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Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."ym They said to each other, "Come, let us make oven-fired bricks." They had brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.g I As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.I   At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary. 5 These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.n W These are Shem's sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.S ! Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.@} Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan's sons.7 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,9 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,A And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,ym Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.=w Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber./[ Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.A Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.oY And Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had children. Shem was the father of all the children of Eber.r_ These are Ham's sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.~) The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.d}C the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterwards the Canaanite clans scattered..|Y the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,5{g the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,>zy Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and the Hittites,My Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtorim.9xo Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,=- The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.t<c The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.v;g The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.w:i The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.79 k God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.48e And the waters surged on the earth 150 days.|7s He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.h6K Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils-- everything on dry land died.59 All flesh perished-- creatures that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and all creatures that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind.X4+ The mountains were covered as the waters surged [above them] more than 20 feet.v3g Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.o2Y The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.1y The deluge continued 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.|0s Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.V/' Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.|.s They [entered it] with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that crawls on the earth according to its kind, all birds, every fowl, and everything with wings according to their kinds. -  On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his three sons' wives entered the ark with him.=,w  and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.P+  In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,E*  Seven days later the waters of the deluge came on the earth.`);  two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.f(G From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,n'W So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the deluge.S&! Noah was 600 years old when the deluge came [and] water covered the earth.<%u And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.$9 Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off the face of the earth every living thing I have made."# and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky-- in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.!"= You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,! 5 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you [alone] are righteous before Me in this generation.I  And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.a= Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them."lS Two of everything-- from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from every animal that crawls on the ground according to its kind-- will come to you so that you can keep them alive.} You are also to bring into the ark two of every living thing of all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.y But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives.)M Understand that I am bringing a deluge-- floodwaters on the earth to destroy all flesh under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.A} You are to make a roof, finishing [the sides of the ark] to within 18 inches [of the roof.] You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper [decks].gI This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.oY Make yourself an ark of gofer wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.=u  Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.]5  God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.Z/  Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.=w  And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.;s Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.A} Then the LORD said, "I will wipe off the face of the earth: man, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky-- for I regret that I made them."_9 the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.- When the LORD saw that man's wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,K The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterwards, when the sons of God came to the daughters of man, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.  And the LORD said, "My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years."| s the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.T  % When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,H   Noah was 500 years old, and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.8 m So Lamech's life lasted 777 years; then he died.W) Lamech lived 595 years after Noah's birth, and he fathered sons and daughters.+ And he named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."8m Lamech was 182 years old when he fathered a son.<u So Methuselah's life lasted 969 years; then he died.b? Methuselah lived 782 years after the birth of Lamech, and he fathered sons and daughters.=w Methuselah was 187 years old when he fathered Lamech.K Enoch walked with God, and he was not there, because God took him.)O So Enoch's life lasted 365 years.lS And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered sons and daughters.;s Enoch was 65 years old when he fathered Methuselah.7~k So Jared's life lasted 962 years; then he died.\}3 Jared lived 800 years after the birth of Enoch, and he fathered sons and daughters.7|k Jared was 162 years old when he fathered Enoch.;{s So Mahalalel's life lasted 895 years; then he died.`z; Mahalalel lived 830 years after the birth of Jared, and he fathered sons and daughters.:yq Mahalalel was 65 years old when he fathered Jared.7xk So Kenan's life lasted 910 years; then he died.`w;  Kenan lived 840 years after the birth of Mahalalel, and he fathered sons and daughters.:vq  Kenan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.7uk  So Enosh's life lasted 905 years; then he died.\t3  Enosh lived 815 years after the birth of Kenan, and he fathered sons and daughters.6si  Enosh was 90 years old when he fathered Kenan.6ri So Seth's life lasted 912 years; then he died.[q1 Seth lived 807 years after the birth of Enosh, and he fathered sons and daughters.6pi Seth was 105 years old when he fathered Enosh.6oi So Adam's life lasted 930 years; then he died.Zn/ Adam lived 800 years after the birth of Seth, and he fathered sons and daughters.wmi Adam was 130 years old when he fathered [a child] in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.flG He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.k  These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;xjk A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.7ii Adam knew his wife intimately again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for [she said,] "God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."chA If Cain is to be avenged seven times over, then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!)gM Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words. For I killed a man for wounding me, a boy for striking me.mfU Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah._e9 His brother was named Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the flute.Dd Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen.Vc' Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.vbg Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.%aE Cain knew his wife intimately, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.``; Then Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.<_s Then the LORD replied to him, "In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over." And He placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him./^Y Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me."I]  But Cain answered the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear!u\e  If you work the land, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."[  So now you are cursed [with alienation] from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood you have shed.aZ=  Then He said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground!|Ys  Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's guardian?"X% Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.W/ If you do right, won't you be accepted? But if you do not do right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must master it."TV# Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you furious? And why are you downcast?eUE but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he was downcast.T/ And Abel also presented [an offering]-- some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,dSC In the course of time Cain presented some of the land's produce as an offering to the LORD.{Rq Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of a flock, but Cain cultivated the land.Q  Adam knew his wife Eve intimately, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have had a male child with the LORD's help."P# He drove man out, and east of the garden of Eden He stationed cherubim with a flaming, whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.jOO So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.0N[ The LORD God said, "Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever."\M3 The LORD God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.NL Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.#KA You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."_J9 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.I{ And He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it': The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.$HC He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will dominate you.G# I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.UF% Then the LORD God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. E  So the LORD God asked the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate."vDg  Then the man replied, "The woman You gave to be with me-- she gave me [some fruit] from the tree, and I ate."Cy  Then He asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I had commanded you not to eat from?"bB?  And he said, "I heard You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."PA  So the LORD God called out to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"D@ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.?+ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.|>s Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate [it]; she also gave [some] to her husband, [who was] with her, and he ate [it].{=q In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."=<w No! You will not die," the serpent said to the woman.; But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.'"[:1 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.99 o Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?"@8} Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.k7Q This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.6! And the man said: This one, at last, is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called woman, for she was taken from man.j5O Then the LORD God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. 4 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.3/ The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found who was like him.X2+ So the LORD God formed out of the ground each wild animal and each bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.p1[ Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is like him."0 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die."^/7 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,e.E The LORD God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.~-w The name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.X,+  The name of the second river is Gihon, which encircles the entire land of Cush.G+  Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.n*W  The name of the first is Pishon, which encircles the entire land of the Havilah, where there is gold.t)c  A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.Y(-  The LORD God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the midst of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.g'I The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.&9 Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Y%- But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.C$ No shrub of the field had yet [grown] on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.## These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.i"M God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation. ! By the seventh day, God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.K   So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.j Q God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came, and then morning: the sixth day.^ 9 for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth-- everything having the breath of life in it. [I have given] every green plant for food." And it was so.0 ] God also said, "Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you,D  God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth."q _ So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.R ! Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth."N  So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.A  Then God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.5 i Evening came, and then morning: the fifth day. { So God blessed them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."_ ; So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. [He also created] every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  Then God said, "Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."6 k Evening came, and then morning: the fourth day.m W to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.P  God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,$ E God made the two great lights-- the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night-- as well as the stars.d E They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth." And it was so.( M Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years.5  i Evening came, and then morning: the third day.9  o The earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.4  e Then God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds." And it was so.w  k God called the dry land "earth," and He called the gathering of the water "seas." And God saw that it was good.|  u Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.U ' God called the expanse "sky." Evening came, and then morning: the second day.z q So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.a ? Then God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water."v i God called the light "day," and He called the darkness "night." Evening came, and then morning: the first day.W + God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.@  Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.# C Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.= { In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. D~~~ }S||r|9{{{:{zzuzyyyOxxxVxww8vv]uau.tt/ss!rKqq&pgp0oo-nnAmmyll}l kk#jj~jiiThggbfeeuddd!cc1bbVaa.``q__a^]][\\J[[ZeYYXXX3WWPVVVUU"TTSSRSRQQ=PPOONNN&MMMLL'KKKK"JoII.HSGG;FF+EEDZCC[BBB5AAA7@@]?>>\==Uay The sun had risen over the land when Lot reached Zoar.t`c Hurry up! Run there, for I cannot do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city is Zoar._ And he said to him, "All right, I'll grant your request about this matter too, and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.%^E Look, this town is close enough for me to run to. It is a small place. Please let me go there-- it's only a small place, isn't it?-- so that I can survive."D] Your servant has indeed found favor in Your sight, and You have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can't run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.1\_ But Lot said to them, "No, Lord-- please.?[y As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"NZ But he hesitated, so because of the LORD's compassion for him, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters. And they brought him out and left him outside the city.-YU At the crack of dawn the angels urged Lot on: "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."_X9 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. "Get up," he said. "Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.W+  for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it."6Vg  Then the angels said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here: a son-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of this place,U#  They struck the men who were at the door of the house, both young and old, with a blinding light so that they were unable to find the door.]T5  But the angels reached out, brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.\S3  Get out of the way!" they said, adding, "This one came here as a foreigner, but he's acting like a judge! Now we'll do more harm to you than to them." They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.zRo Look, I've got two daughters who haven't had sexual relations with a man. I'll bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them. However, don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof."4Qe He said, "Don't do [this] evil, my brothers.KP Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him.O They called out to Lot and said, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!"Ny Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.M5 But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.WL) and said, "My lords, turn aside to your servant's house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way." "No," they said. "We would rather spend the night in the square."+K S The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at Sodom's gate. When Lot saw [them], he got up to meet them. He bowed [with his] face to the groundjJO !When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned to his place.(IK  Then he said, "Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time. Suppose 10 are found there?" He answered, "I will not destroy [it] on account of 10."H+ Then he said, "Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose 20 are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy [it] on account of 20."G9 Then he said, "Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak further. Suppose 30 are found there?" He answered, "I will not do [it] if I find 30 there."vFg Then he spoke to Him again, "Suppose 40 are found there?" He answered, "I will not do [it] on account of 40."E- suppose the 50 righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" He replied, "I will not destroy [it] if I find 45 there."oDY Then Abraham answered, "Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord-- even though I am dust and ashes--zCo The LORD said, "If at Sodom I find 50 righteous people in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."WB) You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won't the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"-AU What if there are 50 righteous people in the city? Will You really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the 50 righteous people who are in it?e@E Abraham stepped forward and said, "Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?i?M The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the LORD.y>m I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to Me. If not, I will find out."s=a Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.\<3 For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him."x;k Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.O: Then the LORD said, "Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?p9[ The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.s8a Sarah denied it. "I did not laugh," she said, because she was afraid. But He replied, "No, you did laugh."7 Is anything impossible for the LORD? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son."k6Q  But the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Can I really have a baby when I'm old?'o5Y  So she laughed to herself: "After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?"f4G  Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.83k  The LORD said, "I will certainly come back to you in about a year's time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.V2'  Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked him. "There, in the tent," he answered.1) Then Abraham took curds and milk, and the calf that he had prepared, and set [them] before the men. He served them as they ate under the tree.0{ Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.x/k So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Knead three measures of fine flour and make bread."F. I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant's [way]. Later, you can continue on." "Yes," they replied, "do as you have said."g-I Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.l,S Then he said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, please do not go on past your servant.+1 He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed to the ground. *  Then the LORD appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting in the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.)' And all the men of his household-- both slaves born in his house and those purchased with money from a foreigner-- were circumcised with him.G( On that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.]'5 and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.Q& Abraham was 99 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,%} Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or purchased with his money-- every male among the members of Abraham's household-- and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.F$ When He finished talking with him, God withdrew from Abraham.h#K But I will confirm My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."I" As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father 12 tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.9!m But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.O  So Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael could live in Your presence!"(K Abraham fell to the ground, laughed, and thought in his heart, "Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?"' I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her."iM God said to Abraham, "As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.  If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."3  a slave born in your house, as well as one purchased with money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant._9  Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. This includes a slave born in your house and one purchased with money from any foreigner. The one who is not your offspring,nW  You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you.  This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.  God also said to Abraham, "As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant.+Q And to you and your offspring after you I will give the land where you are residing-- all the land of Canaan-- as an eternal possession, and I will be their God."D I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the [God] of your offspring after you.Z/ I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.zo Your name will no longer be Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.\3 As for Me, My covenant is with you, and you will become the father of many nations.>y Then Abram fell to the ground, and God spoke with him:[1 I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly."} w When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him, saying, "I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be devout.>y Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.b ? So Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son Hagar had.z o That is why she named the spring, "A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me." It is located between Kadesh and Bered. y  So she named the LORD who spoke to her: The God Who Sees, for she said, "Have I really seen here the One who sees me?"$ C  This man will be [like] a wild ass. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand will be against him; he will live at odds with all his brothers.$ C  Then the Angel of the LORD said to her: You have conceived and will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your [cry of] affliction.~w  The Angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count."tc  Then the Angel of the LORD said to her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment."% He said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She replied, "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai."oY The Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur."? Abram replied to Sarai, "Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.W) Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has looked down on me. May the LORD judge between me and you."{ He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.9m So Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. [This happened] after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years./Y Sarai said to Abram, "Since the LORD has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps I can have children by her." And Abram agreed to what Sarai said._ ; Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him children. She owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.:~q Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."&}I Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,:|q [the land of] the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,{' On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I give this land to your offspring, from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River:z When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided [animals].y{ In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."Rx But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.lwS However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterwards they will go out with many possessions.5ve  Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know this for certain: Your offspring will be strangers in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.wui  As the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and suddenly a terror and great darkness descended on him.Mt  Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.s  So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds.r  He said to him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."Hq But he said, "Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?"xpk He also said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."Mo Abram believed the LORD, and He credited it to him as righteousness.+nQ He took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "Your offspring will be that [numerous]." m Now the word of the LORD came to him: "This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir."nlW Abram continued, "Look, You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir."k{ But Abram said, "Lord God, what can You give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"j ) After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great.*iO I will take nothing except what the servants have eaten. But as for the share of the men who came with me-- Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre-- they can take their share."h that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, 'I made Abram rich.'g But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand in an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,kfQ Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself."|es and give praise to God Most High who has handed over your enemies to you. And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.ad= He blessed him and said: Abram is blessed by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,gcI Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High.7bi After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).|as He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the [other] people. ` And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.%_E When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan.H^  One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was at the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.m]U  They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.b\?  The [four kings] took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on.([K  Now the Valley of Siddim contained many asphalt pits, and [as] the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, [some] fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.Z  against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar-- four kings against five.c Why did you say, 'She's my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now, here's your wife. Take her and go!"q=] So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?e<E But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.; He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.k:Q Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house.W9) When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.{8q Please say you're my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account."k7Q When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me but let you live.s6a When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are. 5 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.44e Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.;3q From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped Him.23 But the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.1} Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.R0 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,s/a So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran..# I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.x-k I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing., } The LORD said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land that I will show you.0+] Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.x*k Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.+)S Sarai was barren; she had no child.)(M Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.c'A Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah's lifetime.o&Y These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.C% Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.`$; After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.0#] Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.`"; After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.0!] Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.^ 7 After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters..Y Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug.^7 After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters..Y Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu._9 After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters./[ Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.`; After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.0] Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber.fG After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.6i Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah.dC After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.wi These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the deluge.4c Therefore its name is called Babylon, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.tc So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.vg Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech."7 The LORD said, "If, as one people all having the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.`; Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building. '3~~~*}}?||W|{Pzz1yy6x^xww"vv4uFuttsslsrrqyq ppIonn^mmlEkjjj2ihhbhgffceexe/ddd>B==<<;;j;:e99988776666C55444K33P22y1111 0/// .}--!,,h++V***%)))5(('&& %%r$##("" !!8 9_ZhB 5pW=r < & ` \ $R@F'' 'Then his father Isaac answered him: Look, your dwelling place will be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of the sky above.~} &Esau said to his father, "Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me-- me too, my father!" And Esau wept loudly.U}% %But Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?"J| $So he said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing." Then he asked, "Haven't you saved a blessing for me?"P{ #But he replied, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing." z "When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me-- me too, my father!"Cy !Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. "Who was it then," he said, "who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!"fxG  But his father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am Esau your firstborn son."8wk He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, "Let my father get up and eat some of his son's game, so that you may bless me."v As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.Nu May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers; may your mother's sons bow down to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.~tw May God give to you-- from the dew of the sky and from the richness of the land-- an abundance of grain and new wine.3sa So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothes, he blessed him and said: Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.Ur% Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come closer and kiss me, my son."(qK Then he said, "Serve me, and let me eat some of my son's game so that I can bless you." Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.Np Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."ro_ He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.n+ So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."wmi Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?"l But Isaac said to his son, "How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?" He replied, "Because the LORD your God worked it out for me."k7 Jacob replied to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me."mjU When he came to his father, he said, "My father." And he answered, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"Xi+ Then she handed the delicious food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.Lh She put the goatskins on his hands and the smooth part of his neck. g Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were there at the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.yfm So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.deC  His mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey me and go get them for me."d  Suppose my father touches me. Then I will seem to be deceiving him, and I will bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself."sca  Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, "Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.Ub%  Then take it to your father to eat so that he may bless you before he dies." a  Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father-- the kind he loves.0`] Now obey every order I give you, my son._ 'Bring me some game and make some delicious food for me to eat so that I can bless you in the LORD's presence before I die.'m^U Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,] Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,v\g Then make me the delicious food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die."i[M Take your [hunting] gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.FZ He said, "Look, I am old and do not know the day of my death.!Y ? When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." And he answered, "Here I am."4Xe #They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. W "When Esau was 40 years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.UV% !He called it Oath. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.|Us  On that same day Isaac's slaves came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, "We have found water!" T They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.CS So he prepared a banquet for them, and they ate and drank.#RA You will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have only done what was good to you, sending you away in peace. You are now blessed by the LORD."8Qk They replied, "We have clearly seen how the LORD has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties-- between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you:_P9 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you."nOW Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.zNo So he built an altar there, worshiped the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac's slaves also dug a well there.RM and the LORD appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of My servant Abraham.",LU From there he went up to Beer-sheba,?Ky He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces and said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."_J9 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Hostility.I9 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him.[H1 Moreover, Isaac's slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.NG Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.MF So Isaac left there, camped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.WE) And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us, for you are much too powerful for us." D The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father's slaves had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.kCQ He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and many slaves, and the Philistines were envious of him.SB!  and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.yAm  Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times [what was sown]. The LORD blessed him,v@g  So Abimelech warned all the people with these words: "Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly die."!?=  Then Abimelech said, "What is this you've done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us."6>g  Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is really your wife! How could you say, 'She's my sister'?" Isaac answered him, "Because I thought I might die on account of her."*=O When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.^<7 When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say "my wife," [thinking], "The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman."";A So Isaac settled in Gerar.r:_ because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions."89k I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,L8 stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.m7U The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about;(6 M There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham's time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.~5w "Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.^47 !Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him.R3  Look," said Esau, "I'm about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"72k Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."|1s He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted." That is why he was [also] named Edom.T0# Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.X/+ Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.{.q When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.- After this, his brother came out grasping Esau's heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.d,C The first one came out reddish, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.O+ When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.D* And the LORD said to her: Two nations are in your womb; two people will [come] from you and be separated. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.) But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. ( Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was barren. The LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.'! Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, and sister of Laban the Aramean.V&' These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac. % And they settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt as you go toward Asshur. He lived in opposition to all his brothers.{$q This is the length of Ishmael's life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.z#o These are Ishmael's sons, and these are their names by their villages and encampments: 12 leaders of their clans.1"_ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.!7 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 1  These are the names of Ishmael's sons; their names according to the family records are: Nebaioth, Ishmael's firstborn, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,xk  These are the family records of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's slave, bore to Abraham.Y-  After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.p[  This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.r_ He took his last breath and died at a ripe old age, old and contented, and he was gathered to his people.8m This is the length of Abraham's life: 175 years.$C And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.2a Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.hK And Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.a= Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's sons were the Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.L and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.= y Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah,#A CAnd Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother's [death].;s BThen the servant told Isaac everything he had done.$C Aand asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?" The servant answered, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.O @Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from her cameliM ?In the early evening, Isaac went out to walk in the field, and looking up, he saw camels coming.\3 >Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev region. } =Then Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left. 5  Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.J=  Now Sarah lived 127 years; [these were all] the years of her life.Z</ His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.[;1 And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham's brother.5:g Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."F9 Uz his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,d8C Now after these things Abraham was told, "Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:7{ Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.p6[ And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed My command."25_ I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.4{ and said, "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD: Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,O3 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven2y And Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide, so today it is said: "It will be provided on the LORD's mountain."%1E  Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.!0=  Then He said, "Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from Me."s/a  But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He replied, "Here I am."J.  Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.A-}  When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood., Abraham answered, "God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." Then the two of them walked on together.G+ Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, "My father." And he replied, "Here I am, my son." Isaac said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"3*a Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.)! Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we'll come back to you."N( On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.X'+ So early in the morning Abraham got up, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.:&o Take your son," He said, "your only [son] Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."c% C After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.W$) "And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.m#U !Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he worshiped the LORD, the Everlasting God."-  After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.l!S Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.  He replied, "You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that this act will serve as my witness that I dug this well."W) And Abimelech said to Abraham, "Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?"A But Abraham had set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock.lS Then Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. Abimelech replied, "I don't know who did this thing. You didn't report anything to me, so I hadn't heard about it until today."lS But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech's servants had seized.)O And Abraham said, "I swear [it]."jO Now swear to me here by God that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have kept faith with you, so you will keep faith with me and with the country where you are a resident alien."y At that time Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.iM He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.^7 God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.~w Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.W) Get up, help the boy up, and sustain him, for I will make him a great nation."T# God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What's wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from the place where he is.5 Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, "I can't [bear to] watch the boy die!" So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.W) When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.@{ Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, [put them] on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.X+  But I will also make a nation of the slave's son because he is your offspring."4c  But God said to Abraham, "Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac.L   Now this was a very difficult thing for Abraham because of his son.   So she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a co-heir with my son Isaac!"Y -  But Sarah saw the son mocking-- the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.c A The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. } She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."X+ Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me."F Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.b? When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.W) Abraham named his son who was born to him-- the one Sarah bore to him-- Isaac.p[ Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him. ?z~}}}2|n{{\zzRyy#xux%ww4vvCuttsfrrkqqqpp'oo"n`mmmlkkljjj&iihhrhggNffrfeebedfccIbbzaa``___^o^]e]\\m\[[*ZZZwZY\X{WWaVVVUUUATTTSfS#RRQ\P}OOcNoMMdLLQKJJ1II"HHPGGfG-FFEE:DD0CCBB"AA9@@@??i>>%== <<;;8:t998b7765543322_11100 /..Q--0,,,)+**]))m(('h&&i&+%%4$$ #u""Yy "Get me this girl as a wife," he told his father Hamor.oXY "He became infatuated with Dinah, daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.jWO "When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her.kV S "Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.MU !And he set up an altar there and called it "God, the God of Israel."T !He purchased a section of the field from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for 100 qesitahs, where he had pitched his tent.Sy !After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the Canaanite city of Shechem and camped in front of the city.R !but Jacob went on to Succoth. He built a house for himself and stalls for his cattle; that is why the place was called Succoth.9Qo !On that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,yPm !Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he replied, "Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord."O7 !Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir."%NE ! Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing sheep and cattle. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.CM ! Then Esau said, "Let's move on, and I'll go ahead of you."!L= ! Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have everything I need." So Jacob urged him until he accepted.EK ! But Jacob said, "No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, [and it is] like seeing God's face, since you have accepted me.HJ ! I have enough, my brother," Esau replied. "Keep what you have."yIm !So Esau said, "What do you mean by this whole procession I met?" "To find favor with you, my lord," he answered.tHc !Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.SG! !Then the female slaves and their children approached [him] and bowed down.#FA !When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" He answered, "The children God has graciously given your servant."iEM !But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.fDG !He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.\C3 !He put the female slaves first, Leah and her sons next, and Rachel and Joseph last.B ! !Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female slaves.!A= That is why, to this day, the Israelites don't eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because He struck Jacob's hip socket at the thigh muscle.J@ The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel-- limping on his hip.x?k Jacob then named the place Peniel, "For," [he said,] "I have seen God face to face, and I have been delivered.">y Then Jacob asked Him, "Please tell me Your name." But He answered, "Why do you ask My name?" And He blessed him there.= Your name will no longer be Jacob," He said. "It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."?<{ What is your name?" the man asked. "Jacob!" he replied.};u Then He said to Jacob, "Let Me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob said, "I will not let You go unless You bless me."}:u When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob's hip as they wrestled and dislocated his hip socket.J9 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Y8- He took them and brought them across the stream, along with all his possessions.7 During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.W6) So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.[51 You are to also say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.'" For he thought, "I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me."4 He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, "Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.~3w then tell him, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.'"&2G And he told the first one: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose [animals] are these ahead of you?' 1 He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, "Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds."d0C 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.;/s 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,o.Y He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau: - You have said, 'I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'",/ Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.++Q I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.4*c Then Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, 'Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,'^)7 He thought, "If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape." ( Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, cattle, and camels.' When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you-- and he has 400 men with him." & I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves. I have sent [this message] to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.'"#%A He commanded them, "You are to say to my lord Esau, 'This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.i$M Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.^#7 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's camp." So he called that place Mahanaim.7" m Jacob went on his way, and God's angels met him.!} 7Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his grandsons and daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home. + 6Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.+ 5The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor-- the gods of their father-- will judge between us." And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.2_ 4This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.gI 3Laban also said to Jacob, "Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me. 2If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me."vg 1and [also] Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are out of each other's sight.tc 0Then Laban said, "This mound is a witness between me and you today." Therefore the place was called Galeed,J /Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.y .Then Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.>y -So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.`; ,Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us."gI +Then Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?mU *If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night."9 )For 20 years I have worked in your household-- 14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks-- and you have changed my wages 10 times!gI (There I was-- the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.!= 'I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded [payment] from me for what was stolen by day or by night.  &I've been with you these 20 years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.$C %You've searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours? Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.) $Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. "What is my crime?" he said to Laban. "What is my sin, that you have pursued me?9 m #She said to her father, "Sir, don't be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my monthly period." So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols. ; "Now Rachel had taken Laban's household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.- U !So Laban went into Jacob's tent, then Leah's tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.@ {  If you find your gods with anyone [here], he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it." Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen [the idols].e E Jacob answered, "I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.cA Now you have gone off because you long for your father-- but why have you stolen my gods?"+ I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me: 'Watch yourself. Don't say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'eE but you didn't even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters. You have acted foolishly.% Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,y Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war!(K When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his brothers also pitched [their tents] in the hill country of Gilead.# But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. "Watch yourself!" God warned him. "Don't say anything to Jacob, either good or bad."kQ So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead.<u On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.lS He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.S~! And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing.[}1 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.|/ He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of his father Isaac in Canaan.H{ Then Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels. z In fact, all the wealth that God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you."gyI Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our money.mxU Then Rachel and Leah answered him, "Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father's household?!w=  I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to Me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.'"0v[  And He said, 'Look up and see: all the males that are mating with the flocks are streaked, spotted, and speckled, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.Su!  In that dream the Angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' and I said: Here I am.t  When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.?s{  God has taken your father's herds and given them to me.