping from Bashan.]G52!Then he took the first portion for himself, saw that there was stored up for him a leader's share. He has come at the head of the people, has carried out the saving justice of Yahweh and his judgements on Israel.F2!Of Gad he said: Blessed be he who gives Gad space enough! He lies there like a lioness; he has savaged arm and face and head."E?2!On the mountain where the people come to pray they offer upright sacrifices, for they taste the riches of the seas and the treasures hidden in the sands.eDE2!Of Zebulun he said: Prosper, Zebulun, in your expeditions, and you, Issachar, in your tents!VC'2!First-born of the Bull, his the glory. His horns are the wild ox's horns, with which he gores the peoples to the very ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, such are the thousands of Manasseh.?By2!the best of the land and all it holds, the favour of him who dwells in the Bush. May the hair grow thick on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the consecrated one among his brothers!RA2!the first-fruits of the ancient mountains, the best from the hills of oldO@2!the best of what the sun makes grow, of what springs with every month,|?s2! Of Joseph he said: His land is blessed by Yahweh. For him the best of heaven's dew and of the deep that lies below,>-2! Of Benjamin he said: Beloved of Yahweh, he rests trustfully near him. The Most High protects him day after day and dwells between his hillsides.$=C2! Yahweh, bless his worthiness, and accept the actions he performs. Crush the loins of those who rise against him and of his foes, so that they rise no more! <2! They will teach your customs to Jacob, and your Law to Israel. They will put incense before you and burnt offerings on your altar.N;2! Of his father and mother, he says, 'I have not seen them.' He does not acknowledge his brothers, nor does he know his own children. Yes, they have kept your word, they hold firmly to your covenant.%:E2!Of Levi he said: To Levi, give your urim, to your faithful one, your thummim, having tested him at Massah, having striven with him at the Waters of Meribah.19]2!Of Judah he said this: Listen, Yahweh, to the voice of Judah, and bring him back to his people. That his hands may defend his rights, come to his help against his foes!K82!May Reuben survive and not die out, survive though his men be few!|7s2!there was a king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people foregathered and the tribes of Israel were all assembled!X6+2!(Moses enjoined a law on us.) The assembly of Jacob comes into its inheritance; 5 2!You who love the ancestors! Your holy ones are all at your command. At your feet they fell, under your guidance went swiftly on.=4u2!He said: Yahweh came from Sinai, from Seir he dawned on us, from Mount Paran blazed forth, For them he came, after the mustering at Kadesh, from his zenith as far as the foothills.c3 C2!This is the blessing that Moses, man of God, pronounced over the Israelites before he died.|2s2 4you may only see the country from outside; you cannot enter it -- the country which I am giving to the Israelites.'81k2 3Because, with the other Israelites, you broke faith with me at the Waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the desert of Zin, because you did not make my holiness clear to the Israelites;0'2 2Die on the mountain you have climbed, and be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.+/Q2 1'Climb this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, in the country of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the Canaan which I am giving to the Israelites as their domain.<.u2 0Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day and said to him,/-Y2 /You must not think of this as empty words, for the Law is your life, and by its means you will live long in the country which you are crossing the Jordan to possess.'5,e2 .he said to them, 'Take all these words to heart; I intend them today to be evidence against you. You must order your children to keep and observe all the words of this Law.D+2 -When Moses had finished reciting these words to all Israel,j*O2 ,Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the people's hearing.*)O2 +Heavens, rejoice with him, let all the children of God pay him homage! Nations, rejoice with his people, let God's envoys tell of his power! For he will avenge the blood of his servants, he will return vengeance to my foes, he will repay those who hate him and purify his people's country.#(A2 *I shall make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will feed on flesh: the blood of the wounded and the prisoners, the dishevelled heads of the enemy!''2 )When I have whetted my flashing sword, I shall enforce justice, I shall return vengeance to my foes, I shall take vengeance on my foes.R&2 (Yes, I raise my hand to heaven, and I say, 'As surely as I live for ever,0%[2 'See now that I, I am he, and beside me there is no other god. It is I who deal death and life; when I have struck, it is I who heal (no one can rescue anyone from me).