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And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.


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


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


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And God made a firmament and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament; and it was so.


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


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


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And God said, Let the earth bring forth green grass, herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after its nature, whose seed [is] in itself upon the earth; and it was so.


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And the earth brought forth green grass [and] herb yielding seed after its kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed [was] in itself, according to its nature; and God saw that [it was] good.


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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;


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and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so.


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


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and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that [it was] good.


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And God said, Let the waters bring forth great quantities of creatures with living souls and fowl [that] may fly above the earth upon the face of the firmament of the heavens.


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And God created the great dragons and every living soul that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their nature, and every winged fowl after its nature; and God saw that [it was] good.


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


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And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its nature, beasts and serpents and animals of the earth after its nature; and it was so.


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And God made the beast of the earth after its kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that moves upon the earth after its kind; and God saw that [it was] good.


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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.


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


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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every beast that moves upon the earth.


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


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And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that moves upon the earth, in which [there is a] living soul, [I have given] all green grass for food; and it was so.


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


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And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.


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


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


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and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and all the grass of the field before it grew, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and neither [was there] a man to till the ground.


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And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.


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And the LORD God had planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.


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And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.


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The name of the first [is] Pison; that [is] it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;


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And the name of the second river [is] Gihon; this [is] the same that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.


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And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel; this [is] that which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.


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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou dost eat of it thou shalt surely die.


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


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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living soul, that [was] its name.


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And the man gave names to every beast, and [to the] fowl of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a help meet for him.


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And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place;


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and the LORD God built [that] which he had taken from the side of the man into a woman and brought her unto the man.


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And the man said, This [is] now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man.


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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.


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Now the serpent was more astute than all the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Has God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?


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but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it; neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.


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For God knows that in the day ye eat of it then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.


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And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.


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


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


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


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And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee not to eat?


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Then the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.


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


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


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


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


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in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.


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


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therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.


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


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And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain and said, I have gained a man by the LORD.


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


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And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground a present unto the LORD.


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And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD looked upon Abel and his present,


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If thou doest good, it shall certainly be accepted; and if thou doest not good, sin lies at the door. And his desire shall be unto thee, but thou must rule over him.


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


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


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


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when thou tillest the ground, from now on it shall not yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.


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Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I hide; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass [that] anyone that finds me shall slay me.


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


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


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


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


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And Zillah also bore Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah.


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And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech, for I shall slay a man for my wound and a young man for my hurt;


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And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth; for God, [said she], has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.


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


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


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


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


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


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and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years and begat sons and daughters;


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and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters;


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


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and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years and begat sons and daughters;


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


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


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that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men [were] fair, and they took [for] themselves wives of all whom they chose.


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And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for certainly he [is] flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.


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There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore [sons] to them, the same [became] mighty men who [were] of old, men of renown.


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


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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the animals and the fowls of the air; for I repent of having made them.


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


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


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


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Make thee an ark of cedar trees; rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shalt reconcile it within and without covering it over with pitch.


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


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


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


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


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


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Of fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth after its kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.


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


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


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Of every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that [are] not clean, two, the male and his female.


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Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.


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


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


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Of clean animals and of animals that [are] not clean and of fowls and of every thing that moves upon the earth,


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there went in two by two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.


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


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


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they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.


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


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


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And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.


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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that [were] under all the heavens were covered.


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And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;


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all in whose nostrils [was] the breath of the spirit of life of all that [was] in the dry [land] died.


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


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And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that [were] with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;


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


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and the waters turned back and forth upon the earth, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.


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


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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.


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


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


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


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but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were still] upon the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark.


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and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, behold, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.


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


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


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Bring forth with thee every animal that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl and of beasts and of every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.


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all the animals, every creature and every fowl [and] whatever moves upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark.


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And Noah built an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean animal and of every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


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


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


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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth and upon every fowl of the heavens, upon all that moves [upon] the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.


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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.


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For surely your blood [which is] your souls I will require; at the hand of every animal I will require it and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother I will require the soul ([or life]) of man.


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and with every living soul that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the animals, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every animal of the earth,


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that I will establish my covenant with you, that all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.


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And God said, This [is] the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that [is] with you, for perpetual ages:


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And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall appear in the clouds;


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and I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.


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


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


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And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.


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


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


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


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


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


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He was a powerful hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, the powerful hunter before the LORD.


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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar unto Gaza, as thou goest, unto Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.


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


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


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


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


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These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their descendants, in their nations; and by these were the Gentiles divided in the earth after the flood.:


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Therefore the name of it was called Babel because there the LORD confounded the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.


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These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] one hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:


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


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


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But the LORD had said unto Abram, Depart out of thy country and from thy nature and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee;


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


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And I will bless those that bless thee and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.


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


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


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


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


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And he went from there unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west and Hai on the east; and there he built an altar unto the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.


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And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [was] grievous in the land.


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


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


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


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


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


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And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menservants and maidservants and she asses and camels.


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


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Why didst thou say, She [is] my sister? I might have taken her to me to wife; now, therefore, behold thy wife, take [her], and go away.


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Then Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him; and they sent him away and his wife with all that he had.:


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


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And he retraced his journeys from [the side of] the Negev even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai,


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


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


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And there was a strife between the pastors of Abram's cattle and the pastors of Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.


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Then Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee and between my pastors and thine, for we [are] brethren.


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


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


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Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other.


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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched [his] tents toward Sodom.


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And the LORD said unto Abram, after Lot separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art towards the Aquilon and to the Negev and to the east and to the west;


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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if someone could number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.


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


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Then Abram removed [his] tent and came and dwelt among the terebinth trees of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.:


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And it came to pass in [those] days [that] Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of the Gentiles


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


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And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that [were] with him came and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim and the Zuzims in Ham and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim


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And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which [is] Kadesh, and smote all the works of the Amalekites and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezontamar.


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


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that is, against Chedorlaomer the king of Elam and Tidal king of the Gentiles and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar: four kings against five.


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And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there; and those that remained fled to the mountain.


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And one came that had escaped and told Abram [the] Hebrew, who dwelt among the terebinth trees of Mamre [the] Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and these [were] confederate with Abram.


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


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And he and his servants poured themselves out against them by night and smote them and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is] on the left hand of Damascus.


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


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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the valley of the King.


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Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he [was] the priest of the most high God.


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And he blessed him and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of the heavens and of the earth;


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and blessed be the most high God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And [Abram] gave him tithes of all.


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


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that I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet; I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,


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except only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, who shall take their portion.:


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


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


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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed; and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.


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


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


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


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Then Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be] upon thee; I have given my maid into thy bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes; the LORD judge between me and thee.


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But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in thy hand; do to her as it pleases thee. Then Sarai afflicted her, and [she] fled from her face.


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


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


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And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands.


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


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


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


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And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, Thou God that is seen: for she said, Have I not also here seen the back of him that sees me?


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


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


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And I will multiply thee exceeding, and I will make Gentiles of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.


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


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


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


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This [shall be] my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee: Every male among you shall be circumcised.


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


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


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


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And the uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has annulled my covenant.


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


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And I will bless her and give thee a son also of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of Gentiles; kings of peoples shall be of her.


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


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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac ([laughter]); and I will confirm my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant [and] with his seed after him.


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


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


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


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


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And the LORD appeared unto him among the terebinth trees of Mamre; and he was sitting in the door of his tent in the heat of the day;


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and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three men stood by him; and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself toward the ground


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and said, My Lord, if now I have found grace in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.


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


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And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [it], and make bread baked under the ashes.


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And Abraham ran unto the herd and brought a calf tender and good and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hastened to dress it.


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


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


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


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


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Then the LORD said unto Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child when I am old?


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


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Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, No, but thou didst laugh.


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And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.


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seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and that all the Gentiles of the earth shall be blessed in him?


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For I know him, that he will command his sons and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and judgment, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.


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


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


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And the men turned their faces from there and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.


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Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] in it?


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


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


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And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who [am but] dust and ashes;


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


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And he spoke unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake.


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And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord now be angry if I shall speak; peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it] if I find thirty there.


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


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


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


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


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and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early and go on your ways. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all night.


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And he pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him and entered into his house, and he made them a banquet and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.


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


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and they called unto Lot and said unto him, Where [are] the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us that we may know them.


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


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And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This fellow came in to sojourn and is he to lift himself up as judge? Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they did great violence to the man, [even] Lot, and came near to break the door.


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


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And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou anyone else here? Sons-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this place;


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


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And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons-in-law, those who were to marry his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.


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


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And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful unto him; and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.


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And it came to pass as they brought them forth outside, that he said, Escape; for thy soul, do not look behind thee, neither stop thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.


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behold now, thy servant has found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.


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


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


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Make thee haste, escape there; for I cannot do anything until thou hast arrived there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.


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Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of the heavens;


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and he overthrew those cities and all that plain, with all the inhabitants of those cities, and the fruit of the ground.


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


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


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


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Then the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man [left] in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.


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


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


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


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


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And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.


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And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Benammi; the same [is] the father of the sons of Ammon unto this day.:


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And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.


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


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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, thou [art] a dead man, for the woman whom thou hast taken, for she [is] a man's wife.


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Did he not say unto me, She [is] my sister? And she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother; in the simplicity of my heart and cleanness of my hands I have done this.


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


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


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Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their ears; and the men feared greatly.


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


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


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


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And it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my father's house that I said unto her, This [is] the mercy which thou shalt show unto me: at every place where we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother.


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Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and menservants and womenservants and gave [them] unto Abraham and restored him Sarah his wife.


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


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So Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants; and they bore [children].


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For the LORD had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.:


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


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


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


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


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So Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child and sent her away; and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.


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And she went and sat her down over against [him] a good way off as it were a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against [him] and lifted up her voice and wept.


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And God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her, What ails thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he [is].


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


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


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And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the prince of his host, spoke unto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest.


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


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


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And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither have I heard [of it], but today.


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


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


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Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech rose up and Phichol, the prince of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.


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And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the eternal God.


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And it came to pass after these things that God proved Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Behold, [here] I [am].


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And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou dost love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.


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


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


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


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Then Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father and said, My father; and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where [is] the lamb for the burnt offering?


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


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


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Then the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Here [am] I.


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And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou doest fear God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.


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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and beheld behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.


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And Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Shall See ([YHWH-hjireh]). Therefore it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.


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and said, By myself I have sworn, said the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son];


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that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies;


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and in thy seed shall all the Gentiles of the earth be blessed because thou hast hearkened unto my voice.


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


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


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And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, also gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Thahash and Maachah.:


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And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.


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


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Hear us, my lord; thou [art] a prince of God among us; in the best of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre so that thou may bury thy dead.


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


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


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This Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth; and Ephron, the Hittite, answered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,


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No, my lord, hear me; I give thee the field, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it [to] thee; in the presence of the sons of my people I give it [to] thee; bury thy dead.


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


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


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


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


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unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.


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


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


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


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


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And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land, must I therefore bring thy son again unto the land from which thou didst come?


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


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And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be free from this my oath; only do not bring my son there again.


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


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And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed with the best of what his master had in his hand; and he arose and went to Ara-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor.


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


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And he said, O LORD, God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, to have a good encounter this day and show mercy unto my master Abraham.


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Behold, I stand [here] by the fountain of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out for water:


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


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


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And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known; and she went down to the fountain and filled her pitcher and and was coming [back] up.


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


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


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


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And she hastened and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw [water] and drew for all his camels.


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And it came to pass as the camels had finished drinking that the man took a golden pendant of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold


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and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? Tell me, I pray thee; is there room [in] thy father's house for us to lodge in?


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And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she gave birth unto Nahor.


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And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD, God of my master Abraham, who has not lifted his mercy and his truth from my master, the LORD leading me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.


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And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban; and Laban ran out unto the man to the fountain.


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And it came to pass when he saw the pendant and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, she said, Thus spoke the man unto me; then he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain.


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And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; why dost thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and the place for the camels.


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Then the man came into the house, and [Laban] ungirded his camels and gave straw and fodder for the camels and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that [were] with him.


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And they set [food] before him to eat, but he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And [he] said unto him, Speak on.


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


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And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old, unto whom he has given all that he has.


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


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


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then shalt thou be free from [this] my oath, when thou hast come unto my lineage; and if they give [her] not [unto] thee, thou shalt be free from my oath.


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


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behold, I stand by the fountain of water; let it come to pass, therefore, [that] the virgin who comes forth to draw [water] unto whom I say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;


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and if she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels, [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD has prepared for my master's son.


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And before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder, and she went down unto the fountain and drew [water], and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.


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And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder] and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also; so I drank, and she gave to drink unto the camels also.


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And I asked her and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore unto him. Then I put the pendant over her nose and the bracelets upon her hands.


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


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


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


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


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


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And the servant brought forth vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment and gave [them] to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.


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And they ate and drank, he and the men that [were] with him, and slept; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.


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Then her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a [few] days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.


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


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And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister; be thou [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.


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And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels and followed the man; and the servant took Rebekah and went away.


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And Isaac had gone out to pray in the field at the evening hour; and he lifted up his eyes and saw, and, behold, the camels [were] coming.


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For she [had] asked the servant, What man [is] this that walks in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, This [is] my master; therefore she took a veil and covered herself.


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


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


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


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


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Then Abraham expired and died in a good old age, an old man and full [of years], and was gathered to his people.


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


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


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


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Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, gave birth unto Abraham:


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


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These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns and by their palaces; twelve princes according to their families.


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And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred thirty-seven years; and Ishmael expired and died and was gathered unto his people.


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


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and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Aramean.


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And Isaac prayed unto the LORD for his wife because she [was] barren; and the LORD accepted him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.


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And the sons struggled together within her; and she said, If [this is] so, why should I [live]? And she went to enquire of the LORD.


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


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And afterwards his brother came out with Esau's heel grasped in his hand; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac [was] sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.


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And the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] an upright man, remaining in the tents.


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and Esau said to Jacob, Give me to eat, I pray thee, of that red [pottage]; for I [am] faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.


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Then Jacob gave Esau of the bread and of the pottage of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up, and went away. Thus Esau despised [his] birthright.:


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


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And the LORD appeared unto him and said, [Do] not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of;


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abide in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will confirm the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;


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and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed shall all the Gentiles of the earth be blessed


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because Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.


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


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


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And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold, of a surety she [is] thy wife; and how didst thou say, She [is] my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.


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And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might easily have slept with thy wife, and thou should have brought the sin upon us.


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


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Then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year one hundred-fold, and the LORD blessed him.


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


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


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And Isaac reopened the wells of water, which they had opened in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them [up] after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.


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And the pastors of Gerar strove with Isaac's pastors, saying, The water [is] ours; therefore he called the name of the well Esek, because they strove with him.


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And he left there and opened another well; and for that [one] they did not strive and he called the name of it Rehoboth, and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.


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


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


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


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And they said, We have seen certainly that the LORD is with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, [even] between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,


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


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


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


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


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


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


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and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring [it] to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die.


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


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Then Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau, thy brother, saying,


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


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Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savoury food for thy father, such as he loves;


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


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


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


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And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my son; only obey my voice and go bring me [them].


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And he went and took them and brought [them] to his mother, and his mother made savoury food, such as his father loved.


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And Rebekah took good clothes of her eldest son Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob, her younger son:


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


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


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


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


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


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And he discerned him not because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.


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And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.


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


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Therefore [let] God give thee of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of wheat and new wine.


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Let the peoples serve thee and nations bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee; cursed [be] every one that curses thee, and blessed [be] he that blesses thee.


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


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


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


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Then Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, Who [is] he that has taken venison and brought [it to] me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest? I have blessed him and he shall be blessed.


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


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


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


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And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.


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Then Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and of the dew of the heavens from above,


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and by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother; yet there shall be a time when thou shalt have dominion, and thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.


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


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


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until thy brother's anger turns away from thee, and he forgets [that] which thou hast done to him; then I will send, and bring thee from there; for why should I be deprived of you both in one day?


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And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [who are] of the daughters of this land, why should I want to live?:


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Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.


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Arise, go to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.


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And [may] God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou may be a congregation of peoples


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and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee; that thou may inherit the land in which thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.


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Thus Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.


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And Esau saw how Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padanaram, to take a wife from there for himself, and that as he blessed him, he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,


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


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And he found a certain place and slept there all night because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place and put [them for] his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep.


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


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And, behold, the LORD stood above it and said, I AM the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land upon which thou dost lie, to thee will I give it and to thy seed;


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and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt multiply to the west and to the east and to the Aquilon and to the Negev; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.


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


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


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And he was afraid and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven.


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And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows and set it up [for] a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.


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


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


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


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And all the flocks gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the well's mouth and water the sheep and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.


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


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And he said, behold, [it is] yet high day; neither [is it] time that the livestock should be gathered together; water the sheep and go [and] feed [them].


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And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and [until] they roll the stone from the well's mouth, that we may water the sheep.


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


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And Jacob told Rachel that he [was of] her father's brethren, and that he [was] Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.


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


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


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And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art of] my brethren, should thou therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what [shall] thy wages [be]?


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


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


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


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


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


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Fulfil her week, and we will give thee the other also for another seven years of service which thou shalt serve with me.


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


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


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And she conceived again and gave birth to a son; and said, Because the LORD has heard that I [was] hated, he has therefore given me this [son] also; and she called his name Simeon.


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


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And she conceived again and gave birth a son; and she said, Now I will praise the LORD; therefore she called his name Judah and stopped bearing [children].:


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And when Rachel saw that she gave Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob, Give me sons, or else I [will] die.


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


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


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


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


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When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing [children], she took Zilpah, her maid and gave her Jacob to wife.