>rw If he said, 'The spotted sheep will be your wages,' then all the sheep were born spotted. If he said, 'The streaked sheep will be your wages,' then all the sheep were born streaked.cqA and that he has cheated me and changed my wages 10 times. But God has not let him harm me.6pi You know that I've worked hard for your fathero# He said to them, "I can see from your father's face that his attitude toward me is not the same, but the God of my father has been with me.On Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field [where] his flocks were.ume Then the LORD said to him, "Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you."Wl) And Jacob saw from Laban's face that his attitude toward him was not the same.k 9 Now Jacob heard what Laban's sons were saying: "Jacob has taken all that was our father's and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father."jjO +And the man became very rich. He had many flocks, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.$iC *As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob./hY )Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.Ag} (Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked and the completely dark sheep in Laban's flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn't put them with Laban's sheep.af= 'The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.+eQ &He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep-- in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink. d %Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled [the bark], exposing white stripes on the branches.{cq $He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban's flock.pb[ #That day Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats-- every one that had any white on it-- and every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and he placed his sons in charge of them.8am "Good," said Laban. "Let it be as you have said."[`1 !In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. [If I have] any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen."[_1  Let me go through all your sheep today and remove every sheep that is speckled or spotted, every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the female goats. [Such] will be my wages.6^g Laban asked, "What should I give you?" And Jacob said, "You don't need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.5]e For you had very little before I came, but now your wealth has increased. The LORD has blessed you because of me. And now, when will I also do something for my own family?"Q\ So Jacob said to him, "You know what I have done for you and your herds.@[} Then Laban said, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."Z+ But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, [stay.] I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you."zYo Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you."xXk After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.DW She named him Joseph: "May the LORD add another son to me."OV She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my shame."LU Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.8Tm Later, Leah bore a daughter and named her Dinah.S% God has given me a good gift," Leah said. "This time my husband will honor me because I have borne him six sons," and she named him Zebulun.=Rw Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.hQK Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband," and she named him Issachar.LP God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.GO When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So Jacob slept with her that night.]N5 But Leah replied to her, "Isn't it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son's mandrakes?" "Well," Rachel said, "you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.">Mw Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."VL'  Leah said, "I am happy that the women call me happy," so she named him Asher.9Ko  When Leah's slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,DJ  Then Leah said, "What good fortune!" and she named him Gad.-IW  Leah's slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son.wHi  When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.xGk Rachel said, "In [my] wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won," and she named him Naphtali.KF Rachel's slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.nEW Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; yes, He has heard me and given me a son," and she named him Dan..DY Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.SC! So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.B) Then she said, "Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she'll bear [children] for me so that through her I too can build [a family]."lAS Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld children from you?"@  When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob [any children], she envied her sister. "Give me sons, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.&?G #And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children./>Y "She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, "At last, my husband will become attached to me because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.=/ !She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, "The LORD heard that I am unloved and has given me this [son] also." So she named him Simeon.<+  Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, "The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now."\;3 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.:y Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.M9 And Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.|8s And Jacob did just that. He finished the week [of celebration], and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.7- Complete this week [of wedding celebration], and we will also give you this [younger] one in return for working yet another seven years for me."}6u Laban answered, "It is not the custom in this place to give the younger [daughter in marriage] before the firstborn.*5O When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Wasn't it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me?"K4 And Laban gave his slave Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her slave.a3= That evening, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.=2w So Laban invited all the men of the place to a feast.i1M Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with her."y0m So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.]/5 Laban replied, "Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me."t.c Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, "I'll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."F- Leah had delicate eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.a,= Now Laban had two daughters: the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.+ Laban said to him, "Just because you're my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."k*Q Laban said to him, "Yes, you are my own flesh and blood." After Jacob had stayed with him a month,9)m  When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.f(G  He told Rachel that he was her father's relative, Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.1'_  Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.%&E  As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban's daughter Rachel with his sheep, he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban's sheep.o%Y  While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.$5 But they replied, "We can't, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well's opening. Then we will water the sheep."#3 Then Jacob said, "Look, it is still broad daylight. It's not time for the animals to be gathered. Water the flock, then go out and let them graze."n"W Is he well?" Jacob asked. "Yes," they said, "and here is his daughter Rachel, coming with his sheep."[!1 Do you know Laban son of Nahor?" Jacob asked them. They answered, "We know [him]."o Y Jacob asked the men at the well, "My brothers! Where are you from?" "We're from Haran," they answered.>w When all the flocks were gathered there, the [shepherds] would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep. The stone was then placed back on the well's opening.<s He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. A large stone covered the opening of the well.B  Jacob resumed his journey and went to the eastern country.{ This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God's house, and I will give to You a tenth of all that You give me."S! and if I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.! Then Jacob made a vow: "If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,N and named the place Bethel, though previously the city was named Luz.y Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven."mU When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."/Y Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."Q Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.G  The LORD was standing there beside him, saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land that you are now sleeping on.  And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching heaven, and God's angels were going up and down on it.6g  He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.4e  Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran./  so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.P Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,M  And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.* O Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman.  So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. ; May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as an alien, the land God gave to Abraham."u e May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples. Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.j Q Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: "Don't take a wife from the Canaanite women.!= .So Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm sick of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of them, what good is my life?"@{ -until your brother's rage turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you both in one day?"O ,and stay with him for a few days until your brother's anger subsides--Q +So now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,D *When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.V' )Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob." (You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will break his yoke from your neck. ~~}}(|{{p{!zzCyy?xxyxww,vvvSuuXu7ttpsssRrqq[qpp@ooo n{nmll2kkskjjiiiki#hhhdggg1ffeeeie dyccccbaa$``"__K^]]\\p[[ZZ9YY6XXZWW)VVQUUTSSS,RRGQQQPPOOVONNZNMMLLKKJ^JIHHGtFFYEEDtCBB%AA,@??>>Y==/S )when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.X=+ )So Pharaoh said to Joseph: "In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,j<O )I am not able to," Joseph answered Pharaoh. "It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."";? )Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it." : )Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.|9s ) It turned out just the way he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged."48c ) Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation.O7 ) He and I had dreams on the same night; each dream had its own meaning.6{ ) Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.O5 ) Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I remember my faults.34a )When morning came, he was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.w3i )The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven full, good ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.[21 )After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.m1U )He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, full and good, came up on one stalk.T0# )The sickly, thin cows ate the healthy, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up./ )After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside those cows along the bank of the Nile.l.S )when seven healthy-looking, well-fed cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.M-  )Two years later Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,H, (Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.M+ (but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had explained to them.o*Y (he restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand;!)= (On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he gave a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker:(' (In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head-- from off you-- and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body."X'+ (This is its interpretation," Joseph replied. "The three baskets are three days.& (In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."%5 (When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.$ (For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon."#5 (But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.4"c ( In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand the way you used to when you were his cupbearer.]!5 ( This is its interpretation," Joseph said to him. "The three branches are three days.  ( Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand."{q ( On the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out and its clusters ripened into grapes.gI ( So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: "In my dream there was a vine in front of me.+Q (We had dreams," they said to him, "but there is no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell me [your dreams]."{q (So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces sad today?"U% (When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they looked distraught.5e (The cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.  (The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he became their personal attendant. And they were in custody for some time.sa (and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.Z/ (Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,i O (After this, the king of Egypt's cupbearer and his baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.7 'The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph's authority, because the LORD was with him, and the LORD made everything that he did successful.% 'The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph's authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there.zo 'But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.q] 'and had him thrown into prison, where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.ym 'When his master heard the story his wife told him-- "These are the things your slave did to me"-- he was furiousT# 'but when I screamed for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside."lS 'Then she told him the same story: "The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to me to make fun of me,H 'She put Joseph's garment beside her until his master came home.[ 1 'When he heard me screaming for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside."K  'she called the household servants. "Look," she said to them, "my husband brought a Hebrew man to us to make fun of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.U % ' When she realized that he had left his garment with her and had run outside,  ' She grabbed him by his garment and said, "Sleep with me!" But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.i M ' Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants was there.V' ' Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.3a ' No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"0[ 'But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.`; 'After some time his master's wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."%E 'He left all that he owned under Joseph's authority; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.b? 'From the time that he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph. The LORD's blessing was on all that he owned, in his house and in his fields.7i 'Joseph found favor in his master's sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar also put him in charge of his household and placed all that he owned under his authority.lS 'When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made everything he did successful,sa 'The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.8 m 'Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian [named] Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.h~K &Then his brother, who had the scarlet [thread] tied to his hand, came out, and was named Zerah. } &But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. Then she said, "You have broken out [first]!" So he was named Perez.%|E &As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet [thread] around it, announcing, "This one came out first."P{ &When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb."z? &Judah recognized [them] and said, "She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her intimately again.Uy% &As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law [this message]: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong." And she added, "Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these?"Ax} &About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant." "Bring her out!" Judah said. "Let her be burned [to death]!"-wU &Judah replied, "Let her keep [the items] for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn't find [her].""v? &So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, "I couldn't find her, and furthermore, the men of the place said, 'There has been no cult prostitute here.'"!u= &He asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?" "There has been no cult prostitute here," they answered.t' &When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.Xs+ &She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow's clothes back on.g %These are the family records of Jacob. At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man [was working] with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.P=  %Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.< $+Magdiel, and Iram. These are Edom's chiefs, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was father of the Edomites.;7 $*Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, := $)Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,9 $(These are the names of Esau's chiefs, according to their families and their localities, by their names: Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,#8A $'When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadar ruled in his place. His city was Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab.F7 $&When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor ruled in his place.O6 $%When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth-on-the-River ruled in his place.A5 $$When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah ruled in his place. 4 $#When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad ruled in his place. He defeated Midian in the field of Moab; the name of his city was Avith.S3! $"When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites ruled in his place.K2 $!When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah ruled in his place.K1 $ Bela son of Beor ruled in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.e0E $These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:z/o $Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.Q. $These are the chiefs of the Horites: Chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,--W $These are Dishan's sons: Uz and Aran.8,m $These are Ezer's sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.E+ $These are Dishon's sons: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.P* $These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.')I $These are Zibeon's sons: Aiah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.J( $These are Shobal's sons: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.I' $The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Timna was Lotan's sister.n&W $Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.i%M $These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,P$ $These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.#) $These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.;"q $These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.s!a $Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.v g $These are the chiefs of Esau's sons: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's firstborn: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,  $These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon: She bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah to Edom.q] $ These are Reuel's sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.sa $ Timna, a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz, bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Esau's wife Adah.G $ The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.tc $ These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau's wife Basemath._9 $ These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.?{ $So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.+ $For their possessions were too many [for them] to live together, and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.[1 $Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.ym $and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were Esau's sons, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.7k $Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,@} $and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.5 $Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;< w $These are the family records of Esau (that is, Edom). #He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.9 #Isaac lived 180 years.wi #Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.~w #The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.@ } #The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali./ [ #Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.a = #Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 1 #While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had 12 sons:L  #Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the tower at Eder.\3 #Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel's grave to this day.R #So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).nW #With her last breath-- for she was dying-- she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.q] #During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for this is another son for you."  #They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.D #Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.! #Jacob set up a marker at the place where He had spoken to him-- a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.L # Then God withdrew from him at the place where He had spoken to him.~w # The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. And I will give the land to your descendants after you.)M # God also said to him: I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.~ # God said to him: Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but Israel will be your name. So He named him Israel.\}3 # God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.w|i #Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Oak of Weeping.&{G #Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.`z; #So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.uye #When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.wxi #Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem. `[~}}k}|m{{vzzyy,xx^wvv7uttsscrrqqpoo@nmmcm!lckk-jii|i"hJggffee dccCbba``C__s^^F^]\\[[[ZZ;YXXWmW!VNUUU TT^SSpS RR QaPP0ONNMM]LLVKK.JJI\HHsHGG2FFEEDD CUBBAA@@@X??_>>C==-<Wy 1Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.IV 1Asher's food will be rich, and he will produce royal delicacies.SU! 1Gad will be attacked by [marauding] bands, but he will attack their heels.(TM 1I wait for Your salvation, LORD.S} 1He will be a snake by the road, a viper beside the path, that bites the horses' heels so that its rider falls backwards.AR 1Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.Q% 1He saw that his resting place was good and that the land was pleasant, so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load and became a forced laborer.GP 1Issachar is a strong donkey lying down between the saddlebags.sOa 1 Zebulun will live by the seashore and will be a harbor for ships, and his territory will be next to Sidon.KN 1 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.M/ 1 He ties his donkey to a vine, and the colt of his donkey to the choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.&LG 1 The scepter will not depart from Judah, or the staff from between his feet, until He whose right it is comes and the obedience of the peoples belongs to Him.K' 1 Judah is a young lion-- my son, you return from the kill-- he crouches; he lies down like a lion and like a lioness-- who wants to rouse him?J 1Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies; your father's sons will bow down to you.I3 1Their anger is cursed, for it is strong, and their fury, for it is cruel! I will disperse them throughout Jacob and scatter them throughout Israel.H 1May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For in their anger they kill men, and on a whim they hamstring oxen.HG 1Simeon and Levi are brothers; their knives are vicious weapons.F 1Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel, because you got into your father's bed and you defiled it-- he got into my bed.E 1Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the firstfruits of my virility, excelling in prominence, excelling in power.OD 1Come together and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel:}C w 1Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come. B; 0Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and bow." A 0Then Israel said to Joseph, "Look! I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.2@_ 0So he blessed them that day with these words: Israel will invoke blessings by you, saying, "May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh," putting Ephraim before Manasseh.e?E 0But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation."z>o 0Joseph said to his father, "Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.":=o 0When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he thought it was a mistake and took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's.R< 0the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm-- may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow to be numerous within the land.;3 0Then he blessed Joseph and said: The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,>:w 0But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh's head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.+9Q 0 Then Joseph took them both-- with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel's left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel's right-- and brought them to Israel._89 0 Then Joseph took them from his [father's] knees and bowed with his face to the ground.|7s 0 Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face [again], but now God has even let me see your offspring." 6 0 Now Jacob's eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought them to him, and he kissed and embraced them. 5 0 And Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons God has given me here." So Jacob said, "Bring them to me and I will bless them."@4} 0When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?"H3 0When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath," (that is, Bethlehem).2 0Children born to you after them will be yours and will be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance.#1A 0Your two sons born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt are now mine. Ephraim and Manasseh belong to me just as Reuben and Simeon do.:0o 0He said to me, 'I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations [come from] you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession to your descendants to come.'i/M 0Jacob said to Joseph, " God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.p.[ 0When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.~- y 0Some time after this, Joseph was told, "Your father is weaker." So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.u,e /And Jacob said, "Swear to me." So Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed [in thanks] at the head of his bed.++ /When I lie down with my fathers, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place." Joseph answered, "I will do what you have asked."s*a /When the time drew near for him to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh [and promise me] that you will deal with me in faithful love. Do not bury me in Egypt.X)+ /Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years. ( /Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.2'_ /So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth [of the produce] belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests' land does not belong to Pharaoh.x&k /And they said, "You have saved our lives. We have found favor in our lord's eyes and will be Pharaoh's slaves."5%e /At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents."$+ /Then Joseph said to the people, "Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.G# /The only land he didn't acquire was that of the priests, for it was their allotment from Pharaoh. They lived off the allotment Pharaoh had given them; therefore they did not sell their land.V"' /and Joseph moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other.2!_ /In this way, Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, because every Egyptian sold his field since the famine was so severe for them. The land became Pharaoh's,  /Why should we perish here in front of you-- both us and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we with our land will become Pharaoh's slaves. Give us seed so that we can live and not die, and so that the land won't become desolate."r_ /When that year was over, they came the next year and said to him, "We cannot hide from our lord that the money is gone and that all our livestock belongs to our lord. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.iM /So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for the horses, the herds of sheep, the herds of cattle, and the donkeys. That year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.} /But Joseph said, "Give me your livestock. Since the money is gone, I will give you food in exchange for your livestock."E /When the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die here in front of you? The money is gone!"<s /Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were purchasing, and he brought the money to Pharaoh's house.3 / But there was no food in that entire region, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted by the famine.ue / And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food for their dependents.-U / Then Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.G / So Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from Pharaoh's presence.4c / Jacob said to Pharaoh, "My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages."E /Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many years have you lived?"jO /Joseph then brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.a= /the land of Egypt is open before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They can live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."\3 /Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "[Now that] your father and brothers have come to you, /Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants' sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.") /Then Pharaoh asked his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants, both we and our fathers, are shepherds."H /He took five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.B  /So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: "My father and my brothers, with their sheep and cattle and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen."] 5 ."you are to say, 'Your servants, both we and our fathers, have raised livestock from our youth until now.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians."H  .!When Pharaoh addresses you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'} u . The men are shepherds; indeed they raise livestock. They have brought their sheep and cattle and all that they have.J  .Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him: My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.x k .Then Israel said to Joseph, "At last I can die, now that I have seen your face [and know] you are still alive!":o .Joseph hitched [the horses to] his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time. .Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to prepare for his arrival at Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen, .And Joseph's sons who were born to him in Egypt: two persons. All those of Jacob's household who had come to Egypt: 70 persons. .The total number of persons belonging to Jacob-- his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob's sons-- who came to Egypt: 66.q] .These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore to Jacob: seven persons.;s .Naphtali's sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.1 .Dan's son: Hashum.E .These were Rachel's sons who were born to Jacob: 14 persons.a= .Benjamin's sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. .Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. They were born to him by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, a priest at On.=~w .The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.s}a .These were the sons of Zilpah-- whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah-- that she bore to Jacob: 16 persons.s|a .Asher's sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.I{ .Gad's sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.}zu .These were Leah's sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons: 33.1y_ .Zebulun's sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.:xq . Issachar's sons: Tola, Puvah, Jashub, and Shimron.w . Judah's sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. Perez's sons: Hezron and Hamul.1v_ . Levi's sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.duC . Simeon's sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.8tm . Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.xsk .These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who went to Egypt: Jacob's firstborn: Reuben.zro .His sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters, indeed all his offspring, he brought with him to Egypt.q% .They also took their cattle and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then Jacob and all his children with him went to Egypt."p? .Jacob left Beer-sheba. The sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and their wives.soa .I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will put his hands on your eyes."n .God said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.mmU .That night God spoke to Israel in a vision: "Jacob, Jacob!" He said. And Jacob replied, "Here I am."}l w .Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.ekE -Then Israel said, "Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go to see him before I die."/jY -But when they told Jacob all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.i -They said, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!" Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.Yh- -So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.wgi -So Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, "Don't argue on the way."4fc -He sent his father the following: 10 donkeys carrying the best products of Egypt, and 10 female donkeys carrying grain, food, and provisions for his father on the journey.e{ -He gave each of the brothers changes of clothes, but he gave Benjamin 300 pieces of silver and five changes of clothes.d -The sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had commanded, and he gave them provisions for the journey.ecE -Do not be concerned about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"b -You are also commanded, 'Do this: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children, your wives, and bring your father here.!a= -Get your father and your households, and come back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you can eat from the richness of the land.'w`i -Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and go on back to the land of Canaan.u_e -When the news reached Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.c^A -Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept, and afterward his brothers talked with him.`]; -Then Joseph threw his arms around Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.s\a - Tell my father all about my glory in Egypt and about all you have seen. And bring my father here quickly."p[[ - Look! Your eyes and my brother Benjamin's eyes can see that it is I [, Joseph,] who am speaking to you. Z; - There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute."' Y - You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me-- you, your children, and grandchildren, your sheep, cattle, and all you have.X1 - Return quickly to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.$WC -Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.}Vu -God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.~Uw -For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.T -And now don't be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.S/ -Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please, come near me," and they came near. "I am Joseph, your brother," he said, "the one you sold into Egypt.R -Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still living?" But his brothers were too terrified to answer him.bQ? -But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh's household heard it.DP  -Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants, so he called out, "Send everyone away from me!" No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.Oy ,"For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father."|Ns ,!Now please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers..MW , Your servant became accountable to my father for the boy, saying, 'If I do not return him to you, I will always bear the guilt for sinning against [you,] my father.''LI ,when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.zKo ,So, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us-- his life is wrapped up with the boy's life--~Jw ,If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.'cIA ,One left-- I said that he must have been torn to pieces-- and I have never seen him again.TH# ,Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.G! ,We told him, 'We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. But if our younger brother isn't with us, we cannot see the man.'>Fy ,But our father said, 'Go again, and buy us some food.'jEO ,This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported your words to him.zDo ,Then you said to your servants, 'If your younger brother does not come down with you, you will not see me again.'nCW ,But we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'QB ,Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him to me so that I can see him.'OA ,and we answered my lord, 'We have an elderly father and a young brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'I@ ,My lord asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'#?A ,But Judah approached him and said, "Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.->U ,Then Joseph said, "I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father."h=K ,What can we say to my lord?" Judah replied. "How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants' iniquity. We are now my lord's slaves-- both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found."< ,What is this you have done?" Joseph said to them. "Didn't you know that a man like me could uncover the truth by divination?"t;c ,When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him._:9 , Then they tore their clothes, and each one loaded his donkey and returned to the city.9{ , The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.J8 , So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.79 , The steward replied, "What you have said is proper, but only the one who is found to have it will be my slave, and the rest of you will be blameless."b6? , If any of us is found to have it, he must die, and we also will become my lord's slaves."$5C ,We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found at the top of our bags. How could we steal gold and silver from your master's house?p4[ ,They said to him, "Why does my lord say these things? Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.;3s ,When he overtook them, he said these words to them.n2W ,Isn't this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wrong!'"81k ,They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, "Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?D0 ,At morning light, the men were sent off with their donkeys./ ,Put my cup, the silver one, at the top of the youngest one's bag, along with his grain money." So he did as Joseph told him.. % ,Then Joseph commanded his steward: "Fill the men's bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's money at the top of his bag.'-I +"Portions were served to them from Joseph's table, and Benjamin's portion was five times larger than any of theirs. They drank, and they got drunk with Joseph., +!They were seated before him in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.I+ + They served him by himself, his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, since that is abhorrent to them.b*? +Then he washed his face and came out. Regaining his composure, he said, "Serve the meal.") +Joseph hurried out because he was overcome with emotion for his brother, and he was about to weep. He went into an inner room to weep.@({ +When he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother that you told me about?" Then he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."o'Y +They answered, "Your servant our father is well. He is still alive." And they bowed down to honor him.y&m +He asked if they were well, and he said, "How is your elderly father that you told me about? Is he still alive?"% +When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.$} +Since the men had heard that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph's arrival at noon.y#m +The man brought the men into Joseph's house, gave them water to wash their feet, and got feed for their donkeys.G" +Then the steward said, "May you be well. Don't be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your bags. I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.l!S +We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We don't know who put our money in the bags."T # +When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one's money was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our money, and we have brought it back with us.W) +They said, "Sir, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.Z/ +So they approached Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the doorway of the house. +But the men were afraid because they were taken to Joseph's house. They said, "We have been brought here because of the money that was returned in our bags the first time. They intend to overpower us, seize us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys."K +The man did as Joseph had said and brought them to Joseph's house.)M +When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward, "Take the men to [my] house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they will eat with me at noon." +The men took this gift, double the amount of money, and Benjamin. They made their way down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.:o +May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived."?{ + Take your brother also, and go back at once to the man.  + Take twice as much money with you. Return the money that was returned [to you] in the top of your bags. Perhaps it was a mistake.~w + Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift-- some balsam and some honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.J + If we had not wasted time, we could have come back twice by now.".W + I will be responsible for him. You can hold me personally accountable! If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will be guilty before you forever.%E +Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live, and not die-- neither we, nor you, nor our children.dC +They answered, "The man kept asking about us and our family: 'Is your father still alive? Do you have [another] brother?' And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, 'Bring your brother here'?"vg +Why did you cause me so much trouble?" Israel asked. "Why did you tell the man that you had another brother?"  +But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, 'You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.'"T# +If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.}u +But Judah said to him, "The man specifically warned us: 'You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.'  +When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy us some food."-  Y +Now the famine in the land was severe.P  *&But Jacob answered, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow." ) *%Then Reuben said to his father, "You can kill my two sons if I don't bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him to you."( K *$Their father Jacob said to them, "You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!"!= *#As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bag of money! When they and their father saw their bags of money, they were afraid.6g *"Bring back your youngest brother to me, and I will know that you are not spies but honest men. I will then give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the country.'"D *!The man who is the lord of the country said to us, 'This is how I will know if you are honest men: Leave one brother with me, take [food to relieve] the hunger of your households, and go. * We were 12 brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.9o *But we told him: We are honest men and not spies.lS *The man who is the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.q] *When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:?y *He said to his brothers, "My money has been returned! It's here in my bag." Their hearts sank. Trembling, they turned to one another and said, "What is this that God has done to us?" ; *At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.>y *They loaded the grain on their donkeys and left there.2~_ *Joseph then gave orders to fill their containers with grain, return each man's money to his sack, and give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out.} *He turned away from them and wept. Then he turned back and spoke to them. He took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.g|I *They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.{} *But Reuben replied: "Didn't I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn't listen. Now we must account for his blood!"czA *Then they said to each other, "It is plain that we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us."y{ *Bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be confirmed; then you won't die." And they consented to this.!x= *If you are honest men, let one of you be confined to the guardhouse, while the rest of you go and take grain [to relieve] the hunger of your households. \~~~}}]||U{{.zyyxwwvvtuuStVsssrrAqqpp3ooosoInnnmmgllkk`jjPii6hhggfff/efe dUccGbbNa```_A^^]]=\\N[[qZZ?Z YFXX7WW*VwUTTESSTRQQ^P\OhNMrLLvKK%JJSII8HvGGFEDDXD CBBhAA@@q?? >>'==<<;;?::49v877h6665I44F33r221000//).n--N,,C++S*))3(( '''&K%%$$M###"""!! o~;p0.hA"yftO   x  A(gHIThen Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go sacrifice to your God within the country."0G[And the LORD did this. Thick swarms of flies went into Pharaoh's palace and his officials' houses. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.jFOI will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.":EoBut on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people are living; no flies will be there. This way you will know that I, the Lord, am in the land.]D5But if you will not let My people go, then I will send swarms of flies against you, your officials, your people, and your houses. The Egyptians' houses will swarm with flies, and so will the land where they live.[C1The LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what the LORD says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.B+This is the finger of God," the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. AThe magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on the people and animals.]@5And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the earth, gnats were on the people and animals. All the dust of the earth became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.#?AThen the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and it will become gnats throughout the land of Egypt."y>mBut when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.W=)They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odor in the land.^<7 The LORD did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died.;# After Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD for help concerning the frogs that He had brought against Pharaoh.:{ the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile."y9m Tomorrow," he answered. Moses replied, "As you have said, so you may know there is no one like the LORD our God,\83 Moses said to Pharaoh, "Make the choice rather than me [by saying] when I should ask for you, your officials, and your people, that the frogs be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile."47cPharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Ask the LORD that He remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to the LORD."t6cBut the magicians did the same thing by their occult practices and brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.u5eWhen Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.44cThe LORD then said to Moses, "Tell Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, canals, and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt."M3The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials."Q2The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.\13But if you refuse to let them go, then I will plague all your territory with frogs.0 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and tell him: This is what the LORD says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.9/oSeven days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.x.kAll the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.Y--Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn't even take this to heart.%,EBut the magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their occult practices. So Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.+1The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.P*Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, he raised the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile was turned to blood..)WSo the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt-- over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs-- and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone [containers]."w(iThe fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it."3'aThis is what the LORD says: Here is how you will know that I am the LORD. Watch. I will strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.0&[Tell him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness, but so far you have not listened.8%kGo to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.`$;Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh is unresponsive: he refuses to let the people go.`#; However, Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.j"O Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.! But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers-- the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices., S So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.  When Pharaoh tells you: Perform a miracle, tell Aaron: Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.")OThe LORD said to Moses and Aaron,H Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.QSo Moses and Aaron did [this]; they did just as the LORD commanded them. The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out My hand against Egypt, and bring out the Israelites from among them."1]Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put My hand on Egypt and bring out the ranks of My people the Israelites, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.b?But I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.%You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land.x mThe LORD answered Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.saBut Moses replied in the LORD's presence, "Since I am such a poor speaker, how will Pharaoh listen to me?"a=He said to him, "I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I am telling you."@}On the day the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,xkMoses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.It was this Aaron and Moses whom the LORD told, "Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their divisions."-Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the Levite families by their clans._9The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites.{Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon. She bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.:qThe sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.5 gThe sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.m UAmram married his father's sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.n WThe sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their genealogy.V 'The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.> yThe sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans.}These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogy: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years. The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the clans of Simeon.(KThese are the heads of their fathers' families: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben.1] Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them commands concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.7 But Moses said in the LORD's presence: "If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker?"S! Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land."%G Then the LORD spoke to Moses,ym Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.!I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD."!=I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who delivered you from the forced labor of the Egyptians.\~3Therefore tell the Israelites: I am Yahweh, and I will deliver you from the forced labor of the Egyptians and free you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment.})Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered My covenant.x|kI also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as foreigners.r{_I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not make My name Yahweh known to them.;zsThen God spoke to Moses, telling him, "I am Yahweh.Iy But the LORD replied to Moses, "Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh: he will let them go because of My strong hand; he will drive them out of his land because of My strong hand."x#Ever since I went in to Pharaoh to speak in Your name he has caused trouble for this people, and You haven't delivered Your people at all."wSo Moses went back to the LORD and asked, "Lord, why have You caused trouble for this people? And why did You ever send me?7viMay the LORD take note of you and judge," they said to them, "because you have made us reek in front of Pharaoh and his officials-- putting a sword in their hand to kill us!"cuAWhen they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood [waiting] to meet them.t}The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, "You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks."ksQNow get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks."qr]But he said, "You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.'(qKNo straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, 'Make bricks!' Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault."vpgSo the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: "Why are you treating your servants this way?]o5Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten and asked, "Why haven't you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as [you did] before?"sna The overseers insisted, "Finish your assigned work each day, just as [you did] when straw was [provided]."Zm/ So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.tlc Go get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.'"k So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I am not giving you straw.vjg Impose heavier work on the men. Then they will be occupied with it and not pay attention to deceptive words."DiBut require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers-- that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'hDon't continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.Yg-That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people as well as their foremen:qf]Pharaoh also said, "Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from working."eThe king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labors!"