$'2 &who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations?' Let these arise and help you, let these be the shelter above you!V#'2 %'Where are their gods then?' he will ask, 'the rock where they sought refuge,U"%2 $(For Yahweh will see his people righted, he will take pity on his servants.)s!a2 #Vengeance is mine, I will pay them back, for the time when they make a false step. For the day of their ruin is close, doom is rushing towards them, for he will see to it that their power fails. that neither serf nor free man remains.  ~~~}}<|| {'zz$yxZwvuuPtssBrrFqq pspoVnImm_llkljihhgg1ffeddGcNba#`_^^^]f\\?[[6ZYXX?WW.VUU_TTSjRR6QPlP ONMLL>KJIIHHGFEDDbDCCCBBAX@@_?>==<;;':d99L88^77E6K5433R22t11O00 /..O-R,,T++*)((?''E&%$$#"!! -Xm/}7Q<$|% K f c v} cW|Ga T0#<The Israelites did as Yahweh had ordered Moses, and shared out the country.b/?<Since the sons of Joseph formed two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, no share in the country was given to the Levites, apart from some towns to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and their possessions.,.S<For Moses himself had given the two-and-a-half tribes their heritage on the further side of the Jordan, although to the Levites he had given no heritage with them.-}<They received their heritage by lot, as Yahweh had ordered through Moses, as regards the nine tribes and the half-tribe.W, +<This was what the Israelites received as their heritage in Canaan, which was given them as their heritage by the priest, Eleazar, and by Joshua son of Nun, with the heads of families of the tribes of Israel.|+s< !To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses gave no heritage; Yahweh, God of Israel, was his heritage, as he had told him. * < This was what Moses had conferred in heritage on the Plains of Moab on the further, eastern side of the Jordan opposite Jericho.3)a< Half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan, were allotted to the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, to half of the sons of Machir, by clans.'(I< Their territory, starting from Mahanaim, was the whole of Bashan, the entire kingdom of Og king of Bashan, all the Encampments of Jair in Bashan: sixty towns.E'< Moses had given the half-tribe of Manasseh a share by clans.m&U< Such was the heritage of the sons of Gad, by clans, with their towns and villages belonging to them.u%e< and in the valley: Beth-Haram, Beth-Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon -- the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon -- the Jordan and the territory running to the tip of the Sea of Chinneroth, on the further, eastern side of the Jordan.j$O< and from Heshbon to Ramath-Mizpeh and Betonim; from Mahanaim as far as the territory of Lo-Debar,}#u< Their territory was Jazer, all the towns of Gilead, half the country of the Ammonites as far as Aroer facing Rabbah,M"< Moses had given the tribe of Gad, the sons of Gad, a share by clans./!Y< The boundary of the Reubenites was the Jordan and its territory. Such was the heritage of the sons of Reuben, by clans, with the towns and villages belonging to them. {< As regards Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, the Israelites had put him to the sword with those whom they had killed. < all the towns on the tableland and the entire kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had reigned in Heshbon; he had been defeated by Moses, and with him the princes of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, vassals of Sihon, formerly living in the country.M< Beth-Peor, the watered foothills of Mount Pisgah, Beth-ha-Jeshimoth,O< Kiriathaim, Sibmah and, in the highlands of the Arabah, Zereth-Shahar;"A< Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,Y-< Heshbon with all the towns on the tableland: Dibon, Bamoth-Baal, Beth-Baal-Meon, ;< Thus, their territory was the entire tableland from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, with the town in the bottom of the valley, as far as Medeba,J< Moses had given the tribe of the sons of Reuben a share by clans.wi< To the tribe of Levi alone no heritage was given; Yahweh, God of Israel, was his heritage, as he had told him.+< The Israelites did not, however, dispossess either the Geshurites or the Maacathites, hence Geshur and Maacah survive inside Israel even today.@{< and in Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, and was the last of the survivors of the Rephaim. Moses had conquered and dispossessed these two kings.< then Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites with the whole Hermon range and the whole of Bashan as far as Salecah;sa< all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had reigned in Heshbon, to the frontier of the Ammonites;!