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


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


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


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


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


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And it came to pass when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, and I shall go unto my place and to my land.


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


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And Laban said unto him, Let me now find grace in thine eyes, I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for thy sake.


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


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


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I will pass through all thy flock today, setting apart all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown rams among the rams, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [of such] shall be my hire.


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So shall my righteousness answer for me tomorrow, when my hire shall come before thy face; each one that [is] not speckled and spotted among [my] goats and brown among [my] sheep shall be counted stolen with me.


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


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And Jacob took rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut tree and peeled white strakes in them and made the white appear which [was] in the rods.


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


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


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And Jacob separated the lambs, and put with his flock the ringstraked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them together with Laban's sheep.


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And it came to pass, whenever the stronger sheep conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods.


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But when the sheep were feeble, he did not put [them] in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.


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And the man increased exceedingly, and had many sheep, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.:


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


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


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


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


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


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And it came to pass at the time that the sheep conceived, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in dreams, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the females [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.


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And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the sheep [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled; for I have seen all that Laban has done unto thee.


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I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the pillar [and] where thou didst vow a vow unto me. Now arise, go out out from this land and return unto the land of thy nature.


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


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For all the riches which God has taken from our father, is ours and our son's; now then, whatever God has said unto thee, do.


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and he carried away all his livestock and all his goods which he had gotten, the livestock of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, to return unto Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.


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So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed the river and set his face [toward] mount Gilead.


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


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


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


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


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Why didst thou flee away secretly and steal away from me and didst not tell me that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs with tambourine and with harp?


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


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


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And now, [that] thou art leaving, because thy desire is after thy father's house, [yet] why hast thou stolen my gods?


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


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


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And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents, but he did not find [them]. Then he went out of Leah's tent and came to Rachel's tent.


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Now Rachel took the images and put them in a camel's saddle and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent but did not find [them].


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


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Then Jacob was wroth and contended with Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? What [is] my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?


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Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren that they may judge between us both.


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


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That which was torn [of beasts] I did not bring unto thee; I bore the sin; thou didst require of my hand that which was stolen, [whether] by day or by night.


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


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If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, were not with me, surely thou would send me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the work of my hands and rebuked [thee] last night.


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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] sons [are] my sons, and [these] sheep [are] my sheep, and all that thou seest [is] mine; and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their sons unto whom they have given birth?


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


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And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap; and they ate there upon the heap.


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


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


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And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have raised up between me and thee;


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[let] this heap [be] witness and [this] pillar [be] witness that I will not pass over this heap against thee and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar against me, for harm.


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


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Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount and called his brethren to eat bread; and they ate bread and slept in the mount.


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And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them; and Laban departed and returned unto his place.:


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


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


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


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


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


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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people that [were] with him, and the sheep and the cows and the camels, into two bands


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and said, If Esau comes to the one company and smites it, then the other company which is left shall escape.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau, my brother, meets thee and asks thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? And where goest thou? And for whom [are] these before thee?


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


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


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And ye shall also say, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will reconcile his wrath with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.


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


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And when [the man] saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was disjointed as he wrestled with him.


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


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And he said, Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast fought with God and with men, and hast prevailed.


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And Jacob asked [him] and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Why dost thou ask after my name? And he blessed him there.


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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my soul was saved.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And he said, What [meanest] thou by all these droves which I met? And he said, To find grace in the sight of my lord.


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And Jacob said, No, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present from my hand, that for this I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God; and do me the pleasure.


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Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee because God has dealt graciously with me, and all [that is here] is mine. And he urged him, and he took [it].


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And he said unto him, My lord knows that the children [are] tender, and the sheep and cows with young [are] with me; and if men should overdrive them, in one day all the sheep will die.


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Let my lord, I pray thee, pass before his servant; and I will lead on softly, according as the property that goes before me and the children are able to endure until I come unto my lord unto Seir.


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


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


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And Jacob came safe and sound to the city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram, and pitched his tent before the city.


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And he bought part of the field where he had spread his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred ewes.


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


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


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And his soul was joined unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he fell in love with the damsel and spoke unto her heart.


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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; now his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob remained silent until they were come.


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


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And Hamor spoke with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem is joined to your daughter; I pray you give her to him as wife.


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


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


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Ask me for as much dowry and gift as ye [desire], and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.


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


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And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for among us that [is] a reproach.


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But with this condition we will consent unto you: If ye will become as we [are] that every male of you be circumcised,


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


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


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


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


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


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Only with this condition will these men consent to dwell with us that we may be one people: if every male among us be circumcised as they [are] circumcised.


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[Shall] not their livestock and their substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? Only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.


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


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


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


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They took their sheep and their oxen and their asses and that which [was] in the city and that which [was] in the field


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


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


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And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau, thy brother.


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


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And let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me in the way which I have gone.


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So they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their power and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.


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


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


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And there he built an altar and called the place Elbethel because there God had appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother.


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Then Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak, and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.


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


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


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


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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering upon it, and he poured oil upon it.


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And they journeyed from Bethel, and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath when Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.


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


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


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


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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. These [are] the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Padanaram.


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


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And Isaac expired and died and was gathered unto his people, [being] old and full of days, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.:


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


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and Aholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah: these [are] the sons of Esau, who were born unto him in the land of Canaan.


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


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For their riches were more than that they might dwell together, and the land in which they were strangers could not bear them because of their livestock.


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These [are] the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Bashemath, the wife of Esau.


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And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these [are] the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.


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


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And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she gave birth unto Esau Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah.


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These [are] dukes of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn [son] of Esau: duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,


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


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


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


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Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these [are] the dukes of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.


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And these [are] the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah; this [was that] Anah that invented mules in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.


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duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan; these [are] the dukes [that came] of Hori; by their dukedoms in the land of Seir.


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And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.


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And Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city [was] Avith.


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And Baalhanan, the son of Achbor, died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city [was] Pau; and his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.


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And these [are] the names of the dukes [that came of] Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,


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duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these [were] the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This [is] the Esau, the father of Edom.:


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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now therefore, come and let us slay him and cast him into a cistern, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams.


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


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


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and they took him and cast him into the cistern; and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.


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


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


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


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And when the Midianite merchantmen passed by, they took and lifted up Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.


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And Reuben returned unto the cistern; and, behold, Joseph [was] not inside, and he rent his clothes.


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and they sent the coat of [many] colours, and they brought [it] to their father and said, We have found this, recognize now whether it [is] thy son's coat or not.


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And he knew it and said, [It is] my son's coat; an evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.


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And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.


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And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's [and] captain of the guard.:


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


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


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And she yet again conceived and gave birth to a son and called his name Shelah. And he was at Chezib, when she gave birth to him.


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


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And Onan knew that the seed would not be his, and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he corrupted [it] on the ground, to not give seed to his brother.


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


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


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And she took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself and sat by the gate to the waters by the way to Timnath, for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.


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


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And he said, I will send [thee] from the sheep a kid [from the goats]. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge until thou send [it]?


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Then he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy mantel and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave them [to] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.


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


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Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is] the cult prostitute of the waters by the way side? And they said, There was no cult prostitute in this [place].


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


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And Judah said, Let her take [the things] for herself lest we be shamed; behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.


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


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When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man whose these [are], [am] I with child; and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet and mantel and staff.


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Then Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She has been more righteous than I because I did not give her to Shelah, my son. And he knew her again no more.


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


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And it came to pass as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out; and she said, Why hast thou brought this breach upon thee? Therefore his name was called Pharez.


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


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


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


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


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So Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him; and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] he had he put into his hand.


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And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.


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And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and with him knew [of] nothing more than of the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome and well favoured.


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


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But he refused and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what [is] with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand;


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[there is] none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but thee because thou [art] his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?


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And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not hearken unto her, to lie by her [or] to be with her.


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And it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph] went into the house to do his business, and none of those of the house were there within.


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


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that she called unto those of her house and spoke unto them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice;


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


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And she spoke unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to dishonour me;


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


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


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But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy and gave him grace in the sight of the prince of the house of the prison.


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And the prince of the house of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and whatever they did there, he was the doer of [it].


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The prince of the prison looked not to anything [that was] under his hand because the LORD was with him, and [that] which he did, the LORD made [it] to prosper.:


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


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


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


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And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; and they continued for days in prison.


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And both of them dreamed a dream, each man his dream in the same night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who [were] bound in the prison.


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And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with him in the prison of his lord's house, saying, Why look ye so sad today?


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


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


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


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


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yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee unto thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand after the former manner when thou wast his butler.


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Therefore thou shalt think of me within thyself when it shall be well with thee, and show mercy, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh and bring me out of this house;


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for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; neither have I done anything here that they should put me into the prison.


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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on my head;


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and in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of baked foods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.


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Then Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days.


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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.


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And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a banquet unto all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.


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And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


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And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.


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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven beautiful cows and very fat, and they fed in a meadow.


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And, behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ugly and lean-fleshed, and stood by the [other] cows upon the brink of the river.


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And he slept and dreamed the second time; and, behold, seven heads of wheat came up upon one stalk, full and beautiful.


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And the seven thin heads devoured the seven full and beautiful heads. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.


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And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men thereof; and Pharaoh told them his dreams, but [there was] no one that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.


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Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me in the prison of the captain of the guard's house, [both] me and the prince of the bakers.


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And we both dreamed a dream in one night; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.


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


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And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto my office, and him he hanged.


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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and they cut his hair and changed his clothes, and he came in unto Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no one that can interpret it; but I have heard say of thee [that] thou canst hear dreams to interpret them.


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and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and beautiful in appearance; and they fed in a meadow.


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And, behold, seven other cows came up after them, lean and very ugly in appearance, and thin, such as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.


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and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they [were] still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.


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And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads; and I told [this] unto the magicians, but [there was] no one that could declare [it] to me.


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Then Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God has showed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.


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The seven beautiful cows [are] seven years; and the seven good heads [are] seven years; the dream [is] one and the same.


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Also the seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty heads blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.


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This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh. What God [is] about to do he has shown unto Pharaoh.


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And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;


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and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it [shall be] very grievous.


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And that the dream came unto Pharaoh twice, [it is] because the thing [is] established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.


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Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint officers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.


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And let them gather all the food of those good years that come and lay up wheat under the hand of Pharaoh to feed the cities, and let them store [it] up.


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And let that food be stored for the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; and the land shall not perish through the famine.


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And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God has showed thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art].


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Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than thou.


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Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck;


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and he made him to ride in his second chariot; and they cried before him, Abrech [Tender Father-honour this one as a precious father]; and he made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee no one shall lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah, and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt.


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And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt and laid up the food in the cities, placing in each city the food of the field, which [was] round about.


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And Joseph gathered wheat as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left [off] numbering; for [it was] without number.


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And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, prince of On, bore unto him.


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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh; For God, [said he], has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house.


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And the name of the second he called Ephraim, For God, [said he], has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.


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And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said; and the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.


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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.


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And the famine was over all the face of the earth. Then Joseph opened all [the storehouses] and sold unto the Egyptians; for the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.


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Now when Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why are ye looking upon one another?


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And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt; go down there and buy for us from there that we may live, and not die.


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But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure disaster befall him.


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And Joseph [was] the lord over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold [the wheat] to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.


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And when Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them, but made himself strange unto them and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Where have you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.


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Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.


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And they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest [is] this day with our father, and one [is] not.


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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.


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Send one of you and let him bring your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison that your words may be proved, whether [there is any] truth in you; or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.


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If ye [are] men of [the] truth, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison; go ye, carry food for the famine of your houses


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but bring your youngest brother unto me, so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.


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And they said one to another, We [are] truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.


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Then Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak unto you, saying, Do not sin against the young man, and ye would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is also required.


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And he turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and spoke with them and took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.


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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with wheat and to restore each man's money into his sack and to give them provisions for the way; and thus it was done unto them.


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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass fodder in the inn, he saw his money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack's mouth.


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And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, behold, [it is] even in my sack. And their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God has done unto us?


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And they came unto Jacob, their father, unto the land of Canaan and told him all that had befallen them, saying,


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We [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.


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And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby I shall know that ye [are] men of [the] truth; leave one of your brethren [here] with me and take [food for] the famine of your households and go


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and bring your youngest brother unto me; then I shall know that ye [are] not spies, but [that] ye [are] men of [the] truth; [thus] I will deliver you your brother, and ye shall trade in the land.


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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, each man's bundle of money [was] in his sack; and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.


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And Jacob, their father, said unto them, Ye have bereaved me [of my sons]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]; all these things are upon me.


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And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I do not bring him to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.


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And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; if [some] disaster should befall him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.:


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And it came to pass when they had eaten up the wheat which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.


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And Judah spoke unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother [is] with you.


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But if thou wilt not send [him], we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother [is] with you.


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And they said, The man asked us expressly of our state and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? Have ye [another] brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?


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Then Judah said unto Israel, his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we and thou [and] also our little ones.


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I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him; if I do not bring him unto thee and set him before thee, then let me bear the sin for ever;


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Then their father Israel answered them, If [it must be] so now, do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels and take the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, aromas, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds.


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And take double money in your hands and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks; carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an oversight.


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And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may let your other brother go, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my sons], I am bereaved.


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Then the men took the present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.


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And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring [these] men home and slay an animal and make ready; for [these] men shall dine with me at noon.


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And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph's house, and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we are brought in here that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us and take us for bondmen and our asses.


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And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke with him at the door of the house


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and it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, each man's money [was] in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it again in our hand.


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And we brought down other money in our hands to buy food; we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.


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And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not; your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.


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And the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet, and he gave their asses fodder.


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And they made ready the present [waiting] until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.


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And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which [they had] in their hand in the house and bowed themselves to him to the earth.


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And he asked them of [their] welfare and said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? [Is] he yet alive?


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And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.


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And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your younger brother, of whom ye spoke unto me? And he said, God be merciful unto thee, my son.


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Then Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought [where] to weep, and he entered into [his] chamber and wept there.


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And they served for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, who ate with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.


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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one at another.


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And he took [and sent] portions unto them from before him; but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were drunk with him.:


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And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill these men's sacks [with] food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth;


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and put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with the money of his wheat. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.


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[And] when they were gone out of the city, [and] not [yet] far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Rise up, follow after those men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?


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[Is] this not [the one] in which my lord drinks and in which indeed he divines? Ye have done evil in so doing.


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And they said unto him, Why saith my lord these words? In no wise should thy servants do according to this thing.


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Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan; how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?


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And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant, and ye shall be blameless.


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And he searched [and] began at the eldest and finished at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.


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And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he [was] yet there; and they fell before him on the ground.


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And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? Know ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?


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Then Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? What shall we speak or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold, we [are] my lord's servants, both we and [he] also with whom the cup is found.


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And he said, in no wise should I do so; [but] the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go up in peace unto your father.


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Then Judah came near unto him and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou [art] even as Pharaoh.


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And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a young man of his old age, yet a lad; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.


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And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die.


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And thou didst say unto thy servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, ye shall see my face no more.


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And we said, We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother [is] with us.


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and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since;


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and if ye take this one also from me and [some] disaster should befall him, ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.


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Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad [is] not with us, seeing that his soul is bound up in the lad's soul,


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it shall come to pass when he sees that the lad [is] not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants shall bring the gray hairs of thy servant our father down with sorrow to Sheol.


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For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the sin before my father for ever.


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Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant remain instead of the lad as a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren.


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For how shall I go up to my father and the lad not [be] with me? I cannot [go] lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.:


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Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all those that stood by him, and he cried, Cause everyone to go out from me. And no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am] Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for they were terrified at his presence.


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Then Joseph said unto his brethren, Now come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.


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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me here, for God sent me before you for life.


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For these two years the famine [has been] in the land, and yet [there are] five years in which [there shall] neither [be] plowing nor harvest.


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And God sent me before you that you might remain in the earth and that you might be given life by great liberty.


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So now [it was] not you [that] sent me here, but God; and he has made me [as] a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.


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Make haste and go up to my father and say unto him: Thus saith thy son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not.


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And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou and thy sons and thy sons's sons and thy herds and thy cows and all that thou hast.


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And there I will nourish thee, for yet [there are] five years of famine, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish of poverty.


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And, behold, your eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin that [it is] my mouth that speaks unto you.


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And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father here.


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Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them, and after that his brethren talked with him.


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And the fame of this was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren have come; and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.


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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, Do this: lade your beasts and go, return unto the land of Canaan


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and take your father and your households and come unto me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.


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Now thou art commanded, do this: take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come.


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And the sons of Israel did so, and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the way.


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To each one of them all he gave changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver and five changes of clothing.


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And to his father he sent after this [manner]: ten asses laden with the best of Egypt and ten she asses laden with wheat and bread and food for his father on the way.


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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed. And he said unto them, See that ye do not fight along the way.


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and told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] lord over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.


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And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived:


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Then Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son [is] yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.:


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And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.


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And he said, I [am] the God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of thee a great people.


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I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again]; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.


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And Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.


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And they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him,


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his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.


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And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.


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And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Pharez and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.


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These [are] the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah; all the souls of his sons and his daughters [were] thirty-three.


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And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.


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These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she gave birth unto Jacob: sixteen souls.


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And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On gave birth unto him.


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And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.


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These [are] the sons of Bilhah, who Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she gave birth to these unto Jacob; [in] all seven souls.


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All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls [were] sixty-six;


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and the sons of Joseph, who were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, [were] seventy.


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And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.


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And Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and manifested himself unto him; and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.


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Then Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die since I have seen thy face because thou [art] yet alive.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say unto him, My brethren and my father's house, who [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;


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and the men [are] pastors of sheep, for their trade has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their sheep and their cows and all that they have.