\d3Then they answered, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword."!c=But Pharaoh responded, "Who is the LORD that I should obey Him by letting Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and what's more, I will not let Israel go.":b qLater, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let My people go, so that they may hold a festival for Me in the wilderness."a3The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had paid attention to them and that He had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.h`KAaron repeated everything the LORD had said to Moses and performed the signs before the people.R_Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.x^kMoses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and about all the signs He had commanded him [to do]. ]Now the LORD had said to Aaron, "Go and meet Moses in the wilderness." So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.t\cSo He let him alone. At that time she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," referring to the circumcision.[So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son's foreskin, and threw it at Moses' feet. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me!"xZkOn the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the LORD confronted him and sought to put him to death.Y}I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!"^X7Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the LORD says: Israel is My firstborn son.RWThe LORD instructed Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do in front of Pharaoh all the wonders I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won't let the people go. VSo Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and set out for the land of Egypt. And Moses took God's staff in his hand.oUYNow in Midian the LORD told Moses, "Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."AT}Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, "Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."PSAnd take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with."jROHe will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and you will serve as God to him.Q You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him [to speak], and will teach you both what to do.\P3Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses, and He said, "Isn't Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. When he sees you, his heart will rejoice.6Oi Moses said, "Please, Lord, send someone else."IN  Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say."}Mu The LORD said to him, "Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?OL But Moses replied to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent-- either in the past or recently or since You have been speaking to Your servant-- because I am slow and hesitant in speech."RK And if they don't believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground."JIf they will not believe you and will not respond to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign.-IUThen He said, "Put your hand back inside your cloak." He put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it had again become like the rest of his skin.-HUIn addition the LORD said to him, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, like snow.>GwThis will take place," He continued, "so they will believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."F9but the LORD told him, "Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail." So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand.uEeThen He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,PDThe LORD asked him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied.|C uThen Moses answered, "What if they won't believe me and will not obey me but say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?"MBEach woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians."}AuAnd I will give this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.@I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.q?]However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, unless [he is forced] by a strong hand. >;They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.N=And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites-- a land flowing with milk and honey.p<[Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.~;wGod also said to Moses, "Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.w:iGod replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you."59e Then Moses asked God, "If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, 'What is His name?' what should I tell them?"?8y He answered, "I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain."y7m But Moses asked God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"r6_ Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."u5e The Israelites' cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.4I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey-- the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites..3WThen the LORD said, "I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings./2YThen He continued, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.~1wDo not come closer," He said. "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."0 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, "Moses, Moses!" "Here I am," he answered.k/QSo Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up?.5Then the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.?- {Meanwhile Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.3,cGod saw the Israelites, and He took notice.d+CSo God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.G* After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.r)_She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, "I have become a stranger in a foreign land."e(EMoses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses [in marriage].t'cSo where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner."u&eThey answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."f%GWhen they returned to their father Reuel he asked, "Why have you come back so quickly today?"q$]Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.#Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock."1When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.B!Who made you a leader and judge over us?" the man replied. "Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known.  The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you attacking your neighbor?"cA Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.&G Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.*O When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."/ Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the boy and nursed him.X+Go." Pharaoh's daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy's mother.~wThen his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?"  When she opened it, she saw the child-- a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew boys."4cPharaoh's daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it.V'Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.EBut when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.}uThe woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.@ Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.  Pharaoh then commanded all his people: "You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live."< wSince the midwives feared God, He gave them families.\ 5So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.  =The midwives said to Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife can get to them."r aSo the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this and let the boys live?"{ sThe Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.  -When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it's a daughter, she may live."n  YThen the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,  3and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar, and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.,  W They worked the Israelites ruthlessly   But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.  = So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.+ S Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply [further], and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country."f I He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.E A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt.  But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.F  Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.T %The total number of Jacob's descendants was 70; Joseph was already in Egypt.' MDan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.' MIssachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;' MReuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;i~ QThese are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:^}7 2Joseph died at the age of 110. They embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.z|o 2So Joseph made the Israelites take an oath: "When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here."5{e 2Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."tzc 2He saw Ephraim's sons to the third generation; the sons of Manasseh's son Machir were recognized by Joseph.Uy% 2Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.x 2Therefore don't be afraid. I will take care of you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.~ww 2You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result-- the survival of many people.Mv 2But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?cuA 2Then his brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, "We are your slaves!"ytm 2'Say this to Joseph: Please forgive your brothers' transgression and their sin-- the wrong they caused you.' Therefore, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when their message came to him.Ys- 2So they sent this message to Joseph, "Before he died your father gave a command:Ar} 2When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, "If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the wrong we caused him."q} 2After Joseph buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.6pg 2 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.?o{ 2 So Jacob's sons did for him what he had commanded them.mnU 2 When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians." Therefore the place is named Abel-mizraim. It is across the Jordan. m; 2 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.Sl! 2 Horses and chariots went up with him; it was a very impressive procession.)kM 2along with all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their sheep, and their cattle were left in the land of Goshen.j5 2Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,Ni 2So Pharaoh said, "Go and bury your father in keeping with your oath."Rh 2my father made me take an oath, saying, 'I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan.' Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return." g 2When the days of mourning were over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's household, "If I have found favor with you, please tell Pharaoh thatvfg 2They took 40 days to complete this, for embalming takes that long, and the Egyptians mourned for him 70 days.eeE 2He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.Id  2Then Joseph, leaning over his father's face, wept and kissed him.}cu 1!When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and died. He was gathered to his people.Jb 1 The field and the cave in it [were purchased] from the Hittites."{aq 1Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there, Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there, and I buried Leah there. `; 1The cave is in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. 4~~ |||+{{%zzOyyHxx"wvviuuktss[rrrq+pp=ounn-mnmlmkkjjQiiShhYgffedccbaaX``_<^v]`\\c\![d[ ZlYYKXX9W`W VV9UUTdTSRQQPOOOJNMM L~KKtJJqIHHGbFEDD8CeCBfA@@m??>>f=z<<;;:: 9n88}77O6555944i4.3622n111G0m05/:..-,,,+{**((V'q&%%$$q$J## "L!!; H{"ell3}_40`; j z . 8 5 A-c4[1The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.M The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.}uThen they came to Elim, where there were 12 springs of water and 70 date palms, and they camped there by the waters.~wHe said, "If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illness on you I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you."NSo he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there.DThe people grumbled to Moses, "What are we going to drink?"{They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter-- that is why it was named Marah.'IThen Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Wilderness of Shur. They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water.}uMiriam sang to them: Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.@{When Pharaoh's horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.-WThe LORD will reign forever and ever!8kYou will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your possession; LORD, You have prepared the place for Your dwelling; Lord, Your hands have established the sanctuary.<sand terror and dread will fall on them. They will be as still as a stone because of Your powerful arm until Your people pass by, LORD, until the people whom You purchased pass by.Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; the inhabitants of Canaan will panic;cAWhen the peoples hear, they will shudder; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.  You will lead the people You have redeemed with Your faithful love; You will guide [them] to Your holy dwelling with Your strength.I   You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them. y LORD, who is like You among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?k Q But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.2 _ The enemy said: "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire will be gratified at their expense. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them." %The waters heaped up at the blast of Your nostrils; the currents stood firm like a dam. The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.yYou overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble._9LORD, Your right hand is glorious in power. LORD, Your right hand shattered the enemy.G The floods covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.vgHe threw Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea; the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.2aThe LORD is a warrior; Yahweh is His name.)The LORD is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.3 cThen Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said: I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.1When Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.{qThat day the LORD saved Israel from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters [like] a wall to them on their right and their left.~7The waters came back and covered the chariots and horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh, that had gone after them into the sea. None of them survived.C}So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the LORD overthrew them in the sea.|5Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back on the Egyptians, on their chariots and horsemen."?{yHe caused their chariot wheels to swerve and made them drive with difficulty. "Let's get away from Israel," the Egyptians said, "because the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!"z%Then during the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian forces from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw them into confusion.yThe Egyptians set out in pursuit-- all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen-- and went into the sea after them.xand the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters [like] a wall to them on their right and their left.=wuThen Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea [back] with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided,0v[It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. The cloud was there [in] the darkness, yet it lit up the night. So neither group came near the other all night long.2u_Then the Angel of God, who was going in front of the Israelite forces, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them.ztoThe Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I receive glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."8skI am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh, all his army, and his chariots and horsemen.r)As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.bq?The LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to break camp.8pmThe LORD will fight for you; you must be quiet.":oo But Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand firm and see the LORD's salvation He will provide for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.9nm Isn't this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.")mM They said to Moses: "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?(lK As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians coming after them. Then the Israelites were terrified and cried out to the LORD for help.Ik  The Egyptians-- all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his army-- chased after them and caught up with them as they camped by the sea beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.~jwThe LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, who were going out triumphantly.oiYhe took 600 of the best chariots and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, with officers in each one.AhSo he got his chariot ready and took his troops with him;Ig When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people and said: "What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us."PfI will harden Pharaoh's heart so that he will pursue them. Then I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." So the Israelites did this.eyPharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.$dCTell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you must camp in front of Baal-zephon, facing it by the sea.$c GThen the LORD spoke to Moses:pb[ The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people.?ay The LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night.U`% They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.R_ Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, "God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place."^+ So He led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.a]= When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road to the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearby; for God said, "The people will change their minds and return to Egypt if they face war." \ So let it be a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for the LORD brought us out of Egypt by the strength of His hand."*[O When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn [male] in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the LORD all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.'0Z[ In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'By the strength of [His] hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.0Y[ You must redeem every firstborn of a donkey with a flock animal, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. However, you must redeem every firstborn among your sons.X5 you are to present to the LORD every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the LORD's.|Ws When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,CV Keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.DU Let it serve as a sign for you on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for the LORD brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.qT] On that day explain to your son, 'This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'"S? Unleavened bread is to be eaten for those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, and no yeast may be found among you in all your territory.tRc For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.wQi When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you must carry out this ritual in this month.5Pg Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.VO' Then Moses said to the people, "Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, for the LORD brought you out of here by the strength of [His] hand. Nothing leavened may be eaten.N Consecrate every firstborn male to Me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and animal; it is Mine."M = The LORD spoke to Moses:yLm 3On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.eKE 2Then all the Israelites did [this]; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.]J5 1The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you."tIc 0If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.8Hm /The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.G .It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.EF -A temporary resident or hired hand may not eat the Passover.VE' ,But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him.iDM +The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.XC+ *It was a night of vigil in honor of the LORD, because He would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the LORD, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.rB_ )At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the divisions of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.CA (The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.d@C 'The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they had been driven out of Egypt they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.z?o &An ethnically diverse crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.q>] %The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 soldiers on foot, besides their families.=1 $And the LORD gave the people such favor in the Egyptians' sight that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.r<_ #The Israelites acted on Moses' word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. ;  "So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders. : !Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, "We're all going to die!"o9Y Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked, and leave, and this will also be a blessing to me.""8? He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, "Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the LORD as you have asked.A7} During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead.h6K Now at midnight the LORD struck every firstborn [male] in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.j5O Then the Israelites went and did [this]; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.[41 you are to reply, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.'" So the people bowed down and worshiped.I3  When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean to you?'l2S When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual.Q1 Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants.E0 When the LORD passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, He will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike [you].X/+ Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.).M Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.O- Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes."O, Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.+5 You are to eat unleavened bread in the first [month], from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day.T*# You are to observe the [Festival of] Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.T)# You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those [days] except for preparing what people need to eat-- you may do only that.U(% You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel./'Y This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute.W&) The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy [you] when I strike the land of Egypt.O% I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn [male] in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am the LORD; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.*$O Here is how you must eat it: dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the LORD's Passover.s#a Do not let any of it remain until morning; you must burn up any part of it that does remain until morning. "  Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire-- its head as well as its legs and inner organs.! They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.~ w They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.7 You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.r_ You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.mU If the household is too small for a [whole] animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.@{ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to [their] fathers' households, one animal per household.a= This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.= y The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:5 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.}u The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."O All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Leave, you and all the people who follow you. After that, I will leave.'" And he left Pharaoh's presence in fierce anger.,S But against all the Israelites, whether man or beast, not [even] a dog will snarl, so that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.} Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before, or ever will be again.gI and every firstborn [male] in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock._9 So Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt ; The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And the man Moses was feared in the land of Egypt, by Pharaoh's officials and the people.tc Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for gold and silver jewelry."6 i The LORD said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets [you] go, he will drive you out of here.L As you've said," Moses replied, "I will never see your face again."~w Pharaoh said to him, "Leave me! Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die."T # But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.U % Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind because we will take some of them to worship the LORD our God. We will not know what we will use to worship the LORD until we get there."t c Moses responded, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for the LORD our God. ) Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go, worship the LORD. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and your herds must stay behind." + One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.} So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.3 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt."U% But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.9m Then the LORD changed the wind to a strong west wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.?{ Moses left Pharaoh's presence and appealed to the LORD.{ Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to the LORD your God, so that He will take this death away from me."vg Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.B The locusts went up over the entire land of Egypt and settled on the whole territory of Egypt. Never before had there been such a large number of locusts, and there will never be again.G  So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.9~m The LORD then said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left."} No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, for that is what you have been asking for." And they were driven from Pharaoh's presence.|y He said to them, "May the LORD be with you if I [ever] let you and your families go! Look out-- you are planning evil./{Y Moses replied, "We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds because we must hold the LORD's festival." z  So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. "Go, worship the LORD your God," Pharaoh said. "But exactly who will be going?"?yy Pharaoh's officials asked him, "How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Don't you realize yet that Egypt is devastated?"uxe They will fill your houses, all your officials' houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians-- something your fathers and ancestors never saw since the time they occupied the land until today." Then he turned and left Pharaoh's presence.Uw% They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields.gvI But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.Uu% So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, "This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship Me.1t] and so that you may tell your son and grandson how severely I dealt with the Egyptians and performed miraculous signs among them, and you will know that I am the LORD.".s Y Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of Mine among them,orY #So Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not let the Israelites go, as the LORD had said through Moses.q "When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials.$pC !Moses went out from Pharaoh and the city, and extended his hands to the LORD. Then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the land.So! but the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed since they are later crops.enE The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe and the flax was budding,\m3 But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD God."Al} Moses said to him, "When I have left the city, I will extend my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know the earth is the LORD's. k Make an appeal to the LORD. There has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't need to stay any longer."j9 Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. "I have sinned this time," he said to them. "The LORD is the Righteous One, and I and my people are the guilty ones.[i1 The only place it didn't hail was in the land of Goshen where the Israelites were.;hq Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field.g- The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.'fI So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.De Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt-- on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt."ldS but those who didn't take the LORD's word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.|cs Those among Pharaoh's officials who feared the word of the LORD made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,Sb! Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them."a Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.R` You are still acting arrogantly against My people by not letting them go.x_k However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.^# By now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth. ]; Otherwise, I am going to send all My plagues against you, your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like Me in all the earth.P\ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.i[M But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had told Moses.Z The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians. Y So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast.X# It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt."W Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.)VM Pharaoh sent [messengers] who saw that not a single one of the Israelite livestock was dead. But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.vUg The LORD did this the next day. All the Egyptian livestock died, but none among the Israelite livestock died.]T5 And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land."#SA But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die."R then the LORD's hand will bring a severe plague against your livestock in the field-- the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.AQ But if you refuse to let [them] go and keep holding them,*P Q Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.UO% But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not let the people go.NThe LORD did as Moses had said: He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one was left.EMThen Moses left Pharaoh's presence and appealed to the LORD. LAs soon as I leave you," Moses said, "I will appeal to the Lord, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceptively again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD."K!Pharaoh responded, "I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but don't go very far. Make an appeal for me."wJiWe must go a distance of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He instructs us."_I9But Moses said, "It would not be right to do that, because what we will sacrifice to the LORD our God is detestable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what the Egyptians detest in front of them, won't they stone us? ~}}|q{xzzXz5yexxswvvuuttsrr}rqq>pooo>nSmmVllkkjVii2hdggffheeddcc8b~baa`n__`^^]k\\[ZZNYYkXX4WWV1UUVTT5SSFRQQPP_OOBB`B0AA'@]?????M>==k< If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give 30 shekels of silver to the slave's master, and the ox must be stoned.\=3If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.<}If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.N;However, if the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death. :When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox's owner is innocent.}9uIf he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth. 8When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.:7qburn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.D6eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,@5}If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,|4sWhen men get in a fight, and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born [prematurely], but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman's husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.3However, if the slave can stand up after a day or two, the owner should not be punished because he is his [owner's] property.2{When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.i1Mif he can [later] get up and walk around outside [leaning] on his staff, then the one who struck [him] will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for [his] complete recovery.0When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,F/Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.v.gWhoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession.G- Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death., If a person willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him by scheming, you must take him from My altar to be put to death. +  But if he didn't intend any harm, and yet God caused it to happen by his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.G*  Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.w)i And if he does not do these three things for her, she may leave free of charge, without any exchange of money.t(c If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.s'a Or if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her according to the customary treatment of daughters.C&If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.]%5When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.0$[his master is to bring him to the judges and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master must pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.w#iBut if the slave declares: 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,'"/If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.m!UIf he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.> {These are the ordinances that you must set before them:^7You must not go up to My altar on steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.wiYou must make an earthen altar for Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats, as well as your cattle. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause My name to be remembered.gIYou must not make gods of silver to rival Me; you must not make [gods of gold] for yourselves. Then the LORD told Moses, "This is what you are to say to the Israelites: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.mUAnd the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.Moses responded to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear Him and will not sin."saYou speak to us, and we will listen," they said to Moses, "but don't let God speak to us, or we will die.">wAll the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain [surrounded by] smoke. When the people saw [it] they trembled and stood at a distance.&GDo not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.:qDo not give false testimony against your neighbor.'Do not steal.;Do not commit adultery.) Do not murder.}u Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.F For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.K but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work-- you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates.7 k You are to labor six days and do all your work,- WRemember to dedicate the Sabbath day:o YDo not misuse the name of the LORD your God, becauswhite, and tasted like wafers [mo misuses His name.i Mbut showing faithful love to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commands.L You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers' sin, to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,+Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.*QDo not have other gods besides Me.gII am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.& KThen God spoke all these words:7kSo Moses went down to the people and told them.EAnd the LORD replied to him, "Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out [in anger] against them." ;But Moses responded to the LORD, "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since You warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy."|sEven the priests who come near the LORD must purify themselves or the LORD will break out [in anger] against them."The LORD directed Moses, "Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD; otherwise many of them will die.The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, at the top of the mountain. Then the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.m~UAs the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.7}iMount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.o|YThen Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.5{eOn the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.hzKHe said to the people, "Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women."ry_Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.8xk No hand may touch him; instead he will be stoned or shot [with arrows], neither animal or man will live. When the ram's horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain."Bw Put boundaries for the people all around the [mountain] and say: Be careful that you don't go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.v and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.tuc And the LORD told Moses, "Go to the people and purify them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothesRt The LORD said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you and will always believe you." Then Moses reported the people's words to the LORD.sThen all the people responded together, "We will do all that the LORD has spoken." So Moses brought the people's words back to the LORD. rAfter Moses came back, He summoned the elders of the people, and put before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.~qwand you will be My kingdom of priests and My holy nation. These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites."p1Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,po[You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to Me.,nSMoses went up [the mountain] to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: "This is what you must say to the house of Jacob, and explain to the Israelites: m;After they departed from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.l In the third month, on the same day [of the month] that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai.Xk+Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and he journeyed to his own land. j They judged the people at all times; the hard cases they would bring to Moses, but every minor case they would judge themselves.iSo Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people [as] officials of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.Hh Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said. gIf you do this, and God [so] directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied."QfThey should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every important case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear [it] with you.>ewBut you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating bribes. Place [them] over the people as officials of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.idMInstruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the way to live and what they must do.c3Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to Him.b!You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can't do it alone.JaWhat you're doing is not good," Moses' father-in-law said to him.`Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach [them] God's statutes and laws."^_7Moses replied to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.i^MWhen Moses' father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, "What is this thing you're doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?"q]] The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.C\ Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law in God's presence.[ Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because He [did wonders] at the time the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel."'ZI Blessed is the LORD," Jethro exclaimed, "who rescued you from Pharaoh and the power of the Egyptians, and snatched the people from the power of the Egyptians.wYi Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel when He rescued them from the Egyptians.LXMoses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.W'So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been and went into the tent.qV]He sent word to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."UMoses' father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses' wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.Tand the other Eliezer (because [he had said,] "The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword").Salong with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (because Moses had said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land")jRONow Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,6Q iMoses' father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.PHe said, "Indeed, [my] hand is [lifted up] toward the LORD's throne. The LORD will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation."HO And Moses built an altar and named it, "The LORD Is My Banner."(NKThe LORD then said to Moses, "Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.">My So Joshua defeated Amalek and his army with the sword.oLY When Moses' hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put [it] under him, and he sat down on it. Then Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.mKU While Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, but whenever he put his hand down, Amalek prevailed.J} Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought against Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.I) Moses said to Joshua, "Select some men for us, and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God's staff in my hand.";HsAt Rephidim, Amalek came and fought against Israel.G/He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"JFI am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink." Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.'EIThe LORD answered Moses, "Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the rod you struck the Nile with in your hand and go.vDgThen Moses cried out to the LORD, "What should I do with these people? In a little while they will stone me!"1"As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.=1!Moses told Aaron, "Take a container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved throughout your generations."g<I Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Two quarts of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" ; The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers [made] with honey.0:]So the people rested on the seventh day.T9#Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you two days' worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day."e8EThen the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?a7=Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.b6?For six days you may gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none."s5aEat it today," Moses said, "because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you won't find any in the field.n4WSo they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it didn't smell or have any maggots in it.s3aHe told them, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and everything left over set aside to be kept until morning.'"2)On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported [this] to Moses.y1mThey gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.0+But they didn't listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.O/Moses said to them, "No one is to let any of it remain until morning."8.kWhen they measured it by quarts, the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat.H- So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.I, This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.'"1+]When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, "What is it?" because they didn't know what it was. Moses told them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.x*kWhen the layer of dew evaporated, there on the desert surface were fine flakes, as fine as frost on the ground.t)c So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.L( I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God." '= The LORD spoke to Moses,&' As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there, in a cloud, the LORD's glory appeared.% Then Moses told Aaron, "Say to the entire Israelite community, 'Come before the LORD, for He has heard your complaints.'"u$eMoses continued, "The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and abundant bread in the morning, for He has heard the complaints that you are raising against Him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD."#in the morning you will see the LORD's glory because He has heard your complaints about Him. For who are we that you complain about us?""So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites: "This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt;x!kOn the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days."h KThen the LORD said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow My instructions.ymThe Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger!" 8I~~H}}||{{zzyyExxax?ww`wvvv*uuMttxsssOrrrRqqbpp:odnnnFmmmll8kjiiThjgggOffee-dd#ccbbas``L_^^v^)]]X]\[\[[_[ ZeYYrXXkWWdVVfUUTTT1SRRmQQ|QPPCOONN MM9LL=KzKJ7II H GjGFrEE0DDLCC>>'==5< The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.]=5This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is a contribution. It will be the Israelites' contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, their contribution to the LORD.0<[Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the presentation offering that is waved and the thigh of the contribution that is lifted up from the ram of ordination. ;Take the breast from the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it as a presentation offering before the LORD; it is to be your portion.&:GTake them from their hands and burn [them] on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is a fire offering to the LORD.y9mand put all of them in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them as a presentation offering before the LORD.8take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread [made] with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD;L7Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination);6 Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [them] on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. In this way, he and his garments will become holy, as well as his sons and their garments.|5sSlaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron's right earlobe, on his sons' right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the [remaining] blood on all sides of the altar.g4IYou are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the ram's head.3 Then burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.}2uCut the ram into pieces. Wash its entrails and shanks, and place [them] with its head and its pieces [on the altar].c1AYou are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and sprinkle [it] on all sides of the altar.W0)Take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram's head.e/EBut burn up the bull's flesh, its hide, and its dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering..+ Take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn [them] on the altar.%-E Take some of the bull's blood and apply [it] to the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out all the [rest] of the blood at the base of the altar.S,! Slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.+  You are to bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the bull's head.<*s fasten headbands on them, and tie sashes around both Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and his sons.>)yYou must also bring his sons, clothe them with tunics,G( Take the anointing oil, pour [it] on his head, and anoint him.L'Put the turban on his head and place the holy diadem on the turban.1&]Then take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe for the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece; fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.b%?Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.^$7put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams. #with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour," This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve Me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,!+These must be [worn by] Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary [area], so that they do not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his descendants after him.t c*Make them linen undergarments to cover [their] naked bodies; they must extend from the waist to the thighs.)Put these on your brother Aaron and his sons; then anoint, ordain, and consecrate them, so that they may serve Me as priests.]5(Make tunics, sashes, and headbands for Aaron's sons to [give them] glory and beauty.oY'You are to weave the tunic from fine linen, make a turban of fine linen, and make an embroidered sash.vg&It will be on Aaron's forehead so that Aaron may bear the guilt connected with the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate as all their holy gifts. It is always to be on his forehead, so that they may find acceptance with the LORD.{q%Fasten it to a cord of blue yarn so it can be placed on the turban; the plate is to be on the front of the turban.lS$You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave it, like the engraving of a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD5e#The robe must be [worn by] Aaron whenever he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he enters the sanctuary before the LORD and when he exits, so that he does not die.Z/"[so that] gold bells and pomegranates alternate around the lower hem of the robe.!Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on its lower hem and all around it. Put gold bells between them all the way around,9m There should be an opening at its top in the center of it. Around the opening, there should be a woven collar with an opening like that for body armor so that it does not tear.EYou are to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn.~wPlace the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece for decisions, so that they will also be over Aaron's heart whenever he comes before the LORD. Aaron will continually carry the [means of] decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the LORD.1]Whenever he enters the sanctuary, Aaron is to carry the names of Israel's sons over his heart on the breastpiece for decisions, as a continual reminder before the LORD.S!The craftsmen are to tie the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the ephod's waistband and does not come loose from the ephod.,SMake two [more] gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the ephod's two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam, and above the ephod's woven waistband.+Make two [other] gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod.)Attach the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings and in this way attach [them] to the ephod's shoulder pieces in the front.`;Then attach the two gold cords to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece.W )Fashion two gold rings for the breastpiece and attach them to its two corners.S !You are to make braided chains of pure gold cord work for the breastpiece. +The 12 stones are to correspond to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the 12 tribes.y mand the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They should be adorned with gold filigree in their settings.< uthe third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;?{the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;}Place a setting of gemstones on it, four rows of stones: The first row should be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;T#It must be square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.@{You are to make an embroidered breastpiece for decisions. Make it with the same workmanship as the ephod; make it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.zoand two chains of pure gold; you will make them of braided cord work, and attach the cord chains to the settings.&I Fashion gold filigree settings7i Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites. Aaron will carry their names on his two shoulders before the LORD as a reminder.# Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel's sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.|s six of their names on the first stone and the remaining six names on the second stone, in the order of their birth.M Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel's sons:<~sThe artistically woven waistband that is on the ephod must be of one piece, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.f}GIt must have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges so that it can be joined together.x|kThey are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.N{They should use gold; blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; and fine linen.mzUThese are the garments that they must make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a specially woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve Me as priests.(yKYou are to instruct all the skilled craftsmen, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make Aaron's garments for consecrating him to serve Me as priest.Ix Make holy garments for your brother Aaron, for glory and beauty.w 7Have your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve Me as priest-- Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.zvoIn the tent of meeting outside the veil that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp from evening until morning before the LORD. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.uYou are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.t#All the tools of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.LsThe length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet, the width 75 [feet] at each end, and the height seven and a half feet, [all of it made] of finely spun linen. The bases of the posts must be bronze.pr[All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases.?qyThe gate of the courtyard is to have a thirty-foot screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts including their four bases.ypmAnd make the hangings on the other side 22 and a half [feet], including their three posts and their three bases.}ou[Make] the hangings on one side [of the gate] 22 and a half feet, including their three posts and their three bases.Xn+ Make the hangings of the courtyard on the east side toward the sunrise 75 feet.sma [Make] the hangings of the courtyard on the west side 75 feet long, including their 10 posts and 10 bases.#lA Then [make the hangings] on the north side 150 [feet] long. There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver.gkI There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver."j? You are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. [Make the hangings] on the south of the courtyard out of finely spun linen, 150 feet long on that side.iyConstruct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain.yhmThe poles are to be inserted into the rings, so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.[g1Then make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.\f3Set it below, under the altar's ledge, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.meUConstruct a grate for it of bronze mesh, and make four bronze rings on the mesh at its four corners.