=< The country onwards from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, with the town in the bottom of the valley and the entire tableland from Medeba to Dibon;~w< As regards the other half-tribe of Manasseh, this and the Reubenites and Gadites had already received their heritage, given them by Moses on the further, eastern side of the Jordan, the one which Moses, servant of Yahweh, had already given them:iM< The time has come to divide this territory as a heritage between the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh: from the Jordan as far as the Great Sea in the west, you must give it them; the Great Sea will be their limit.'< 'All who live in the highlands from the Lebanon to Misrephoth in the west -- all the Sidonians -- I myself shall dispossess before the Israelites. All you have to do is to distribute the territory as a heritage for the Israelites as I have ordered you.< and then the country of the Gebalites with the entire Lebanon eastwards from Baal-Gad at the foot of Mount Hermon to the Pass of Hamath.$C< the south. The entire territory of the Canaanites, and Mearah which belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphekah and as far as the frontier of the Amorites;r _< from the Shihor, facing Egypt, to the frontier of Ekron in the north, is reckoned as Canaanite territory. The five rulers of the Philistines have their seats at Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron, respectively; the Avvites are inw i< This is all the territory left: 'All the districts of the Philistines and the whole country of the Geshurites;@  }< Now Joshua had grown old and advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, 'You are now old and advanced in years, yet there is still a great deal of territory left to be taken possession of.N < the king of Tirzah, one; Total number of all these kings: thirty-one.] 5< the king of Dor, on the Slopes of Dor, one; the king of the nations in Galilee, one;E< the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;;s< the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;C< the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;7k< the king of Merom, one; the king of Hazor, one;8m< the king of Aphek, one; the king of Sharon, one;:q< the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;;s< the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;:q< the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;7k< the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;7k< the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;7~k< the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;;}s< the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;<|u< the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;C{< the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai near Bethel, one;_z9< In the highlands and the lowlands, in the Arabah and in the watered foothills, in the desert and in the Negeb, belonging to the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites:+yQ< The kings of the country whom Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the nearer, western side of the Jordan, from Baal-Gad in the Vale of Lebanon to Mount Halak rising towards Seir, and whose heritage Joshua distributed to the tribes of Israel, dividing it up between them, were as follows:=xu< Moses, servant of Yahweh, and the Israelites conquered these, and Moses, servant of Yahweh, conferred their territory on the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh..wW< ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah, the whole of Bashan to the frontier of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half Gilead to the frontier of Sihon king of Heshbon.]v5< Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei,]u5< the eastern Arabah up to the Sea of Chinneroth, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, or Salt Sea, on the eastern side, in the direction of Beth-Jeshimoth, and, in the south, the watered foothills of Mount Pisgah.rt_< Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, ruled from Aroer which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, including the bottom of the valley, half Gilead and as far as the Jabbok, the river forming the frontier with the Ammonites;ds E< The kings of the country, whom the Israelites conquered and whose territory they took, on the further, eastern side of the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon, with the entire Arabah to the east, were as follows:?ry< Joshua captured the entire country, just as Yahweh had told Moses, and he gave it as heritage to Israel, to be shared out between their tribes. And the country had rest from warfare.aq=< No Anakim were left in the territory of the Israelites, except at Gaza, Gath and Ashdod.hpK< Joshua then went and wiped out the Anakim of the highlands, of Hebron, of Debir, of Anab, of all the highlands of Judah and of all the highlands of Israel; he delivered them and their towns over to the curse of destruction.foG< For Yahweh had decided to harden the hearts of these men, so that they would engage Israel in battle and thus come under the curse of destruction and so receive no quarter but