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Then ye shall say, Thy servants' trade has been about livestock from our youth even until now, both we [and] also our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every pastor of sheep [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.:


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Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brethren and their sheep and their cows and all that they have are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they [are] in the land of Goshen.


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And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] pastors of sheep, both we [and] also our fathers.


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They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come, for thy servants have no pasture for their sheep, for the famine [is] sore in the land of Canaan; now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.


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the land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; and if thou knowest [any] men of valour among them, then make them rulers over my livestock.


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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.


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Thus Joseph placed his father and his brethren and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.


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And Joseph nourished his father and his brethren, and all his father's household with bread, according to [their] families.


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And [there was] no bread in all the land, for the famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.


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And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the food which they bought from him; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.


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And when money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said, Give us bread, for why should we die in thy presence for the money fails?


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And Joseph said, Give your livestock, and I will give you for your livestock if the money [has] failed.


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And they brought their livestock unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for horses and for the sheep and for the bovine livestock and for the asses, and he fed them with bread for all their livestock that year.


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When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year and said unto him, We will not hide [it] from my lord how that the money is gone; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is not nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.


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Why shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh, and give [us] seed that we may live, and not die, that the land not be desolate.


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Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each one of the Egyptians sold his field because the famine prevailed over them; so the land became Pharaoh's.


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And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.


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Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their lands.


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Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh; behold, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.


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And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for those of your households and for food for your little ones.


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And they said, Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord that we might be Pharaoh's servants.


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And Joseph made it a statute over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] did not become Pharaoh's.


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Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they had possessions therein and grew and multiplied exceedingly.


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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the whole age of Jacob was one hundred forty-seven years.


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And the time drew nigh that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh and deal with me in mercy and truth; do not bury me, I pray thee, in Egypt;


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but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.


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And it came to pass after these things [that] it was told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


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And [one] told Jacob and said, Behold, thy son Joseph comes unto thee. Then Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed


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and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of peoples and will give this land to thy seed after thee [for] an everlasting possession.


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And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.


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And those whom thou hast begotten after them shall be thine [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.


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Because when I came from Padanaram, Rachel died unto me in the land of Canaan in the way when yet [there was] but a little way to come unto Ephrath; and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.


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And Joseph said unto his father, They [are] my sons, whom God has given me in this [place]. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.


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Now the eyes of Israel were so dim for age [that] he could not see. And he brought them near unto him, and he kissed them and embraced them.


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And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face, and, behold, God has showed me also thy seed.


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Then Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.


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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand and brought [them] near unto him.


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Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid [it] upon Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands with understanding; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn.


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And he blessed Joseph and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day,


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the Angel who frees me from all evil, bless these young men, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.


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Then Joseph seeing that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.


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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father, for this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.


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And his father refused and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of Gentiles.


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And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.


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And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.


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Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.:


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And Jacob called unto his sons and said, Gather yourselves together that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in the last days.


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Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, principal in dignity, and the principal in power.


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Unstable as water, thou shalt not be principal because thou didst go up to thy father's bed; then thou became defiled, going up to my couch.


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Let my soul not enter into their secret; nor let my honour join their assembly; for in their anger they slew a man, and in their own will they dug down a wall.


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Cursed [be] their anger, which [is] strong, and their wrath, which is hard; I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.


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Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand [shall be] on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.


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Judah [is] a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up; he stooped down, he couched as a lion and as an [old] lion; who shall rouse him up?


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The sceptre shall not be taken from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes; and unto him shall the gathering of the people [be].


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Binding his foal unto the vine and his ass's colt unto the choice roots; he washed his garments in wine and his covering in the blood of grapes;


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Zebulun shall dwell at the port of the sea; and he [shall be] for a port of ships; and his border [shall be] unto Zidon.


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and he saw that rest [was] good and the land that [it was] pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant unto tribute.


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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.


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Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a fountain, [whose] daughters run over the wall.


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but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty [one] of Jacob; from there did the stone of Israel shepherd,


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by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the deep that lies under, with blessings of the breasts and of the womb.


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The blessings of thy father were greater than the blessings of my progenitors; unto the borders of the eternal hills they shall be upon the head of Joseph and on the crown of the Nazarite of his brethren.


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Benjamin, ravening wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and in the evening he shall divide the spoil.


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All these [were] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] what their father spoke unto them and blessed them; each one according to his blessing he blessed them.


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And he charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron, the Hittite,


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in the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron, the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.


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There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife; and there I buried Leah.


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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed and expired and was gathered unto his people.:


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And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.


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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.


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And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke unto those of the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,


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My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die; in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee and bury my father, and I will come again.


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Then Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,


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and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house; only their little ones and their sheep and their cows, they left in the land of Goshen.


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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation; and [Joseph] made a mourning for his father seven days.


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And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a great mourning of the Egyptians; therefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which [is] beyond the Jordan.


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for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.


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And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.


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And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.


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So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto thee evil; and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.


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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face, and they said, Behold, we [are] thy servants.


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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God thought it [out] unto good, to bring to pass that which we see this day, to give life to many people.


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Now therefore fear ye not; I will nourish you and your little ones. Thus he comforted them and spoke to their heart.


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And Joseph saw Ephraim's sons unto the third generation; the sons also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees.


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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from here.


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So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in an ark in Egypt.:


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Now these [are] the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; each one came in with his household.


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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].


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And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.


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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] more and mightier than we.


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Now, therefore, let us be wise concerning him, that he not multiply and it come to pass that when war comes, he shall also join with our enemies and fight against us and [so] leave the land.


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Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built the supply cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.


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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, so much that they loathed the sons of Israel.


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and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, [making] mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, in which they made them serve, [was] with rigor.


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And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and another [named] Puah;


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and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see [the] sex, if it [is] a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it [is] a daughter, then she shall live.


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But the midwives feared God and did not [do] as the king of Egypt commanded them but gave the men children their lives.


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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing and have given the men children their lives?


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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women, for they [are] lively and are delivered before the midwives come in unto them.


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Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall give them their lives.:


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And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child in it, and she laid [it] in the reeds by the river's brink.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at the river, and walking with her maidens along by the river's side, she saw the ark among the reeds; she sent her maid to bring it.


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And when she had opened [it], she saw the child, and, behold, the babe wept. And having compassion on him, she said, This [is one] of the Hebrews' children.


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Then his sister said unto Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.


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And when the child grew, she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, for she said, Because I drew him out of the water.


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And it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens, and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.


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And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no one, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


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And when he went out the next day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together, and he said to him that did the wrong, Why smitest thou thy fellow?


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And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Doest thou intend to kill me as thou killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said, Surely this thing is known.


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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.


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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came and drew [water] to fill the troughs to water their father's sheep.


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But the pastors came and drove them away. Then Moses stood up and defended them and watered their sheep.


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And when they returned unto Reuel, their father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon today?


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And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the pastors and also drew [water] enough for us and watered the sheep.


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And he said unto his daughters, And where [is] he? Why [is] it [that] ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.


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And she gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershon, for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.


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And it came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God from [their] bondage.


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Now as Moses shepherded the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.


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And the Angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.


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And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.


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And he said, Do not come near; take off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place upon which thou dost stand [is] holy ground.


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Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.


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And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who [are] in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;


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and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and broad land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the places of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


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Therefore, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has now come before me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.


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Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.


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Then Moses said unto God, Who [am] I that I should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the sons of Israel out of Egypt?


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And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token unto thee that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.


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And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, The God of your fathers has sent me unto you, and if they say to me, What [is] his name? What shall I say unto them?


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And God answered unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the sons of Israel: I AM ([YHWH]) has sent me unto you.


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And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the sons of Israel: The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you. This [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto all ages.


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Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you and [seen] that which is done to you in Egypt,


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and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite unto a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has found us; therefore, we shall now go three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.


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But I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof, and after that he will let you go.


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And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty;


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but every woman shall demand of her neighbour and of her that sojourns in her house, vessels of silver and vessels of gold and clothing; and ye shall put [them] upon your sons and upon your daughters, and ye shall spoil Egypt.:


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Then Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice, for they will say, The LORD has not appeared unto thee.


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And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from before it.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand.


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Therefore they will believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared unto thee.


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And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Now put thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand [was] leprous as snow.


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And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.


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And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.


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And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour [it] upon the dry [land]; and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land].


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Then Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I [am] not eloquent, neither up until now, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; but I [am] slow of speech and of a slow tongue.


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And the LORD said unto him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb or the deaf or the seeing or the blind? Am not I the LORD?


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Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Do I not know thy brother Aaron, the Levite, and that he can speak well? And also, behold, he comes forth to meet thee, and when he sees thee, he will be glad in his heart.


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And thou shalt speak unto him and put words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what ye shall do.


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And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and he shall be unto thee as thy mouth, and thou shalt be unto him as God.


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Thus Moses went and returned unto Jethro, his father-in-law, and said unto him, I shall go now and return unto my brethren who [are] in Egypt and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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And the LORD also said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt, for all the men are dead who sought thy life.


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Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand; but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.


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And I have said unto thee, Let my son go that he may serve me, but thou hast refused to let him go; [therefore], behold, I [will] slay thy son, [even] thy firstborn.


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Then Zipporah took a sharp flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast [it] at his feet, saying, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him.


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Then Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him and all the signs which he had commanded him.


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And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses and did the signs before the eyes of the people.


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And the people believed; and hearing that the LORD had visited the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed and worshipped.:


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And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go that they may celebrate a feast unto me in the wilderness.


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And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews has found us; therefore we shall go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the LORD our God lest he encounter us with pestilence or with the sword.


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Then the king of Egypt said unto them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, keep the people from their works? Go unto your burdens.


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Pharaoh also said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them cease from their burdens.


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Ye shall no longer give the people firewood to make brick as until now; let them go and gather firewood for themselves.


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And the tally of the bricks which they made before, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish any of it; for they [are] idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to our God.


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Let more work be laid upon them that they may occupy themselves with it; and let them not regard words of deception.


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And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you firewood.


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And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily quotas, as when there was firewood.


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And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and they] demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your quotas in making brick both yesterday and today, as until now?


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Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why doest thou deal thus with thy servants?


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There is no firewood given unto thy servants, yet they say to us, Make brick. Behold, thy servants [are] beaten; and thy people sin.


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And he replied, Ye [are] idle, [ye] are idle, therefore ye say, Let us go [and] sacrifice unto the LORD.


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Go therefore now [and] work, for no firewood shall be given you, yet ye shall deliver the tally of bricks.


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Then the officers of the sons of Israel saw [that] they [were] afflicted after it was said, Ye shall not diminish any from the bricks of your daily quota.


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and they said unto them, The LORD look upon you and judge because ye have made our savour to be a stench before Pharaoh and his servants, putting a sword in their hands to slay us.


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Then Moses returned unto the LORD and said, Lord, why hast thou [so] afflicted this people? Why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me?


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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has afflicted this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.:


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he must let them go, and with a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.


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and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD (YHWH) I was not known to them.


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And I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.


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And likewise I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.


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Therefore say unto the sons of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will free you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments.


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And I will take you as my people, and I will be your God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.


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And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I raised my hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it [unto] you for a heritage: I [am] the LORD.


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In this manner Moses spoke unto the sons of Israel, but they did not hearken unto Moses because of [their] anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.


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And Moses answered before the LORD, saying, Behold, the sons of Israel do not hearken unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, seeing I [am] of uncircumcised lips?


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Then the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron and gave them a commandment unto the sons of Israel and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


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These [are] the heads of their fathers' families: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these [are] the families of Reuben.


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And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanite woman; these [are] the families of Simeon.


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And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their lineages: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi [were] one hundred thirty-seven years.


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And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath [were] one hundred thirty-three years.


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And the sons of Merari: Mahali and Mushi; these [are] the families of Levi according to their lineages.


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And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram [were] one hundred thirty-seven years.


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And Aaron took Elizabeth, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took [one] of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These [are] the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.


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These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.


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These [are] those who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt: these [are] that Moses and Aaron.


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that the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, I [am] the LORD; speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.


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And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?:


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The LORD said unto Moses, See, I have constituted thee as god unto Pharaoh; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet.


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Thou shalt speak all that I shall command thee; and Aaron, thy brother, shall speak unto Pharaoh that he send the sons of Israel out of his land.


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And Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, but I shall lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my hosts, [and] my people, the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.


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If Pharaoh shall answer you, saying, Show a miracle, then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod and cast [it] before Pharaoh, that it shall become a dragon.


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So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a dragon.


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Then Pharaoh also called wise men and sorcerers; now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their fire [worship].


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is become] grievous, for he refuses to let the people go.


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Go unto Pharaoh in the morning; behold, he goes out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink before him and take in thy hand the rod which was turned to a serpent


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and say unto him, The LORD, the God of the Hebrews has sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; and, behold, until now thou hast not desired to hear.


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Thus hath the LORD said, In this thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD; behold, I will smite with the rod that [is] in my hand the waters which [are] in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.


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And the fish that [are] in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink the water of the river.


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And the LORD spoke unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their rivers, upon their streams, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood and [that] there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in [vessels of] wood and in [vessels of] stone.


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And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and lifting up the rod, he smote the waters that [were] in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that [were] in the river were turned to blood.


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And the fish that [were] in the river died; and the river became corrupted, so that the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians of Egypt did the same with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart hardened itself, and he did not hearken unto them, as the LORD had said.


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And in all Egypt they dug wells round about the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river.


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Then the LORD spoke unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh and say unto him, The LORD hath said thus, Let my people go that they may serve me.


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And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thy house and into thy bedchamber and upon thy bed and into the houses of thy servants and upon thy people and into thine ovens and into thy kneadingtroughs;


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.


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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians did the same with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said unto them, Intreat the LORD that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go that they may sacrifice unto the LORD.


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And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Tell me: when shall I intreat for thee and for thy servants and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, [that] they may remain only in the river?


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And he said, Tomorrow. And [Moses] replied, [Be it] according to thy word, that thou may know that [there is] none like unto the LORD our God.


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And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people; they shall remain only in the river.


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Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.


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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs of the houses, of the villages, and of the fields died.


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But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart and did not hearken unto them as the LORD had said.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the magicians did the same with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And there were lice upon man and upon beast.


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Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] the finger of God. But Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not hearken unto them as the LORD had said.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he goes forth to the water and say unto him, The LORD hath said thus, Let my people go that they may serve me.


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For if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of all kinds [of flies] and also the ground upon which they [are].


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And I will separate in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no kind [of flies] shall be there to the end that thou may know that I [am] the LORD in the midst of the earth.


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And the LORD did so: that there came a grievous swarm [of flies] into the house of Pharaoh and [into] his servants' houses and into all the land of Egypt; and the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm [of flies].


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land [of Egypt].


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And Moses replied, It is not convenient to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?


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We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he has said unto us.


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And Pharaoh said, I will let you go that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away; pray for me.


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And Moses answered, Behold, as I go out from thy presence, I will intreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; if Pharaoh will not deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.


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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms [of flies] from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me.


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behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy livestock which [are] in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the cows, and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous pestilence.


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And the LORD shall separate between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt so that nothing shall die of all [that is] of the sons of Israel.


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And the next day the LORD did that thing, and [of] all the livestock of Egypt [many] died, but of the livestock of the sons of Israel not one died.


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Then Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the livestock of the sons of Israel dead. But the heart of Pharaoh hardened, and he did not let the people go.


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And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, [Let] each of you take handfuls of soot from the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.


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And it shall become dust upon all the land of Egypt, which shall cause boils breaking forth [with] blisters upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they took the soot of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and boils breaking forth [with] blisters came upon man and upon beast


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[until] the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.


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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did hearken unto them as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me.


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For [otherwise] this time I will send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and upon thy people that thou may know that [there is] none like me in all the earth.


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For now I will stretch out my hand that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.


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For in truth I have placed thee to declare my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.


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Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.


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Send therefore now [and] gather thy livestock and all that thou hast in the field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found in the field and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.


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He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon the men and upon the beasts and upon all the grass of the field throughout the land of Egypt.


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And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and the LORD raised his voice and it hailed, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.


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So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became inhabited.


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And that hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that [was] in the field, both men and beasts; and the hail smote all the grass of the field and broke all the trees of the field.


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Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said unto them, I have sinned this time; the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.


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Intreat the LORD that the thunderings of God and the hail [might] cease; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay here no longer.


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And Moses replied unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will extend my hands unto the LORD; [and] the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou may know how that the earth [is] the LORD'S.


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The flax, therefore, and the barley were smitten, for the barley [was] headed out, and the flax [was] in stalk.


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And Moses went out from the presence of Pharaoh and [out] of the city and extended his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.


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And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he persevered in [his] sin and hardened his heart, he and his servants.


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And the heart of Pharaoh hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go as the LORD had spoken by Moses.:


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants that I might show these my signs among them


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and that thou may tell in the ears of thy sons and of thy son's sons the things I did in Egypt and my signs which I gave among them and that ye may know that I [am] the LORD.


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Then Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him, Thus hath the LORD God of the Hebrews said, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that they may serve me.


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and they shall cover the face of the earth that one will not be able to see the earth, and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remains unto you from the hail and shall eat every tree which produces [fruit] for you out of the field:


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And they shall fill thy houses and the houses of all thy servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself and went out from Pharaoh.


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Then Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God; knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?


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And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God. Who [are] those that shall go?


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And Moses replied, We must go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our cows we must go; for we have a solemn feast unto the LORD.


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And he said unto them, Even if the LORD be with you, how can I let you go with your little ones; look at the malice which is before your face.