~dwMake its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.icMMake horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece. Overlay it with bronze.2b aYou are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, seven and a half feet long, and seven and a half feet wide; it must be four and a half feet high.a7%Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold; their hooks are to be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.`$For the entrance to the tent you are to make a screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen._%#Place the table outside the veil and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table; put the table on the north side.O^"Put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.<]s!Hang the veil under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the veil, so the veil will make a separation for you between the holy place and the most holy place.u\e Hang it on four gold-plated posts of acacia wood that have gold hooks [and that stand] on four silver bases.[You are to make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen with a design of cherubim worked into it.pZ[You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you have been shown on the mountain.YThen overlay the planks with gold, and make their rings of gold as the holders for the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.cXAThe central crossbar is to run through the middle of the planks from one end to the other.W5five crossbars for the planks on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the planks of the back side of the tabernacle on the west.dVCYou are to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the planks on one side of the tabernacle,U There are to be eight planks with their silver bases: 16 bases; two bases under the first plank and two bases under each plank.$TCThey are to be paired at the bottom, and joined together at the top in a single ring. So it should be for both of them; they will serve as the two corners.OSMake two additional planks for the two back corners of the tabernacle.@R}and make six planks for the west side of the tabernacle.jQOalong with their 40 silver bases, two bases under the first plank and two bases under each plank;IP 20 planks for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side,!O=and make 40 silver bases under the 20 planks, two bases under the first plank for its two tenons, and two bases under the next plank for its two tenons;UN%Make the planks for the tabernacle as follows: 20 planks for the south side,qM]Each plank must be connected together with two tenons. Do the same for all the planks of the tabernacle.ZL/The length of each plank is to be 15 feet, and the width of each plank 27 inches.JKYou are to make upright planks of acacia wood for the tabernacle.nJWMake a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red, and a covering of manatee skins on top of that.PI The half yard on one side and the half yard on the other of what is left over along the length of the tent curtains should be hanging down over the sides of the tabernacle on either side to cover it. H As for the flap that is left over from the tent curtains, the leftover half curtain is to hang down over the back of the tabernacle.xGk Make 50 bronze clasps; put the clasps through the loops and join the tent together so that it is a single unit.(FK Make 50 loops on the edge of the one curtain, the outermost in the [first] set, and make 50 loops on the edge of the [corresponding] curtain of the second set.E/ Join five of the curtains by themselves, and the [other] six curtains by themselves. Then fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.DThe length of each curtain should be 45 feet and the width of each curtain six feet. All 11 curtains are to have the same measurements.iCMYou are to make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make 11 of these curtains.~BwAlso make 50 gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single unit. AMake 50 loops on the one curtain and make 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops line up together.@3Make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the [first] set, and do the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.g?IFive of the curtains should be joined together, and the [other] five curtains joined together.>The length of each curtain should be 42 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet; all the curtains are to have the same measurements.== wYou are to construct the tabernacle itself with 10 curtains. You must make them of finely spun linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them.l<S(Be careful to make [everything] according to the model of them you have been shown on the mountain.Y;-'The lampstand with all these utensils is to be made from 75 pounds of pure gold.7:k&Its snuffers and firepans must be of pure gold.g9I%Make seven lamps on it. Its lamps are to be set up so they illuminate the area in front of it.t8c$Their calyxes and branches are to be of one piece. All of it is to be a single hammered piece of pure gold.f7G#For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a calyx must be under the [first] pair of branches from it, a calyx under the [second] pair of branches from it, and a calyx under the [third] pair of branches from it.z6o"There are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand [shaft] along with its calyxes and petals.51!There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and petals, on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and petals, on the next branch. It is to be this way for the six branches that extend from the lampstand.4/ Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side.&3GYou are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its [ornamental] cups, and its calyxes and petals.K2Put the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times. 1You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.k0QMake the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold so that the table can be carried by them.[/1The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.`.;Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs.c-AMake a three-inch frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame.I, Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.i+MYou are to construct a table of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.R*I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.f)GSet the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the testimony that I will give you into the ark.;(qThe cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat.' Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. Make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.a&=Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.K%Make a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.N$Put the [tablets of the] testimony that I will give you into the ark.[#1The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.e"EInsert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.=!w Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.~ w Cast four gold rings for it and place [them] on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.kQ Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it.dC They are to make an ark of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.  You must make [it] according to all that I show you-- the design of the tabernacle as well as the design of all its furnishings."LThey are to make a sanctuary for Me so that I may dwell among them.Y-and onyx along with [other] gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.V'oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;:qram skins dyed red and manatee skins; acacia wood;Ablue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;U%This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze;Tell the Israelites to take an offering for Me. You are to take My offering from everyone whose heart stirs him [to give]. =The LORD spoke to Moses:saMoses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.kQThe appearance of the LORD's glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.!The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the cloud.>yWhen Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.He told the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them."S! So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and went up the mountain of God.8k The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commands I have written for their instruction."U % God did not harm the Israelite nobles; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.  and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.T # Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel's elders,$ CMoses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words." /He then took the covenant scroll and read [it] aloud to the people. They responded, "We will do and obey everything that the LORD has commanded."q]Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the [other] half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.  Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.3aAnd Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and 12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain. r~~!}}q|| {Izz"yxjwwdvvu[tssvrr7q=p$oonn0mll6kkSjjizhggff+ee-ddcbbYaaR`u`#_F^^]Y\~[ZZZ4Y_XXWWWWVVUyU TfSS=RQ}Q9P[O:NNMM#LPKKKJwII&HHGFF\EEADCC3BB7AA$@??G>>>==='<C%Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold. He made it [all] of one piece: its base and shaft, its [ornamental] cups, and its calyxes and petals.#=A%He also made the utensils that would be on the table out of pure gold: its plates and cups, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings._<9%He made the poles for carrying the table from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.V;'%The rings were next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.d:C% He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings to the four corners at its four legs._99% He made a three-inch frame all around it and made a gold molding all around its frame.M8% He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding all around it.e7E% He constructed the table of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.!6=% They had wings spread out, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing each other. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat.5%one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim [of one piece] with the mercy seat, [a cherubim] at each end.g4I%He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat,N3%He made a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.[21%He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark for carrying the ark.A1%He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.v0g%He cast four gold rings for it to be on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.\/3%He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it.`. =%Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.-%$&together with its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.~,w$%He made a screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen for the entrance to the tent,+%$$For it he made four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold. And he cast four silver bases for the posts.*$#Then he made the veil with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. He made it with a design of cherubim worked into it. )$"He overlaid them with gold and made their rings and holders for the crossbars out of gold. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.e(E$!He made the central crossbar run through the middle of the planks from one end to the other.'!$ five crossbars for the planks on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for those at the back of the tabernacle on the west.\&3$He made five crossbars of acacia wood for the planks on one side of the tabernacle,Y%-$So there were eight planks with their 16 silver bases, two bases under each one.$!$They were paired at the bottom and joined together at the top in a single ring. This is what he did with both of them for the two corners.W#)$He also made two additional planks for the two back corners of the tabernacle.D"$and for the west side of the tabernacle he made six planks.t!c$with their 40 silver bases, two bases under the first plank and two bases under each of the following ones;R $for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made 20 planks,;q$and he made 40 silver bases to put under the 20 planks, two bases under the first plank for its two tenons, and two bases under each of the following planks for their two tenons;M$He made planks for the tabernacle as follows: 20 for the south side,|s$There were two tenons connected to each other for each plank. He did the same for all the planks of the tabernacle.S!$The length of each plank was 15 feet, and the width of each was 27 inches.A$He made upright planks of acacia wood for the tabernacle.sa$He also made a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of manatee skins on top of it.M$He made 50 bronze clasps to join the tent together as a single unit.3$He made 50 loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the [first] set and 50 loops on the edge of the [corresponding] curtain in the second set.O$He joined five of the curtains together, and [the other] six together.$The length of each curtain was 45 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet. All 11 curtains had the same measurements._9$He made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he also made 11 of them.xk$ He also made 50 gold clasps and joined the curtains to each other, so that the tabernacle became a single unit.!$ He made 50 loops on the one curtain and 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops lined up with each other.5$ He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set and did the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.mU$ He joined five of the curtains to each other, and the [other] five curtains he joined to each other.$ The length of each curtain was 42 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet; all the curtains had the same measurements.b?$All the skilled craftsmen among those doing the work made the tabernacle with 10 curtains. Bezalel made them of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them._9$The materials were sufficient for them to do all the work. There was more than enough.3 a$After Moses gave an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: "Let no man or woman make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary." So the people stopped.  $and said to Moses, "The people are bringing more than is needed for the construction of the work the LORD commanded to be done."{ q$Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came one by one from the work they were doingV '$They took from Moses' presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning./ Y$So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the LORD had placed wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him, to come to the work and do it.\ 5$Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled people are to work based on everything the LORD has commanded. The LORD has given them wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work of constructing the sanctuary."b?##He has filled them with skill to do all the work of a gem cutter; a designer; an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen; and a weaver. They can do every kind of craft and design artistic designs.wi#"He has also given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, [the ability] to teach [others].cA#!to cut gemstones for mounting, and to carve wood for work in every kind of artistic craft.=w# to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,lS#He has filled him with God's Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every kind of craft #Moses then said to the Israelites: "Look, the LORD has appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.R#So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring [something] for all the work that the LORD, through Moses, had commanded to be done.iM#as well as the spice and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.V'#The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,a~=#And all the women whose hearts were moved spun the goat hair by virtue of [their] skill.w}i#Every skilled woman spun [yarn] with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.)|M#Everyone who offered a contribution of silver or bronze brought it to the LORD. Everyone who possessed acacia wood useful for any task in the work brought [it].{+#Everyone who had in his possession blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen or goat hair, ram skins dyed red or manatee skins, brought [them].Jz#Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry-- everyone who waved a presentation offering of gold to the LORD.?yy#Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD to construct the tent of meeting for every use, and [to make] the holy garments.Ax#Then the entire Israelite community left Moses' presence.'wI#and the specially woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary-- the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests."fvG#the tent pegs for the tabernacle and the tent pegs for the courtyard, along with their ropes;juO#the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard;vtg#the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;s#the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the entryway screen for the entrance to the tabernacle;^r7#the lampstand for light with its utensils and lamps as well as the oil for the light;Sq!# the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;Mp# the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil for the screen;koQ# the tabernacle-- its tent and covering, its clasps and planks, its crossbars, its posts and bases;fnG# Let all the skilled craftsmen among you come and make everything that the LORD has commanded:Gm # and onyx with gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece.Vl'#oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;:kq#ram skins dyed red and manatee skins; acacia wood;Aj#blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;i%#Take up an offering for the LORD among you. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the LORD's offering: gold, silver, and bronze;ah=#Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community, "This is what the LORD has commanded:Fg#Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day."1f]#For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.e #Moses assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, "These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:d1"#and the Israelites would see that Moses' face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil over his face again until he went to speak with the LORD.;cq""But whenever Moses went before the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. After he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,Qb"!When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.xak" Afterwards all the Israelites came near, and he commanded them everything the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.~`w"But Moses called out to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.t_c"When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him.^^7"As Moses descended from Mount Sinai-- with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain-- he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the LORD.1]]"Moses was there with the LORD 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote down on the tablets the words of the covenant-- the Ten Commandments. \ "The LORD also said to Moses, "Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words." ["Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."Z"Do not present the blood for My sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning..YW"For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory. No one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.`X;"Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.W-"Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the [agricultural] year.V{"You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.KU"You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, but if you do not redeem [it], break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.Ty"The firstborn male from every womb belongs to Me, including all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle or sheep.PS"Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib as I commanded you. For you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.7Rk"Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.GQ "Then you will take some of their daughters [as brides] for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.OP"Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat of their sacrifice.nOW"You are to never bow down to another god because the LORD, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God.qN]" Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.M%" Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.L%" Observe what I command you today. I am going to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.K5" And the LORD responded: "Look, I am making a covenant. I will perform wonders in the presence of all your people that have never been done in all the earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the LORD's work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.ZJ/" Then he said, "My Lord, if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Even though this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wrongdoing and sin, and accept us as Your own possession."AI"Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.H!"maintaining faithful love to a thousand [generations], forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave [the guilty] unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.%GE"Then the LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed: Yahweh-- Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,_F9"The LORD came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed [His] name Yahweh.CE"Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him.!D="No one may go up with you; in fact, no one must be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and herds are not to graze in front of that mountain."kCQ"Be prepared by morning. Come up Mount Sinai in the morning and stand before Me on the mountaintop.B ;"The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.`A;!Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back, but My face will not be seen."@!and when My glory passes by, I will put you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.O?!The LORD said, "Here is a place near Me. You are to stand on the rock,S>!!But He answered, "You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live."c=A!He said, "I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."9<o!Then Moses said, "Please, let me see Your glory." ;!The LORD answered Moses, "I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name."Q:!How will it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight unless You go with us? I and Your people will be distinguished [by this] from all the other people on the face of the earth."_99!If Your presence does not go," Moses responded to Him, "don't make us go up from here.U8%!Then He replied, "My presence will go [with you], and I will give you rest."47c! Now if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, please teach me Your ways, and I will know You and find favor in Your sight. Now consider that this nation is Your people."T6#! Moses said to the LORD, "Look, You have told me, 'Lead this people up,' but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. You said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'W5)! The LORD spoke with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.%4E! As all the people saw the pillar of cloud remaining at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up, then bow in worship, each one at the door of his tent.3+! When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance to the tent, and [the LORD] would speak with Moses.$2C!Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand up, each one at the door of his tent, and they would watch Moses until he entered the tent.Y1-!Now Moses took a tent and set it up outside the camp, far away from the camp; he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult the LORD would go to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.O0!So the Israelites stripped of their jewelry from Mount Horeb [onward].Y/-!For the LORD said to Moses: "Tell the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. If I went with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you."[.1!When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn't put on their jewelry.%-E![Go up] to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.",!I will send an angel ahead of you and will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.J+ !The LORD spoke to Moses: "Go, leave here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your offspring.f*G #And the LORD inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.0)[ "Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about; see, My angel will go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will hold them accountable for their sin."](5 !The LORD replied to Moses: "Whoever has sinned against Me I will erase from My book.n'W Now if You would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book You have written." &  So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Oh, this people has committed a great sin; they have made for themselves a god of gold. %; The following day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I will be able to pay for your sin."<$s Afterwards Moses said, "Today you have been dedicated to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother. Therefore you have brought a blessing on yourselves today."e#E The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people.p"[ He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'Every man fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth through the camp from entrance to entrance, and each of you kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.'" ! And Moses stood at the camp's entrance and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, [come] to me." And all the Levites gathered around him. % Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them get out of control, so that they would be vulnerable to their enemies.  So I said to them, 'Whoever has gold, take it off,' and they gave [it] to me. When I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!".W They said to me, 'Make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt-- we don't know what has happened to him!'lS Don't be enraged, my lord," Aaron replied. "You yourself know that the people are [intent] on evil.q] Then Moses asked Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you have led them into [such] a grave sin?"@{ Then he took the calf they had made, burned [it] up, and ground [it] to powder. He scattered [the powder] over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink [the water].,S As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hands, smashing them at the base of the mountain. But Moses replied: It's not the sound of a victory cry and not the sound of a cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!|s When Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a sound of war in the camp."fG The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was God's writing, engraved on the tablets.'I Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides-- inscribed front and back.^7 So the LORD changed His mind about the disaster He said He would bring on His people.% Remember that You swore to Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel by Yourself and declared to them, 'I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit [it] forever.'"vg Why should the Egyptians say, 'He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from Your great anger and change Your mind about this disaster [planned] for Your people.1] But Moses interceded with the LORD his God: "LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand? Now leave Me alone, so that My anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation."jO The LORD also said to Moses: "I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.r_ They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.'"y The LORD spoke to Moses: "Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.$ C Early the next morning they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented fellowship offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink, then got up to revel.  When Aaron saw [this], he built an altar before it; then he made an announcement: "There will be a festival to the LORD tomorrow."N  He took [the gold] from their hands, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf. Then they said, "Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!"g I So all the people took off the gold rings that were on their ears and brought [them] to Aaron. + Then Aaron replied to them, "Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters and bring [them] to me." + When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Come, make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt-- we don't know what has happened to him!"-When He finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.*OIt is a sign forever between Me and the Israelites, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed."vgThe Israelites must observe the Sabbath, celebrating it throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.=uFor six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, dedicated to the LORD. Anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.&GObserve the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Whoever profanes it must be put to death. If anyone does work on it, that person must be cut off from his people.9m Tell the Israelites: You must observe My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, so that you will know that I am the LORD who sets you apart.; The LORD said to Moses:  the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. They must make [them] according to all that I have commanded you." the specially woven garments, both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests,V~' the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, the basin with its stand--l}Sthe table with its utensils, the pure [gold] lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, |the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on top of it, and all the [other] furnishings of the tent-- ,U~~}k|||{Vzz2yy x.wwv^uuuFutsss4rr(qpoonnmm_mll#kk jriini'hhjggffee-e ddOccTbbb'aa``i__^^^6]])\[[[-ZZeZYYtXX=WWqVVhUU[TT5SS7RyQQ4PPP OMNN/MLLPKKJ@IHHGjFFF.EDDqCCDBvAAk@@4?l>>C==<<;::699Q8847707 6|55044.3211q10H/...--U,\,+O**,)) ('Y&&%$##u"" TfP,0&? 9 k  e5%<u,F?Any male among the priests may eat it; it is especially holy.>%A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it must be scoured and rinsed with water.=/Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of its blood spatters on a garment, then you must wash that garment in a holy place. <The priest who offers it as a sin offering is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.B;Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the sin offering. The sin offering is most holy and must be slaughtered before the LORD at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. :=The LORD spoke to Moses:b9?Every grain offering for a priest will be a whole burnt offering; it is not to be eaten."'8IThe priest, who is of Aaron's sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. It must be completely burned as a permanent portion for the LORD.-7UIt is to be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded. You must present it as a grain offering of baked pieces, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.W6)This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day that he is anointed: two quarts of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. 5=The LORD spoke to Moses:I4 Any male among Aaron's descendants may eat it. It is a permanent portion throughout your generations from the fire offerings to the Lord. Anything that touches the offerings will become holy."03[It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from My fire offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the restitution offering.&2GAaron and his sons may eat the rest of it. It is to be eaten as unleavened bread in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.^17The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil from the grain offering, with all the frankincense that is on the offering, and burn its memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.w0iNow this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron's sons will present it before the LORD in front of the altar.P/ Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not go out.m.U The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the fellowship offerings on it.- Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and bring the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.=,u The priest is to put on his linen robe and linen undergarments. He is to remove the ashes of the burnt offering the fire has consumed on the altar, and place them beside the altar.S+! Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the burnt offering; the burnt offering itself must remain on the altar's hearth all night until morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it. *=The LORD spoke to Moses:)-In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt."*(OThen he must bring his restitution offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, according to your valuation, as a restitution offering to the priest.E'or anything else about which he swore falsely. He must make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it. He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges [his] guilt.!&=once he has sinned and acknowledged [his] guilt-- he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,v%gor finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do--$%When someone sins and offends the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit, a security, or a robbery; or defrauds his neighbor;# =The LORD spoke to Moses:L"It is a restitution offering; he is indeed guilty before the LORD."x!kHe must bring an unblemished ram from the flock according to your valuation as a restitution offering to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven. 5If someone sins and without knowing [it] violates any of the LORD's commands concerning anything prohibited, he bears the consequences of his guilt.zoHe must make restitution for his sin regarding any holy thing, adding a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the ram of the restitution offering, and he will be forgiven.1If someone offends by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the LORD's holy things, he must bring his restitution offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock by your valuation in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel, as a restitution offering.%GThen the LORD spoke to Moses:S! In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf concerning the sin he has committed in any of these cases, and he will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, like the grain offering."=u He is to bring it to the priest, who will take a handful from it as its memorial portion and burn [it] on the altar along with the fire offerings to the LORD; it is a sin offering.S! But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring two quarts of fine flour as an offering for his sin. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.K He must prepare the second [bird] as a burnt offering according to the regulation. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.?y Then he will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.&GHe is to bring them to the priest, who will first present the one for the sin offering. He must twist its head at the back of the neck without severing [it].S!But if he cannot afford an animal from the flock, then he may bring to the LORD two turtledoves or two young pigeons as restitution for his sin-- one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.NHe must bring his restitution for the sin he has committed to the LORD: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin.cAIf someone incurs guilt in one of these cases, he is to confess he has committed that sin.Y-Or [if] someone swears rashly to do what is good or evil-- concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath-- without being aware of it, but [later] recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.'IOr [if] he touches human uncleanness-- any uncleanness by which one can become defiled-- without being aware of it, but [later] recognizes [it], he is guilty.EOr [if] someone touches anything unclean-- a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature-- without being aware of it, he is unclean and guilty.4 eWhen someone sins [in any of these ways]: [If] he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he is guilty.*O#He is to remove all its fat just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest will burn it on the altar along with the fire offerings to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.S!"Then the priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He must pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. )!He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.m U Or if the offering that he brings as a sin offering is a lamb, he is to bring an unblemished female.z oHe is to remove all its fat just as the fat is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest is to burn [it] on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf, and he will be forgiven.? yThen the priest must take some of its blood with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He must pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.s aHe is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.$Cor if someone informs him about the sin he has committed, then he is to bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for the sin that he has committed.Now if any of the common people sins unintentionally by violating one of the LORD's commands, does what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,BHe must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for that person's sin, and he will be forgiven.gIThen the priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. The rest of its blood he must pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.#AHe is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.xkor someone informs him about the sin he has committed, he is to bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.When a leader sins and unintentionally violates any of the commands of the LORD his God by doing what is prohibited, and incurs guilt, Then he will bring the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.@{He is to offer this bull just as he did with the bull in the sin offering; he will offer it the same way. So the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.FHe is to remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar.u~eHe is to apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. He must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.y}mThe priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.Z|/The anointed priest will bring some of the bull's blood into the tent of meeting. {The elders of the assembly are to lay their hands on the bull's head before the LORD and it is to be slaughtered before the LORD.Az}then the assembly must present a young bull as a sin offering. When the sin they have committed in regard to the command becomes known, they are to bring it before the tent of meeting.Cy Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the LORD's commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,8xk all [the rest] of the bull-- he must bring to a ceremonially clean place outside the camp to the ash heap, and must burn it on a wood fire. It is to be burned at the ash heap.jwO But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and shanks, and its entrails and dung--v  just as the fat is removed from the ox of the fellowship sacrifice. The priest is to burn them on the altar of burnt offering.u} and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins. He will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys,tHe is to remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat surrounding the entrails; all the fat that is on the entrails;s)The priest must apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. He must pour out the rest of the bull's blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.rThe priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil of the sanctuary.kqQThe anointed priest must then take some of the bull's blood and bring it into the tent of meeting.p/He must bring the bull to the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull's head, and slaughter it before the LORD.*oOIf the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the LORD a young, unblemished bull as a sin offering for the sin he has committed. n Tell the Israelites: When someone sins unintentionally against any of the LORD's commands and does anything prohibited by them--$m GThen the LORD spoke to Moses:|lsThis is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood."k}Then the priest will burn them on the altar as food, a fire offering for a pleasing aroma. "All fat belongs to the LORD.j}and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys.i#He will present part of his offering as a fire offering to the LORD: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,h' He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron's sons will sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.Hg  If his offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD.Xf+ Then the priest will burn it on the altar as food, a fire offering to the LORD.neW the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins, and the fatty lobe of the liver above the kidneys.d He will then present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the LORD [consisting of] its fat and the entire fat tail, which he is to remove close to the backbone. He will also remove the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat on the entrails,(cKHe must lay his hand on the head of his offering, then slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron's sons will sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.Zb/If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he is to present it before the LORD.aIf his offering as a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.`1Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar along with the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD._}and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys. ^;He will present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the LORD: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,D]He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle the blood on all sides of the altar./\ [If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting [an animal] from the herd, whether male or female, he must present one without blemish before the LORD.[{The priest will then burn some of its crushed kernels and oil with all its frankincense as a fire offering to the LORD.KZYou are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.9YmIf you present a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you must present fresh heads of grain, crushed kernels, roasted on the fire, for your grain offering of firstfruits.JX You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings. W  You may present them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.V3 No grain offering that you present to the LORD is to be made with yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey as a fire offering to the LORD.U But the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons, the holiest part of the fire offerings to the LORD.T) The priest will remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.S+When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he will take it to the altar.fRGIf your gift is a grain offering [prepared] in a pan, it must be made of fine flour with oil.IQ Break it into pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.PIf your gift is a grain offering prepared on the griddle, it must be unleavened bread [made] of fine flour mixed with oil.*OOWhen you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it must be [made] of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.NBut the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons, the holiest part of the fire offerings to the LORD.zMoand bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. The priest will take a handful of fine flour and oil from it, along with all its frankincense, and will burn this memorial portion of it on the altar, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. L =When anyone presents a grain offering as a gift to the LORD, his gift must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,VK )He will tear it open by its wings without dividing [the bird]. Then the priest is to burn it on the altar on top of the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. J He will remove its digestive tract, cutting off the tail feathers, and throw it on the east side of the altar at the place for ashes.!I ?Then the priest must bring it to the altar, and must twist off its head and burn [it] on the altar; its blood should be drained at the side of the altar.H If his gift to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present his offering from the turtledoves or young pigeons.IG  But he is to wash the entrails and shanks with water. The priest will then present all of it and burn [it] on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.F   He will cut it into pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest will arrange them on top of the burning wood on the altar.E 7 He will slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides.zD q But if his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from sheep or goats, he is to present an unblemished male.8C m The offerer must wash its entrails and shanks with water. Then the priest will burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.{B sAaron's sons the priests are to arrange the pieces, the head, and the suet on top of the burning wood on the altar.cA CThe sons of Aaron the priest will prepare a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.D@ Then he must skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.@? }He is to slaughter the bull before the LORD; Aaron's sons the priests are to present the blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.~> yHe is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.:= qIf his gift is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting so that he may be accepted by the LORD.)< OSpeak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD from the livestock, you may bring your offering from the herd or the flock.N; Then the LORD summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:D:(&For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.[91(%If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up.8y($The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.7 (#Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.`6;("The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle."5?(!Next Moses set up the surrounding courtyard for the tabernacle and the altar and hung a screen for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.~4w( They washed whenever they came to the tent of meeting and approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.H3 (Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet from it.d2C(He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.L1(Then he placed the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered the burnt offering and the grain offering on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.?0{(He put up the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle.O/(and burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.Z./(Moses also installed the gold altar in the tent of meeting, in front of the veil,R-(and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.p,[(He also put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacleY+-(He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.m*U(Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.)9(He brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him. ( (Moses took the testimony and placed [it] in the ark, and attached the poles to the ark. He set the mercy seat on top of the ark. ' (Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.}&u(Moses set up the tabernacle: he laid its bases, positioned its planks, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.j%O(The tabernacle was set up in the first month of the second year, on the first [day] of the month.@$}(Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded him.J#(Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may also serve Me as priests. Their anointing will serve to inaugurate a permanent priesthood for them throughout their generations."="w(Have his sons come forward and clothe them in tunics.r!_( Clothe Aaron with the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he can serve Me as a priest.g I( Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.:q( Anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.zo( Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar so that it will be especially holy.'( Take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings so that it will be holy.^7(Assemble the surrounding courtyard and hang the screen for the gate of the courtyard.X+(Place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.nW(Position the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.(Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.oY(Then bring in the table and lay out its arrangement; also bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.R(Put the ark of the testimony there, and screen off the ark with the veil.dC(You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month. =(The LORD spoke to Moses:y'+Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the LORD commanded. Then Moses blessed them.cA'*The Israelites had done all the work according to everything the LORD had commanded Moses.%E')and the specially woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.M'(the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;kQ''the bronze altar with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;jO'&the gold altar; the anointing oil; the fragrant incense; the screen for the entrance to the tent;sa'%the pure [gold] lampstand, with its lamps arranged and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;D '$the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;D '#the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;g I'"the covering of ram skins dyed red and the covering of manatee skins; the veil for the screen; ''!Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its planks, its crossbars, and its posts and bases; !' So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.}'Then they attached a cord of blue yarn to it in order to mount [it] on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.'They also made a plate, the holy diadem, out of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD 'and the sash of finely spun linen of embroidered blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. [They did] just as the LORD had commanded Moses._9'[They also made] the turban and the ornate headbands of fine linen, the undergarments,I 'They made the tunics of fine woven linen for Aaron and his sons.+'a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe. It is to be used for ministry, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.'They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates,kQ'They made pomegranates of finely spun blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on the lower hem of the robe. 'There was an opening in the center of the robe like that for body armor with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.E'They made the woven robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn.z~o'Then they tied the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece was above the ephod's waistband and did not come loose from the ephod. [They did] just as the LORD had commanded Moses./}Y'They made two [more] gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the ephod's two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam, above the ephod's woven waistband.|9'They made two [other] gold rings and put [them] at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod.{7'They attached the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings and, in this way, attached [them] to the ephod's shoulder pieces in front.gzI'Then they attached the two gold cords to the two gold rings on the corners of the breastpiece.yym'They also fashioned two gold filigree settings and two gold rings and attached the two rings to its two corners.Hx 'They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece.w'The 12 stones corresponded to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the 12 tribes.wvi' and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings.>=C<;;;T;:: 99P8877,66Q555o5444`43k22v2110q//g/ .}--,v++L*** )H((E''&& %~%\$$[#"!! %AwTW U>eZa)p ; = ?9;KZ-qjO 2The priest is to examine the contamination and quarantine the contaminated fabric for seven days.8k 1and if the contamination is green or red in the fabric, the leather, the warp, the woof, or any leather article, it is a mildew contamination and is to be shown to the priest.Z/ 0in the warp or woof of linen or wool, or in leather or anything made of leather--K /If a fabric is contaminated with mildew-- in wool or linen fabric,y .He will remain unclean as long as he has the infection; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.2_ -The person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!' ,the man is afflicted with a skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head.-U +The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of a skin disease on his body,  *But if there is a reddish-white infection on the bald head or forehead, it is a skin disease breaking out on his head or forehead.^7 )Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.J (If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.-U 'the priest is to make an examination. If the spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is [only] a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.G  &When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin of the body,8k %But if as far as he can see, the scaly outbreak remains unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed; he is clean. The priest is to pronounce the person clean.$C $the priest is to examine the person. If the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.S! #But if the scaly outbreak spreads further on the skin after his cleansing,zo "The priest will examine the scaly outbreak on the seventh day, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce the person clean. He is to wash his clothes, and he will be clean."? !the person must shave himself but not shave the scaly area. Then the priest must quarantine the person who has the scaly outbreak for another seven days.> w The priest will reexamine the infection on the seventh day. If the scaly outbreak has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,Y - When the priest examines the scaly infection, if it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest must quarantine the person with the scaly infection for seven days.l S the priest must examine the infection. If it appears to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and sparse, the priest must pronounce the person unclean. It is a scaly outbreak, a skin disease of the head or chin.A  When a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,P  But if the spot has remained where it was and has not spread on the skin but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn. The priest is to pronounce him clean, for it is [only] the scar from the burn.5 The priest will reexamine him on the seventh day. If it has spread further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease.'I But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in the spot and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest must quarantine him seven days.r_ the priest is to examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease.! When there is a burn on the skin of one's body produced by fire, and the patch made raw by the burn becomes a reddish-white or white spot,  But if the spot remains where it is and does not spread, it is [only] the scar from the boil. The priest is to pronounce him clean.fG If it spreads further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection."? But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest must quarantine him seven days.\3 The priest will make an examination, and if the spot seems to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease that has broken out in the boil.} and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, the person must present himself to the priest.D When a boil appears on the skin of one's body and it heals,~ The priest will examine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest must pronounce the infected person clean; he is clean.P} But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.