be exterminated, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.n< no city had made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites who lived at Gibeon; all the rest had been captured in battle.:mq< For many a day Joshua made war on all these kings;9lm< From Mount Halak, which rises towards Seir, to Baal-Gad in the Vale of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon, he captured all their kings, struck them down and put them to death.5ke< In consequence, Joshua captured this entire country: the highlands, the whole Negeb and the whole of Goshen, the lowlands, the Arabah, the highlands and lowlands of Israel.)jM< What Yahweh had ordered his servant Moses, Moses in turn had ordered Joshua, and Joshua carried it out, leaving nothing undone of what Yahweh had ordered Moses.giI< All the spoils of these towns, including the livestock, the Israelites took as booty for themselves. But they put all the human beings to the sword till they had destroyed them completely; they did not leave a living soul.ph[< Yet of all these towns standing on their mounds, Israel burned none, apart from Hazor, burnt by Joshua."g?< All these royal cities and all their kings Joshua put to the sword in compliance with the curse of destruction, as Moses, servant of Yahweh, had ordered.'fI< In compliance with the curse of destruction, they put every living creature there to the sword. Not a living soul was left, and Hazor was burnt to the ground.e< Joshua then turned back and captured Hazor, putting its king to the sword. Hazor in olden days was the capital of all these kingdoms.idM< Joshua treated them as Yahweh had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.ycm< Yahweh put them at Israel's mercy and they defeated them and pursued them as far as Sidon the Great, and as far as Misrephoth to the west, and as far as the Vale of Mizpah to the east; they harried them until not one of them was left alive.ebE< With all his warriors Joshua caught them unawares near the Waters of Merom and fell on them.Ia < Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I shall hand them all over, cut to pieces, to Israel; you will hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.'`< These kings, having all agreed on a meeting place, came and set up camp together at the Waters of Merom, to fight Israel._< They set out with all their troops, a people as numerous as the sands of the sea, with a huge number of horses and chariots.8^k< To eastward and to westward lived the Canaanites: in the highlands, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites; the Hivites, at the foot of Hermon in the area of Mizpah.]'< and to the kings in the northern highlands, in the plain south of Chinneroth, and those in the lowlands and on the slopes of Dor to the west.\ < When Jabin king of Hazor heard about this, he sent word to Jobab king of Merom, to the king of Shimron, to the king of AchshaphS[!< +And then Joshua, and all Israel with him, went back to the camp at Gilgal.Z< *All these kings and their territory Joshua captured in a single campaign, because Yahweh, God of Israel, fought for Israel.kYQ< )Joshua conquered them from Kadesh-Barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.X< (Thus Joshua subjugated the whole country: the highlands, the Negeb, the lowlands and watered foothills, and all their kings. He left not one survivor and put every living thing under the curse of destruction, as Yahweh, God of Israel, had commanded.*WO< 'He took it and its king and all the places belonging to it; they put them to the sword, and every living creature there they delivered over to the curse of destruction. He left no one alive. As he had treated Hebron, as he had treated Libnah and its king, so he treated Debir and its king.TV#< &Joshua, and all Israel with him, then turned back on Debir and attacked it.vUg< %took it and put it to the sword, with its king, its dependencies and every living creature in it. As he had treated Eglon, so here, he left no one alive. He delivered it over to the curse of destruction, with every living creature in it.\T3< $Joshua, and all Israel with him, went on up from Eglon to Hebron. They attacked it,6Sg< #The same day they took it and put it to the sword. That day he delivered over to the curse of destruction every living creature there, treating it as he had treated Lachish.jRO< "Joshua, and all Israel with him, went on from Lachish to Eglon. They besieged it and attacked it.~Qw< !Horam king of Gezer then marched up to help Lachish, but Joshua beat him and his people until not one was left alive.