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It [shall] not [be] so: go now ye [that are] men and serve the LORD; for that is what ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat all the grass of the land [and] all that the hail has left.


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And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all [that] night; [and] when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.


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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and landed in all the borders of Egypt. Very grievous [were they]; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall [there] be such.


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For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate all the grass of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there did not remain any green thing in the trees or in the grass of the field, through all the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.


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Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.


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And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.


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They did not see one another, neither did any rise from his place for three days; but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.


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Then Pharaoh called unto Moses and said, Go, serve the LORD; only let your sheep and your cows remain; let your little ones also go with you.


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And Moses replied, Thou also must give us sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.


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Our cattle shall also go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind; for we must take thereof to serve the LORD our God; and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.


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And Pharaoh said unto him, Go from me, take heed to thyself to see my face no more; for in [the] day that thou seest my face thou shalt die.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, I will bring one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt, after which he will let you go from here; when he shall let [you] go, he shall surely thrust you out of here altogether.


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Speak now to the people and let each man demand of his neighbour and each woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of gold.


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And the LORD gave the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses [was] very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.


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and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind the mill and all the firstborn of beasts.


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And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been [one] like it, nor shall [there] ever be any like it again.


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But among all the sons of Israel, from man to beast, not a dog shall move his tongue, that ye may know that the LORD shall make a difference between the Egyptians and the Israelites.


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And all these thy servants shall come down unto me and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Go out, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: but the LORD had hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.:


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This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of the months; it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.


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Speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month let each man take a lamb according to the families of the fathers, a lamb per family;


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and if the household is too small and [is] not [able] to eat the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of persons; each one according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.


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The lamb shall be without blemish, a male of one year; ye shall take [it] out from the sheep or from the goats;


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and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.


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And they shall take of the blood and put [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it.


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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.


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Eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast [with] fire, his head with his legs, and with the entrails thereof.


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And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.


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And thus shall ye eat it: [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.


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For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both [among] man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I [am] the LORD.


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And this blood shall be to you for a sign upon the houses where ye [are]; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy [you], when I smite the land of Egypt.


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And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it as a feast unto the LORD throughout your ages; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.


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Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.


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And in the first day [there shall be] a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, except [that] which every person must eat, that only may be done of you.


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And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread, for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore, shall ye observe this day for your ages by an ordinance forever.


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In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.


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For seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or born in the land.


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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them, Draw out and take lambs according to your families and sacrifice the passover.


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And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the basin and touch the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.


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For the LORD will pass through smiting the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you].


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And it shall come to pass, when ye have entered into the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.


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That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed and worshipped.


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And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the animals.


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And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for [there was] not a house where [there was] not one dead.


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And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, Rise up, [and] get you forth from among my people, both ye and the sons of Israel, and go, serve the LORD as ye have said.


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And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste, for they said, We [are] all dead [men].


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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.


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And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked the Egyptians for vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing.


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And the LORD gave the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave unto them [such things as they required]. And they spoiled the Egyptians.


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And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not [counting] the children.


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And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry nor prepare food for themselves.


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And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even that same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.


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It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this night [should] be observed unto the LORD by all the sons of Israel in their ages.


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And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [shall be] the ordinance of the passover: No stranger shall eat of it,


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but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.


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It shall be eaten in one house; thou shalt not carry forth any of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.


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And if a stranger shall sojourn with thee and desire to make the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and make this [sacrifice]; and he shall be as one that is natural in the land, but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.


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And it came to pass that same day [that] the LORD did bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.:


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Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel, [both] of man and of beast; for it [is] mine.


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And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for the LORD has brought you out of here with a strong hand; therefore, ye shall not eat with leaven.


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And when the LORD shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt do this service in this month.


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[Bread] without leaven shall be eaten the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen with thee, neither shall there be any leaven in all thy borders.


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And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when he brought me out of Egypt.


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And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand and for a memorial before thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought thee out of Egypt.


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And it shall be when the LORD shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall have given it to thee,


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that thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that opens the womb [and] in the same manner every firstborn that opens the wombs of thy animals; the males [shall be] the LORD'S.


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And every firstborn of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou wilt not ransom it, then thou shalt cut off its head; and in the same manner thou shalt ransom all the human firstborn among thy sons.


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And it shall be when thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What [is] this? Thou shalt say unto him, With a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage;


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and it came to pass when Pharaoh was hardening himself to not let us go that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt from the human firstborn to the firstborn of the beast; therefore, I sacrifice to the LORD every male that opens the womb, and I ransom every firstborn of my sons.


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And it shall be for a token upon thy hand, and for a memorial before thine eyes: That the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.


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And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go that God did not lead them [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that [was] near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt;


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but God led the people round about [through] the way of the wilderness of the Red sea. And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.


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And Moses also took the bones of Joseph with him, who had made the sons of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away from here with you.


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And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light that they might walk by day and by night.


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He never took away the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night [from] before the people.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel that they turn and set up their camp before Pihahiroth between Migdol and the sea over against Baalzephon; before it shall ye set up camp by the sea.


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For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They [are] entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after them; and I will be glorified in Pharaoh and in all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.


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And it was told the king of Egypt how the people fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?


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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued after the sons of Israel, but the sons of Israel had already left with great power.


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The Egyptians, nevertheless, pursued after them with all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and all his army, and overtook them setting up camp by the sea beside Pihahiroth before Baalzephon.


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And when Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they feared greatly, and the sons of Israel cried out unto the LORD.


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And they said unto Moses, Because [there were] no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?


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[Is] this not what we told thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For [it would have been] better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.


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And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the saving health of the LORD, which he will bestow on you today; for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall never see them again for ever.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Why criest thou unto me? Speak unto the sons of Israel that they go forward:


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And lift up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it; and the sons of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea.


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And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they shall follow them: and I will be glorified in Pharaoh and in all his host, in his chariots, and in his horsemen.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have glorified myself in Pharaoh, in his chariots, and in his horsemen.


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And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and likewise the pillar of cloud went from before their face and stood behind them.


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And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it lit up the night [unto Israel]; and all that night the one [side] never came near the other.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided.


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Then the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry [ground]; and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.


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And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them to the midst of the sea, [even] all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And it came to pass that in the morning watch the LORD looked at the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud and troubled the camp of the Egyptians


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and took off their chariot wheels and overturned them grievously, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned in its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.


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And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.


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But the sons of Israel walked upon dry [land] in the midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.


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Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.


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And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians; and the people feared the LORD and believed the LORD and his servant Moses.:


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Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song unto the LORD and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.


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The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my saving health; he [is] my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.


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Pharaoh's chariots and his host he has cast into the sea; his chosen princes also are drowned in the Red sea.


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Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power; thy right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.


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And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown those that rose up against thee; thou didst send forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble.


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And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, [and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.


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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.


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Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who [is] like thee, magnificent in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?


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Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which] thou hast redeemed; thou hast guided [them] in thy strength unto the habitation of thy holiness.


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Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling, shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.


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Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone, until thy people pass over, O LORD, until the people pass over, [which] thou hast purchased.


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Thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, [in] the place of thy dwelling which thou hast made ready, O LORD, [in] the Sanctuary of the Lord, [which] thy hands have established.


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For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the sons of Israel went on dry [land] in the midst of the sea.


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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.


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And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.


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So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.


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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.


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And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast [it] into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There he gave them statutes and rights, and there he proved them


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and said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I [am] the LORD thy Healer.


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And they came to Elim, where [there were] twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.:


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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.


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And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness;


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and the sons of Israel said unto them, It would have been better if we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots [and] when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the word for every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.


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And it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare [that] which they bring in, which shall be twice as much as they gather daily.


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Then Moses and Aaron said unto all the sons of Israel, At evening ye shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt;


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And in the morning ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for he has heard your murmurings against the LORD; and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?


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And Moses said, [This shall be] when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full; for the LORD has heard your murmurings which ye have murmured against him; and what [are] we? Your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD.


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And Moses spoke unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.


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And it came to pass as Aaron spoke unto the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.


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I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak unto them, saying, Between the two evenings ye shall eat flesh, and tomorrow ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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And it came to pass, that in the evening quail came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew descended round about the host.


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And when the dew ceased to descend, behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing [as] small as the hoar frost on the ground.


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And when the sons of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna ([What is it?]): for they did not know what it [was]. Then Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.


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This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for each one, [according to] the number of your persons; take ye each one for [those] who [are] in his tent.


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And when they did measure [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered each one according to his eating.


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Notwithstanding they did not hearken unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.


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And they gathered it early in the morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.


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And it came to pass [that] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the princes of the congregation came and told Moses.


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And he said unto them, This [is] what the LORD has said, Tomorrow [is] the holy sabbath of rest unto the LORD; bake [that] which ye will bake [today] and cook what ye will cook; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.


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And they laid it up until the morning as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.


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And Moses said, Eat that today; for today [is] a sabbath unto the LORD; today ye shall not find it in the field.


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Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none.


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And it came to pass that [some] of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, and they found none.


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See that the LORD has given you the sabbath; therefore, he gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day; abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.


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And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it [was] like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.


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And Moses said, This [is] what the LORD has commanded, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your descendants, that they may see the bread with which I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna in it and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your descendants.


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Thus the sons of Israel ate manna forty years until they came to a land inhabited; they ate manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and set up camp in Rephidim; and [there was] no water for the people to drink.


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And the people chided with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? Why do ye tempt the LORD?


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So the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses and said, Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?


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Then Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel and thy rod, with which thou didst smite the river take in thine hand and go.


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Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.


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And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the sons of Israel and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?


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And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.


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So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


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And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; but when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.


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And Moses' hands [were] heavy, so they took a stone and put [it] under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side; thus his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in the book and tell Joshua that I must utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.


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for he said, Because [Amalek lifted] his hand against the throne of the LORD, the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from generation to generation.:


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When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done with Moses and with Israel his people [and] how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,


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and her two sons, of which the name of the one [was] Gershon, for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land,


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and the name of the other [was] Eliezer, for the God of my father, [said he], helped me and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh;


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and Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he was camped next to the mount of God;


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and he said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee and thy wife and her two sons with her.


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And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and kissed him; and they asked each other of [their] peace; and they came into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake [and] all the travail that had come upon them in the way and [how] the LORD delivered them.


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And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.


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And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


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Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they dealt proudly [he prevailed] against them.


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took burnt offerings and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.


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And it came to pass another day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning unto the evening.


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And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What [is] this that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone and all the people stand before thee from morning unto evening?


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When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I declare unto [them] the statutes of God and his laws.


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Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that [is] with thee; for this thing [is] too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.


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Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people before God that thou may submit the causes unto God.


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And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws and shalt show them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do.


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Moreover thou shalt consider out of all the people men of virtue, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place princes over them, of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.


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And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be [that] every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge, so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with thee.


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If thou shalt do this thing and God command thee [so], then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.


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And Moses chose men of virtue out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, princes over thousands, over hundreds, over fifties, and over tens.


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And they judged the people at all seasons; the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.


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In the third month from when the sons of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came [into] the wilderness of Sinai.


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For they had departed from Rephidim and were come [to] the desert of Sinai and had pitched in the wilderness, and there Israel camped before the mount.


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And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:


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Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and [how] I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you unto myself.


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Now therefore, if ye will give ear to hearken unto my voice and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a special treasure unto me above all peoples; for all the earth [is] mine.


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And ye shall be my kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel.


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Then Moses came and called for the elders of the people and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.


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And all the people answered together and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, I come unto thee in a thick cloud that the people may hear when I speak with thee and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes


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and be ready for the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.


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And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves [that ye go not] up into the mount or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mount shall surely die:


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Not a hand shall touch it, but that he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live. When the jubilee sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.


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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.


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And it came to pass on the third day when the morning came, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the shofar exceeding loud, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.


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And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount.


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And all Mount Sinai smoked because the LORD had descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.


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And the voice of the shofar sounded long and waxed louder and louder; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.


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And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount, and the LORD called Moses [up] to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people lest they break through [the bounds] to gaze upon the LORD, and many of them perish.


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And also let the priests who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves lest the LORD break forth upon them.


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And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou hast charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount and sanctify it.


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And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee, but let not the priests and the people break through [the bounds] to come up unto the LORD lest he break forth upon them.


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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above or that [is] in the earth beneath nor that [is] in the water under the earth.


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Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate me


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Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone that takes his name in vain.


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but the seventh day [shall be] the sabbath of the LORD thy God; [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates;


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for [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them and rested the seventh day; therefore, the LORD blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it.


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Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be lengthened upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.


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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.


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And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw [it], they trembled and stood afar off.


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And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us lest we die.


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Then Moses said unto the people, Fear not, for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the sons of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.


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An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen; in whatever place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.


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And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.


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If thou should buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.


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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.


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If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.


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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.


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Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him forever.


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And if a man should sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.


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If she pleases not her master, who therefore took her not unto himself to wife, then it is permitted that she be ransomed; and he may not sell her unto a strange nation when he rejects her.


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And if a man did not lie in wait but God delivered [him] into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place where he shall flee.


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But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with prudence, thou shalt take him from my altar that he may die.


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Likewise he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.


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And if men strive together and one smites another with a stone or with [his] fist and he dies not, but keeps [his] bed,


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if he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be absolved, only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.


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And if a man smites his servant or his maid with a rod and he dies under his hand, he shall be surely punished.


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If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that she aborts but without death, he shall be surely punished according as the woman's husband will lay upon him, and he shall pay by the judges.


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And if someone smites the eye of their servant or the eye of their maid that it perishes, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.


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And if he smites out his manservant's tooth or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let them go free for their tooth's sake.


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If an ox gores a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] absolved.


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But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.


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If there is laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him.


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Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.


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If the ox shall gore a manservant or a maidservant, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.


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And if someone shall open a pit or if someone shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an ass falls in it,


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the owner of the pit shall make [it] good [and] give money unto their owner, and the dead [beast] shall be his.


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And if one man's ox hurts another's that he dies; then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money of it, and the dead [ox] they shall also divide.


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Or if it is known that the ox used to push in time past and his owner has not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.:


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If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.


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If a thief is found breaking into a house and is smitten so he dies, [he that killed him] shall not be guilty of his blood.


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If the sun is risen upon him, [he that killed him] is guilty of his blood; [the thief] should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.


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If he is found with the theft in his hand, whether it be ox or ass or sheep, he shall restore double.


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If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution.


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When fires are lit and in burning the thorns burn also the stacks of sheaves or the standing grain, or the field is consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.


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When a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, let him pay double.


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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges [to see] whether he has put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.


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For all manner of fraud, [whether it be] for [an] ox, for [an] ass, for [a] sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, which [another] challenges to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; [and] whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.


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If a man delivers unto his neighbour an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or driven away, no man seeing [it],


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[then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods, and the owner of it shall accept [thereof], and he shall not make [it] good.


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If it is torn in pieces, [then] let him bring witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.


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And if anyone borrows [anything] of his neighbour, and it is hurt or dies, its owner not [being] with it, he shall surely make [it] good.


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[But] if its owner [is] with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it [was] hired, it came for its hire.


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If a man should entice a virgin that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely endow her and [take her] to be his wife.


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If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.


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and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.


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If thou should lend money to my people, to the poor [who is] with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.


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If thou at all take thy neighbour's clothing as a pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him before the sun goes down;


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for only that [is] his covering, it [is] his clothing to [cover] his flesh, in which he must sleep; and it shall come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear, for I [am] merciful.


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Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors; the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.


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Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen [and] with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it [to] me.


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And ye shall be holy men unto me; neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.:


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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause hiding behind many to wrest [judgment];


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If thou should encounter thine enemy's ox or his ass astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.


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If thou see the ass of him that hates thee lying under his burden, will thou forbear to help him? Thou shalt surely help him to raise it up.


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Keep thee far from a false matter; and slay thou not the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.


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And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for ye know the [state of the] soul of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.


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but the seventh [year] thou shalt leave it [free] and release it, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard [and] with thy oliveyard.


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Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.


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And in all [things] that I have said unto you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.


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Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib, for in it thou didst come out from Egypt; and none shall appear before me empty),


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And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.


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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my lamb remain until the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.


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Behold, I send the Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.


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Keep thyself before him and hear his voice, grieve him not; for he will not pardon your rebellion, for my name [is] in him.


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But if thou shalt indeed hear his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary unto those that afflict thee.


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For my Angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto [the land of] the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite the Hivite and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.


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Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and completely break down their images.


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But ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take [all] sickness away from the midst of thee.


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I will send my fear before thee and will trouble all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.


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And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.


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I will not drive them out from before thee in one year lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.


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Little by little I will drive them out from before thee until thou be multiplied and take the land by inheritance.


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And I will set thy borders from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert unto the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and [thou] shalt drive them out before thee.


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They shall not dwell in thy land lest peradventure they make thee sin against me [by] serving their gods, for it will be a snare unto thee.:


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And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship afar off.


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And Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.


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And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rights, and all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which the LORD has said we will do.


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And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mount and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent the young men of the sons of Israel, who had offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of bullocks unto the LORD.


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And Moses took half of the blood and put [it] in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.


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And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people, and they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and we will hear.


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Then Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.


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and they saw the God of Israel; and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone like unto the heaven when it is clear.


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But he did not lay his hand upon the princes of the sons of Israel, and they saw God and ate and drank.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount and wait there, and I will give thee tables of stone and the law and commandments which I have written to teach them.


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And he said unto the elders, wait here for us until we come again unto you; and, behold, Aaron and Hur [are] with you; if anyone has any matters to settle, let him come unto them.