{|q When the priest examines the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.C{ But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.1z] the priest will look, and if the skin disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since he has turned totally white, he is clean.2y_ But if the skin disease breaks out completely over the skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from his head to his feet so far as the priest can see,x! it is a chronic disease on the skin of his body, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not quarantine him, for he is unclean.!w= The priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,Uv% When a skin disease develops on a person, he is to be brought to the priest.u The priest will examine him, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a skin disease.!t= But if the scab spreads further on his skin after he has presented himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.fsG The priest will examine him again on the seventh day. If the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean; it is a scab. The person is to wash his clothes and will become clean.Fr The priest will then reexamine him on the seventh day. If the infection remains unchanged in his sight and has not spread on the skin, the priest must quarantine him for another seven days.Qq But if the spot on the skin of his body is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest must quarantine the infected person for seven days. p The priest will examine the infection on the skin of his body. If the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.Ko When a person has a swelling, scab, or spot on the skin of his body, and it becomes a disease on the skin of his body, he is to be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.)n Q The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:wmi But if she doesn't have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean."El He will present them before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female.zko When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.Bj But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as [she is] during her [menstrual] impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 66 days./iY She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 33 days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.Ih  The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.1g] Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.f = The LORD spoke to Moses: e /in order to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the animals that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten." d .This is the law concerning animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that swarm on the ground,|cs -For I am the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.8bk ,For I am the LORD your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.jaO +Do not become contaminated by any creature that swarms; do not become unclean or defiled by them."`? *Do not eat any of the creatures that swarm on the earth, anything that moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet, for they are detestable.Z_/ )All the creatures that swarm on the earth are detestable; they must not be eaten.=^u (Anyone who eats some of its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.x]k 'If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.m\U &but if water has been put on the seed and one of their carcasses falls on it, it is unclean for you.U[% %If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;Zy $A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass [in it] will become unclean.$YC #Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.X/ "Any edible food coming into contact with [that unclean] water will become unclean, and any drinkable liquid in any container will become unclean.iWM !If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you must break it.yVm When any one of them dies and falls on anything it becomes unclean-- any item of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work. It is to be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean. U These are unclean for you among all the swarming creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.XT+ the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.S{ These creatures that swarm on the ground are unclean for you: the weasel, the mouse, the various kinds of large lizard,R and anyone who carries their carcasses must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.Q All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,P) All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.lOS and whoever carries any of their carcasses must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.dNC These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,TM# All [other] winged insects that have four feet are to be detestable to you.L/ You may eat these: the various kinds of locust, the various kinds of katydid, the various kinds of cricket, and the various kinds of grasshopper.K9 But you may eat these kinds of all the winged insects that walk on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.OJ All winged insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you.HI  the stork, the various kinds of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.2Ha the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,:Gq the little owl, the cormorant, the long-eared owl,OF the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the gull, the various kinds of hawk,E5 every kind of raven,.DY the kite, the various kinds of falcon,C You are to detest these birds. They must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,^B7 Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be detestable to you.wAi They are to remain detestable to you; you must not eat any of their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.>@w But these are to be detestable to you: everything that does not have fins and scales in the seas or streams, among all the swarming things and [other] living creatures in the water. ?; This [is what] you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams.Z>/ Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses-- they are unclean for you.^=7 the pig, though it has divided hooves, does not chew the cud-- it is unclean for you.Y<- the hare, though it chews the cud, does not have hooves-- it is unclean for you;Z;/ the hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have hooves-- it is unclean for you;*:O But among the ones that chew the cud or have hooves you are not to eat [these]: the camel, though it chews the cud, does not have hooves-- it is unclean for you;K9 You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.L8 Tell the Israelites: You may eat all these [kinds] of land animals.)7 Q The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:86m When Moses heard this, it was acceptable to him.5y But Aaron replied to Moses, "See, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the LORD's sight?"4} Since its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary [area], as I commanded."Q3 Why didn't you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? For it is especially holy, and He has assigned it to you to take away the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the LORD.42c Later, Moses inquired about the male goat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's surviving sons, and asked, 1; They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the presentation offering, together with the offerings of fat portions made by fire, to wave as a presentation offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD commanded."0! But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution in any ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the Israelites' fellowship sacrifices./- You must eat it in a holy place because it is your portion and your sons' from the fire offerings to the LORD, for this is what I was commanded.m.U Moses spoke to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar: "Take the grain offering that is left over from the fire offerings to the LORD, and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar, because it is especially holy.b-? and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given to them through Moses."],5 You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,++Q You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations. *= The LORD spoke to Aaron:)- You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting or you will die, for the LORD's anointing oil is on you." So they did as Moses said.>(w Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn over that tragedy when the LORD sent the fire.c'A So they came forward and carried them in their tunics outside the camp, as Moses had said.F& Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, "Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to [a place] outside the camp."K% So Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD meant when He said: I will show My holiness to those who are near Me, and I will reveal My glory before all the people." But Aaron remained silent.^$7 Then flames leaped from the LORD's presence and burned them to death before the LORD.?# { Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them [to do].7"i Fire came out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell facedown [on the ground].!5 Moses and Aaron then entered the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.( K Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. He came down after sacrificing the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering.ym but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.U% and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,(K They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram-- the fat tail, the [fat] surrounding [the entrails], the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver--,S Finally, he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people's fellowship sacrifice. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.  Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.W) He presented the burnt offering and sacrificed it according to the regulation.&G Aaron presented the people's offering. He took the male goat for the people's sin offering, slaughtered it, and made a sin offering with it as he did before.dC He washed the entrails and the shanks and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.tc They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, along with the head, and he burned [them] on the altar. Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.=w He burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.  He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.1] Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar.^7 So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.p[ Then Moses said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people. Sacrifice the people's offering and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded."oY Moses said, "This is what the LORD commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you."! They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the LORD.%E an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the LORD; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD is going to appear to you.'"  And tell the Israelites: 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering; / He said to Aaron, "Take a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present [them] before the LORD.S  # On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.S !$So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.4 c#You must remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD's charge so that you will not die, for this is what I was commanded."X+"The LORD commanded what has been done today in order to make atonement for you.9m!You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.<u You must burn up what remains of the meat and bread.dCMoses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket for the ordination offering as I commanded: Aaron and his sons are to eat it.#Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled [them] on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as his sons and their garments.$CHe also took the breast and waved it before the LORD as a presentation offering; it was Moses' portion of the ordination ram as the LORD had commanded him.9mThen Moses took them from their hands and burned [them] on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.ymHe put all [these] in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a presentation offering.X+From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread [made] with oil, and one wafer, and placed [them] on the fat portions and the right thigh.,SHe took the fat-- the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat-- as well as the right thigh.d~CMoses also presented Aaron's sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then Moses sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.%}EMoses slaughtered [it], took some of its blood, and put [it] on Aaron's right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.|}Next he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.K{but he washed the entrails and shanks with water. He then burned the entire ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD as He had commanded Moses.Uz%Moses cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the suet,PyMoses slaughtered it and sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.zxoThen he presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.pw[He burned up the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.v1Moses took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and he burned them on the altar.qu]Then Moses slaughtered [it], took the blood, and applied it with his finger to the horns of the altar on all sides, purifying the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it by making atonement for it.tThen he brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering."s? Then Moses presented Aaron's sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.^r7 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed and consecrated him.q3 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.opY Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it to consecrate them.o) He also put the turban on his head and placed the plate of gold, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses.an=Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the Urim and Thummim into the breastpiece.;mqHe put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He put the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.LlThen Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.NkMoses said to them, "This is what the LORD has commanded to be done."tjcSo Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance to the tent of meeting.Riand assemble the whole community at the entrance to the tent of meeting."h+Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,g =The LORD spoke to Moses: f;&which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.'eI%This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the restitution offering, the ordination offering, and the fellowship sacrifice,d1$The LORD commanded this to be given to them by the Israelites on the day He anointed them. It is a permanent portion throughout their generations.c)#This is the portion from the fire offerings to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.zbo"I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, and have assigned them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the Israelites."ay!The son of Aaron who presents the blood of the fellowship offering and the fat will have the right thigh as a portion.i`M You are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your fellowship sacrifices.b_?The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.7^iHis own hands will bring the fire offerings to the LORD. He will bring the fat together with the breast. The breast is to be waved as a presentation offering before the LORD. ]Tell the Israelites: The one who presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD must bring an offering to the LORD from his sacrifice. \=The LORD spoke to Moses:N[Whoever eats any blood, that person must be cut off from his people."MZWherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.Y If anyone eats animal fat from a fire offering presented to the LORD, the person who eats [it] must be cut off from his people.XThe fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts may be used for any purpose, but you must not eat it.VW'Tell the Israelites: You are not to eat any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. V=The LORD spoke to Moses:bU?If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable creature, and eats meat from the LORD's fellowship sacrifice, that person must be cut off from his people." T But the one who eats meat from the LORD's fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.SMeat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. Everyone who is clean may eat any [other] meat.^R7If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will be guilty.UQ%But what remains of the sacrificial meat by the third day must be burned up.0P[If the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left over may be eaten on the next day.OThe meat of his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship must be eaten on the day he offers it; he may not leave any of it until morning.AN}From the cakes he must present one [portion] of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offering; it is his.qM] He is to present as his offering cakes of leavened bread, with his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship.gLI If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice, he is to present unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.^K7 Now this is the law of the fellowship sacrifice that someone may present to the LORD:gJI But any grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all of Aaron's sons. I Any grain offering that is baked in an oven, or prepared in a pan or on a griddle, belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his.H%As for the priest who presents someone's burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering he has presented belongs to him; it is the priest's.GThe restitution offering is like the sin offering; the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.iFMAny male among the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy.mEUThe priest will burn them on the altar as a fire offering to the LORD; it is a restitution offering.D}and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys.fCGThe offerer must present all the fat from it: the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails,.BWThe restitution offering must be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest is to sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.OA Now this is the law of the restitution offering; it is especially holy.@1But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it must be burned up. [~t}}||Z{{zMyyxxxww}vvu0tfsrrq%pHoo]== s(Si vM x k ; y]t`}[x =The LORD spoke to Moses:Yw-%You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the LORD."0v[$You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.Pu#You must not act unfairly in measurements of length, weight, or volume.>tw"You must regard the foreigner who lives with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.Ps!When a foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.hrK You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am the LORD.nqWDo not turn to mediums or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am the LORD your God.JpYou must keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.{oqDo not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.qn]You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.am=You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.ilMYou are not to eat [anything] with blood [in it]. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.zkoBut in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am the LORD your God._j9In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.6igWhen you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.>hwThe priest will make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the restitution offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin he committed.ugeHowever, he must bring his ram as a restitution offering to the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.qf]If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for [another] man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment. They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.?eyYou are to keep My statutes. You must not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.dDo not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.cYou must not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.b{You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor's life; I am the LORD.a%You must not act unjustly when rendering judgment. Do not be partial to the poor or give preference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.`}You must not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am the LORD.|_s You must not oppress your neighbor or rob [him]. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.^^7 You must not swear falsely by My name, profaning the name of your God; I am the LORD.P] You must not steal. You must not act deceptively or lie to one another.\% You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am the LORD your God. [ When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.ZAnyone who eats it will bear his punishment, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.\Y3If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted.X}It is to be eaten on the day you sacrifice [it] or on the next day, but what remains on the third day must be burned up.bW?When you offer a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD, sacrifice it that you may be accepted.aV=Do not turn to idols or make cast images of gods for yourselves; I am the LORD your God.nUWEach of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.nTWSpeak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.S =The LORD spoke to Moses:4RcYou must keep My instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the LORD your God."WQ)Any person who does any of these abominations must be cut off from his people.nPWIf you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.~OwFor the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.N5But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these abominations-- not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.tMcThe land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.L)Do not defile yourselves by any of these [practices], for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things./KYYou are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.KJYou are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.I You are not to make any of your children pass through [the fire] to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.fHGYou are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.lGSYou are not to come near a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.FYou are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her [sister's] lifetime.REYou are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.eDEYou are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; it will shame your brother.CYou are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; you are not to have sex with her.yBmYou are not to shame your father's brother by coming near his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt.sAa You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative.o@Y You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.? You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father's wife's daughter, who is adopted by your father; she is your sister.>  You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because it will shame your family.;=q You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.T<#You are not to have sex with your father's wife; it will shame your father. ;You are not to shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her.[:1You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am the LORD.\93Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am the LORD.u8eYou are to practice My ordinances and you are to keep My statutes by following them; I am the LORD your God.=7uDo not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.G6 Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.5 =The LORD spoke to Moses:_49But if he does not wash [his clothes] and bathe himself, he will bear his punishment."n3WEvery person, whether the native or the foreigner, who eats an animal that died a natural death or was mauled by wild beasts is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening; he will be clean.Q2Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.1/ Any Israelite or foreigner living among them, who hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.k0Q Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no foreigner who lives among you may eat blood.2/_ For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.7.i Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.- but does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people. ,Say to them: Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice:+oThey must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.*5The priest will then sprinkle the blood on the LORD's altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.v)gThis is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open country. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting and offer them as fellowship sacrifices to the LORD.i(Minstead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present [it] as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle-- that person will be charged with murder. He has shed blood and must be cut off from his people.'yAnyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters [it] outside the camp,m&USpeak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: This is what the LORD has commanded:% =The LORD spoke to Moses:3$a"This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once a year because of all their sins." And all this was done as the LORD commanded Moses.%#E!and purify the most holy place. He will purify the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.,"S The priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as [high] priest in place of his father will make atonement. He will put on the linen garments, the holy garments,p![It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.} uAtonement will be made for you on this day to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.RThis is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.xkThe one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterwards he may reenter the camp.[1The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the [most] holy place to make atonement, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, flesh, and dung burned up. The man who released the goat for Azazel is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; afterwards he may reenter the camp.?{He is to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar._9He will bathe his body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering; he will make atonement for himself and for the people.%Then Aaron is to enter the tent of meeting, take off the linen garments he wore when he entered the [most] holy place, and leave them there.lSThe goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there. Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the Israelites' wrongdoings and rebellious acts-- all their sins. He is to put them on the goat's head and send [it] away into the wilderness by the man appointed for the task. When he has finished purifying the [most] holy place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he is to present the live male goat. He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart from the Israelites' impurities.U%Then he will go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put [it] on the horns on all sides of the altar.Z/No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the [most] holy place until he leaves after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.zoHe will purify the [most] holy place in this way for all their sins because of the Israelites' impurities and rebellious acts. He will do the same for the tent of meeting that remains among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.q]When he slaughters the male goat for the people's sin offering and brings its blood inside the veil, he must do the same with its blood as he did with the bull's blood: he is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.U%He is to take some of the bull's blood and sprinkle [it] with his finger against the east side of the mercy seat; then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger before the mercy seat seven times."? He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, so that the cloud of incense covers the mercy seat that is over the testimony, or else he will die.-U Then he must take a firepan full of fiery coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring [them] inside the veil. 7 When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he will slaughter the bull for his sin offering." ? But the goat chosen by lot for Azazel is to be presented alive before the LORD to make purification with it by sending it into the wilderness for Azazel.a = he is to present the goat chosen by lot for the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering.a =After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other for Azazel,o YNext he will take the two goats and place them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.kQAaron will present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.wiHe is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.wiHe is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He must tie a linen sash [around him] and wrap his head with a linen turban. These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.Aaron is to enter the [most] holy place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.saThe LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.~ yThe LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron's sons when they approached the presence of the LORD and died.!a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with an unclean woman."r_ This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle that is among them.A}The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD because of her unclean discharge.~On the eighth day she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.j}OWhen she is cured of her discharge, she is to count seven days, and after that she will be clean. |Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.3{aAny bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period. z When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days, though it is not the time of her menstruation, or if she has a discharge beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, as [she is] during the days of her menstruation."y?If a man sleeps with her, and [blood from] her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.}xuIf discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.w%Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.|vsEveryone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.xukAnything she lies on during her menstruation will become unclean, and anything she sits on will become unclean.FtWhen a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.s%If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening. rAny clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.qWhen a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.?pyThe priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.'oIHe must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons on the eighth day, come before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.2n_ When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.m} Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.Sl! If the man with the discharge touches anyone without [first] rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Jk Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Hj  Any saddle the man with the discharge rides on will be unclean.i7If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, he is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.h#Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.(gKWhoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.zfoAnyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.re_Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.Ud%This is uncleanness of his discharge: Whether his body secretes the discharge or retains it, he is unclean. All the days that his body secretes or retains anything because of his discharge, he is unclean.jcOSpeak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his body, he is unclean.)b QThe LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:maU9to determine when something is unclean or clean. This is the law regarding skin disease and mildew."*`Q8and for a swelling, scab, or spot,-_W7for mildew in clothing or on a house,N^6This is the law for any skin disease or mildew, for a scaly outbreak, ];5Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.\4He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.=[u3He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.XZ+2and he is to slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot containing fresh water.[Y11He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house,LX0But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared.nWW/Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.qV].Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.~Uw-It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.T ,the priest must come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.S+If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,~Rw*Then they must take different stones to replace the [former] ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.Q1)He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and the plaster that is scraped off must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.P(the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.~Ow'The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house,fNG&the priest is to go outside the house to its doorway and quarantine the house for seven days.(MK%He will examine it, and if the contamination in the walls of the house consists of green or red indentations that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,IL $The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterwards the priest will come to examine the house.}Ku#the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared in my house.J)"When you enter the land of Canaan that I am giving you as a possession, and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess,*IQ!The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:iHM This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing."[G1one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, [sacrificing] what he can afford together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.hFKHe must then sacrifice one type of what he can afford, either the turtledoves or young pigeons,E!What is left of the oil in the priest's palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed to make atonement for him before the LORD.qD]The priest will also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the [same] place as the blood of the restitution offering.uCeWith his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.FBThen the priest will pour some of the oil into his left palm.AAfter he slaughters the male lamb for the restitution offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the restitution offering and put [it] on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.-@UThe priest will take the male lamb for the restitution offering and the one-third of a quart of olive oil, and wave them as a presentation offering before the LORD.?On the eighth day he is to bring these things for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD.>and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.=But if he is poor and cannot afford [these], he is to take one male lamb for a restitution offering to be waved in order to make atonement for him, along with two quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, one-third of a quart of olive oil,<%The priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will make atonement for him, and he will be clean.(;KThe priest must sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be purified from his uncleanness. Afterwards he will slaughter the burnt offering.-:UWhat is left of the oil in the priest's palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD.s9aFrom the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the restitution offering.8%The priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.p7[Then the priest will take some of the one-third of a quart of olive oil and pour it into his left palm.Y6-The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution offering and put [it] on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.i5M He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered, for like the sin offering, the restitution offering belongs to the priest; it is especially holy.E4 The priest is to take one male lamb and present it as a restitution offering, along with the one-third quart of olive oil, and he must wave them as a presentation offering before the LORD.23_ The priest who performs the cleansing will place the person who is to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.Q2 On the eighth day he must take two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, a grain offering of three quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one-third of a quart of olive oil.F1 He is to shave off all his hair [again] on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.N0The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterwards he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.@/{He will then sprinkle [the blood] seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside.3.aHe is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them all into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.h-KThen the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot. ,the priest will order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed.w+iwho will go outside the camp and examine [him]. If the skin disease has disappeared from the afflicted person, *This is the law concerning the person afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing. He is to be brought to the priest,) =The LORD spoke to Moses:%(E ;This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, warp or woof, or any leather article, in order to pronounce it clean or unclean."/'Y :But if the contamination disappears from the fabric, the warp or woof, or any leather article, which have been washed, it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.&- 9But if it reappears in the fabric, the warp or woof, or any leather article, it has broken out again. You must burn up whatever is contaminated.9%m 8If the priest examines [it], and the contamination has faded after it has been washed, he must cut the contaminated section out of the fabric, the leather, or the warp or woof.$7 7After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn up the fabric. It is a fungus on the front or back [of the fabric].m#U 6the priest is to order whatever is contaminated to be washed and quarantined for another seven days." 5When the priest examines [it], if the contamination has not spread in the fabric, the warp or woof, or any leather article,%!E 4He is to burn the fabric, the warp or woof in wool or linen, or any leather article, which is contaminated. Since it is harmful mildew it must be burned up._ 9 3The priest is to reexamine the contamination on the seventh day. If it has spread in the fabric, the warp, the woof, or the leather, regardless of how it is used, the contamination is harmful mildew; it is unclean. G~~}p|||D{{ zvyy?xx,wvyuttlss`rrqpooInnn&mllxkknjj>iibhhmhJgg@gfeerddudScbaa"``_^^]]]W\\[[*[ZYY(XXWVV;UUeTTISS{S9RR]R;QPPhOOhONgNDMM LKJJdII(H'GFF%ECE DnDCC0BB&AA^@@l??x>=<< ;J::!9979877n7 66#544+3323 2c11+0002//-..--J,,++**m))4(a''h'&&%/$$S##z""[!!! C=6D\'GNK.7l ( n  9 ~ 1 t .%D(2U`%And if in spite of this you do not obey Me but act with hostility toward Me,,_SWhen I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.I^ I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.e]Ethen I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.g\IIf in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but act with hostility toward Me,#[AI will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.ZIf you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.Yand your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.gXII will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,tWcBut if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.,VSI will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.YU-then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you-- wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.yTmif you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands-- and break My covenant,CSBut if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands--9Rm I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.JQ I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.HP  I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you.mOU You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.bN? I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.xMkFive of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.RLYou will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.6KgI will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten [you]. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.5JeYour threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.I I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.FHIf you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands,IG You must keep My Sabbaths and honor My sanctuary; I am the LORD.6F iDo not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.yEm7For the Israelites are My slaves. They are My slaves I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.uDe6If he is not redeemed in any of these [ways], he and his children are to be released at the Year of Jubilee.|Cs5He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.B34If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his [remaining] years.zAo3If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price.@y2The one who purchased him is to calculate [the time] from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be [determined] by the number of years. It will be [set] for him like the daily wages of a hired hand.?1His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself.c>A0he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.\=3/If a foreigner or temporary resident [living] among you prospers, but your brother [living] near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner living among you, or to a member of the foreigner's clan,G< .You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.,;S-You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you-- those born in your land. These may become your property.t:c,Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.@9}+You are not to rule over them harshly but fear your God.j8O*They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are My slaves I brought out of the land of Egypt.x7k)Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.t6c(Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.x5k'If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.|4s&I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.^37%You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell [him] your food for profit.h2K$Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.81k#If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.h0K"The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.Y/-!Whatever [property] one of the Levites can redeem-- a house sold in a city they possess-- must be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.x.k Concerning the Levitical cities, the Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities they possess.B-But houses in villages that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem [such] houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.L,If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee.)+MIf a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year.X*+But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.{)qhe may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.`(;If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,'If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.?&{You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.%The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.$9When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.y#mI will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.e"EIf you wonder: 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we don't sow or gather our produce?'n!WThen the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.} uYou are to observe My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.Y-You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.OYou are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.4cYou are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of [remaining] harvest years.^7If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.J In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.ue It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may [only] eat its produce [directly] from the field.~w The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.O You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you are to return to his property and each of you to his clan.&G Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement. You are to count seven sabbatic years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatic years amounts to 49.b?All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.1][Whatever] the land [produces during] the Sabbath year can be food for you; for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you. ;You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.$CBut there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the LORD: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.tcYou may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.. [The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:3aAfter Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.o YYou are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am the LORD your God."q ]Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death. fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.k QIf any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him:N Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life.7kIf a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.LWhoever blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death; the whole community must stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the foreign resident or the native.eEAnd tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.#ABring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard [him] lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.%G Then the LORD spoke to Moses:W) They put him in custody until the LORD's decision could be made clear to them.1 Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)2_ Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman's son and an Israelite man.3a It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to the Lord; this is a permanent rule." The bread is to be set out before the LORD every Sabbath day as a perpetual covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites. ~ Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the LORD.Z}/Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure [gold] table before the LORD.^|7Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.^{7He must regularly tend the lamps on the pure [gold] lampstand in the LORD's presence.DzAaron is to tend it regularly from evening until morning before the LORD outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.{yqCommand the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, so that the lamp will burn regularly.x =The LORD spoke to Moses:Hw ,So Moses declared the LORD's appointed times to the Israelites.v1+so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God."euE*You are to live in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in booths,=tu)You are to celebrate it as a festival to the LORD seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.=su(On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees-- palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook-- and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.mrU'You are to celebrate the LORD's festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.'qI&These are in addition to the offerings for the LORD's Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.ipM%These are the LORD's appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the LORD, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its [designated] day.`o;$You are to present a fire offering to the LORD for seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to the LORD. It is a solemn gathering; you are not to do any daily work.]n5#There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.m"Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Booths to the LORD begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days. l=!The LORD spoke to Moses:Kk It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth [day] of the month until the [following] evening."ojYYou are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.Si!I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day.ph[If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he must be cut off from his people.g!On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the LORD your God.3faThe tenth [day] of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; you are to present a fire offering to the LORD.&eIThe LORD again spoke to Moses:[d1You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the LORD.".cWTell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration and jubilation-- a sacred assembly. b=The LORD spoke to Moses:^a7When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am the LORD your God."G` On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.6_gThe priest will wave the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the LORD; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the LORD for the priest.z^oYou are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice.}]uYou are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.4\cBring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the LORD.[{You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.Z!You are to count seven complete weeks starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.WY)You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or [any] new grain until this very day, and you have brought the offering of your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.1X] Its grain offering is to be four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart of wine.~Ww On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.V He will wave the sheaf before the LORD so that you may be accepted; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.-UU Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. T= The LORD spoke to Moses:S3You are to present a fire offering to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you must not do any daily work."^R7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.QThe Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.kPQThe Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.rO_These are the LORD's appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.FNFor six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.MSpeak to the Israelites and tell them: These are My appointed times, the times of the LORD that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.L =The LORD spoke to Moses:YK-!the One who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD."}Ju You must not profane My holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sets you apart,?I{You are to keep My commands and do them; I am the LORD.eHEIt is to be eaten on the same day. Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am the LORD.cGAWhen you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.dFCBut you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young.1E]When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days; from the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a gift, a fire offering to the LORD. D=The LORD spoke to Moses:/CYNeither you nor a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect."B-You are not to present to the LORD anything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed [testicles]; you must not sacrifice [them] in your land.&AGYou may sacrifice as a freewill offering any animal from the herd or flock that has an elongated or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable as a vow offering.R@You are not to present any [animal] to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a fire offering to the LORD.L?When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.k>QYou are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.i=Mmust offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.<}Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the foreign residents in Israel who presents his offering-- whether they present freewill gifts or payment of vows to the LORD as burnt offerings-- ;=The LORD spoke to Moses::and have them bear the penalty of restitution if the people eat their holy offerings. For I am the LORD who sets them apart."X9+The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to the LORD|8sIf anyone eats a holy offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.E7 But if the priest's daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father's house as in her youth, she may share her father's food. But no outsider may share it.6y If the priest's daughter is married to a man outside a priest's family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.5{ But if a priest purchases someone with his money, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.4- No one outside a priest's family is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired hand is not to eat the holy offering.3 They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am the LORD who sets them apart.2}He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, making himself unclean by it; I am the LORD.w1iWhen the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.09the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water. / or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean-- whatever his uncleanness--b.?No man of Aaron's descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,-}Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person will be cut off from My presence; I am the LORD.5,eTell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to Me, so they do not profane My holy name; I am the LORD.+ =The LORD spoke to Moses:K*Moses said [this] to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.+)QBut because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate My sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sets them apart."b(?He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.>'wNo descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the LORD. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.t&cor who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.-%Wno man who has a broken foot or hand,p$[No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;#!Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God. "=The LORD spoke to Moses:k!Qso that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am the LORD who sets him apart." He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,/[ He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.&G He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the LORD.eE He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean [even] for his father or mother.D The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the garments, must not dishevel his hair or tear his garments.nW If a priest's daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.%You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, the LORD who sets you apart, am holy.}uThey are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God./YThey are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, because they present the fire offerings to the LORD, the food of their God. They must be holy.xkPriests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.fGHe is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage and so defile himself.\3He may make himself unclean for his young unmarried sister in his immediate family.X+except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.1 _The LORD said to Moses: "Speak to Aaron's sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a [dead] person among his relatives,  A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood is on their own hands."ueYou are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine. Therefore you must distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. You are not to make yourselves detestable by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.@{And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who set you apart from the peoples.  