(PK< Yahweh put Lachish at Israel's mercy, and Israel took it on the second day and put it and every living creature in it to the sword, as they had treated Libnah.iOM< Joshua, and all Israel with him, went on from Libnah to Lachish and besieged it and attacked it.?Ny< and Yahweh put this, too, and its king at Israel's mercy; and Israel put every living creature there to the sword, and left none alive, and treated its king like the king of Jericho.YM-< Joshua, and all Israel with him, went on from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it L< The same day Joshua captured Makkedah, putting it and its king to the sword; he delivered them over to the curse of destruction, with every living creature there, and let no one escape, and he treated the king of Makkedah as he had treated the king of Jericho.kKQ< At the hour of sunset, on Joshua's orders, they were taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave where they had been hiding. Great stones were laid over the mouth of the cave, and these are still there to this very day.rJ_< With this, Joshua struck and killed them and had them hanged on five trees; they hung there till evening.I< 'Be fearless and undaunted,' Joshua went on, 'be strong and stand firm, for this is how Yahweh will deal with all the enemies you fight.' H < When these kings had been brought out, Joshua assembled all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had fought with him, 'Come forward and put your feet on the necks of these kings!' They came forward and put their feet on their necks.@G{< They did so, and brought the five kings out of the cave to take them to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish and the king of Eglon.\F3< Joshua then said, 'Clear the mouth of the cave and bring the five kings out to me.'E'< The people came back to Joshua's camp at Makkedah; they were all safe and sound, and no one dared to attempt anything against the Israelites.:Do< When Joshua and the Israelites had finished inflicting a very great defeat on them, to the point of destroying them, those who had escaped alive took refuge in their fortresses.AC}< You yourselves, do not stay there doing nothing; pursue the enemy, cut off their line of retreat and do not let them enter their towns, for Yahweh your God has put them at your mercy.'eBE< Joshua said, 'Roll great stones over the mouth of the cave and post men there to keep guard.qA]< and news of this was brought to Joshua. 'The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah.'V@'< As regards the five kings, these had fled and hidden in the cave of Makkedah,O?< Joshua, and all Israel with him, then went back to the camp at Gilgal.>< There was never a day like that before or since, when Yahweh obeyed the voice of a man -- for Yahweh was fighting for Israel.w=i< And the sun stood still, and the moon halted, until the people had taken vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of the Just? The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and delayed its setting for almost a whole day.R<< Joshua then spoke to Yahweh, the day Yahweh delivered the Amorites to the Israelites. In the presence of Israel, Joshua said: Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and, moon, you too, over the Vale of Aijalon!m;U< And as they fled from Israel down the Descent of Beth-Horon, Yahweh hurled huge hailstones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died under the hailstones than under the swords of the Israelites.c:A< Yahweh threw them into disorder at the sight of Israel, defeating them completely at Gibeon; furthermore, he pursued them by way of the Descent of Beth-Horon and harassed them as far as Azekah (and as far as Makkedah).V9'< Having marched from Gilgal throughout the night, Joshua caught them unawares.8< Yahweh said to Joshua, 'Do not be afraid of these people; I have put them at your mercy; not one of them will put up any resistance.'^77< Joshua came up from Gilgal, he, all the fighting men and all the bravest of his army.h6K< The men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, 'Do not desert your servants; come up here quickly to save us and help us, since all the Amorite kings living in the highlands have allied themselves against us.'y5m< The five Amorite kings joined forces and went up there, that is, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish and the king of Eglon, they and all their armies; laying siege to Gibeon, they attacked it.q4]< 'Join me up here and help me to conquer Gibeon, since it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.'39< Consequently, Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon,62g< There was consternation at this, since Gibeon was as important a town as any of the royal towns themselves (it was larger than Ai), while all its citizens were fighting men.91 o< Now, it happened that Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem, learned that Joshua had conquered Ai and put the town under the curse of destruction, treating Ai and its king as he had already treated Jericho and its king; and also that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living with them.@0{< But that very day Joshua made them wood-cutters and water-carriers for the community and for the altar of Yahweh, at the place which he would eventually choose; and so they are today.n/W< What he did with them was this: he saved them from the hand of the Israelites, who did not kill them.