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And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days, and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.


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And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mount, and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel that they bring me an offering; of every man that gives it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.


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According to all that I show thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its vessels, even so shall ye make [it].


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And they shall make an ark [of] cedar wood; two cubits and a half [shall be] its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.


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And thou shalt cover it with pure gold; within and without shalt thou cover it and shalt make upon it a moulding of gold round about.


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And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it and put [them] in the four corners thereof, and two rings [shall be] in the one side of it and two rings in the other side of it.


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And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.


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And thou shalt make a seat of reconciliation [of] pure gold; two cubits and a half [shall be] its length and a cubit and a half its breadth.


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And thou shalt make two cherubim [of] gold; [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the seat of reconciliation.


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And make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end: [even] of the seat of reconciliation shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.


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And the cherubim shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the seat of reconciliation with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the seat of reconciliation shall the faces of the cherubim be.


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And thou shalt put the seat of reconciliation above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.


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And there I will meet with thee, and I will speak with thee from above the seat of reconciliation, from between the two cherubim which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment unto the sons of Israel.


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Thou shalt likewise make a table [of] cedar wood; two cubits [shall be] its length and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.


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And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden moulding to its border round about.


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And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on the four feet thereof.


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And thou shalt make the staves [of] cedar wood and cover them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.


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And thou shalt make the dishes thereof and spoons thereof and covers thereof and bowls thereof to [cover the bread]; of pure gold shalt thou make them.


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And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold; [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made; its base and its branches its bowls its knops and its flowers shall be of the same.


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And six branches shall come out of the sides of it, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side,


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three bowls made like unto almonds [with] a knop and a flower in one branch, and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch [with] a knop and a flower; thus in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.


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And in the candlestick [shall be] four bowls made like unto almonds [with] their knops and their flowers.


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And [there shall be] a knop under two branches of the same, and another knop under two branches of the same, and another knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.


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Their knops and their branches shall be of the same; all [of] it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.


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And thou shalt make its seven lamps; and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it.


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Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains [of] fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet; [with] cherubim of cunning work shalt thou make them.


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The length of one curtain [shall be] twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; and all the curtains shall have one measure.


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The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another, and the [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.


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And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the border in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of [another] curtain in the coupling of the second.


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Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the border of the curtain that [is] in the second coupling; that the loops may take hold one of another.


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And thou shalt make fifty hooks of gold and couple the curtains together with the hooks; and it shall be one tabernacle.


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Likewise thou shalt make curtains of goats' [hair] to be a covering over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shalt thou make.


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The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; and the eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure.


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And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.


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And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain from the border in the coupling and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which couples the second.


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And thou shalt make fifty hooks of brass and put the hooks into the loops and couple the tent together that it may be one.


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And the remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.


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And a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.


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And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red and a covering above [of] badgers' skins.


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Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board.


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Two tenons [shall there be] in one board, set in order one against another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the side of the Negev to the south.


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And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.


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And for the second side of the tabernacle on the side of the Aquilon, [there shall be] twenty boards


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and their forty sockets [of] silver: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.


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and they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring; thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.


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Thus they shall be eight boards, and their sockets [of] silver, sixteen sockets: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.


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five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.


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And thou shalt cover the boards with gold and make their rings [of] gold [for] places for the bars, and thou shalt also cover the bars with gold.


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And thou shalt raise up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee in the mount.


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And thou shalt also make a veil [of] blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work; with cherubim shall it be made;


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and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of cedar covered with gold; their capitals [shall be of] gold upon four sockets of silver.


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And thou shalt hang up the veil under the hooks, and thou shalt bring in there, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and that veil shall separate for you between the holy [place] and the holy of holies.


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And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the Negev ([south desert]), and thou shalt put the table on the side of the Aquilon ([north wind]).


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And thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tabernacle [of] blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen wrought with needlework.


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And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of cedar and cover them with gold, [and] their capitals [shall be of] gold, and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.:


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Thou shalt also make an altar [of] cedar wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare, and its height [shall be] three cubits.


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And thou shalt make the horns of it upon its four corners; its horns shall be of the same, and thou shalt cover it with brass.


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And thou shalt make its pans to receive [the ashes with] its [burnt] fat, and its shovels and its basins and its fleshhooks and its firepans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass.


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And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.


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And thou shalt put it under the circumference of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.


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And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar to bear it.


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In the same manner thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle; to the side of the Negev to the south [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of one hundred cubits long for each side;


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and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the capitals of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver.


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And likewise for the side of the Aquilon in length [there shall be] hangings of one hundred [cubits] long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty sockets [of] brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.


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And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.


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The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.


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And on the other side [shall be] hangings [of] fifteen [cubits], their pillars three, and their sockets three.


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And at the gate of the court [there shall be] a hanging of twenty cubits [of] blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework; [and] their pillars [shall be] four and their sockets four.


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All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their capitals [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.


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The length of the court [shall be] one hundred cubits and the breadth fifty on the one side and fifty on the other and the height five cubits, [its hangings of] fine twined linen and their sockets [of] brass.


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All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof and all the stakes thereof and all the stakes of the court, [shall be of] brass.


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And thou shalt command the sons of Israel that they bring thee olive oil, clear, crushed, for the light, to cause the lamps to burn always.


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In the tabernacle of the testimony outside the veil, which [shall be] before [the ark of] the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order them from evening to morning before the LORD; [it shall be] a perpetual statute of the sons of Israel for their generations.:


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And cause Aaron, thy brother, to come unto thee with his sons, from among the sons of Israel, that they may be my priests, [even] Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.


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And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the Spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may be my priest.


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And these [are] the garments which they shall make: the pectoral, the ephod, the robe, the broidered coat, the mitre, and the girdle. Therefore let them make the holy garments for Aaron, thy brother, and his sons, that they may be my priests.


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and they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.


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It shall have its two shoulderpieces joined at the two edges thereof, and [so]it shall be joined together.


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And the special girdle of the ephod, which [shall be] over it, shall be of its same workmanship, of the same [materials]: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet and fine twined linen.


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Six of their names on one stone and [the other] six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.


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With the work of an engraver in stone, [like] the engravings of a seal, shalt thou engrave those two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; thou shalt make them to be set in settings of gold.


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And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of memorial unto the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.


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and two small chains [of] pure gold; [of] wreathen work shalt thou make them and fasten the wreathen chains to the settings.


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And in the same manner thou shalt make the pectoral of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it, [of] gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen.


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It shall be square and double; a span [shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth thereof.


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And thou shalt fill it with four rows of stones; The order [shall be] a ruby, an emerald, and a chrysolite; [this shall be] the first order.


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And the fourth row a tarshish (or [beryl]) and an onyx and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.


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And those stones shall be in agreement with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, in agreement with their names; each one in agreement with his name like the engravings of a seal; they shall be according to the twelve tribes.


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And thou shalt make upon the pectoral two rings of gold and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the pectoral.


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And thou shalt put the two wreathen [chains] of gold in the two rings [which are] on the ends of the pectoral.


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And [the other] two ends of the two wreathen [chains] thou shalt fasten in the two settings and put [them] on the shoulderpieces of the ephod on the front of it.


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Thou shalt also make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the pectoral in the border thereof, which [is] in the side of the ephod inward.


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Likewise two [other] rings of gold thou shalt make and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front part thereof, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the special girdle of the ephod.


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And they shall bind the pectoral by its rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that [it] may be above the special girdle of the ephod and that the pectoral not be loosed from the ephod.


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And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the pectoral of judgment upon his heart when he goes in unto the sanctuary for a memorial before the LORD continually.


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And thou shalt put in the pectoral of judgment Urim and Thummim, that they shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goes in before the LORD; and Aaron shall always bear the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before the LORD.


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And it shall have the collar of his head in the midst thereof, which shall have a binding of woven work round about it, as the collar of a habergeon, that it not be rent.


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And [beneath] upon the hem of it, thou shalt make pomegranates [of] blue and [of] purple and [of] scarlet round about the hem thereof and bells of gold between them round about.


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A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate upon the hem of the robe round about.


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And it shall be upon Aaron to minister, and his sound shall be heard when he goes in unto the sanctuary before the LORD and when he comes out, that he not die.


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Thou shalt also make an open flower [of] pure gold and engrave upon it the engravings of a seal, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.


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And thou shalt put it on with a blue lace that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.


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And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the sons of Israel shall sanctify in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead that they may find grace before the LORD.


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And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre [of] fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle [of] needlework.


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And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats; thou shalt also make girdles for them, and tiaras shalt thou make for them, for honour and for beauty.


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And with these thou shalt clothe Aaron, thy brother, and his sons with him and shalt anoint them and fill their hands and sanctify them that they may be my priests.


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And thou shalt make them linen underwear to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the loins even unto the thighs;


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And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons when they enter into the tabernacle of the testimony or when they come near unto the altar to serve in the sanctuary that they not bear iniquity and die: [This shall be] a perpetual statute unto him and his seed after him.:


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And this is what thou shalt do unto them to sanctify them that they shall be my priests: Take one young bullock and two perfect rams


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and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes tempered with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, which thou shalt make of wheat flour.


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And thou shalt put them into a basket and offer them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams.


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And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and shalt wash them with water.


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And thou shalt take the garments and clothe Aaron with the coat and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the pectoral and gird him with the special girdle of the ephod;


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And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind the tiaras on them; and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute; and thou shalt fill the hands Aaron and his sons.


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And thou shalt cause the bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the testimony, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.


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And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock and put [it] upon the horns of the altar with thy finger and pour all the [remaining] blood beside the bottom of the altar.


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And thou shalt take all the fat that covers the intestines and the caul [that is] above the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that [is] upon them and burn [them] upon the altar.


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But the flesh of the bullock and his skin and his dung shalt thou burn with fire outside the camp; it [is] sin.


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Thou shalt likewise take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.


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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar.


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And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces and wash his intestines and his legs and put [them] upon his pieces and upon his head.


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And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a sweet savour, an offering on fire unto the LORD.


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And thou shalt take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.


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Then shalt thou kill the ram and take of his blood and put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tip of the right ears of his sons and upon the thumb of their right hands and upon the great toe of their right feet and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.


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And thou shalt take of the blood that [shall be] upon the altar and of the anointing oil and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron and upon his garments and upon his sons and upon their garments, and he shall be sanctified, and his garments and his sons and his sons' garments with him.


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Then thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the tail and the fat that covers the intestines and the caul [above] the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that [is] upon them and the right shoulder, for it [is] a ram of consecrations,


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Also one [large] loaf of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that [is] before the LORD;


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and thou shalt put all [this] in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and shalt lift them up and wave them before the LORD.


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Then thou shalt take them from their hands and burn [them] upon the altar upon the burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD. It [is] an offering on fire unto the LORD.


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And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of the consecrations, which is of Aaron and wave it [for] a waved [offering] before the LORD; and it shall be thy part.


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And thou shalt set apart the breast of the waved offering and the shoulder of the sanctification, [that] which was waved and [that] which was sanctified of the ram of the consecrations of Aaron and of his sons;


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and it shall be for Aaron and for his sons by a perpetual statute of the sons of Israel, for it [is] something set apart, and it shall be set apart of the sons of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings; it [shall be] something of theirs set apart unto the LORD.


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And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed with them and to be consecrated with them.


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[And] for seven days the priest of his sons, who in his stead shall come into the tabernacle of the testimony, shall put them on to serve in the sanctuary.


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that [is] in the basket [by] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And they shall eat those things with which they were reconciled, to fill their hands to be sanctified; but a stranger shall not eat [thereof] because they [are] holiness.


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And if any of the flesh of the consecrations or of the bread remains unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it [is] holiness.


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And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron and to his sons, according to all the things which [I]have commanded thee; for seven days shalt thou consecrate them.


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And thou shalt sacrifice a bullock every day for reconciliation of sin; and thou shalt remove the sin from the altar, and thou shalt anoint it to sanctify it.


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For seven days thou shalt reconcile the altar and sanctify it; and it shall be a most holy altar; whatever touches the altar shall be [made] holy.


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Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs of the first year every day continually.


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Moreover a tenth [ephah] of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil and the fourth part of a hin of wine with each lamb.


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And thou shalt offer the other lamb at evening, doing according to the present of the morning and according to its drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering on fire unto the LORD.


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This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your ages at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the LORD, where I will concert with you, to speak there unto you.


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And there I will testify of myself unto the sons of Israel, and [the place] shall be sanctified with my glory.


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And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar; I will [likewise] sanctify both Aaron and his sons that they may be my priests.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them; I [am] the LORD your God.:


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In the same manner thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; [of] cedar wood shalt thou make it.


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Its length [shall be] a cubit and its width a cubit; it shall be square and its height two cubits; its horns [shall be] of the same.


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And thou shalt cover it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make unto it a moulding of gold round about.


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And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under its moulding by its two corners on both sides for places for the staves to bear it with.


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And thou shalt put it before the veil that [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the seat of reconciliation that [is] over the testimony, where I will testify unto thee of myself.


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And Aaron shall burn sweet incense thereon every morning; when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn it.


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And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it continually before the LORD throughout your ages.


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Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon nor burnt sacrifice nor present; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.


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And Aaron shall make reconciliation upon the horns of it once a year with the blood of the reconciliation for sin; once a year shall he make reconciliation upon it throughout your ages; it [shall be] most holy unto the LORD.


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When thou takest the number of the sons of Israel after the sum of them, each one shall give a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou dost number them, that there be no mortality in them because of numbering them.


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This shall be given by every one that passes among those that are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs); a half shekel [shall be] the offering to the LORD.


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Anyone that passes among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the offering unto the LORD.


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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give the offering unto the LORD to make reconciliation for your souls.


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And thou shalt take the reconciliation money of the sons of Israel and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the testimony, and it shall be a memorial unto the sons of Israel before the LORD to reconcile your souls.


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Thou shalt also make a laver [of] brass, and its base [also of] brass, to wash [with]; and thou shalt place it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, and thou shalt put water in it.


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When they go into the tabernacle of the testimony, they shall wash with water that they not die, or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn the offering unto the LORD that must be consumed by fire,


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they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. And he and his seed shall have [it] as a perpetual statute throughout their generations.


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Thou must take unto thee of the principal spices: of excellent myrrh five hundred [shekels] and of aromatic cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of aromatic calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],


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and thou shalt make of it the oil of the holy anointing, a superior ointment, after the art of the apothecary, which shall be the oil of the holy anointing.


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Thus thou shalt consecrate them, and they shall be most holy; whatever touches them shall be sanctified.


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And thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This shall be my oil of the holy anointing throughout your ages.


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It shall not be poured upon man's flesh; neither shall ye make [any other] like it, after the composition of it; it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.


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Whoever compounds [any] like it and puts [any] of it upon a stranger shall be cut off from his people.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee aromas, stacte and onycha and aromatic galbanum and pure frankincense, of each in equal weight.


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And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy;


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and thou shalt beat [some] of it very small and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the testimony, where I will testify unto thee of myself. It shall be most holy unto you.


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And [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves [another] according to the composition thereof: it shall be holiness unto thee for the LORD.


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and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and in intelligence and in science and in all manner of workmanship,


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and in cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.


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And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the desire of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom that they may make all that I have commanded thee:


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The tabernacle of the testimony and the ark of the testimony and the seat of reconciliation that [shall be] upon it and all the vessels of the tabernacle


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and the table and its vessels and the pure candlestick with all its vessels and the altar of incense,


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and the clothes of service and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons that they may be priests,


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and the anointing oil and aromatic incense for the sanctuary; they shall do according to all that I have commanded thee.


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And thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, With all this ye shall keep my sabbaths; for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout your ages; that [ye] may know that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you.


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Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you; those that defile it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Six days shall work be done; but the seventh, the sabbath of rest, [shall be] holy to the LORD; whoever does [any] work in the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.


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Therefore the sons of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their ages [for] a perpetual covenant.


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It [is] a sign between me and the sons of Israel for ever; for [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.


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And he gave unto Moses, when he finished speaking with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.:


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And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him, Rise up, make us gods which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.


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And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me.


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Then all the people broke off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears and brought [them] unto Aaron,


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who took them from their hands and fashioned it with a graving tool and made of it a molten calf. Then they said, These [are] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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And seeing this, Aaron built an altar before the [calf]; and Aaron made [a] proclamation and said, Tomorrow [shall be] a feast unto the LORD.


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And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go, descend; for thy people, which thou didst bring out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves]:


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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed unto it and said, These [are] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of [the] land of Egypt.


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The LORD further said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and for certain it [is] a stiffnecked people.


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Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot in them and consume them; and I will put thee over [a] great nation.


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Then Moses grieved before the LORD his God and said, LORD, why shall thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?


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Why should the Egyptians speak and say, For evil did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from upon the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of the evil of thy people.


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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst sware by thine own self and hast said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall take it for inheritance for ever.


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And Moses turned and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand; the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other [were] they written.


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And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.


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And Joshua, hearing the noise of the people as they shouted, said unto Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp.


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And he answered, [It is] not the voice of [those that] shout for mastery, neither [is it] the voice of [those that] cry for being overcome, [but] the noise of [those that] sing that I hear.


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And it came to pass as soon as he came near unto the camp and he saw the calf and the dances, anger caused Moses to wax hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount.


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And he took the calf which they had made and burnt [it] in the fire and ground [it] to powder and scattered [it] upon the waters and made the sons of Israel drink [it].


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And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people [do] unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?


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And Aaron answered, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people that they [are inclined] to evil.


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For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us, for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him.