You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them. %You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.p [If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has shamed his brother; they will be childless.n WIf a man sleeps with his aunt, he has shamed his uncle; they will bear their guilt and die childless.5 eYou must not have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for it is exposing one's own blood relative; both people will bear their punishment._ 9If a man sleeps with a menstruating woman and has sexual intercourse with her, he has exposed the source of her [flow], and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from their people. If a man marries his sister, whether his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his punishment.9If a woman comes near any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their [own] blood is on them.r_If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death; you are also to kill the animal./If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.1 If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.# If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is on their own hands. If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has shamed his father. Both of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.'I If a man commits adultery with a married woman-- if he commits adultery with his neighbor's wife-- both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.  If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands.H Keep My statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sets you apart.G~ Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.}!Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.|7then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow him, prostituting themselves with Molech. {But if the people of the country look the other way when that man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,!z=I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.5yeSay to the Israelites: Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the country are to stone him. 7~~}||-{zzyyxcwvv#u^ttssurrrqrpponnmm9ll k)jiiChh:ggff0edccobbb a3``_^^^4^]]]|] \\\\\\2[[dZZ,Y8XX WVVUUTTSSRRbQQOPP>G>==~=<m(Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to do the work of the tent of meeting.b=?(As for the Merarites, you are to register them by their clans and their ancestral houses.<5(This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting, and their duties will be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.`;;(All the service of the Gershonites, all their transportation duties and all their [other] work, is to be [done] at the command of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to them all that they are responsible to carry.:#(the hangings of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. They will carry out everything that needs to be done with these items.E9(They are to transport the tabernacle curtains, the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering made of manatee skin on top of it, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,^87(This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transportation duties: 7 (Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at the tent of meeting.Z6/(Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral houses and their clans. 5=(The LORD spoke to Moses:l4S(The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die."<3s(Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.R2(Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites./1[(Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:x0k(Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has oversight of the lamp oil, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. [He has] oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, the holy objects and their utensils."7/i(Aaron and his sons are to finish covering the holy objects and all their equipment whenever the camp is to move on. The Kohathites will come and carry them, but they are not to touch the holy objects or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the tent of meeting.d.C(and place all the equipment on it that they use in serving: the firepans, meatforks, shovels, and basins-- all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread a covering made of manatee skin over it and insert its poles.]-5( They are to remove the ashes from the [bronze] altar, spread a purple cloth over it,@,{( They are to take all the serving utensils they use in the sanctuary, place [them] in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering made of manatee skin, and put [them] on a carrying frame.+( They are to spread a blue cloth over the gold altar, cover it with a covering made of manatee skin, and insert its poles.*( Then they must place it with all its utensils inside a covering made of manatee skin and put [them] on the carrying frame.+)Q( They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for light, with its lamps, snuffers, and firepans, as well as its jars of oil by which they service it. ((They are to spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with a covering made of manatee skin, and insert the poles [in the table].S'!(They are to spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence and place the plates and cups on it, as well as the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread [offering] is to be on it.}&u(They are to place over this a covering made of manatee skin, spread a solid blue cloth on top, and insert its poles.%/(Whenever the camp is about to move on, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the screening veil, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.]$5(The service of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting concerns the most holy objects.m#U(men from 30 years old to 50 years old-- everyone who is qualified to do work at the tent of meeting.f"G(Among the Levites, take a census of the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,)! Q(The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:w i(3He gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons in obedience to the LORD, just as the LORD commanded Moses.ym(2He collected the money from the firstborn Israelites: 1,365 [shekels measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel.jO(1So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the ones redeemed by the Levites.xk(0Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for those who are in excess among the Israelites."tc(/collect five shekels for each person, according to the standard sanctuary shekel-- 20 gerahs to the shekel.\3(.As the redemption price for the 273 firstborn Israelites who outnumber the Levites,&G(-Take the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites' cattle in place of their cattle. The Levites belong to Me; I am the LORD.&I(,The LORD spoke to Moses again:a=(+The total number of the firstborn males one month old or more listed by name was 22,273.]5(*So Moses registered every firstborn among the Israelites, as the LORD commanded him.B()You are to take the Levites for Me-- I am the Lord-- in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites' cattle in place of every firstborn among the Israelites' cattle."{q((The LORD told Moses: "Register every firstborn male of the Israelites one month old or more, and list their names.+('The total number of all the Levite males one month old or more that Moses and Aaron registered by their clans at the LORD's command was 22,000.7(&Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise. Any unauthorized person who came near [it] was to be put to death.fG(%in addition to the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.'I($The assigned duties of Merari's descendants involved the tabernacle's supports, crossbars, posts, bases, all its equipment, and all the work related to these,(#The leader of the family of the Merarite clans was Zuriel son of Abihail; they camped on the north side of the tabernacle.U%("Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 6,200._9(!The Mahlite clan and the Mushite clan came from Merari; these were the Merarite clans. #( The chief of the Levite leaders was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; he had oversight of those responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.3 a(Their duties involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the sanctuary utensils that were used with these, and the screen-- and all the work relating to them.Y -(and the leader of the family of the Kohathite clans was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.P (The clans of the Kohathites camped on the south side of the tabernacle,q ](Counting every male one month old or more, there were 8,600 responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.(The Amramite clan, the Izharite clan, the Hebronite clan, and the Uzzielite clan came from Kohath; these were the Kohathites.6g(the hangings of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, and the tent ropes-- all the work relating to these.3(The Gershonites' duties at the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,J(and the leader of the Gershonite family was Eliasaph son of Lael.L(The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,U%(Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 7,500.cA(The Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan came from Gershon; these were the Gershonite clans.r_(Merari's sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral houses.L(Kohath's sons by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.Q(These were the names of Gershon's sons by their clans: Libni and Shimei.E~(These were Levi's sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.T}#(So Moses registered them in obedience to the LORD as he had been commanded:|y(Register the Levites by their ancestral houses and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.";{s(The LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:Vz'( because every firstborn belongs to Me. At the time I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated every firstborn in Israel to Myself, both man and animal; they are Mine; I am the LORD." y ( See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to Me, x=( The LORD spoke to Moses:.wW( You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorized person who comes near [the sanctuary] must be put to death."rv_( Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been assigned exclusively to him from the Israelites.!u=(They are to take care of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting and perform duties for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.t(They are to perform duties for him and the entire community before the tent of meeting by attending to the service of the tabernacle.Ys-(Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him. r=(The LORD spoke to Moses:tqc(But Nadab and Abihu died in the LORD's presence when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the direction of Aaron their father.jpO(These are the names of Aaron's sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.doC(These are the names of Aaron's sons: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.mn W(These are the family records of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.6mg("The Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral house.hlK(!But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. k( These are the Israelites registered by their ancestral houses. The total number in the camps by their military divisions is 603,550.tjc(The total number who belong to Dan's encampment is 157,600; they are to move out last, with their banners."-iW(His military division numbers 53,400.bh?(The tribe of Naphtali [will be next]. The leader of the Naphtalites is Ahira son of Enan.-gW(His military division numbers 41,500.ffG(The tribe of Asher will camp next to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ochran.-eW(His military division numbers 62,700. d(Dan's military divisions will camp on the north side under their banner. The leader of the Danites is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.{cq(The total in their military divisions who belong to Ephraim's encampment number 108,100; they will move out third.-bW(His military division numbers 35,400.gaI(The tribe of Benjamin [will be next]. The leader of the Benjaminites is Abidan son of Gideoni.-`W(His military division numbers 32,200.l_S(The tribe of Manasseh will be next to it. The leader of the Manassites is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.-^W(His military division numbers 40,500.](Ephraim's military divisions will camp on the west side under their banner. The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud.7\i(The tent of meeting is to move out with the Levites' camp, which is in the middle of the camps. They are to move out just as they camp, each in his place, with their banners.~[w(The total number in their military divisions who belong to Reuben's encampment is 151,450; they will move out second.-ZW(His military division numbers 45,650.]Y5(The tribe of Gad [will be next]. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel.-XW( His military division numbers 59,300.pW[( The tribe of Simeon will camp next to it. The leader of the Simeonites is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.-VW( His military division numbers 46,500. U( Reuben's military divisions will camp on the south side under their banner. The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur.|Ts( The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah's encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.-SW(His military division numbers 57,400.bR?(The tribe of Zebulun [will be next]. The leader of the Zebulunites is Eliab son of Helon.-QW(His military division numbers 54,400.lPS(The tribe of Issachar will camp next to it. The leader of the Issacharites is Nethanel son of Zuar.-OW(His military division numbers 74,600.)NM(Judah's military divisions will camp on the east side toward the sunrise under their banner. The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.3Ma(The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral houses. They are to camp around the tent of meeting at a distance [from it]:)L Q(The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:KK (6The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.J (5The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community."rI a(4The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner.VH )(3Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near [it] must be put to death.LG (2Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it.ZF 1(1Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the [other] Israelites.#E E(0For the LORD had told Moses:OD (/But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.-C Y(.All those registered numbered 603,550. B (-So all the Israelites 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel's army, were registered by their ancestral houses.A (,These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with [the assistance of] the 12 leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral house.C@ (+those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.I? (*The descendants of Naphtali: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,?> }()those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.F=  ((The descendants of Asher: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,=< y('those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.D; (&The descendants of Dan: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,C: (%those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.I9 ($The descendants of Benjamin: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,C8 (#those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.I7 ("The descendants of Manasseh: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,B6 (!those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.c5 C( The descendants of Joseph: The descendants of Ephraim: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,B4 (those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.H3  (The descendants of Zebulun: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,C2 (those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.I1 (The descendants of Issachar: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,?0 }(those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.F/  (The descendants of Judah: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,=. y(those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.D- (The descendants of Gad: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,@, (those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.h+ M(The descendants of Simeon: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, those registered counting one by one the names of every male 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,@* (those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.p) ](The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of every male 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,X( -(just as the LORD commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:Y' /(and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,J& (So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,~% y(These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel's clans."'$ M(Ahira son of Enan from Naphtali.&# K(Eliasaph son of Deuel from Gad;'" M( Pagiel son of Ochran from Asher;+! U( Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai from Dan;+  U( Abidan son of Gideoni from Benjamin;n Y( from the sons of Joseph: Elishama son of Ammihud from Ephraim, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur from Manasseh;' M( Eliab son of Helon from Zebulun;* S(Nethanel son of Zuar from Issachar;+ U(Nahshon son of Amminadab from Judah;0 _(Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai from Simeon;` =(These are the names of the men who are to assist you: Elizur son of Shedeur from Reuben;Z 1(A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral house. (You and Aaron are to register those who are 20 years old or more by their military divisions-- everyone who can serve in Israel's army. (Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.< w(The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first [day] of the second month of the second year after Israel's departure from the land of Egypt:V'"These are the commands the LORD gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.T#!He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed."vg Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the [shepherd's] rod, will be holy to the LORD._9If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add one-fifth to its value.Every tenth of the land's produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.gINo person who has been set apart [for destruction] is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.Y-Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the LORD from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the LORD.H If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your valuation by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your valuation.* OBut no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the LORD, because a firstborn [already] belongs to the LORD.j OAll your valuations will be [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20 gerahs to the shekel.g IIn the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.8 kthen the priest will calculate for him the amount of the valuation up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the valuation on that day as a holy offering to the LORD.t cIf a person consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding,%When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the LORD like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest's property.mUBut if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.+If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the valuation price, and the field will transfer back to him.QBut if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the [next] Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.r_If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.\3If a man consecrates to the LORD any part of a field that he possesses, your valuation will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of 50 silver shekels for [every] five bushels of barley seed.yBut if the one who consecrated his house redeems [it], he must add a fifth to the valuation price, and it will be his.*OWhen a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.^7 If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the valuation.}u The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the valuation for you.~1 If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.G}  He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.| If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any of these he gives to the LORD will be holy.d{CBut if one is too poor to pay the valuation, he must present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.pz[If the person is 60 years or more, your valuation is 15 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female.)yMIf the person is from one month to five years old, your valuation for a male is five silver shekels, and for a female your valuation is three shekels of silver.yxmIf the person is from five to 20 years old, your valuation for a male is 20 shekels and for a female 10 shekels.@w}If the person is a female, your valuation is 30 shekels.v!if the valuation concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, your valuation is 50 silver shekels [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel.uSpeak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow to the LORD that involves the valuation of people,t =The LORD spoke to Moses: s.These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.-rU-For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the LORD."Aq},Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them, since I am the LORD their God.Sp!+For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.o5*then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.Dn)and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies-- and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and if they will pay the penalty for their sin,,mS(But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers-- their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me,)lM'Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their sin; they will also waste away because of their fathers' sins along with theirs.Uk%&You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.j7%They will stumble over one another as if [fleeing] from a sword though no one is pursuing [them]. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.vig$I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing [them].vhg#As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.Fg"Then the land will make up for its Sabbath [years] during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.&fG!But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword [to chase] after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.leS I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.dI will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your [sacrifices].c/I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.Wb)You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.laSI will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins. 1.~;}||6{9z:yxwwwvlutt5srrrdqq+poonnmmhlkkjCiihOgfeddd^d0cccRbaa ``S` __^]]t\\[[i[=ZZ,Y XXX]WWLVMVUUTTxSyS:RRRQPP]POO$NMMM+LLQKJJJPJ$ItI H GGtGHFF/E0DDDmCCWBXBAA@@{?|?=>>> =<[( We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. =( Contemptible people among them had a strong craving [for other food]. The Israelites cried again and said, "Who will feed us meat?X<+( So that place was named Taberah, because the LORD's fire had blazed among them._;9( Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.K: ( Now the people began complaining openly before the LORD about hardship. When the LORD heard, His anger burned, and the fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.`9;( $When it came to rest, he would say: Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.8( #Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say: Arise, LORD! Let Your enemies be scattered, and those who hate You flee from Your presence._79( "Meanwhile, the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.<6s( !They set out from the mountain of the LORD on a three-day journey to seek a resting place for them, with the ark of the LORD's covenant traveling ahead of them for the three days.U5%( If you come with us, whatever good the LORD does for us we will do for you."4( Please don't leave us," Moses said, "since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.i3M( But he replied to him, "I don't want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives."w2i( Moses said to Hobab, son of Moses' father-in-law Reuel the Midianite: "We're setting out for the place the LORD promised: 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel."d1C( This was the order of march for the Israelites by their military divisions as they set out.N0( and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali.J/( Pagiel son of Ochran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,-.U( The military divisions of the camp of Dan with their banner set out, serving as rearguard for all the camps, and Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over Dan's division.R-( and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.Q,( Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,+( Next the military divisions of the camp of Ephraim with their banner set out, and Elishama son of Ammihud was over Ephraim's division.z*o( The Kohathites then set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.M)( and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.N(( Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of Simeon's tribe,'( The military divisions of the camp of Reuben with their banner set out, and Elizur son of Shedeur was over Reuben's division.x&k( The tabernacle was then taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting the tabernacle.K%( and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the Zebulun tribe.J$( Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the Issachar tribe,#( The military divisions of the camp of Judah with their banner set out first, and Nahshon son of Amminadab was over Judah's divisions.W")( They set out for the first time according to the LORD's command through Moses.!)( The Israelites traveled on from the Wilderness of Sinai, moving from one place to the next until the cloud stopped in the Wilderness of Paran. +( During the second year, in the second month on the twentieth [day] of the month, the cloud was lifted up above the tabernacle of the testimony.( You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am the LORD your God."W)( When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and be delivered from your enemies.  ( The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. Your use of these is a permanent statute throughout your generations.Z/( When calling the assembly together, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.'( When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set out.S!( When you sound short blasts, the camps pitched on the east are to set out.mU( However, if one is sounded, only the leaders, the heads of Israel's clans, are to gather before you.( When both are sounded in long blasts, the entire community is to gather before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.a=( Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out. =( The LORD spoke to Moses:#A( They camped at the LORD's command, and they set out at the LORD's command. They carried out the LORD's requirement according to His command through Moses.6g( Whether it was two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. But when it was lifted, they set out.G ( Sometimes the cloud remained [only] from evening until morning; when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out. Or if it remained a day and a night, they moved out when the cloud lifted.-( Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for [only] a few days. They would camp at the LORD's command and set out at the LORD's command.  ( Even when the cloud stayed over the tabernacle many days, the Israelites carried out the LORD's requirement and did not set out.1( At the LORD's command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD's command they camped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they camped./( Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, the Israelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there the Israelites camped.cA( It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.6 g( On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and it appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.x k( If a foreigner resides with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreign resident and the native of the land." ( But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD's offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin. ( they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.! =( Such people are to observe it in the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight. They are to eat the animal with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;/Y( Tell the Israelites: When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a corpse or is on a distant journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.%G( Then the LORD spoke to Moses:X+( Moses replied to them, "Wait here until I hear what the LORD commands for you."6g( and said to him, "We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD's offering at its appointed time with the [other] Israelites?"5e( But there were [some] men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day-U( and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the LORD had commanded Moses.=w( So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,(K( You must observe it at its appointed time on the fourteenth day of this month at twilight; you are to observe it according to all its statutes and ordinances."J( The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.  ( In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the LORD told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai::~o(He may assist his brothers to fulfill responsibilities at the tent of meeting, but he must not do the work. This is how you are to deal with the Levites regarding their duties."^}7(But at 50 years old he is to retire from his service in the work and no longer serve.z|o(In regard to the Levites: From 25 years old or more, a man enters the service in the work at the tent of meeting. {=(The LORD spoke to Moses:@z{(After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. So they did to them as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites.Iy (The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them before the LORD as a presentation offering. Aaron also made atonement for them to ceremonially cleanse them.*xO(Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community did [this] to the Levites. The Israelites did everything to them the LORD commanded Moses regarding the Levites.w!(From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary."Wv)(But I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites.+uQ(For every firstborn among the Israelites is Mine, both man and animal. I consecrated them to Myself on the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt.1t](For they have been exclusively assigned to Me from the Israelites. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.#sA(After that the Levites may come to serve [at] the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.{rq(In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to Me. q( You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and you are to present them before the LORD as a presentation offering.=pu( Next the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls. Sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.o( Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a presentation offering from the Israelites, so that they may perform the LORD's work.cnA( Then present the Levites before the LORD, and have the Israelites lay their hands on them.bm?( Bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire Israelite community.l)(They are to take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.Bk(This is what you must do to them for their purification: Sprinkle them with the purification water. Have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.Rj(Take the Levites from among the Israelites and ceremonially cleanse them. i=(The LORD spoke to Moses:Gh (This is the way the lampstand was made: it was a hammered work of gold, hammered from its base to its flower petals. The lampstand was made according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.gy(So Aaron did this; he set up its lamps [to give light] in front of the lampstand just as the LORD had commanded Moses.~fw(Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand."e =(The LORD spoke to Moses:edE(YWhen Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him [that way].Jc(XAll the livestock for the fellowship sacrifice totaled 24 bulls, 60 rams, 60 male breeding goats, and 60 male lambs a year old. This was the dedication gift for the altar after it was anointed..bW(WAll the livestock for the burnt offering totaled 12 bulls, 12 rams, and 12 male lambs a year old, with their grain offerings, and 12 male goats for the sin offering.)aM(VThe 12 gold bowls full of incense each [weighed] four ounces [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel. The total [weight] of the gold bowls was three pounds.Q`(UEach silver dish [weighed] three and a quarter pounds, and each basin one and three-quarter pounds. The total [weight] of the silver articles was 60 pounds [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel._1(TThis was the dedication gift from the leaders of Israel for the altar when it was anointed: 12 silver dishes, 12 silver basins, and 12 gold bowls.&^G(Sand two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.)]O(Rone male goat for a sin offering;U\%(Qone young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<[u(Pone gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{Zq(OHis offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;bY?(NOn the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the Naphtalites, [presented an offering].)XM(Mand two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ochran.)WO(Lone male goat for a sin offering;UV%(Kone young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{Hq(=His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;eGE(%(3one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<=u(2one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{<q(1His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;h;K(0On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the Ephraimites, [presented an offering].*:O(/and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.)9O(.one male goat for a sin offering;U8%(-one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<7u(,one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{6q(+His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;`5;(*On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the Gadites, [presented an offering].14]()and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.)3O((one male goat for a sin offering;U2%('one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<1u(&one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{0q(%His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;j/O($On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the Simeonites, [presented an offering].*.O(#and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.)-O("one male goat for a sin offering;U,%(!one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<+u( one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{*q(His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;d)C(On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the Reubenites, [presented an offering].'(I(and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.)'O(one male goat for a sin offering;U&%(one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<%u(one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{$q(His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;a#=(On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites, [presented an offering].)"M(and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.)!O(one male goat for a sin offering;U %(one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<u(one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense; (As his offering, he presented one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;]5(On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented [an offering].-U(and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.)O(one male goat for a sin offering;U%(one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<u(one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;{q( His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;r_( The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.nW( The LORD told Moses, "Each day have one leader present his offering for the dedication of the altar."+( The leaders also presented the dedication gift for the altar when it was anointed. The leaders presented their offerings in front of the altar.#( But he did not give [any] to the Kohathites, since their responsibility was service related to the holy objects carried on their shoulders.(and gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen corresponding to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.X+(He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen corresponding to their service,G (So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.'I(Accept [these] from them to be used in the work of the tent of meeting, and give this offering to the Levites, to each [division] according to their service.";(The LORD said to Moses,<s(They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and 12 oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle. 1(the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestral houses, presented [an offering]. They were the tribal leaders who supervised the registration.O  (On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils. After he anointed and consecrated these things,U %(In this way they will put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them."; s(the LORD look with favor on you and give you peace.E (the LORD make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you;+S(The LORD bless you and protect you;R(Tell Aaron and his sons how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: =(The LORD spoke to Moses:gI(This is the ritual of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his consecration, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes in keeping with the ritual for his consecration."wi(The priest is to wave them as a presentation offering before the LORD. It is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.W)(The priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put [them] into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head.4c(The Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair from his head, and put [it] on the fire under the fellowship sacrifice.G (He will also offer the ram as a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened bread. Then the priest will offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.wi(The priest is to present [these] before the LORD and sacrifice the Nazirite's sin offering and burnt offering.+Q(along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil.R~(He is to present an offering to the LORD of one unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, one unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, one unblemished ram as a fellowship offering,}'( This is the law of the Nazirite: On the day his time of consecration is completed, he must be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.Q|( He is to rededicate his time of consecration to the LORD and to bring a year-old male lamb as a restitution offering. But do not count the previous period, because his consecrated hair became defiled.\{3( The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement on behalf of the Nazirite, since he sinned because of the corpse. On that day he must consecrate his head [again].z( On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting./yY( If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.?x{(He is holy to the LORD during the time of consecration.w9(He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, because the hair consecrated to his God is on his head.\v3(He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the LORD.\u3(You must not cut his hair throughout the time of his vow of consecration. He must be holy until the time is completed during which he consecrates himself to the LORD; he is to let the hair of his head grow long.at=(He is not to eat anything produced by the grapevine, from seeds to skin, during his vow.&sG(he is to abstain from wine and beer. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. r(Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to consecrate himself to the Lord,!q A(The LORD instructed Moses:dpC(The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her guilt."Co(or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will apply this entire ritual to her.|ns(This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband's authority,|ms(But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.l(When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.!k=(The priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Then he will require the woman to drink the water.j(The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, wave the offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.i(He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause bitter suffering.hhK(Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash [them] off into the bitter water.%gE(May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing [your] belly to swell and [your] thigh to shrivel.' "And the woman must reply, ' Amen, Amen.'vfg(at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her-- 'May the LORD make you into an object of your people's cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.e9(But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you'--{dq(The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, 'If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband's authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse.ycm(After the priest has the woman stand before the Lord, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse. b(Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, and take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor and put [it] in the water.Oa(The priest is to bring her forward and have her stand before the LORD.`7(then the man is to bring his wife to the priest. He is also to bring an offering for her of two quarts of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance that brings sin to mind.o_Y(and if a feeling of jealousy comes over the husband and he becomes jealous because of his wife who has defiled herself-- or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he becomes jealous of her though she has not defiled herself--N^( and sleeps with another, but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn't caught [in the act]; 1E~}}|${zzYyy0xwvv~vuxu,tqssrr4qq>pp[oonn/mmFllZlk8jjTj2iihhhXhgggvg"fffxfDee:ddacc4byaaC``_^^4]] \*[m[ZYYYPXXNWWOVxUUITT9S RR"QPP5OONNzMM(LLYKK0JJ(II(HvGGFF5EE.DDlCC0BBtB A@@"??4>>4===7<;;":::*99988[7654433B22'11V00v///.R--,,e++O*r*)g)0(C''+&&%U$$6#""C"!! @9k^qI!)%Fw'9\/% 1  U  #1Y0-(Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated [to the LORD] belongs to you./( The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them..( I am giving you all the best of the fresh olive oil, new wine, and grain, which the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.m-U( The contribution of their gifts also belongs to you. I have given all the Israelites' presentation offerings to you and to your sons and daughters as a perpetual statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your house may eat it.c,A( You are to eat it as a most holy offering. Every male may eat it; it is to be holy to you.j+O( A portion of the holiest offerings [kept] from the fire will be yours; every one of their offerings that they give Me, whether the grain offering, sin offering, or restitution offering will be most holy for you and your sons.h*K(Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Look, I have put you in charge of the contributions brought to Me. As for all the holy offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a perpetual statute.3)a(But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the veil, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but an unauthorized person who comes near [the sanctuary] will be put to death."((Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the LORD to work at the tent of meeting.i'M(You are to guard the sanctuary and the altar so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again. &(They are to join you and guard the tent of meeting, doing all the work at the tent, but no unauthorized person may come near you.(%K(They are to perform duties for you and for the whole tent. They must not come near the sanctuary equipment or the altar; otherwise, both they and you will die.9$m(But also bring your brothers with you from the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, so they may join you and serve with you and your sons in front of the tent of the testimony.E# (The LORD said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and your ancestral house will be responsible for sin against the sanctuary. You and your sons will be responsible for sin involving your priesthood.S"!( Anyone who comes near the LORD's tabernacle will die. Will we all perish?"c!A( Then the Israelites declared to Moses, "Look, we're perishing! We're lost; we're all lost!/ [( So Moses did as the LORD commanded him.D( The LORD told Moses, "Put Aaron's rod back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before Me, or else they will die."( Moses then brought out all the staffs from the LORD's presence to all the Israelites. They saw [them], and each man took his own staff.5e(The next day Moses entered the tent of the testimony and saw that Aaron's staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, formed buds, blossomed, and produced almonds!N(Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.?y(So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their ancestral houses, 12 staffs [in all]. Aaron's staff was among them.(The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the Israelites' complaints that they have been making about you."`;(Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.r_(Write Aaron's name on Levi's staff, because there must be one staff for the head of each ancestral house.5e(Speak to the Israelites and take one staff from them for each ancestral house, 12 staffs from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man's name on his staff.! A(The LORD instructed Moses:oY(2Aaron then returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, since the plague had been halted.ym(1But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.M(0He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was halted.K(/So Aaron took his firepan as Moses had ordered, ran into the middle of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people. After he added incense, he made atonement for the people.[1(.Then Moses told Aaron, "Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the LORD; the plague has begun."dC(-Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly." But they fell facedown.#C(,and the LORD said to Moses,A(+Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting,( K(*When the community assembled against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the tent of meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it, and the LORD's glory appeared. ()The next day the entire Israelite community complained about Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the LORD's people!"t c((just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorized person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD and become like Korah and his followers. #('So Eleazar the priest took the bronze firepans that those who were burned had presented, and they were hammered into plating for the altar,u e(&As for the firepans of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, for they presented them before the LORD, and the firepans are holy. They will be a sign to the Israelites."!(%Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the firepans from the burning debris, because they are holy, and scatter the fire far away.%G($Then the LORD spoke to Moses:cA(#Fire also came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.("At their cries, all [the people of Israel] who were around them fled because they thought, "The earth may swallow us too!"  (!They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.}u( The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah's people, and all [their] possessions.Z/(Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.ue(But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD."ue(If these men die [naturally] as all people would, and suffer the fate of all, then the LORD has not sent me.(Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD sent me to do all these things and that it was not of my own will:B~(So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance of their tents with their wives, children, and infants.4}c(He warned the community, "Get away now from the tents of these wicked men. Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins."[|1(Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.W{)(Tell the community: Get away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.""zA(The LORD replied to Moses, y;(But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, "God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will you vent Your wrath on the whole community?"Rx(Separate yourselves from this community so I may consume them instantly."*wQ(The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,v7(After Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community.u'(Each man took his firepan, placed fire in it, put incense on it, and stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting along with Moses and Aaron.3ta(Each of you is to take his firepan, place incense on it, and present his firepan before the LORD-- 250 firepans. You and Aaron [are] each [to present] your firepan also."xsk(So Moses told Korah, "You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow-- you, they, and Aaron. r;(Then Moses became angry and said to the LORD, "Don't respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them."?qy(Furthermore, you didn't bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!"-pU( Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?_o9( Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!n'( Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who is he that you should complain about him?"{mq( He has brought you near, and all your fellow Levites who are with you, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.ilM( Isn't it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelite community to bring you near to Himself, to perform the work at the LORD's tabernacle, and to stand before the community to minister to them?4ke(Moses also told Korah, "Now listen, Levites!.jW(place fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is set apart. It is you Levites who have gone too far!"Vi'(Korah, you and all your followers are to do this: take firepans, and tomorrowYh-(Then he said to Korah and all his followers, "Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him, who is set apart, and [the one] He will let come near Him. He will let the one He chooses come near Him.2ga(When Moses heard [this], he fell facedown.]f5(They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, "You have gone too far! Everyone in the entire community is holy, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the LORD's assembly?" e(250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses. d (Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, tookqc]()I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God."Ub%((This way you will remember and obey all My commands and be holy to your God.@a{('These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD's commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.@`{(&Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at [each] corner._;(%The LORD said to Moses,w^i($So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.z]o(#Then the LORD told Moses, "The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp."`\;("They placed him in custody, because it had not been decided what should be done to him.b[?(!Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community.iZM( While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.Y}(He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the LORD's word and broken His command; his guilt remains on him."X(But the person who acts defiantly, whether native or foreign resident, blasphemes the LORD. That person is to be cut off from his people.W(You are to have the same law for the person who acts in error, whether he is an Israelite or a foreigner who lives among you.9Vm(The priest must then make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who acts in error sinning unintentionally, and when he makes atonement for him, he will be forgiven.gUI(If one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.T)(The entire Israelite community and the foreigner who resides among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.S(The priest must then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven, for the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, one made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their unintentional sin.#RA(and if it was done unintentionally without the community's awareness, the entire community is to prepare one young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.Q(all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses, from the day the LORD issued the commands and onward throughout your generations--gPI(When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the LORD spoke to Moses--qO](Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD a contribution from the first batch of your dough.N(You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.\M3(you are to offer a contribution to the LORD when you eat from the food of the land.aL=(Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land where I am bringing you,"KA(The LORD instructed Moses:lJS(The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the foreigner who resides with you."@I{(The assembly is to have the same statute for both you and the foreign resident as a permanent statute throughout your generations. You and the foreigner will be alike before the LORD.HH (When a foreigner resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations.G}( Every Israelite is to prepare these things in this way when he presents a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.GF ( This is how you must prepare each of them, no matter how many.;Es( This is to be done for each ox, ram, lamb, or goat.rD_( Also present two quarts of wine as a drink offering. It is a fire offering of pleasing aroma to the LORD.sCa( a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with two quarts of oil must be presented with the bull.B(If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, or as a fellowship offering to the LORD,gAI(Also present a third of a gallon of wine for a drink offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.@{(If you prepare a grain offering with a ram, it must be four quarts of fine flour mixed with a third of a gallon of oil.g?I(Prepare a quart of wine as a drink offering with the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb.>(the one presenting his offering to the LORD must also present a grain offering of two quarts of fine flour mixed with a quart of oil.j=O(and you make a fire offering to the LORD from the herd or flock-- either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering, or at your appointed festivals-- to produce a pleasing aroma for the LORD,e<E(Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you to settle in,!; A(The LORD instructed Moses::#(-Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that [part of the] hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah. 9(,But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the LORD's covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.(8K(+The Amalekites and Canaanites are right in front of you, and you will fall by the sword. The LORD won't be with you, since you have turned from following Him."^77(*Don't go, because the LORD is not among you and you will be defeated by your enemies.^67()But Moses responded, "Why are you going against the LORD's command? It won't succeed.53((They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, "Let's go to the place the LORD promised, for we were wrong."d4C('When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.v3g(&Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.U2%(%those men who spread the report about the land were struck down by the LORD.