\.3< Now, as you see, we are at your mercy; do to us whatever you think good and right.'E-< Their answer to Joshua was, 'We did it because your servants had been rightly told that Yahweh your God had ordered his servant Moses to give you the whole of this country and destroy all its inhabitants before you; also because, as you advanced on us, we feared very greatly for our lives. That was why we did this.~,w< From now on, you are accursed and will for ever be serfs, as wood-cutters and water-carriers in the house of my God.'+-< Joshua sent for the Gibeonites and asked them, 'Why did you deceive us by saying, "We live very far away," when in fact you live right among us?*!< And the leaders went on, 'Let them live, but let them be wood-cutters and water-carriers for the whole community.' Thus spoke the leaders. );< This is what we shall do with them: let them live, rather than bring retribution down on ourselves on account of the oath which we have sworn to them.'(+< The leaders, however, all said to the whole community, 'Since we have sworn an oath to them by Yahweh, God of Israel, we cannot touch them now.1']< The Israelites did not attack them, since the leaders of the community had sworn to them by Yahweh, God of Israel, but the whole community muttered against the leaders.&#< The Israelites set out from camp, arriving in their towns three days later. Their towns were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath-Jearim.%3< Now it so happened that three days after the treaty had been made, it became known that they were a neighbouring people, living in Israel's region.$!< Joshua made peace with them, and struck a treaty with them guaranteeing their lives, and the leaders of the community ratified it by oath.a#=< The leaders sampled some of the food they offered, but they did not ask Yahweh's orders.)"M< These wineskins were new when we filled them; you can see, they have burst; and these clothes and sandals of ours are worn out from travelling such a long way.'3!a< Here is our bread; it was warm when we took it from home to provide for our journey the day we set out to come to you, and now, you can see, it is dried up and crumbling.Q < Because of which, our elders and all the people of our country said to us, "Take provisions with you for the journey; go and meet them and say to them: We are your servants; so make a treaty with us."7i< and of all that he did to the two Amorite kings who used to live on the other side of the Jordan: Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who used to live at Ashtaroth.,S< They said, 'Your servants have come from a country very far away, because of the fame of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of him and of all that he did in Egypt,ym< They said to Joshua, 'We are your servants.' 'But who are you?' Joshua asked them, 'and where do you come from?'  < The Israelites answered these Hivites, 'For all we know, you may live right among us. How then could we make a treaty with you?'1< They came to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and to him and the men of Israel they said, 'We come from a distant country, so make a treaty with us.'< They put on patched old sandals and worn-out clothes. The only bread they took with them to eat was dried up and crumbling.4c< they had recourse to a ruse. They provided themselves with supplies, and loaded their donkeys with old sacks and with old wineskins which had burst and been sewn up again.fG< When the inhabitants of Gibeon learned how Joshua had treated Jericho and Ai, for their part,=w< formed a fighting alliance against Joshua and Israel.{ s< Hearing these things, all the kings on this side of the Jordan, in the highlands and in the lowlands, all along the coast of the Great Sea towards the Lebanon, Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, with one consentD<#Of every word laid down by Moses, not one was left unread by Joshua in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners living with them.<"After this, Joshua read all the words of the Law -- the blessing and the cursing -- exactly as it stands written in the Book of the Law."?<!All Israel, with their elders, their officials and their judges, stood on either side of the ark, facing the levitical priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, foreigners with the native-born, half of them on the upper slopes of Mount Gerizim, and half of them on the upper slopes of Mount Ebal, as Moses, servant of Yahweh, had originally ordered for the blessing of the people of Israel.}< There, Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which Moses had written in the presence of the Israelites.ue<as Moses, servant of Yahweh, had ordered the Israelites, as is written in the law of Moses: an altar of undressed stones, on which no iron has been used. On this they presented burnt offerings to Yahweh and communion sacrifices as well.L<Joshua then built an altar to Yahweh, God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, <He hanged the king of Ai from a tree till evening; but at sunset Joshua ordered his body to be taken down from the tree. It was then thrown down at the entrance to the town gate and on top of it was raised a great mound of stones, which is still there today.