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And I answered unto them, Whoever has any gold, let them break [it] off. So they gave [it to] me and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.


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And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies),


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Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who [is] on the LORD'S side? [Come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.


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And he said unto them, Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said, Put every man his sword by his side [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay each one his brother and his companion and his neighbour.


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And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.


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Then Moses had said, Today you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, for each one [has consecrated] in his son and in his brother, that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.


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And it came to pass on the next day that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin, but now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make reconciliation for your sin.


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Then Moses returned unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, [for], this people [who] have sinned a great sin and have made themselves gods of gold,


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And the LORD answered unto Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, this one will [I] blot out of my book.


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Therefore go now, lead the people unto [the place] of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, my Angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day of my visitation [I] will visit their sin in them.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart [and] go up from here, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt unto the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it.


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(And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.)


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Unto the land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people lest I consume thee in the way.


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For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye [are] a stiffnecked people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee.


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And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the testimony. And it came to pass [that] every one who sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the testimony, which [was] outside the camp.


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And it came to pass when Moses would go out unto the tabernacle, [that] all the people would rise up and stand each one [at] the door of their tent, with their gaze following Moses until he was gone into the tabernacle.


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And when Moses would enter into the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [the] LORD would talk with Moses.


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And when all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door, all the people would rise up, each one in the door of their tent, and worship.


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And the LORD would speak unto Moses face to face, as anyone would speak unto their friend. And he would turn again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the tabernacle.


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And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring this people out, and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou saith, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.


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Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight; and consider that this nation [is] thy people.


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For in what shall it be known here that I have found grace in thy sight, I and thy people, but in that thou goest with us, and I and thy people will be separated from all the peoples that [are] upon the face of the earth?


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And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken because thou hast found grace in my sight, and I have known thee by name.


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And he replied, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name that I AM before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and will show clemency on whom I will show clemency.


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And the LORD continued saying, Behold, [there is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock;


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and it shall come to pass while my glory passes by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew two tables of stone like unto the first; and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou didst break.


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And be ready for tomorrow and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.


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And no man shall come up with thee; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the sheep nor the cows feed before the mount.


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And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.


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And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,


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keeping mercy for thousands, letting go of iniquity and rebellion and sin; and by no means will I absolve [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the son's sons, unto the third and to the fourth [generation].


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And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us, for this [is] a stiffnecked people, and forgive our iniquity and our sin and possess us.


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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people: I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom thou [art] shall see the work of the LORD; for it [shall be] a terrible thing that I will do with thee.


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Keep that which I command thee this day; behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.


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Keep thyself lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where thou must enter lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee;


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Therefore thou shalt not make a covenant with the inhabitants of that land because they shall fornicate after their gods and do sacrifice unto their gods, and they shall call thee, and thou shalt eat of their sacrifices


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or take of their daughters unto thy sons, and [when] their daughters go fornicating after their gods [they shall] make thy sons also fornicate after their gods.


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The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou didst come out from Egypt.


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All that opens the womb [is] mine; and every firstborn among thy livestock, [whether] of cow or of sheep, that is male.


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But the firstborn of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb, and if thou ransom [him] not, then shalt thou cut off his head. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt ransom, and none shall appear before me empty.


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Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt cease; in ploughing [time] and in harvest thou shalt cease.


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And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of the reaping of the wheat, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.


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Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the GOD [who is] Lord of all, the God of Israel.


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For I will cast the Gentiles out of thy presence and enlarge thy borders; neither shall anyone covet thy land when thou shalt go up to be seen before the LORD thy God three times a year.


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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon anything leavened; neither shall [any] of the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not cook a kid in his mother's milk.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words; for according to these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.


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And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


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And it came to pass, as Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, while he came down from the mount, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone after he had talked with him.


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And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.


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And Moses called them, and Aaron and all the princes of the congregation returned unto him, and Moses talked with them.


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And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.


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But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would take the veil off until he came out. And as he came out, he would speak unto the sons of Israel [that] which he was commanded.


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And the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses that the skin of Moses' face shone, and Moses would put the veil upon his face again until he would go in to speak with him.:


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And Moses gathered all the congregation of the sons of Israel together and said unto them, These [are] the words which the LORD has commanded that [ye] should do them.


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Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day shall be holy unto you, a sabbath of rest to the LORD; whoever does work therein shall die.


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And Moses spoke unto all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] what the LORD commanded, saying,


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Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD; whoever [is] of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD: gold, silver, brass;


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The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its hooks, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;


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and the altar of incense and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the aromatic incense, and the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle,


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the altar of burnt offering with its brasen grate, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,


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the hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,


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the clothing of service to minister in the sanctuary, [that is], the holy garments of Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve in the priesthood.


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And they came, every man whose heart stirred him up, and every one whose spirit made them willing, [and] they brought the LORD'S offering for the work of the tabernacle of the testimony and for all his service and for the holy garments.


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And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, [and] brought chains and earrings, rings and bracelets, and all jewels of gold; and anyone [that] offered [offered] an offering of gold unto the LORD.


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Every man who had blue or purple or scarlet or fine linen or goats' [hair] or red skins of rams or badgers' skins brought [them].


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Anyone that offered an offering of silver or brass brought the offering unto the LORD; and every man, with whom was found cedar wood, brought it for all the work of the service.


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And all the women that were wise hearted spun with their hands and brought that which they had spun: blue or purple or scarlet or fine linen.


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Of the sons of Israel, men and women, all that had a willing heart to bring for all the work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses, brought a voluntary offering unto the LORD.


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And Moses said unto the sons of Israel, See, the LORD has named Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;


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and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in intelligence, in science, and in all manner of workmanship;


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and in the cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.


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And he has put in his heart that he may teach, [both] he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.


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And he has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver and of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver: that they may do any work, and invent every design.:


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Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab and every wise hearted man unto whom the LORD gave wisdom and intelligence to know how to do all the work of the service of the sanctuary, all the things that the LORD had commanded.


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And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab and every wise hearted man in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom and every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it;


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and they took from the presence of Moses all the offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [with]. And they brought yet unto him free will offerings every morning.


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So much that all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came every man from his work which they made,


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and they spoke with Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the work of the ministry which the LORD commanded to make.


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And Moses commanded it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing,


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And everyone with a wise heart among those that wrought the work made the tabernacle of ten curtains [of] fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet, which they made of cunning work, [with] cherubim.


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The length of one curtain [was] twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; the curtains [were] all of one size.


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And he coupled the five curtains one unto another; and [the other] five curtains he coupled one unto another.


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And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain in the border in the coupling; likewise he made in the border of the second curtain in the coupling.


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Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the second curtain in the border in the coupling, the loops in front of the others.


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And he made fifty hooks of gold and coupled the curtains one unto another with the hooks, so it became one tabernacle.


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Likewise he made curtains of goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.


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The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and four cubits [was] the breadth of one curtain; the eleven curtains [were] of one size.


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And he made fifty loops upon the edge of the uttermost curtain in the coupling, and he made another fifty loops upon the edge of the other curtain in the coupling.


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And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and [another] covering of badgers' skins above [that].


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Each board had two tenons, equally distant one from another; thus did he make all the boards of the tabernacle.


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He made, therefore, the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side towards the Negev.


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He also made the forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.


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with their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.


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which were coupled beneath and likewise coupled together above to a ring; thus he did to both of them in both the corners.


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They were, therefore, eight boards; and their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.


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and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the westward side.


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And he covered the boards with gold and made their rings [of] gold for the bars to pass through and covered the bars with gold also.


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Likewise he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, which he made with cherubim of cunning work.


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And for it he made four pillars of cedar and covered them with gold; their capitals [were of] gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.


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Likewise he made the veil for the tabernacle door [of] blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, of needlework,


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and its five pillars with their capitals; and he covered their heads and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets [he made] of brass.:


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Bezaleel also made the ark [of] cedar wood; two cubits and a half [was] the length of it, a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it;


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And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the four corners of it: even two rings upon the one side of it and two rings upon the other side of it.


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He made the seat of reconciliation likewise [of] pure gold; two cubits and a half [was] its length, and one cubit and a half its breadth.


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He also made the two cherubim [of] gold, beaten out of one piece he made them, on the two ends of the seat of reconciliation;


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one cherub on the end on this side and another cherub on the [other] end on that side of the seat of reconciliation; he made the cherubim on the two ends thereof.


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And the cherubim spread out [their] wings above, covering with their wings the seat of reconciliation, with their faces one to another; the faces of the cherubim were [facing] the covering.


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And he made the table [of] cedar wood; two cubits [was] the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof;


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He also made it a border of a handbreadth round about and made a moulding of gold for the border thereof round about.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings upon the four corners that correspond to the four feet thereof.


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He also made the vessels which [were] upon the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its covers to cover the [bread], [of] pure gold.


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He made the candlestick likewise [of] pure gold; [of] beaten work he made the candlestick, its shaft and its branch, its bowls, its knops, and its flowers were of the same.


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Out of the sides thereof went six branches, three branches out of one side of the candlestick and three branches out of the other side of the candlestick;


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in one branch [there were] three bowls made after the fashion of almonds, a knop and a flower; and in the other branch [there were] three bowls made like almonds, a knop and a flower, so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.


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and a knop under the two branches of the same and another knop under two branches of the same and a knop under the two [other] branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.


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He also made the altar of incense [of] cedar wood: the length of it [was] a cubit and the breadth of it a cubit; [it was] square; and two cubits [was] the height of it; its horns were of the same piece.


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And he covered it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns; and he made it [a] moulding of gold round about.


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He also made two rings of gold for it under the moulding thereof, by the two corners of it, upon its two sides, to be places for the staves to bear it with.


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He made likewise the oil of the holy anointing and the pure aromatic incense, according to the work of the apothecary.:


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And he made the altar of burnt offering [of] cedar wood: five cubits [was] its length and five cubits its breadth; [it was] square, and its height [was] three cubits.


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And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same piece; and he covered it with brass.


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He made likewise all the vessels of the altar: the pots and the shovels and the basins [and] the fleshhooks, and the firepans; all its vessels he made [of] brass.


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And he made for the altar the brasen grate of network under the circumference thereof beneath unto the midst of it.


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And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards.


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He also made the laver [of] brass and the base of it [of] brass, of the looking glasses of [the women] who were vigilant [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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He made the court likewise; on the south side towards the Negev the hangings of the court [were of] fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;


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their pillars [were] twenty with their twenty brasen sockets; the capitals of the pillars and their fillets [were of] silver.


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And for the side of the Aquilon, [the hangings were] one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty with their twenty sockets of brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.


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On the west side [were] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver,


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and for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, [were] hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.


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And the sockets for the pillars [were of] brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver and the coverings of their heads [of] silver; likewise all the pillars of the court [were] filleted with silver.


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And the hanging for the gate of the court [was] needlework [of] blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; twenty cubits [was] the length, and the height in the breadth [was] five cubits, the same as the hangings of the court.


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And its pillars [were] four with its four sockets [of] brass, their capitals [of] silver, and the coverings of their heads and their fillets [of] silver.


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This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the ministry of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.


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And Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.


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And with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a master workman, an engineer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and fine linen.


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All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, which was gold of offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And the silver of those that were numbered of the congregation [was] one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:


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A half per head, [that is], half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, [which were] six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.


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And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.


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And of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made the capitals for the pillars and covered their heads and filleted them.


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with which he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it and all the vessels of the altar


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and the sockets of the court round about and the sockets of the court gate and all the stakes of the tabernacle, and all the stakes of the court round about.:


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And of the blue and purple and scarlet, they made the clothing of the ministry, to minister in the sanctuary, and in the same manner they made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And they beat the gold into thin plates and cut [it into] wires to work [it] in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen, [with] cunning work.


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They made the shoulder pieces for it to couple [it] together; by the two edges was it coupled together.


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And the special girdle of his ephod, that [was] over it, [was] of the same, according to the work thereof: [of] gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in settings of gold, graven, as seals are graven, with the names of the sons of Israel.


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And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod [that they should be] stones for a memorial to the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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He also made the pectoral [of] cunning work, like the work of the ephod [of] gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.


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It was square; they made the pectoral double; a span [was] the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.


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And they set in it four orders of stones. The order was a ruby, an emerald, and a chrysolite: this [was] the first order.


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And the fourth order, a tarshish ([or beryl]), an onyx, and a jasper; [they were] set and inclosed in their settings of gold.


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The stones [were] in agreement with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, in agreement with their names, [like] the engravings of a seal, each one in agreement with his name, according to the twelve tribes.


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In the same manner they made two settings [of] gold and two gold rings and put the two rings in the two ends of the pectoral.


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And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two settings, which they put on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front part of it.


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And they made two rings of gold and put [them] on the two ends of the pectoral upon the border of it, which was on the lower side of the ephod.


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And they made two [other] golden rings and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath toward the front part of it, in the front of its coupling, above the special girdle of the ephod.


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And they bound the pectoral by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue lace, that it might be above the special girdle of the ephod and that the pectoral might not be loosed from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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with its collar in the midst of the robe, as the collar of a habergeon, [with] a band round about the collar that it should not rend.


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And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of] blue, purple, scarlet, [and] twined [linen].


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They also made the bells [of] pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;


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A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister [in], as the LORD commanded Moses.


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likewise the mitre [of] fine linen and the decorations of the tiaras [of] fine linen and the linen underwear [of] fine twined linen,


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also the girdle [of] fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet [of] needlework, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they made the open flower, the crown of holiness, [of] pure gold and wrote upon it a writing, [like to] the engravings of a seal, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.


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And they tied unto it a lace of blue to fasten [it] over the mitre, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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Thus was all the work of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony finished, and the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so did they.


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And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tabernacle and all its furniture, its hooks, its boards, its bars and its pillars and its sockets,


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and the covering of rams' skins dyed red and the covering of badgers' skins and the veil of the curtain,


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the pure candlestick [with] its lamps, [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels and the oil for light,


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the golden altar and the anointing oil and the aromatic incense and the hanging for the tabernacle door.


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The brasen altar with its grate of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, and the laver and its base.


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The hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, its cords and its stakes, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tabernacle of the testimony,


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the clothing of service for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons' garments, to minister in the priesthood.


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And Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it; and Moses blessed them.:


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In the day of the first month, the first of the month shalt thou set up the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And thou shalt bring in the table and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it, and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light its lamps.


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And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.


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Then thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle, of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And thou shalt set the laver between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar and shalt put water therein.


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And thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that [is] in it and shalt sanctify it with all its vessels, and it shall be holy.


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And thou shalt also anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its vessels and sanctify the altar, and it shall be an altar most holy.


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And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and wash them with water.


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And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments and anoint him and sanctify him, that he may be my priest.


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And thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father, and they shall be my priests; and it shall be that their anointing shall be unto them for a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.


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And it came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first [day] of the month [that] the tabernacle was raised up.


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And Moses caused the tabernacle to be raised up and fastened its sockets and set up its boards and put in its bars and caused its pillars to be raised up.


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And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And he took and put the testimony into the ark and set the staves on the ark and put the seat of reconciliation upon the ark above,


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and he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the curtain and covered the ark of the testimony, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he put the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, upon the side of the Aquilon of the tabernacle, outside the veil.


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And he put the candlestick in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table, on the side of the Negev of the tabernacle.


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And he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the tabernacle, of the tabernacle of the testimony, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the present, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar and put water in it, to wash [with].


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When they would enter into the tabernacle of the testimony and when they would come near unto the altar, they washed themselves, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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Last he raised up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging of the court gate. Thus Moses finished the work.


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Then a cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


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And Moses was not able to enter into the tabernacle of the testimony because the cloud was upon it, and the glory of the LORD had it full.


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And when the cloud lifted itself up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel went onward in all their journeys;


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but if the cloud did not lift itself up, then they did not journey until the day that it lifted itself up.


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For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and the fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When any of you offers an offering unto the LORD of animals, of cattle, [even] of the cows, or of the sheep ye shall make your offering.


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If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the LORD.


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And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and he shall accept it to reconcile him.


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Then he shall kill the bullock before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall offer the blood and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is [by] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the sons of Aaron, the priest, shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in order upon the fire.


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Then the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which [shall be] upon the altar;


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but he shall wash its intestines and its legs in water, and the priest shall incense it all on the altar, [to be] a burnt sacrifice, an offering on fire, of a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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And if his offering is of the sheep, [namely] of the lambs or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice, he shall offer a male without blemish.


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And he must kill it on the side of the altar, to the Aquilon before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle its blood round about upon the altar.


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And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which [shall be] upon the altar;


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and he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water; and the priest shall offer [it] all and incense [it] upon the altar; it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering on fire, of a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD [is to be] of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons.


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And the priest shall offer it upon the altar and wring off its head and incense [it] on the altar; and its blood shall be wrung out upon the side of the altar:


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And he shall pluck away its crop and its feathers and cast them beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes [with the burnt] fat.


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And he shall cleave it by its wings [but] shall not divide [it] in two; and the priest shall incense it upon the altar, upon the wood that [is] upon the fire; it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering on fire of a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.:


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And when [any] person will offer a present unto the LORD, his offering shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense thereon;


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and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests, who shall take out a handful of the flour thereof, with its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall incense it upon the altar, [to be] an offering on fire, of an aroma very acceptable unto the LORD.


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And that which is left of the present [shall be] Aaron's and his sons';[it is] a thing most holy of the offerings on fire of the LORD.


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And if thou shall offer a present baked in the oven, [it shall] be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil.


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And if thy present is an offering [baked] in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.


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And thou shalt bring the present that is made of these things unto the LORD and offer it unto the priest, who shall bring it unto the altar.