(1K($So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a bad report about the land--@0{(#I, the LORD, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against Me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die."./W("You will bear the consequences of your sins 40 years based on the number of the 40 days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know My displeasure.6.g(!Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie [scattered] in the wilderness.C-( But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.z,o(I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.+ (I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.:*o(Your corpses will fall in this wilderness-- all of you who were registered [in the census], the entire number of you 20 years old or more-- because you have complained about Me.h)K(Tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.(-(How long [must I endure] this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites' complaints that they make against Me./'[(Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:&-(Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the lowlands, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea."1%](But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.p$[(will ever see the land I swore to [give] their fathers. None of those who have despised Me will see it. #;(none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,X"+(Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the LORD's glory,F!(The LORD responded, "I have pardoned [them] as you requested. 9(Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love, just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now."ym(The LORD is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave [the guilty] unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.J(So now, may My Lord's power be magnified just as You have spoken: ('Since the LORD wasn't able to bring this people into the land He swore to [give] them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.'kQ(If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,%(They will tell [it to] the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.( But Moses replied to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.( I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are."7( The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?  ( While the whole community threatened to stone them, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.S!( Only don't rebel against the LORD, and don't be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us. Don't be afraid of them!"{(If the LORD is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.xk(and said to the entire Israelite community: "The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land.xk(Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who scouted out the land, tore their clothes(Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces [to the ground] in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.T#(So they said to one another, "Let's appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.".W(Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?"6g(All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!W +(Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.9 m( !We even saw the Nephilim there." (The offspring of Anak were descended from the Nephilim.) "To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them."] 5( So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: "The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size. ( But the men who had gone up with him responded, "We can't go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!" 7( Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, "We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!"6 g( The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan."( However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We also saw the descendants of Anak there.!( They reported to Moses: "We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.]5( The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.H ( At the end of 40 days they returned from scouting out the land.p[( That place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster [of grapes] the Israelites cut there.?y( When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which was carried on a pole by two men. [They] also [took] some pomegranates and figs.7i( They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.ym( So they went up and scouted out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob near the entrance to Hamath.-U( Is the land fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous. Bring back some fruit from the land." It was the season for the first ripe grapes.iM( Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications?j~O( See what the land is like, and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. }( When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country.w|i( These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.1{_( Geuel son of Machi from the tribe of Gad.7zk( Nahbi son of Vophsi from the tribe of Naphtali;6yi( Sethur son of Michael from the tribe of Asher;4xe( Ammiel son of Gemalli from the tribe of Dan;Qw( Gaddi son of Susi from the tribe of Manasseh (from the tribe of Joseph);6vi( Gaddiel son of Sodi from the tribe of Zebulun;6ui( Palti son of Raphu from the tribe of Benjamin;4te( Hoshea son of Nun from the tribe of Ephraim;6si( Igal son of Joseph from the tribe of Issachar;7rk( Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;5qg( Shaphat son of Hori from the tribe of Simeon;Pp( These were their names: Shammua son of Zaccur from the tribe of Reuben;po[( Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the LORD's command. All the men were leaders in Israel.n7( Send men to scout out the land of Canaan I am giving to the Israelites. Send one man who is a leader among them from each of their ancestral tribes."m =( The LORD spoke to Moses:\l3( After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.k}( So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was brought back in.Zj/( The LORD answered Moses, "If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn't she remain in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in."Ai( Then Moses cried out to the LORD, "God, please heal her!"{hq( Please don't let her be like a dead [baby] whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."kgQ( and said to Moses, "My lord, please don't hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.(fK( As the cloud moved away from the tent, Miriam's [skin] suddenly became diseased, as [white] as snow. When Aaron turned toward her, he saw that she was diseased:eq( The Lord's anger burned against them, and He left.d3( I speak with him directly, openly, and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?"Jc( Not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My household.b3( He said: "Listen to what I say: If there is a prophet among you from the LORD, I make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.a1( Then the LORD descended in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them came forward,` ( Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "You three come out to the tent of meeting." So the three of them went out.T_#( Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.y^m( They said, "Does the LORD speak only through Moses? Does He not also speak through us?" And the LORD heard [it].w] k( Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he married (for he had married a Cushite woman).S\!( #From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth and remained there.t[c( "So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved [the meat].,ZS( !While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD's anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague.===O<<;|;::/988o77c655c44L33,221_00/P..#-- ,,_++j+ *M))`((A''.&&%$$\##w""r!! M>Mjc G< ?sx8g R b ? o 0 mN$72dM1_( The sons of Korah, however, did not die.)-( The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They [serve as] a warning sign.G ( The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. (It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah's followers fought against the LORD.#C(The son of Pallu was Eliab.R(These were the Reubenite clans, and their registered men numbered 43,730.E(the Hezronite clan from Hezron; the Carmite clan from Carmi.(Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. Reuben's descendants: the Hanochite clan [from] Hanoch; the Palluite clan from Pallu;([Take a census of] those 20 years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt."p [(So Moses and Eleazar the priest said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho, (Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral houses of those 20 years old or more who can serve in Israel's army."U  '(After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,p [(For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor."3 c(Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.5(The LORD told Moses:}u(The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian.5(The name of the slain Israelite man, who was struck dead with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite ancestral house.7( It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites."<u( Therefore declare: I grant him My covenant of peace.L( Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with My zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My zeal. =( The LORD spoke to Moses,9o( but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.0[(followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman-- through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,(When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw [this], he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,B~(An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.h}K(So Moses told Israel's judges, "Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor."-|U(The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD so that His burning anger may turn away from Israel."`{;(So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD's anger burned against Israel.xzk(The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.sy c(While Israel was staying in Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.Vx'(Balaam then arose and went back to his homeland, and Balak also went his way.|ws(Ships will come from the coast of Kittim; they will afflict Asshur and Eber, but they too will come to destruction.Ov(Once more he proclaimed his poem: Ah, who can live when God does this?=uw(Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.zto(Next he saw the Kenites and proclaimed his poem: Your dwelling place is enduring; your nest is set in the cliffs.{sq(Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem: Amalek was first among the nations, but his future is destruction.Rr(One who comes from Jacob will rule; he will destroy the city's survivors.tqc(Edom will become a possession; Seir will become a possession of its enemies, but Israel will be triumphant.Gp (I see him, but not now; I perceive him, but not near. A star will come from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will smash the forehead of Moab and strike down all the Shethites.7oi(the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God and has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls [into a trance] with [his] eyes uncovered:tnc(Then he proclaimed his poem: The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened;~mw(Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future."?ly( If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the LORD's command, to do [anything] good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the LORD says.Uk%( Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I previously tell the messengers you sent me:ljS( Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but look, the LORD has denied you a reward."Ai}( Then Balak became furious with Balaam, struck his hands together, and said to him, "I summoned you to put a curse on my enemies, but instead, you have blessed [them these three times]."h?( He crouches, he lies down like a lion or a lioness-- who dares to rouse him? Those who bless you will be blessed, and those who curse you will be cursed.-gU(God brought him out of Egypt; He is like the horns of a wild ox for them. He will feed on enemy nations and gnaw their bones; he will strike [them] with his arrows.f)(Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will be by abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted. e(they stretch out like river valleys, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the water.Ed(How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwellings, Israel.c(the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls [into a trance] with [his] eyes uncovered:sba(and he proclaimed his poem: The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened,jaO(When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God descended on him,` 1(Since Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go to seek omens as on previous occasions, but turned toward the wilderness.P_(So Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.g^I(Balaam told Balak, "Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."P](So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.&\G(Again Balak said to Balaam, "Please come. I will take you to another place. Maybe it will be agreeable to God that you can put a curse on them for me there."Y[-(But Balaam answered him, "Didn't I tell you: Whatever the LORD says, I must do?"IZ (Then Balak told Balaam, "Don't curse them and don't bless them!" Y;(A people rise up like a lioness; They rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain. X;(There is no magic curse against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said about Jacob and Israel, "What [great things] God has done!"SW!(God brought them out of Egypt; He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.V5(He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and there is rejoicing over the King among them._U9(I have indeed received [a command] to bless; since He has blessed, I cannot change it.T{(God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?jSO(Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak, get up and listen; son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!R#(So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, "What did the LORD say?"zQo(The LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then He said, "Return to Balak and say what I tell you."ePE(Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek [the LORD] over there."}Ou(So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.QN( Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won't see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me."OM( He answered, "Shouldn't I say exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?"L( What have you done to me?" Balak asked Balaam. "I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed [them]!"K9( Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered the dust clouds of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my [life] be like theirs.!J=( I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; it does not consider itself among the nations.kIQ(How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the LORD has not denounced?*HO(Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: "Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel!"nGW(So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.kFQ(Then the LORD put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak and say what I tell you."|Es(God met with him and Balaam said to Him, "I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar."(&Balaam said to him, "Look, I have come to you, but can I say anything I want? I must speak only the message God puts in my mouth."=(%Balak asked Balaam, "Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn't you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?"<($When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border at the edge of his territory.;'(#Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you." So Balaam went with Balak's officials.;:q("Balaam said to the Angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in Your sight, I will go back."91(!The donkey saw Me and turned away from Me these three times. If she had not turned away from Me, I would have killed you by now and let her live."-8U( The Angel of the LORD asked him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because what you are doing is evil in My sight.87k(Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the path with a drawn sword in His hand. Balaam knelt and bowed with his face [to the ground].6)(But the donkey said, "Am I not the donkey you've ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?" "No," he replied.s5a(Balaam answered the donkey, "You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I'd kill you now!" 4(Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she asked Balaam, "What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?" 3(When the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD, she crouched down under Balaam. So he became furious and beat the donkey with his stick.2y(The Angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left.1(The donkey saw the Angel of the LORD and pressed herself against the wall, squeezing Balaam's foot against it. So he hit her once again.v0g(Then the Angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a stone wall on either side.E/(When the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD standing on the path with a drawn sword in His hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path.:.o(But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the Angel of the LORD took His stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.f-G(When he got up in the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the officials of Moab.,9(God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you."q+](Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me."K*(But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, "If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the LORD my God to do [anything] small or great.z)o(for I will greatly honor you and do whatever you ask me. So please come and put a curse on these people for me!'"~(w(They came to Balaam and said to him, "This is what Balak son of Zippor says: 'Let nothing keep you from coming to me,^'7(Balak sent officials again who were more numerous and higher in rank than the others.h&K(The officials of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and reported, "Balaam refused to come with us."%%( So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak's officials, "Go back to your land, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you."x$k( Then God said to Balaam, "You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.";#q( 'Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.'"^"7( Balaam replied to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent [this message] to me:I! ( Then God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?" (He said to them, "Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the LORD tells me." So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam. (The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and reported Balak's words to him.oY(Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed."sa(he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. Balak said to him: "Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me.N(So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field." Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab's king at that time,a=(Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous, and dreaded the Israelites.N(Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.h M(The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.vg(#So they struck him, his sons, and his whole army until no one was left, and they took possession of his land.K("But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon."(!Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out against them with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.q]( After Moses sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there..Y(So Israel lived in the Amorites' land.(We threw them down; Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon. We caused desolation as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.#A(Woe to you, Moab! You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon the Amorite king.|s(For fire came out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of Arnon's heights.hK(Therefore the poets say: Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.&G(Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken control of all his land as far as the Arnon.r_(Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.' I(Israel struck him with the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, [but only up] to the Ammonite border, because it was fortified.M (But Sihon would not let Israel travel through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.F (Let us travel through your land. We won't go into the fields or vineyards. We won't drink [any] well water. We will travel the King's Highway until we have traveled through your territory."E (Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites:r _(from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland.;s(from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,7(The princes dug the well; The nobles of the people hollowed it out with a scepter and with their staffs. [They went] from the wilderness to Mattanah,A(Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, well-- sing to it!zo(From there [they went] to Beer, the well the LORD told Moses about, "Gather the people so I may give them water."gI(even the slopes of the ravines that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.mU(Therefore it is stated in the Book of the LORD's Wars: Waheb in Suphah and the ravines of the Arnon,S!( They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon [River], in the wilderness that extends from the Amorite border, because the Arnon was the Moabite border between Moab and the Amorites.8m( From there they went and camped at Zered Valley.jO( They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.3c( The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth. ~( So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered. }(Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake [image] and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.Z|/(The people then came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so that He will take the snakes away from us." And Moses interceded for the people.n{W(Then the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.,zS(The people spoke against God and Moses: "Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!"y!(Then they set out from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea to bypass the land of Edom, but the people became impatient because of the journey.$xC(The LORD listened to Israel's request, the Canaanites were defeated, and Israel completely destroyed them and their cities. So they named the place Hormah.w (Then Israel made a vow to the LORD, "If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities."(v M(When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming on the Atharim road, he fought against Israel and captured some prisoners.uue(When the whole community saw that Aaron had passed away, the entire house of Israel mourned for him 30 days.+tQ(After Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.lsS(So Moses did as the LORD commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.xrk(Remove Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will be gathered [to his people] and die there."Dq(Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.-pU(Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land I have given the Israelites, because you both rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.Yo-(The LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor on the border of the land of Edom,Zn/(After they set out from Kadesh, the entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.jmO(Edom refused to allow Israel to travel through their territory, and Israel turned away from them. l (Yet Edom insisted, "You must not travel through." And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people.Fk(We will go on the main road," the Israelites replied to them, "and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay its price. There will be no problem; only let us travel through on foot."|js(But Edom answered him, "You must not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword."wii(Please let us travel through your land. We won't travel through [any] field or vineyard, or drink [any] well water. We will travel the King's Highway; we won't turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.'"+hQ(When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an Angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the border of your territory.~gw(Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.f1(Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "This is what your brother Israel says, 'You know all the hardships that have overtaken us.{eq( These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness to them.Cd( But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them."&cG( Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. b;( Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?"Wa)( So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence just as He had commanded him.`{(Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock." _=(The LORD spoke to Moses,H^ (Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell down with their faces [to the ground], and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.%]E(Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It's not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!"l\S(Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?w[i(The people quarreled with Moses and said, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD.YZ-(There was no water for the community, so they assembled against Moses and Aaron.Y )(The entire Israelite community entered the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they settled in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.}Xu(Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches [it] will be unclean until evening."@W{(This is a perpetual statute for them. The person who sprinkles the water for impurity is to wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening.fVG(But a person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.U{(The one who is clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being purified must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be clean by evening.zTo(A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.&SG(For [the purification of] the unclean person, they are to take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, [put them] in a jar, and add fresh water to them.!R=(Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.DQ(and any open container without a lid tied on it is unclean.P5(This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is [already] in the tent will be unclean for seven days,O3( Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.CN( He is to purify himself with the water on the third day and the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.PM( The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.RL( Then the one who gathers up the cow's ashes must wash his clothes, and he will remain unclean until evening. This is a perpetual statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner who resides among them.tKc( A man who is clean is to gather up the cow's ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes must be kept by the Israelite community for [preparing] the water [to remove] impurity; it is a sin offering.J(The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.$IC(Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.}Hu(The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw [them] onto the fire where the cow is burning.oGY(The cow must be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood, are to be burned along with its dung. F(Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.uEe(Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.(DK(This is the legal statute that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red cow that has no defect and has never been yoked.)C Q(The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,/BY( You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites' holy offerings, so that you will not die."yAm(then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.)@M(Tell them further: Once you have presented the best part of the tenth, and it is credited to you Levites as the produce of the threshing floor or the winepress,?{(You must present the entire offering due the LORD from all your gifts. The best part of the tenth is to be consecrated.%>E(You are to present an offering to the LORD from every tenth you receive from the Israelites. Give some of it to Aaron the priest as an offering to the LORD. =(Your offering will be credited to you as if [it were your] grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.U<%(Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD-- a tenth of the tenth.";A(The LORD instructed Moses,U:%(For I have given them the tenth that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution for [their] inheritance. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites."l9S(The Levites will do the work of the tent of meeting, and they will bear the [consequences] of their sin. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites; this is a perpetual statute throughout your generations.i8M(The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.7(Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting.86k(The LORD told Aaron, "You will not have an inheritance in their land; there will be no portion among them for you. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.g5I(I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the LORD as a perpetual statute. It is a perpetual covenant of salt before the LORD for you as well as your offspring."{4q(But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation offering and the right thigh.U3%(However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. 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'Y =Q #hl;\'kW 7 Y 2)+w8>n a5(!At the LORD's command, Moses wrote down the starting points for the stages of their journey; these are the stages [listed] by their starting points:% G(!These were the stages of the Israelites' journey when they went out of the land of Egypt by their military divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.a=( *Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.lS( )Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair's Villages.^7( (So Moses gave Gilead to [the clan of] Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled in it.zo( 'The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.zo( &as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.<u( %The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,Q( $Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and [built] sheepfolds.(M( #Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,2a( "The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,zo( !So Moses gave them-- the Gadites, Reubenites, and half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph-- the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land including its cities with the territories surrounding them.)( We will cross over in battle formation before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but we will keep our hereditary possession across the Jordan."kQ( The Gadites and Reubenites replied, "What the LORD has spoken to your servants is what we will do.m U( But if they don't go across with you in battle formation, they must accept land in Canaan with you."_ 9( Moses told them, "If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, every man in battle formation before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession. ( So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the family leaders of the Israelite tribes.t c( but your servants are equipped for war before the LORD and will go across to the battle as my lord orders."m U( Our little children, wives, livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead,dC( The Gadites and Reubenites answered Moses, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.dC( Build cities for your dependents and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised."tc( But if you don't do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD; be sure your sin will catch up with you.E( and the land is subdued before the LORD-- afterwards you may return and be free from obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.~w( and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven His enemies from His presence,cA( Moses replied to them, "If you do this-- if you arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,#( Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance will be across the Jordan to the east."nW( We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.b?( But we will arm ourselves and be ready [to go] ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our dependents will remain in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.~w( Then they approached him and said, "We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.~ ( If you turn back from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them."}( And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your fathers' place adding even more to the LORD's burning anger against Israel.8|k( The Lord's anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness 40 years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the LORD's sight was gone.~{w( none except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they did follow the LORD completely.'0z[( 'Because they did not follow Me completely, none of the men 20 years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore [to give] Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--Cy( So the Lord's anger burned that day, and He swore an oath:x%( After they went up as far as Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them.Zw/( That's what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.evE( Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land the LORD has given them?iuM( But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, "Should your brothers go to war while you stay here?t#( They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don't make us cross the Jordan."s( which the LORD struck down before the community of Israel, is [good] land for livestock, and your servants own livestock."crA( [The territory of] Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,tqc( So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community and said:3p c( The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, they saw that the region was a [good] one for livestock.Bo(6Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.;ns(5Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.m(4All the gold of the contribution they offered to the Lord, from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, was 420 pounds.[l1(3Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.Bk(2So we have presented to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man found-- armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces-- to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."~jw(1and told him, "Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.|is(0The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses\h3(/Moses took one out of [every] 50, selected from the people and the livestock from the Israelites' half. He gave them to the Levites who perform the duties of the LORD's tabernacle, as the LORD had commanded him.g1(.and 16,000 people.f+(-30,500 donkeys,e)(,36,000 cattle,:dq(+the community's half was: 337,500 sheep and goats,Rc(*From the Israelites' half, which Moses separated from the men who fought,vbg()Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as a contribution for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.Ka((and from the 16,000 people, the tribute to the LORD was 32 people.@`}('from the 30,500 donkeys, the tribute to the LORD was 61;?_{(&from the 36,000 cattle, the tribute to the LORD was 72;F^(%and the tribute to the LORD was 675 from the sheep and goats;Z]/($The half portion for those who went out to war numbered: 337,500 sheep and goats,X\+(#and 32,000 people, all the females who had not had sexual relations with a man.[+("61,000 donkeys,Z)(!72,000 cattle,eYE( The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled: 675,000 sheep and goats,IX (So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.RW(From the Israelites' half, take one out of every 50 from the people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats, all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who perform the duties of the LORD's tabernacle."nVW(Take [the tribute] from their half and give [it] to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the LORD.&UG(Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of [every] 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.bT?(Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to war and the entire community.S(You, Eleazar the priest, and the family leaders of the community are to take a count of what was captured, human and animal.R5(The LORD told Moses,iQM(On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp."HP (everything that can withstand fire-- put through fire, and it will be clean. It must still be purified with the purification water. Anything that cannot withstand fire, put through the water.c(So 1,000 were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands in Israel-- 12,000 equipped for war.9=o(Send 1,000 men to war from each Israelite tribe." <(So Moses spoke to the people, "Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the LORD's vengeance on them.w;i(Execute vengeance for the Israelites against the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.": =(The LORD spoke to Moses,;9q(These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning [the relationship] between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.h8K(But if he cancels them after he hears [about them], he will be responsible for her commitment."Q7(If her husband says nothing at all to her from day to day, he confirms all her vows and obligations, which are binding. He has confirmed them because he said nothing to her when he heard [about them].[61( Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.W5)( But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears [about it], nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or her obligation, is binding. Her husband has canceled them, and the LORD will absolve her.+4Q( and her husband hears [about it], says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.j3O( If a woman in her husband's house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,H2 ( Any vow a widow or divorce put herself under is binding on her.21_(But if her husband prohibits her when he hears [about it], he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the LORD will forgive her.!0=(and her husband hears [about it] and says nothing to her when he finds out, her vows are binding, and the obligations she put herself under are binding._/9(If a woman marries while her vows or the rash commitment she herself made are binding,Y.-(But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears [about it], none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.5-e(and her father hears about her vow or the obligation she put herself under, and he says nothing to her, all her vows and every obligation she put herself under are binding.{,q(When a woman in her father's house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or puts [herself] under an obligation,"+?(When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.]* 7(Moses told the leaders of the Israelite tribes, "This is what the LORD has commanded:L)((So Moses told the Israelites everything the LORD had commanded him.((K('You must offer these to the LORD at your appointed times in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt, grain, drink, or fellowship offerings."'(&Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.l&S(%with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.%+($Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--_$9(#On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you are not to do any daily work.#("Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.l"S(!with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.o!Y( On the seventh day [present] seven bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished-- (Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.lS(with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.iM(On the sixth day [present] eight bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--(Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.lS(with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.hK(On the fifth day [present] nine bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--(Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.lS(with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.gI(On the fourth day [present] 10 bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--(Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.lS(with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.fG(On the third day [present] 11 bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--(Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.lS(with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.q](On the second day [present] 12 young bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--(Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.1_(and two quarts with each of the 14 lambs.(Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with each of the 13 bulls, four quarts with each of the two rams,'I( Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: 13 young bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old. They are to be unblemished.- U( You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; you must not do any daily work. You are to celebrate a seven-day festival for the LORD.+ Q( [Offer] one male goat for a sin offering. The regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings are in addition to the sin offering of atonement.4 e( and two quarts with each of the seven lambs.x k( Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,$ C(Present a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. [All] your animals are to be unblemished. (You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth [day] of this seventh month and practice self-denial; you must not do any work.1](These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.W)(Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.9o(and two quarts with each of the seven male lambs.tc(with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram, (Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--0 ](You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of jubilation for you.'(Offer [them] with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Your animals are to be unblemished.;s(and one male goat to make atonement for yourselves.3c(and two quarts with each of the seven lambsu~e(with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,~}w(Present a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old,:|o(On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD at your [Festival of] Weeks; you are not to do any daily work.`{;(On the seventh day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.=zu(You are to offer the same food each day for seven days as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.`y;(Offer these with the morning burnt offering that is part of the regular burnt offering.Ox(and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.5wg(Offer two quarts with each of the seven lambs v(The grain offering with them is to be of fine flour mixed with oil; offer six quarts with each bull and four quarts with the ram.u7(Present a fire offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. Your animals are to be unblemished.]t5(On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.use(On the fifteenth day of this month there will be a festival; unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days._r9(The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month. q(And one male goat is to be offered as a sin offering to the Lord, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering.Vp'(Their drink offerings are to be two quarts of wine with each bull, one and a third quarts with the ram, and one quart with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year.o7( and two quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb. It is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD."n?( with six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull, four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the ram,"m?( At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old-- [all] unblemished--vlg( It is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. k;( On the Sabbath day [present] two unblemished year-old male lambs, four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and its drink offering.1j](Offer the second lamb at twilight, along with the same kind of grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.}iu(The drink offering is to be a quart with each lamb. Pour out the offering of beer to the LORD in the sanctuary area.uhe(It is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.igM(along with two quarts of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with a quart of beaten olive oil.Ff(Offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at twilight,(eK(And say to them: This is the fire offering you are to present to the LORD: "Each day [present] two unblemished year-old male lambs as a regular burnt offering.$dC(Command the Israelites and say to them: Be sure to present to Me at its appointed time My offering and My food as My fire offering, a pleasing aroma to Me.c =(The LORD spoke to Moses,[b1(laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as the LORD had spoken through Moses.ay(Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire community,S`!(He will stand before Eleazar who will consult the LORD for him with the decision of the Urim. He and all the Israelites with him, even the entire community, will go out and come back in at his command."e_E(Confer some of your authority on him so that the entire Israelite community will obey [him].m^U(Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.x]k(The LORD replied to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.7\i(who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the LORD's community won't be like sheep without a shepherd."\[3(May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community&ZI(So Moses appealed to the LORD,_Y9(When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight at the waters." Those were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.eXE( After you have seen it, you will also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.W( Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of the Abarim [range] and see the land that I have given the Israelites.YV-( If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the LORD commanded Moses."NU( If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers.ET( If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.mSU(Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.,RS(What Zelophehad's daughters say is correct. You are to give them hereditary property among their father's brothers and transfer their father's inheritance to them."QA(and the LORD answered him,1P_(Moses brought their case before the LORD, O(Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father's brothers."8Nk(Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among Korah's followers, who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons. M(They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,L (The daughters of Zelophehad approached; [Zelophehad was the] son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.K3(AFor the LORD had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.(JK(@But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.&IG(?These were the ones registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho.>Hw(>Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the [other] Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.XG+(=but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD.>Fy(=(4The LORD spoke to Moses,8=m(3These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.P<(2These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.H; (1the Jezerite clan from Jezer; the Shillemite clan from Shillem.l:S(0Naphtali's descendants by their clans: the Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel; the Gunite clan from Guni;R9(/These were the Asherite clans [numbered] by their registered men: 53,400.38c(.And the name of Asher's daughter was Serah.e7E(-From Beriah's descendants: the Heberite clan from Heber; the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.6(,Asher's descendants by their clans: the Imnite clan from Imnah; the Ishvite clan from Ishvi; the Beriite clan from Beriah.P5(+All the Shuhamite clans [numbered] by their registered men were 64,400.4}(*These were Dan's descendants by their clans: the Shuhamite clan from Shuham. These were the clans of Dan by their clans.S3!()These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.l2S((Bela's descendants [from] Ard and Naaman: the Ardite clan [from] Ard; the Naamite clan from Naaman.J1('the Shuphamite clan from Shupham; the Huphamite clan from Hupham. 0(&Benjamin's descendants by their clans: the Belaite clan from Bela; the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel; the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram;/(%These were the Ephraimite clans [numbered] by their registered men: 32,500. These were Joseph's descendants by their clans.H. ($These were Shuthelah's descendants: the Eranite clan from Eran.-5(#These were Ephraim's descendants by their clans: the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah; the Becherite clan from Becher; the Tahanite clan from Tahan.O,("These were Manasseh's clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.+(!Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons-- only daughters. The names of Zelophehad's daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.N*( the Shemidaite clan [from] Shemida; the Hepherite clan [from] Hepher;N)(The Asrielite clan [from] Asriel; the Shechemite clan [from] Shechem;g(I(These were Gilead's descendants: the Iezerite clan [from] Iezer; the Helekite clan from Helek;x'k(Manasseh's descendants: the Machirite clan from Machir. Machir fathered Gilead; the Gileadite clan from Gilead.I& (Joseph's descendants by their clans [from] Manasseh and Ephraim:T%#(These were the Zebulunite clans [numbered] by their registered men: 60,500. $(Zebulun's descendants by their clans: the Seredite clan from Sered; the Elonite clan from Elon; the Jahleelite clan from Jahleel.P#(These were Issachar's clans [numbered] by their registered men: 64,300.J"(the Jashubite clan from Jashub; the Shimronite clan from Shimron.g!I(Issachar's descendants by their clans: the Tolaite clan from Tola; the Punite clan from Puvah;M (These were Judah's clans [numbered] by their registered men: 76,500.`;(The descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron; the Hamulite clan from Hamul. (Judah's descendants by their clans: the Shelanite clan from Shelah; the Perezite clan from Perez; the Zerahite clan from Zerah.P(Judah's sons included Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.P(These were the Gadite clans [numbered] by their registered men: 40,500.@}(the Arodite clan from Arod; the Arelite clan from Areli.;s(the Oznite clan from Ozni; the Erite clan from Eri;(Gad's descendants by their clans: the Zephonite clan from Zephon; the Haggite clan from Haggi; the Shunite clan from Shuni;=w(These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.D( the Zerahite clan from Zerah; the Shaulite clan from Shaul. ( Simeon's descendants by their clans: the Nemuelite clan from Nemuel; the Jaminite clan from Jamin; the Jachinite clan from Jachin; \<~~R}}s||2{{{[{!zzezyyyHyxxxJxwwwTwvvv\vuuuSttsssrrr\rqqq(ppOoonnmkllVl4kjjNiioi hhBggbff!eTdddcccFc bbmb&aaaSa ``/__^]\\j[q[OZZdYYYXSWWCVV_UUTTSRR:QPPIOONfMML+KRJLIrHHFGFF8EEvDD5CC*BAAA6@???*>>I==v=8 _2!who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.@= 2 But in spite of this you did not trust the LORD your God,< 72And you saw in the wilderness how the LORD your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.j; Q2The LORD your God who goes before you will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt.>: {2So I said to you: Don't be terrified or afraid of them!R9 !2Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us, saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.'68 i2You grumbled in your tents and said, 'The LORD brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they would destroy us, because He hated us.^7 92But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the LORD your God.*6 Q2They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried [it] down to us, and brought us back a report: 'The land the LORD our God is giving us is good.'h5 M2They left and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol, scouting the land.`4 =2The plan seemed good to me, so I selected 12 men from among you, one man for each tribe.Q3 2Then all of you approached me and said, 'Let's send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.'02 ]2See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.n1 Y2I said to you: You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.Z0 12We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,I/ 2At that time I commanded you about all the things you were to do.S. #2Do not show partiality when rendering judgment; listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.- 52I commanded your judges at that time: Hear [the cases] between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.;, s2So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: officials for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.;+ u2You replied to me, 'What you propose to do is good.'* 2 Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.J) 2 But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?t( e2 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as He promised you.g' K2 The LORD your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.X& -2 I said to you at that time: I can't bear [the responsibility for] you on my own.6% i2See, I have set the land before you. Enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their descendants after them.'s$ c2Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the lowlands, the Negev and the sea coast-- to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon as far as the Euphrates River.]# 72The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, 'You have stayed at this mountain long enough.W" +2Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:! 2This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.!  ?2In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses told the Israelites everything the LORD had commanded him [to say] to them.U '2It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir./ ]2These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.-($ These are the commands and ordinances the LORD commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho. ;($ They married [men] from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father's clan.wi($ Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married cousins on their father's side.E($ The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.($ No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance."O($Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers..W($An inheritance belonging to the Israelites must not transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.+Q($This is what the LORD has commanded concerning Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.zo($So Moses commanded the Israelites at the word of the LORD, "What the tribe of Joseph's descendants says is right.V'($When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe."($If they marry any of the men from the [other] Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers' inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.U%($They said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites. My lord was further commanded by the LORD to give our brother Zelophehad's inheritance to his daughters.h M($The family leaders from the clan of the descendants of Gilead-- the son of Machir, son of Manasseh-- one of the clans of the sons of Joseph approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were over the Israelite families.wi(#"Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, the Lord, reside among the Israelites."Q(#!Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it..W(# Neither should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to his city of refuge, allowing him to return and live in the land before the death of the [high] priest.} u(#You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.