[1<Joshua then burned Ai, making it a ruin for evermore, a desolate place even today. <For booty, Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of this town, in accordance with the order that Yahweh had given to Joshua. 3<Joshua did not draw back the hand with which he had pointed the sabre until he had subjected all the inhabitants of Ai to the curse of destruction.n W<The number of those who fell that day, men and women together, was twelve thousand, all people of Ai.} u<When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open ground, and in the desert where they had pursued them, and when every single one had fallen to the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and slaughtered its remaining population.C <but the king of Ai was taken alive, and brought to Joshua.gI<The others came out from the town to engage them too, and the men of Ai were thus surrounded by Israelites, some on this side and some on that. The Israelites struck them down until not one was left alive and none to flee;7i<For, once Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been seized by the men in ambush, and that smoke was rising from the town, they turned about and attacked the men of Ai.Y-<When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from the town into the sky. None of them had the courage to run in any direction, for the people fleeing towards the desert turned back on their pursuers.)M<No sooner had he stretched out his hand than the men in ambush burst from their position, ran forward, entered the town, captured it and quickly set it on fire./Y<Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Point the sabre in your hand at Ai; for I am about to put the town at your mercy.' Joshua pointed the sabre in his hand towards the town.<Not a man was left in Ai (nor in Bethel), who had not gone in pursuit of Israel; and in pursuing Israel they left the town undefended.q]<All the people in the town joined in the pursuit and, in pursuing Joshua, were drawn away from the town.sa<Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten by them and took to their heels along the road to the desert.  <The king of Ai had seen this; the people of the town got up early and hurried out, so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle on the slope facing the Arabah; but he did not know that an ambush had been laid for him to the rear of the town.&G< The people pitched the main camp to the north of the town and set up its ambush to the west of the town. Joshua went that night into the middle of the plain.p~[< Joshua took about five thousand men and concealed these between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the town.}'< All the warriors marching with him advanced on the front of the town and pitched camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the town.~|w< then, getting up early next morning, reviewed the people and, with the elders of Israel, marched on Ai at their head.4{c< Joshua sent them off, and they made their way to the place of ambush and took up position between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. Joshua spent the night with the people,|zs<When you have captured the town, set fire to it, in obedience to Yahweh's command. Well then, these are my orders.'zyo<You will then burst out of your concealed position and seize the town; Yahweh your God will put it at your mercy.!x=<They will then give chase, and we shall draw them away from the town, since they will think, "They are running away from us as they did the first time."-wU<I, and the whole people with me, shall advance on the town, and when the people of Ai come out to engage us as they did the first time, we shall run away from them.4vc<having given them these orders, 'Pay attention! You must take up a concealed position by the town, at the rear, not very far from the town, and be sure you all keep alert!u-<Joshua set out to march against Ai with all the fighting men. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the bravest and sent them out under cover of dark,Ft<You must treat Ai and its king as you treated Jericho and its king. The only booty you will take are the spoils and the cattle. Take up a concealed position by the town, to the rear of it.'Qs <Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Be fearless and undaunted. Take all your fighting men with you. Up! March against Ai. Look, I have put the king of Ai, his people, his town and his territory at your mercy.Jr<Over him, they raised a great mound of stones, which is still there today. Yahweh then relented from his fierce anger. That was why the place was called the Vale of Achor, as it still is today.