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And the priest shall take from that present a memorial thereof and shall incense [it] upon the altar; [it shall be] an offering on fire, of a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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And that which is left of the present [shall] be Aaron's and his sons';[it is] a thing most holy of the offerings on fire of the LORD.


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No present which ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be with leaven; for of nothing leavened, nor any honey, shall ye make any offering incensed unto the LORD.


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In the offering of the firstfruits ye shall offer them unto the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for an acceptable aroma.


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And every offering of thy present shalt thou season with salt, and thou shalt never allow the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy present; with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.


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And if thou offer a present of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the offering of thy firstfruits green ears of grain dried by the fire, [even] grain beaten out of full ears.


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And the priest shall incense the memorial of it, [part] of the beaten grain thereof, and [part] of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: [this shall] be an offering on fire unto the LORD.:


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And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace, if he offers [it] of the [bovine] cattle, whether [it is] male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.


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Then he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace for an offering on fire unto the LORD: the fat that covers the intestines and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,


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and the two kidneys and the fat that [is] on them, which is by the flanks and with the kidneys; he shall take away the caul above the liver.


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And Aaron's sons shall incense it on the altar with the burnt sacrifice, which [shall be] upon the wood that [is] on the fire; [and this shall be] an offering on fire, of a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace unto the LORD is of the sheep, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.


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and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and then kill it before the tabernacle of the testimony; and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood round about upon the altar.


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And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace an offering on fire unto the LORD: its fat [and] the whole tail, which he shall take off from the backbone and the fat that covers the intestines and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,


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likewise the two kidneys and the fat that [is] upon them and that which [is upon the flanks and with the kidneys he shall take away the caul above the liver.


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And the priest shall incense it upon the altar, [and this shall be] the food of the offering on fire unto the LORD.


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and he shall lay his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tabernacle of the testimony; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about.


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Then he shall offer thereof his offering, [even] an offering on fire unto the LORD: the fat that covers the intestines and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,


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and the two kidneys and the fat that [is] upon them and that which [is] upon the flanks and with the kidneys he shall take away the caul above the liver.


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And the priest shall incense them upon the altar; [and this shall be] the food of the offering on fire of a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD; all the fat [is] the LORD'S.


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[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your ages; throughout all your dwellings that ye shall eat no fat and no blood.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done and shall do any of them,


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if the priest that is anointed sins according to the guiltiness of the people, he shall offer for his sin, which he has committed, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for his sin.


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And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the LORD and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head and kill the bullock before the LORD.


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And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood and bring it to the tabernacle of the testimony;


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and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the veil of the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar of aromatic incense before the LORD, which [is] in the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And he shall take off all the fat of the bullock for the sin: the fat that covers the intestines and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,


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and the two kidneys and the fat that [is] upon them, and that which [is] upon the flanks and with the kidneys he shall take away the caul above the liver,


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as it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace; and the priest shall incense them upon the altar of the burnt offering.


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And the skin of the bullock and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs, and his intestines and his dung,


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even the whole bullock he shall carry forth outside the camp unto a clean place, where the [ashes with the burnt] fat are poured out and burn it on the wood with fire, where the [ashes with the burnt] fat are poured out shall it be burnt.


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And if the whole congregation of Israel sins through ignorance and the thing was hid from the eyes of the assembly and they have done [something against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done and are guilty,


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when the sin, which they have committed, is understood, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock as the sin and bring it before the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD, and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.


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And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the priest shall dip his finger [in some] of the blood and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD, [even] before the veil.


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And he shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the tabernacle of the testimony and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And he shall do with this bullock as he did with the bullock of the sin, so shall he do with this; and thus the priest shall reconcile them, and they shall obtain forgiveness.


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And he shall carry forth the bullock outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bullock; it is the sin of the congregation.


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When the prince has sinned and done [something] through ignorance [against] any of the commandments of the LORD his God [concerning things] which should not be done and is guilty,


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as soon as he is notified of his sin, which he has committed, then he shall bring his offering, a he goat, a male without blemish.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the he goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; it is sin.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin with his finger and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering;


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and he shall burn all its fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace; thus shall the priest reconcile him as concerning his sin, and he shall have forgiveness.


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And if any one of the people of the land sins through ignorance, by doing [something against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and is guilty,


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as soon as his sin, which he has committed, comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering, a she goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin and slay the sin in the place of the burnt offering.


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Then the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar.


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And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat was taken away from off the sacrifice of peace; and the priest shall incense [it] upon the altar in a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD; and [thus] shall the priest reconcile him, and he shall have forgiveness.


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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin and slay the sin in the place where they kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar.


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And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat of the lamb of the sacrifice of peace was taken away; and the priest shall incense it upon the altar in an offering on fire unto the LORD; and thus shall the priest reconcile him from his sin that he has committed, and he shall have forgiveness.:


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And when a person commits sin, because they were called to testify under oath, and he [was] a witness that has seen or known of [it], if he does not declare [it], then he shall bear his iniquity.


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Likewise the person who touches any unclean thing, whether [it is] a carcase of an unclean beast or a carcase of unclean animal or the carcase of an unclean serpent, even [if] it is hidden from him, he shall be unclean and guilty.


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Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness [it is] that a man shall be defiled with, and it is hid from him, if afterward he should know of [it], then he shall be guilty.


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Also the person who swears, pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever [it is] that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it is hid from him, when he knows of [it], then he shall be guilty in one of these.


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And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he has sinned;


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and he shall bring [for] his guilt unto the LORD for his sin, which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb, or a kid of the goats, for his sin; and the priest shall reconcile him from his sin.


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And if he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for the guilt of his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons unto the LORD, one for his sin and the other for a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer [that] which [is] for the sin first and wring off its head from its neck but shall not divide [it] asunder;


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and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar; it [is] sin.


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And he shall offer the second [for] a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and [thus] shall the priest reconcile him for his sin in which he has sinned, and he shall have forgiveness.


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But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for his sin; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put [any] frankincense thereon, for it is sin.


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Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, [even] a memorial thereof, and incense [it] on the altar upon the [other] offerings on fire unto the LORD; it [is] sin.


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[Thus] shall the priest reconcile him from his sin in which he has sinned in one of these things, and he shall have forgiveness; and [that which remains] shall be the priest's, as [with] a present.


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When [any] person commits a trespass and sins through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring for [the expiation of] his guilt unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, in thy estimation of [two] shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for his guilt;


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And he shall pay for the sin that he has done in the holy thing and shall add the fifth part thereto and give it unto the priest; and the priest shall reconcile him with the ram of [the expiation of] his guilt, and he shall have forgiveness.


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Finally, if a person commits a sin by doing any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, without doing it knowingly, he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.


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And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, in thy estimation, for [the expiation of] his guilt, unto the priest; and the priest shall reconcile him from his error which he committed in ignorance, and he shall have forgiveness.


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If a person commits a sin, a trespass against the LORD, and denies unto his neighbour that which was delivered unto him to keep or left in his hand, or in a thing stolen, or has slandered his neighbour;


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or has found that which was lost and [then] denies it and swears falsely, in any of all these in which a man can sin,


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then it shall be that because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he stole, or for the damage of the slander, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,


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or all that about which he has sworn falsely, he shall even restore it in the principal and shall add the fifth part more to it, for the one to whom it belongs, and he shall pay in the day of his guiltiness.


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And he shall bring for [the expiation of] his guilt unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, in thy estimation, for his guilt, unto the priest;


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and the priest shall reconcile him before the LORD, and he shall have forgiveness for any of all of the things in which he is guilty.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering (it [is] the burnt offering because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it):


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And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen underwear shall he put upon his flesh, and when the fire has consumed the burnt offering, he shall take up [the ashes with the burnt] fat on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.


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Then he shall put off his garments and put on other garments and carry forth the [ashes with the burnt] fat outside the camp unto a clean place.


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And the fire burning upon the altar shall not be put out, but the priest shall put wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and he shall burn upon it the fat of the peace.


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And this [is] the law of the present: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.


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And he shall take of it a handful of the flour of the present and of the oil thereof and all the frankincense which [is] upon the present and shall incense [it] upon the altar in an aroma of rest unto the LORD for a memorial.


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And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat; without leaven it shall be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the testimony they shall eat it.


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It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it [unto them for] their portion of my offerings on fire; it is most holy, as is the [atonement for] sin and the [expiation of] guilt.


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All the males among the sons of Aaron shall eat of it. [It shall be] a perpetual statute in your generations concerning the offerings on fire of the LORD; every thing that touches them shall be sanctified.


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This [shall] be the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when they shall be anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a perpetual present, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.


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In a pan it shall be made with oil; [and when it is] fried, thou shalt bring it in; [and] the cooked pieces of the present shalt thou offer in a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it; [it is] a perpetual statute unto the LORD; it shall be completely burnt.


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Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This [shall be] the law of sin: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the [atonement as] sin be killed before the LORD; for it [is] most holy.


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The priest that offers it for the sin shall eat it; in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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Whatever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be sanctified; and when some of the blood thereof is sprinkled upon any garment, thou shalt wash whatever it was sprinkled on in the holy place.


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But the earthen vessel wherein it is cooked shall be broken; and if it is cooked in a brazen pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.


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And no [atonement as sin], of which [any] of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the testimony to reconcile in the sanctuary, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt in the fire.:


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the [expiation of] guilt, and he shall sprinkle its blood round about upon the altar.


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and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and that which is on the flanks and with the kidneys he shall take away the caul [that is] above the liver.


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And the priest shall incense them upon the altar [for] an offering on fire unto the LORD; [and this] shall be [the expiation] of guilt.


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Every male among the priests shall eat thereof; it shall be eaten in the holy place for it [is] most holy.


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As with the sin, so [shall it be] with the guilt; they shall have the same law; the priest that has made the reconciliation shall have that [which was offered.]


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And the priest that offers anyone's burnt offering, [even] the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.


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Likewise every present that is baked in the oven and all that is dressed in the fryingpan or in the pot shall be the priest's that offers it.


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And every present mingled with oil and dry shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another.


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If it is offered in thanksgiving, then he shall offer for the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.


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With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering in the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace.


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And out of the whole offering he shall offer part to be elevated in offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall be the priest's that sprinkles the blood of the peace.


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And the flesh of his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.


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But if the sacrifice of his offering [is] a vow, or voluntary, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; and that which is left of it shall be eaten the next day;


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And if [any] of the flesh of his sacrifice of peace is eaten at all on the third day, he that offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him; it shall be an abomination, and the person that eats of it shall bear his iniquity.


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And the flesh that touches any unclean [thing] shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire; but every clean person shall eat of this flesh.


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And the person that eats [of] the flesh of the sacrifice of peace, which is of the LORD, being unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.


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Moreover the person that shall touch any unclean [thing,]as the uncleanness of man or [any] unclean beast or any abominable unclean [thing] and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace, which is of the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.


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And the fat of the beast that died of itself and the fat of that [which is] torn [by beasts] may be used in any other use, but ye shall not eat of it.


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For whosoever eats fat of an animal, of which an offering is made on fire unto the LORD, the person that eats [it] shall be cut off from his people.


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Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it is] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.


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Whatever person [it is] that eats any manner of blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, He that offers his sacrifice of peace unto the LORD shall bring his offering of the sacrifice of his peace unto the LORD;


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his own hands shall bring the offerings [which must be burned] unto the LORD; he shall bring the fat with the breast that the breast may be waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.


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And ye shall give unto the priest to be elevated in offering the right shoulder of the sacrifices of your peace.


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He among the sons of Aaron that offers the blood of the peace and the fat shall have the right shoulder for [his] part;


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for I have taken from the sons of Israel of their sacrifices of peace the breast that is waved and the shoulder that is set apart and have given them unto Aaron, the priest, and unto his sons by a perpetual statute among the sons of Israel.


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This [is] the anointing of Aaron and the anointing of his sons of the offerings on fire unto the LORD from the day [when] he brought them in to be priests of the LORD,


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which [portions] the LORD commanded to be given to them from the day that he anointed them from among the sons of Israel [by] a perpetual statute throughout their generations.


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This is the law of the burnt offering, of the present, of sin, of guilt, of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of peace,


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which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the sons of Israel to offer their offerings unto the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.:


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Take Aaron and his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil and the bullock for the sin and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the congregation was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And he put upon him the coat and girded him with the girdle and then clothed him with the robe and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the special girdle of the ephod and bound [it] unto him therewith.


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After that he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, [even] upon his forefront, he put the open flower of gold, the crown of holiness, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all the things that [were] therein and sanctified them.


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And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.


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Then Moses brought Aaron's sons and put coats upon them and girded them with girdles and put tiaras upon them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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Next he brought the bullock of the sin, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock of the sin,


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and he slew [it]; and Moses took the blood and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and removed the sin from the altar and poured the [remaining] blood at the bottom of the altar and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.


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After that he took all the fat that [was] upon the intestines and the caul [above] the liver and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses incensed [it][ upon the altar.


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But the bullock and its hide, its flesh, and its dung, he burnt with fire outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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After that, he brought the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,


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Then he washed the intestines and the legs in water, and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar; it [was] a burnt sacrifice in a very acceptable aroma, an offering on fire unto the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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After that, he brought the other ram, the ram of the consecrations, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,


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and he slew [it]; and Moses took of the blood of it and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.


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And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ears and upon the thumbs of their right hands and upon the great toes of their right feet; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about;


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and after that, he took the fat and the tail, and all the fat that [was] upon the intestines and the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat and the right shoulder;


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and out of the basket of unleavened bread that [was] before the LORD he took one unleavened cake and a cake of oiled bread and one wafer and put [them] with the fat and with the right shoulder;


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and he put all of it in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands and caused them to be waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.


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After that Moses took them from their hands and incensed [them] on the altar upon the burnt offering; they [are] the consecrations in a very acceptable aroma, an offering on fire unto the LORD.


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And Moses took the breast and waved it [for a wave offering before the LORD; [for] of the ram of the consecrations this was Moses' part, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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Then Moses took of the anointing oil and of the blood which [was] upon the altar and sprinkled [it] upon Aaron [and] upon his garments and upon his sons and upon his sons' garments with him and sanctified Aaron [and] his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.


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And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Cook the flesh [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and eat it there with the bread that [is] in the basket of the consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.


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And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the testimony [in] seven days, until the day that the days of your consecration are fulfilled; because for seven days ye shall be consecrated.


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Therefore shall ye abide [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not; for so I am commanded.


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And it came to pass on the eighth day [that] Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,


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and he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf as the sin and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer [them] before the LORD.


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And unto the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he goat as the sin and a calf and a lamb, [both] of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;


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likewise a bullock and a ram for a [sacrifice of] peace, to kill before the LORD; and a present mingled with oil; for today the LORD will appear unto you.


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And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.


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Then Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do, and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.


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And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin, and thy burnt offering, and make reconciliation for thyself and for the people; and offer the offering of the people and make reconciliation for them, as the LORD commanded.


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And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put [it] upon the horns of the altar and poured out the [remaining] blood at the bottom of the altar;


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and the fat and the kidneys and the caul above the liver of the sin, he incensed upon the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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Likewise he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.


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After that they presented the burnt offering unto him, by its pieces, and the head; and he incensed [them] upon the altar.


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He also offered the people's offering and took the he goat, which [was] the sin of the people, and slew it and offered it for [their] sin, as the first.


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Likewise he offered the present and took a handful thereof and incensed [it] upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.


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He also slew the bullock and the ram in sacrifice of peace, which [was] for the people; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood (which he sprinkled upon the altar round about)


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and the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the tail and that which covers [the inwards] and the kidneys and the caul [above] the liver;


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But the breasts, with the right shoulder, Aaron waved, waving them before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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After that, Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and came down from offering the sin and the burnt offering and the peace.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony and came out and blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.


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And there came a fire out from before the LORD and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat, [which] when all the people saw, they praised and fell on their faces.:


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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer and put fire therein and put incense thereon and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he had never commanded them.


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Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is] what the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in those that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent.


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And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.


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Then Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Do not uncover your heads, neither rend your clothes lest ye die and lest wrath come upon the whole congregation; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, shall lament the burning which the LORD has done.


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And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of the LORD [is] upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest ye die; [it shall be] a perpetual statute throughout your generations;


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and [this is] that ye may discern between the holy and the profane and between the unclean and the clean


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and that ye may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses spoke unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the present that remains of the offerings on fire unto the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it [is] most holy:


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Ye must, therefore, eat it in the holy place, because it [is] thy due and thy sons' due of the offerings of the LORD on fire; for so I am commanded.


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And the waved breast and elevated shoulder shall ye likewise eat in a clean place, thou and thy sons and thy daughters with thee; for [they are] thy due and thy sons' due, [which] are given out of the sacrifices of the peace of the sons of Israel.


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With the offerings of the fat which are to be lit on fire, they shall bring the shoulder which is to be elevated and the breast which shall be waved as a wave [offering] before the LORD; and it shall be thine and thy sons' with thee by a perpetual statute, as the LORD has commanded.


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And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin, and, behold, it was burnt up, and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron [who were] left [alive], saying,


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Why have ye not eaten of the [atonement for] sin in the holy place? For it [is] most holy, and [God] has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, that they may be reconciled before the LORD.


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Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the inner sanctuary; ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy [place], as I commanded.


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And Aaron replied unto Moses, Behold, today they have offered their sin and their burnt offering before the LORD; with all this, these things have befallen me; therefore [if] I had eaten of the [atonement for] sin today, would it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, These [are] the animals which ye shall eat among all the animals that [are on the earth.


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Whatever divides the hoof and is clovenfooted [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that shall you eat.


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Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that divide the hoof: the camel because it chews the cud but divides not the hoof; it [is] unclean unto you.


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And the swine though it divides the hoof and is clovenfooted, yet it chews not the cud: it [is] unclean to you.


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These shall you eat of all that [are] in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, those shall you eat.


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But all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of any reptile in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination unto you;


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they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall have their carcasses in abomination.


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And these ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [shall be] an abomination: the eagle, the ossifrage, the ospray,


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Yet these may ye eat of every flying insect that goes upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap with them upon the earth;


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these of them ye may eat: the locust according to his species and the bald locust according to his species and the beetle according to his species and the grasshopper according to his species.


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And for these ye shall be unclean: whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever bears [any part] of their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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[The carcasses] of every animal which divides the hoof and is not clovenfooted, nor chews the cud, [are] unclean unto you; everyone that touches them shall be unclean.


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And of all the animals that go on [all] four, any that walk upon their paws are unclean unto you; whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he that bears their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they [are] unclean unto you.


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These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the animals that creep upon the earth: the weasel and the mouse and the frog according to his species


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These [are] unclean to you among all the animals; whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.


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And everything upon which [any] of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether [it be] any vessel of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever instrument with which work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; and thus [it shall be] cleansed.


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And every earthen vessel into which [any] of them falls, whatever [is] in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break the [vessel].


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All food which may be eaten upon which shall come water from [any such vessel] shall be unclean; and any drink that may be drunk shall be unclean in every [such] vessel.


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And everything upon which [any part] of their carcase falls shall be unclean: the oven or the chimney shall be broken down, [for] they [are] unclean and shall be unclean unto you.


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Nevertheless a fountain or cistern where water is collected shall be clean; but that which touches their carcase shall be unclean.


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But if [any] water is put upon the seed and [any part] of their carcase falls thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto you.


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And if any animal of which ye may eat dies, he that touches the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the evening;


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and he that eats of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; likewise he that bears the carcase of it shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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Whatever goes upon the belly and whatever goes upon four or more feet among all reptiles that creep upon the earth, ye shall not eat; for it is abomination.


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Ye shall not defile your souls with any reptile that creeps, neither shall ye contaminate yourselves with them, that ye should be unclean with them.


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For I [am] the LORD your God; ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy; neither shall ye defile your souls with any reptile that moves upon the earth.


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For I [am] the LORD that causes you to come up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.


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This is the law of the animals and of the fowls and of every living creature that moves in the waters and of every animal that creeps upon the earth:


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to make a difference between the unclean and the clean and between the animals that may be eaten and the animals that may not be eaten.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed and gives birth to a man child, then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her menses shall she be unclean.


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And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days; she shall touch no holy thing, nor come to the sanctuary until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.


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But if she gives birth to a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, according to her separation, and she shall be purifying herself for sixty-six days from her blood.


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And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove as sin, unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, unto the priest,


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who shall offer it before the LORD and reconcile her, and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This [is] the law for her that has given birth to a male or a female.


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And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for the burnt offering and the other as sin; and the priest shall reconcile her, and she shall be clean.:


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When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it is in the skin of his flesh [like] the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron, the priest, or unto one of his sons, the priests,


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and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, and if the hair in the plague is turned white and the plague looks deeper than the skin of his flesh, it [is] a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall recognize him and pronounce him unclean.


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If the bright spot [is] white in the skin of his flesh and looks to be not deeper than the skin and the hair thereof is not turned white; then the priest shall shut up [the one that has] the plague seven days;


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and the priest shall look on him the seventh day and see [if] the plague in his sight is stayed [and] the plague is not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days the second time.


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After this the priest shall look on him again the seventh day and see [if] the plague [has] darkened [and] that the plague is not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it [is but] a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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But if the scab spreads much abroad in the skin after he has been shown unto the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again;


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and [if] the priest recognizes that the scab has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] leprosy.


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and the priest shall see [him]; and [if] the rising looks white in the skin and it has turned the hair white and [there is] quick raw flesh in the rising,


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it [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up, for he [is] unclean.


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But if the leprosy breaks out abroad in the skin and the leprosy covers all the skin of [him that has] the plague from his head even to his feet whereever the priest looks,


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then the priest shall consider; and if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [the one] that has the plague clean; it is all turned white; he [is] clean.


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And the priest shall see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean, [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it [is] leprosy.


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and the priest shall see him; and if the plague is turned white; then the priest shall pronounce [the one] that has the plague clean, and he [shall be] clean.


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and in the place of the boil there is a white rising or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, it shall be shown to the priest;


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and the priest shall look, and if it appears to be lower than the skin and the hair thereof is turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.


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But if the priest considers it and there appear to be no white hairs in it and it [is not lower than the skin, but somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;


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and if it spreads much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.


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But if the bright spot stays in its place [and] does not spread, it [is] the scab of a boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Likewise when the flesh has in its skin a burn from fire, and in the place healed from the burn there a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white,


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then the priest shall look upon it; and [if] the hair in the bright spot is turned white and it looks deeper than the skin, it [is] a leprosy broken out of the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it [is] the plague of leprosy.


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But if the priest looks on it and there is no white hair in the bright spot and it [is] no lower than the [other] skin, but dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;


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and the priest shall recognize it the seventh day; [and] if it is spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy.


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And if the bright spot stays in its place [and] has not spread in the skin, but it is dark, it [is] a rising of the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it [is] an inflammation of the burn.


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then the priest shall see the plague; and if it looks deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellowish and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it [is] a dry scall, leprosy of the head or beard.


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But when the priest looks on the plague of the scall and if it does not look deeper than the skin and [there is] no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up [the one] that has the plague of the scall seven days;


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and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and [if] the scall appears not to have spread and there is no yellowish hair in it and the scall appears not to be deeper than the skin,


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he shall be shaven, but the [place of the] scall he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up [the one that has] the scall for seven days the second time.


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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and [if] the scall is not spread in the skin nor in appearance deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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then the priest shall look at it; and if the scall is spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellowish hair; he [is] unclean.


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But if the scall appears to him to be stayed and there is black hair grown up in it, the scall is healed; he [is] clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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Likewise if a man or a woman has in the skin of their flesh bright spots, [even] white bright spots,


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the the priest shall look; and if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh [are] darkish white, it is a freckled spot [that] grew in the skin; the [person is] clean.


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And if his hair has fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he [is] forehead bald; [yet is] he clean.


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But if in the bald head, or bald forehead, there is a white reddish sore, it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.


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Then the priest shall look upon it; and if the rising of the sore [is] white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,


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he is a leprous man, he [is] unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.


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And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent and his head uncovered, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.


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All the days in which the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled; he [shall be] unclean; he shall dwell alone; outside the camp [shall] his habitation [be].


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The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether it is] a woolen garment or a linen garment;


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whether [it is] in the warp or woof; of linen or of woolen; whether in a skin or in anything made of skin;


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and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin, it [is] a plague of leprosy and shall be shown unto the priest.


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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day; if the plague is spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in a skin [or] in any work that is made of skins; the plague [is] a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.


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He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woolen or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is; for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.


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And if the priest shall look and it appears that the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin,


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then the priest shall command that they wash [the thing] in which the plague [is], and he shall shut it up again for seven days.


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And the priest shall look on it after the plague has been washed; and if it appears that the plague has not changed its colour, even if the plague is not spread, it [is] unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it [is] fret inward, [whether] the bare [spot] is within or without.


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And if the priest looks and the plague appears to be darker after the washing of it, then he shall cut it out of the garment or out of the skin or out of the warp or out of the woof.


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And if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in anything of skin, springing up again in it, thou shalt burn whatever the plague [is] in with fire.


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But the garment, either warp or woof or whatever thing of skin which thou shalt wash and from which the plague is removed, shall be washed [the] second time, and then it shall be clean.


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This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof or anything of skins, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.:


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This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest.


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And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look and seeing that the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,


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the priest shall command to take for the one that is to be purified two birds, alive [and] clean, and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop;


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and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel upon living water;


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then he shall take the living bird and the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the living water;


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and he shall sprinkle upon the one that is to be purified from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.


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And he that is to be purified shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and wash himself with water, and he shall be clean; and after that he shall come into the camp and shall dwell outside of his tent seven days.


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But it shall be that on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows; finally he shall save off all his hair, and he shall wash his clothes; also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a present, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.


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And the priest that purifies him shall present the one that is to be made clean with those things, before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony;


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and the priest shall take one he lamb and offer him for [expiation of] the guilt, with the log of oil, and wave them [for] a waved offering before the LORD.


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And he shall slay the lamb in the place where they kill the sin and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary, for [that offered] as sin is the priest's, together with [that offered] as guilt; it [is] most holy.


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And the priest shall take [some] of the blood [of the expiation for] the guilt, and the priest shall put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.


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Likewise the priest shall take [some] of the log of oil, and pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand;


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and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that [is] in his left hand and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.


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And of that which is left of the oil that [is] in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of [the expiation for] the guilt;


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and that which is left of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand, he shall pour upon the head of the one that is to be purified; and thus shall the priest reconcile him before the LORD.


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And the priest shall offer the sin and reconcile the one that is to be purified from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall cause the burnt offering and the present to be lifted upon the altar, and [thus] shall the priest reconcile him, and he shall be clean.


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But if he [is] poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for [expiation of] the guilt to be waved, to reconcile himself, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a present, and a log of oil;


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and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be as the sin, and the other as a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring these things on the eighth day of his purification unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, before the LORD.


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And the priest shall take the lamb of [the expiation of] the guilt, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them [for] a waved [offering] before the LORD;


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then he shall kill the lamb of the expiation of the guilt, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the expiation of the guilt and put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.


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and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.


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The priest shall also put of the oil that [is] in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot in the place of the blood of [the expiation for] the guilt.


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And what is left of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of the one that is to be purified, to reconcile him before the LORD.


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one of such as he is able to get as sin, and the other [for] a burnt offering, with the present; and [thus] shall the priest reconcile the one that is to be purified before the LORD.


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This is the law of the one who has had the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which is prescribed] for his purification.


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When ye are entered into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for in possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession,


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the one that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, Something like unto a plague has appeared in my house.


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Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes [into it] to see the plague so that all that [is] in the house is not contaminated; and afterward the priest shall go in to recognize the house.


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And he shall look on the plague, and if the plague is seen in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be lower than the wall,


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And the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look; and if the plague has spread in the walls of the house,


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then the priest shall command that they remove the stones in which the plague [is], and they shall cast them outside the city into an unclean place;


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And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place;


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and they shall take other stones and put [them] in the place of the stones [that were removed]; and he shall take other mortar and shall plaster the house.


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And if the plague comes again and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it is plastered,


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then the priest shall come in and look; and if the plague appears to have spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house; it [is] unclean.


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Then he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.


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Moreover he that enters into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he that sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and he that eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


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But if the priest shall come in and look [upon it], and see that the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague is healed.


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Then to remove the sin from the house he shall take two birds and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop,


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and he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird and dip them [all] in the blood of the slain bird and in the living water and sprinkle the house seven times.


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And he shall remove the sin from the house with the blood of the bird and with the living water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet.


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Then he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields; and thus shall he reconcile the house, and it shall be clean.


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, Any man when his [seed] issues forth out of his flesh, he [shall be] unclean.


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And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh drips because of his issue or his flesh is stopped because of his issue, he shall be unclean.


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Every bed on which the one that has the issue lies shall be unclean; and everything upon which he sits shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And he that sits on [any] thing upon which the one that has the issue sat shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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Likewise he that touches the flesh of the one that has the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if the one that has the issue spits upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and he that bears [any of] those things shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever the one that has the issue touches and has not washed his hands with water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And the vessel of earth that the one that has the issue touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be washed with water.


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And when the one that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days from his purification and wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in living water, and he shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and give them unto the priest;


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and the priest shall offer the one as sin and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall reconcile him from his issue before the LORD.


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And the man, when his seed shall go forth from him, then shall wash all his flesh in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And every garment and every skin upon which the seed [of a man] has come shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.


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The woman also with whom the man shall have [sexual] contact [with] seed, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And when the woman has an issue of blood [and] her issue is in her flesh, she shall be put apart seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.


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And everything that she lies upon in her separation shall be unclean; everything also that she sits upon shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] with water and be unclean until the evening.


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Also whoever touches any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if [any thing was] on the bed or on any thing upon which she sat, he that touches it shall be unclean until the evening.


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And if any man sleeps with her and her uncleanness comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and any bed upon which he sleeps shall be unclean.


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And the woman when she has an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation or if it runs beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she [shall be] unclean.


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Every bed upon which she sleeps all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and whatever she sits upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.


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Whoever touches these things shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening.


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But when she is clean of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony;


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and the priest shall offer the one as sin and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall reconcile her before the LORD of the issue of her uncleanness.


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Thus shall ye separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness; and they shall not die for their uncleanness defiling my tabernacle that [is] among them.


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This [is] the law of the one that has an issue and [of him] whose seed goes forth from him, causing him to be unclean because of it,


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and of her that is suffering her menstruation, and of the one that has an issue, male or female, and of the man that lies with an unclean [woman].:


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And the LORD spoke unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD and died;


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and the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron, thy brother, that he not enter at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the seat of reconciliation, which [is] upon the ark, that he not die; for I will appear in the cloud above the seat of reconciliation.


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Thus shall Aaron come into the holy [place]: with a young bullock as sin and a ram as a burnt offering.


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He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen underwear upon his flesh and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he cover himself. These [are] holy garments; and he shall wash his flesh with water and put them on.


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And he shall take of the congregation of the sons of Israel two he goats as the sin and one ram as a burnt offering.


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And Aaron shall cause the bullock of his sin to be brought, and make reconciliation for himself and for his house.


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After that, he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And Aaron shall cause the he goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell to be brought and offer him for the sin.


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But the he goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make the reconciliation upon him [and] to send him to Azazel into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall cause the bullock of his own sin to be brought and shall make the reconciliation for himself and for his house and shall kill the bullock of his own sin.


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After that he shall take the censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD and his hands full of aromatic incense beaten small and bring [it] inside the veil.


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And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of the incense shall cover the seat of reconciliation that [is] upon the testimony, and he shall not die.


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Then he shall take of the blood of the bullock and sprinkle [it] with his finger towards the seat of reconciliation eastward; towards the seat of reconciliation he shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.


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After that, he shall kill the goat of the sin of the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the seat of reconciliation and before the seat of reconciliation;


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and he shall cleanse the sanctuary of the uncleanness of the sons of Israel and of their rebellions and of all their sins; in the same manner so shall he do for the tabernacle of the testimony, which dwells among them in the midst of their uncleanness.


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And no man shall be in the tabernacle of the testimony when he enters in to make reconciliation in the sanctuary until he comes out and has made reconciliation for himself and for his household and for all the congregation of Israel.


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And he shall go out unto the altar that [is] before the LORD and reconcile it and shall take of the blood of the bullock and of the blood of the he goat and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about.


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And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.


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And when he has made an end of reconciling the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, he shall cause the live he goat to be brought;


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and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live he goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their rebellions and all their sins, putting them thus upon the head of the he goat and shall send [him] away into the wilderness by the hand of [a] man prepared [for this];


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and that he goat shall bear upon itself all their iniquities unto an uninhabitable land; and he shall send the he goat into the wilderness.


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After that, Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the testimony and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on to enter into the sanctuary, and shall put them there.


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[Then] he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his garments and come forth after that and make his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make reconciliation for himself and for the people.


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And he that took the he goat to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh with water and afterward come into the camp.


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And he shall take outside the camp the bullock of the sin and the goat of the sin, whose blood was brought in to make the reconciliation in the sanctuary; and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung.


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And he that burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.


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And you shall hold this as a perpetual statute: In the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, whether it is a natural [of your own country] or a stranger that sojourns among you;


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for on that day he shall reconcile you to cleanse you [that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.


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And the reconciliation shall be made by the priest who is anointed and whose hand has been filled to be priest in the place of his father; and he shall put on the linen clothes, the holy garments;


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and he shall reconcile the holy sanctuary and reconcile the tabernacle of the testimony; he shall also reconcile the altar and the priests and all the people of the congregation.


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And you shall hold this as a perpetual statute to reconcile the sons of Israel of all their sins once a year. And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.:


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Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and unto all the sons of Israel and say unto them: This [is] what the LORD has commanded, saying,


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any man of the house of Israel that kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp or that kills [it] out of the camp


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and does not bring it unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man; he has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people:


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to the end that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, unto the priest and sacrifice sacrifices of peace unto the LORD.


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And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and incense the fat in a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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And they shall never again offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they fornicate. They shall have this as a perpetual statute throughout their ages.


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And thou shalt also say unto them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among you that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice


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and does not bring it unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony to offer it unto the LORD, even that man shall be cut off from among his people.


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And any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eats any blood at all, I will set my face against that person that eats blood and will cut them off from among his people.


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For the soul (or life) of the flesh [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you to reconcile your persons (or souls) upon the altar; therefore the same blood reconciles the person.


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Therefore I have said unto the sons of Israel: No person of you shall eat blood; neither shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood.


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And any man of the sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.


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For the soul of all flesh, its life, [is] in its blood; therefore, I have said unto the sons of Israel, Ye shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the soul (or the life) of all flesh [is] its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.


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And any person that eats that which died [of itself] or that which was torn by beasts whether it is a natural [of your own country] or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe [himself] in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.


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You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, in which ye dwelt; nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I bring you; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.