- U(#If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.r _(#These [instructions] will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.d C(#for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses. (#and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,dC(#If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,(#The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.lS(#the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. (#or drops a stone without looking that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and wasn't trying to harm him,vg(#But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intentD(#or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.vg(#Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws [an object] at him with malicious intent and he dies,dC(#The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.zo(#If a man has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and he dies, the murderer must be put to death. (#If a man has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another man and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.~y(#If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.=}u(#These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or temporary resident among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.m|U(#Select three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan to be cities of refuge.@{}(# The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.z-(# You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.y(# designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.bx?(# Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,w;(# The LORD said to Moses,uve(#Of the cities that you give from the Israelites' territory, you should take more from a larger [tribe] and less from a smaller one. Each [tribe] is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives."cuA(#The total number of cities you give the Levites will be 48, along with their pasturelands.Bt(#The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge, which you must provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give 42 [other] cities.ysm(#Measure 1,000 yards outside the city for the east side, 1,000 yards for the south side, 1,000 yards for the west side, and 1,000 yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.}ru(#The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites [will extend] from the city wall 500 yards on every side.q (#The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their [other] animals. p(#Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.`o =(#The LORD again spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho:une("These are the ones the LORD commanded to distribute the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.Fm("Pedahel son of Ammihud, a leader from the tribe of Naphtali."@l}("Ahihud son of Shelomi, a leader from the tribe of Asher;Ck("Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader from the tribe of Issachar;Gj ("Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a leader from the tribe of Zebulun;Di("Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;\h3("from the sons of Joseph: Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh,;gs("Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan;9fo("Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;8em("Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;Xd+("These are the names of the men: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;?c{("Take one leader from each tribe to distribute the land. b("These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. a=("The LORD spoke to Moses,`{("The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, eastward toward the sunrise."I_ ("For the tribe of the Reubenites and the tribe of the Gadites have received [their inheritance] according to their ancestral houses, and half the tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance..^W(" So Moses commanded the Israelites, "This is the land you are to receive by lot as an inheritance, which the LORD commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes. ](" Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land [defined] by its borders on all sides."\(" The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.I[ (" For your eastern border, draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.eZE(" Then the border will go to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border._Y9("from Mount Hor draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, and the border will reach Zedad.`X;("This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;nWW("Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.kVQ("The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.U9("Your border will turn south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, proceed to Zin, and end south of Kadesh-barnea. It will go to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon.'TI("Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.S#("Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these borders:R =("The LORD spoke to Moses,@Q}(!8And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you."NP(!7But if you don't drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.O9(!6You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.nNW(!5You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess.M1(!4you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.PL(!3Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,[K1(!2The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho,_J9(!1They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth to Acacia Meadows on the plains of Moab.tIc(!0They departed from the Abarim [range] and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho.ZH/(!/They departed from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the Abarim [range] facing Nebo.EG(!.They departed from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.8Fm(!-They departed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.QE(!,They departed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.5Dg(!+They departed from Punon and camped at Oboth.8Cm(!*They departed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.1(!%They departed from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor on the edge of the land of Edom.^=7(!$They departed from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).=<w(!#They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.;;s(!"They departed from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.A:(!!They departed from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.D9(! They departed from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.>8y(!They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.<7u(!They departed from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.;6s(!They departed from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.75k(!They departed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.64i(!They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah.:3q(!They departed from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.;2s(!They departed from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.?1{(!They departed from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.C0(!They departed from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.;/s(!They departed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.7.k(!They departed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.=-w(!They departed from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.>,y(!They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.:+q(!They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.E*(!They departed from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.T)#(!They departed from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.K((!They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.k'Q(!They departed from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.7&k(! They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.H% (! They departed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped in Dophkah.L$(! They departed from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.:#q(! They departed from Elim and camped by the Red Sea."(! They departed from Marah and came to Elim. There were 12 springs of water and 70 date palms at Elim, so they camped there.6!g(!They departed from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They took a three-day journey into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.y m(!They departed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.`;(!They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.D(!The Israelites departed from Rameses and camped at Succoth.9(!Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying every firstborn male the LORD had struck down among them, for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.@{(!They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians. ~~%}6|5{{zyybxxx4wOvvuttsrr&qq(ponnmm#llkbjjiih_h*gffef edddDcc>bbbaA``c`_^]] \\\\w[ZZIYXX|WW5VV~UU>==<2 You have been rebelling against the LORD ever since I have known you.C=2 When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, He said, 'Go up and possess the land I have given you'; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not believe or obey Him.U<%2 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.A;}2 I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as [fine as] dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.g:I2 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.&9G2 I was afraid of the fierce anger the LORD had directed against you, because He was about to destroy you. But again, the LORD listened to me on that occasion.q8]2 Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and provoking Him to anger.f7G2 So I took hold of the tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.*6O2 I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the LORD had commanded for you.5{2 So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. 4;2 Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.'h3K2 The LORD also said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.q2]2 The LORD said to me, 'Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.'v1g2 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights.?0y2 On the day of the assembly the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God's finger. The exact words were on them, which the LORD spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.J/2 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.Y.-2 You provoked the LORD at Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you.H- 2 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the LORD from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.,+2 Understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.+72 You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the LORD your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.*{2 When the LORD your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, 'The LORD brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.' Instead, the LORD will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.`);2 But understand that today the LORD your God will cross over ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will devastate and subdue them before you. You will drive them out and destroy them swiftly, as the LORD has told you.*(O2 The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them and you have heard it said about them, 'Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?''' K2 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go and drive out nations greater and stronger than you [with] large cities fortified to the heavens.x&k2Like the nations the LORD is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.%+2If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.$12but remember that the LORD your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers, as it is today._#92You may say to yourself, 'My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,'$"C2He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.C!2He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flintlike rock for you." ?2[be careful] that your heart doesn't become proud and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.ym2 and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases,J2 When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,2 Be careful that you don't forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His command-- the ordinances and statutes-- I am giving you today.iM2 When you eat and are full, you will praise the LORD your God for the good land He has given you.52 a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper._92a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;"?2For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;Z/2So keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him.iM2Keep in mind that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.T#2Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.q]2He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.]52Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.7 k2You must carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to your fathers.C2You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.P2You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don't covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God."?2He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.sa2The LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.D2The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you.b ?2Don't be terrified of them, for the LORD your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.{ q2The LORD your God will also send the hornet against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.P 2the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you fear.k Q2do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:^ 72If you say to yourself, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?'1]2You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.1]2The LORD will remove all sickness from you; He will not put on you all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.vg2You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock. 2 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your descendants, and the produce of your soil-- your grain, new wine, and oil-- the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you.12 If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the LORD your God will keep His covenant loyalty with you, as He swore to your fathers.b?2 So keep the command-- the statutes and ordinances-- that I am giving you to follow today.2 But He directly pays back and destroys those who hate Him. He will not hesitate to directly pay back the one who hates Him.-U2 Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands.N2But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.2The LORD was devoted to you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.-~U2For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.*}O2Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their standing pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn up their carved images.|12because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.u{e2Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,%zE2and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.y 2When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and He drives out many nations before you-- the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you-- x2Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.'w32The LORD commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.ovY2but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.uy2Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh and all his household,pt[2tell him, 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.s+2When your son asks you in the future, 'What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you?'Jr2by driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.3qa2Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land the LORD your God swore to [give] your fathers,lpS2Carefully observe the commands of the LORD your God, the decrees and statutes He has commanded you.Eo2Do not test the LORD your God as you tested [Him] at Massah.#nA2for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the LORD your God will become angry with you and wipe you off the face of the earth.Fm2Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,Pl2 Fear the LORD your God, worship Him, and take [your] oaths in His name.qk]2 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.Gj 2 houses full of every good thing that you did not fill [them with], wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant-- and when you eat and are satisfied,Ei2 When the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give you-- a [land with] large and beautiful cities that you did not build,Eh2 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.Tg#2Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.f/2Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.He 2These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.ddC2Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.:cq2Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.Gb 2Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow [them], so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.Pa2[Do this] so that you may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.=` w2This is the command-- the statutes and ordinances-- the LORD your God has instructed [me] to teach you, so that you may follow [them] in the land you are about to enter and possess._32!Follow the whole instruction the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.u^e2 Be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.F]2But you stand here with Me, and I will tell you every command-- the statutes and ordinances-- you are to teach them, so that they may follow [them] in the land I am giving them to possess.'/\[2Go and tell them: Return to your tents.[}2If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commands, so that they and their children will prosper forever.)ZM2The LORD heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, 'I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.Y'2Go near and listen to everything the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.'xXk2For who out of all mankind has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived? W 2But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.AV}2You said, 'Look, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives.U72All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.WT)2The LORD spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and thick darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.-SU2Do not desire your neighbor's wife or covet your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.>Ry2Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.Q'2Do not steal.P;2Do not commit adultery.O)2Do not murder.6Ng2Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the LORD your God is giving you.aM=2Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. L;2but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work-- you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the foreigner who lives within your gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.7Kk2 You are to labor six days and do all your work,XJ+2 Be careful to dedicate the Sabbath day, as the LORD your God has commanded you.oIY2 Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will punish anyone who misuses His name.iHM2 but showing faithful love to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commands.OG2 You must not bow down to them or worship them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers' sin to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,F2Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.*EQ2Do not have other gods besides Me.gDI2I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.5Ce2At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to report the word of the LORD to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And He said:JB2The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.eAE2He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.:@q2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.,? U2Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.m>U21and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.Y=-20from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon) <2/They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,A;}2.across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.o:Y2-These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,29a2,This is the law Moses gave the Israelites./8Y2+Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.17]2*where one could flee who committed manslaughter and killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:I6 2)Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east,R52(Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you for all time."v4g2'Today, recognize and keep in mind that the LORD is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.352&to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place. 22%Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power, 12$He let you hear His voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you His great fire on earth, and you heard His words from the fire.r0_2#You were shown [these things] so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.~/w2"Or has a god [ever] attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of [another] nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?[.12!Has a people ever heard God's voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?q-]2 Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event [ever] happened, or has anything like it been heard of?&,G2He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to them by oath, because the LORD your God is a compassionate God. +2When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the LORD your God in later days and obey Him.*2But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.g)I2There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.(/2The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.['12I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.g&I2When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, provoking Him to anger,A%2For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.)$M2Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything He has forbidden you.#'2I won't be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land. But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.*"O2The LORD was angry with me on your account. He swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.!2But the LORD selected you and brought you out of Egypt's iron furnace to be a people for His inheritance, as you are today.a =2When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars-- all the array of heaven-- do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The LORD your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.[12any creature that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the waters under the earth.Z/2or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,p[2not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,2Be extremely careful for your own good-- because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire--)2At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.y2 He declared His covenant to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments, which He wrote on two stone tablets. 2 Then the LORD spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn't see a form; there was only a voice.2 You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire into the heavens and enveloped in a dense, black cloud.}u2 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Assemble the people before Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.'kQ2 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don't forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don't slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.q]2And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?ym2For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the LORD our God is [to us] whenever we call to Him?gI2Carefully follow [them], for this will [show] your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, 'This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.' ~g}}.||L{{0zyy8xx1wvvvuVtt>ssrqHppRooo"n?m;llk2jjTjiih4gdfee'ddFcbbEa`%__=^^]]G\\[gZYYXWWWsWVUUBTTTkTSSScS&RRR\R%QPONNMMTLKKJJQII,HuGG:F0EDDGDC`BBDA@@??>>M==< ;[::988s766p55483@22 1100J/..u--S,,+`**H)((z'' &K%% $:#w""V!!% "4!O .494SME q # K %<^jSD2However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.~Cw2This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.DB2But you may take the women, children, animals, and whatever else is in the city-- all its spoil-- as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.hAK2 When the LORD your God hands it over to you, you must strike down all its males with the sword.`@;2 However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it.?'2 If it accepts your offer of peace and opens [its gates] to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.W>)2 When you approach a city to fight against it, you must make an offer of peace.o=Y2 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they will appoint military commanders to lead it.G< 2The officers will continue to address the army and say, 'Is there any man who is afraid or fainthearted? Let him leave and return home, so that his brothers' hearts won't melt like his own.';52Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.'(:K2Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.?9y2The officers are to address the army, 'Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.w8i2For the LORD your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.';7q2He is to say to them: 'Listen, Israel: Today you are about to engage in battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, alarmed, or terrified because of them.d6C2When you are about to engage in battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army.T5 %2When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.o4Y2You must not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.t3c2Then everyone else will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything evil like this among you.b2?2you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.1 2The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,02the two people in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and judges in authority at the time.R/2If a malicious witness testifies against someone accusing him of a crime,3.a2One witness cannot establish any wrongdoing or sin against a person, whatever that person has done. A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.0-[2You must not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established at the start in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.},u2 You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.+2 the elders of his city must send [for him], take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die. *2 But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,!)=2 In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.N(2 provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times-- you are to add three more cities to these three.' 2If the LORD your God enlarges your territory as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised to give them--R&2This is why I am commanding you to set apart three cities for yourselves.%}2Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die, since he did not previously hate his neighbor.w$i2If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.1#]2Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:I" 2You are to determine the distances and divide the land the LORD your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.u!e2you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.  #2When the LORD your God annihilates the nations whose land He is giving you, so that you drive them out and live in their cities and houses,X+2When a prophet speaks in the LORD's name, and the message does not come true or is not fulfilled, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.[12You may say to yourself, 'How can we recognize a message the LORD has not spoken?'%E2But the prophet who dares to speak in My name a message I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods-- that prophet must die.'_92I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to My words that he speaks in My name.!=2I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.9o2Then the LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.eE2This is what you requested from the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, 'Let us not continue to hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!'xk2The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.#2Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do this.7k2 You must be blameless before the LORD your God."?2 Everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things.T#2 cast spells, consult a medium or a familiar spirit, or inquire of the dead.'2 No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,ym2 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.fG2They will eat equal portions besides what he has received from the sale of the family estate.}2he may serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who minister there in the presence of the LORD.wi2When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place the LORD chooses,2For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD's name from now on.z o2You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first sheared [wool] of your flock.0 [2This is the priests' share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be given the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.n W2Although Levi has no inheritance among his brothers, the LORD is his inheritance, as He promised him.,  U2The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the LORD's fire offerings; that is their inheritance.? y2Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years over Israel.M2It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.12When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.52He must not acquire many wives for himself so that his heart won't go astray. He must not acquire very large amounts of silver and gold for himself.<s2However, he must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the LORD has told you, 'You are never to go back that way again.'6g2you are to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.1]2When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, take possession of it, live in it, and say, 'We want to appoint a king over us like all the nations around us,'^72 Then all the people will hear [about it], be afraid, and no longer behave arrogantly.;q2 The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the LORD your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.*O2 You must abide by the instruction they give you and the verdict they announce to you. Do not turn to the right or the left from the decision they declare to you.2 You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.~2 You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Ask, and they will give you a verdict in the case.0}[2If a case is too difficult for you-- concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults-- cases disputed at your gates, you must go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.|-2The witnesses' hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from you.{72The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness.qz]2you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.*yO2and if you are told or hear [about it], you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,x2and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky-- which I have forbidden--4wc2If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the LORD your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and violating His covenantv !2You must not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.Iu 2and do not set up a sacred pillar; the LORD your God hates them.mtU2Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,vsg2Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.r52Do not deny justice or show partiality [to anyone]. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.q72Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.{pq2Everyone [must appear] with a gift suited to his means, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.toc2All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.\n32You are to hold a seven-day festival for the LORD your God in the place He chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.=mu2Rejoice during your festival-- you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates.l!2 You are to celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days when you have gathered in [everything] from your threshing floor and winepress.Qk2 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.j{2 Rejoice before the LORD your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell-- you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow among you.'iI2 You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you.xhk2 You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first [put] to the standing grain.g32You must eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.f}2You are to cook and eat [it] in the place the LORD your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.We)2You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where the LORD your God chooses to have His name dwell. [Do this] in the evening as the sun sets at the [same] time [of day] you departed from Egypt.jdO2You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the LORD your God is giving you.*cO2No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.b 2You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship-- because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry-- so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. a2Sacrifice to the LORD your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the LORD chooses to have His name dwell.$` E2Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.J_2But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.{^q2Eat it within your gates; both the unclean person and the clean [may eat it], as though it were a gazelle or deer.]2But if there is a defect in the animal, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.l\S2Each year you and your family are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD chooses.C[2You must consecrate to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herd and flock. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work or shear the firstborn of your flock.GZ 2Do not regard it as a hardship when you set him free, because he worked for you six years-- worth twice the wages of a hired hand. Then the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.Y2take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.X2But if your slave says to you, 'I don't want to leave you,' because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,W2Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.V92Give generously to him from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You are to give him whatever the LORD your God has blessed you with.AU2 When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.T2 If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.8Sk2 For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, 'You must willingly open your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land.'"R?2 Give to him, and don't have a stingy heart when you give, and because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you do.Q2 Be careful that there isn't this wicked thought in your heart, 'The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,' and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him [nothing]. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.gPI2Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.MO2If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your gates in the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.3Na2When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised you, you will lend to many nations but not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.xMk2if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.&LG2There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD is certain to bless you in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance--kKQ2You may collect [something] from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.VJ'2This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect [anything] from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD's release of debts has been proclaimed.?I }2At the end of [every] seven years you must cancel debts.uHe2Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the foreign resident, fatherless, and widow within your gates may come, eat, and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.}Gu2At the end of [every] three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and store [it] within your gates.fFG2Do not forget the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.CE2You may spend the money on anything you want: cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your family.pD[2then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.DC2But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far away from you and since the LORD your God has blessed you,By2You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place where He chooses to have His name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the LORD your God.XA+2Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields.@2You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident alien within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.4?e2But you may eat every clean flying creature.G> 2All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.H= 2the stork, the various kinds of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.2<a2the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,:;q2the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,O:2the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the gull, the various kinds of hawk,952every kind of raven,.8Y2 the kite, the various kinds of falcon,c7A2 but these are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,%6G2 You may eat every clean bird,a5=2 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales-- it is unclean for you.H4 2 You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,3%2and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not [chew] the cud-- it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.Q22But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these: the camel, the hare, and the hyrax, though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves-- they are unclean for you;Q12You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud.l0S2the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.H/ 2These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,..Y2You must not eat any detestable thing.$-C2for you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be His special people out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.x, m2You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead, +;2 This [will occur] if you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.O*2 Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the LORD will turn from His burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers.Z)/2 You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn up the city and all its spoil for the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever; it is not to be rebuilt.(%2 you must strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Completely destroy everyone in it as well as its livestock with the sword.'12 you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened among you,$&C2 that wicked men have sprung up among you, led the inhabitants of their city astray, and said, 'Let us go and worship other gods,' which you have not known,a%=2 If you hear it said about one of your cities the LORD your God is giving you to live in,j$O2 All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do anything evil like this among you.#%2 Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery." 2 Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.l!S2 you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare [him] or shield him.v g2 any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other--lS2 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'-- which neither you nor your fathers have known,,S2 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slavery, to turn you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. You must purge the evil from you.52 You must follow the LORD your God and fear Him. You must keep His commands and listen to His voice; you must worship Him and remain faithful to Him.9m2 do not listen to that prophet's words or to that dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.92 and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, 'Let us follow other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us worship them,'f I2 If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,ue2 You must be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.F2 You must not do the same to the LORD your God, because they practice for their gods every detestable thing the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.K2 be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations worship their gods? I'll also do the same.' ;2 When the LORD your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land,L2 Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.X+2 Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your [other] sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.ue2 But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD chooses. 2 Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the LORD's sight.;s2 Do not eat blood; pour it on the ground like water.kQ2 But don't eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.mU2 Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.iM2 If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.A }2 When the LORD your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you, and you say, 'I want to eat meat' because you have a strong desire to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want.T #2 and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land. {2 You must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God chooses-- you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you do,_ 92 Within your gates you may not eat: the tenth of your grain, new wine, or oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.J 2 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water._92 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,'2 You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.Y-2 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the [sacred] places you see.J2 You will rejoice before the LORD your God-- you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.xk2 then the LORD your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.3a2 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,r_2 Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.p[2 You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone [is doing] whatever seems right in his own eyes.!=2 You will eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.C2 You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.{~q2 Instead, you must go to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling.1}_2 Don't worship the LORD your God this way..|W2 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.,{S2 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are driving out worship their gods-- on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every flourishing tree.+z S2 Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth.Uy%2 be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances I set before you today.x72 For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you possess it and settle in it,*wO2 Aren't these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?$vC2 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.,uS2 and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the LORD your God, and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.itM2 here will be] a blessing, if you obey the commands of the LORD your God I am giving you today,J=<Mw2I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done all You commanded me.*LO2 Then you will say in the presence of the LORD your God: I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levite, the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commands You gave me. I have not violated or forgotten Your commands.|Ks2 When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you are to give [it] to the Levite, the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.J#2 You, the Levite, and the foreign resident among you will rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given you and your household.*IO2 I have now brought the first of the land's produce that You, LORD, have given me. You will then place the container before the LORD your God and bow down to Him.[H12 He led us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. G2Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with terrifying power, and with signs and wonders.F 2So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.WE)2But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor._D92You are to respond by saying in the presence of the LORD your God: My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.sCa2Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the LORD your God.LB2When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, you must say to him, 'Today I acknowledge to the LORD your God that I have entered the land the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'kAQ2you must take some of the first of all the soil's produce that you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you and put [it] in a container. Then go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to have His name dwell.@ }2When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it,X?+2When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.>2They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.U=%2Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.`<;2For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the LORD your God.;'2You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.\:32You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.V9'2 You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.<8u2 you are to cut off her hand. You must not show pity.17]2 If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,h6K2 And his [family] name in Israel will be called 'The house of the man whose sandal was removed.'f5G2 then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, 'This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother's house.'y4m2The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, 'I don't want to marry her,'}3u2But if the man doesn't want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the [city] gate and say, 'My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He isn't willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.'}2u2The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.152When brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside [the family]. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.60i2Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain./52He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.+.Q2If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number [of lashes] appropriate for his crime.- 72If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.g,I2Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.$+C2When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow.3*a2When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow.)}2When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreign resident, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. (2Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.x'k2Do not deny justice to a foreign resident [or] fatherless child, and do not take a widow's garment as security.&!2Fathers are not to be put to death for [their] children or children for [their] fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.;%q2You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty.$'2Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land."#?2 Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the LORD your God.["12 If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in [the garment] he has given as security.h!K2 You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.y m2 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.[12 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.-U2Be careful in a case of infectious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.2_2If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you. 2Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.>w2When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free [to stay] at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.fG2the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 2and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he dies,L2If after leaving his house she goes and becomes another man's wife,M 2If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.32When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor's grain./2When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put [any] in your container.~w2Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the LORD your God.Y-2But if you refrain from making a vow, it will not be counted against you as sin.-2If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.B2You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.`;2Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest.;q2Do not bring a female prostitute's wages or a male prostitute's earnings into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.hK2No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.Y -2Let him live among you wherever he wants within your gates. Do not mistreat him.X +2Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.V '2For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you. 2 You must have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.S !2 You must have a place outside the camp and go there [to relieve yourself].mU2 When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.)M2 If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.\32 When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.Y-2The children born to them in the third generation may enter the LORD's assembly. 2Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.F2Never seek peace or friendship with them as long as you live.2Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God loves you.B2This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.12No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the LORD's assembly; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the LORD's assembly./2No one of illegitimate birth may enter the LORD's assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the LORD's assembly.q~ _2No man whose [testicles] have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may enter the LORD's assembly.`};2A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not violate his father's marriage bed.7|i2the man who raped her must give the young woman's father 50 silver [shekels], and she must become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.{2If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,izM2When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.0y[2Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him. x2But if the man encounters the engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.rw_2you must take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death-- the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor's fiance. You must purge the evil from you.v 2If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and [another] man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,7ui2If a man is discovered having sexual relations with [another] man's wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.otY2they will bring the woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. You must purge the evil from you.`s;2But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman's virginity is found,]r52They will also fine him 100 silver [shekels] and give [them] to the young woman's father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.Gq 2Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.ap=2He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: 'I didn't find [any] evidence of your daughter's virginity, but here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.vog2The young woman's father will say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.n2the young woman's father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring [it] to the city elders at the gate.6mg2and accuses [her] of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, 'I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn't find [any] evidence of her virginity,'Xl+2 If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,Hk 2 Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.8jm2 Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.5ig2 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.$hC2 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.g2If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don't bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.{fq2You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.Te#2If you come across a bird's nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.#dA2A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman's garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.~cw2If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.b}2Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore [it].Ja2If your brother does not live near you or you don't know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him.x` m2If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.^_72you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung [on a tree] is under God's curse. You must not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.~^w2If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,] 2Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.\!2They will say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn't obey us. He's a glutton and a drunkard.'z[o2his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.Z%2If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn't listen to them even after they discipline him,YY-2He must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of everything that belongs to him, for he is the firstfruits of his virility; he has the rights of the firstborn.MNL,KKJIHHGGiFFEnDcCCCBBBAA@??>>b>=~<<%;;3::m988L77D6605~5444=33d322G11N00//3.--p-(,p++**A))(''k'&&m%%"$f##,""!!Z G4a`RRyG[-? 4  & P 3>8E@N0w[< and said to them, "I know that the LORD has given you this land and that dread of you has fallen on us, and everyone who lives in the land is panicking because of you.;vs<Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roofu<The men pursued them along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left to pursue them, the gate was shut.zto<But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.-sU<At nightfall, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don't know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!"r<But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, "Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn't know where they were from.*qO<Then the king of Jericho sent [word] to Rahab and said, "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they came to investigate the entire land."xpk<The king of Jericho was told, "Look, some of the Israelite men have come here tonight to investigate the land."ao ?<Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from Acacia Grove, saying, "Go and scout the land, especially Jericho." So they left, and they came to the house of a woman, a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there."n A<Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!"}m w<We will obey you, just as we obeyed Moses in everything. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.rl a<They answered Joshua, "Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.k /<until the LORD gives our brothers rest, as [He has given] you, and they too possess the land the LORD your God is giving them. You may then return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of what Moses the LORD's servant gave you on the east side of the Jordan."Rj !<Your wives, young children, and livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But your fighting men must cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers and help themi !< Remember what Moses the LORD's servant commanded you when he said, 'The LORD your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.'Sh #< Joshua said to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh:cg C< Go through the camp and tell the people, 'Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit.'"8f o< Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people:e < Haven't I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."[d 3<This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to recite it day and night, so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.Xc -<Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.{b s<Be strong and courageous, for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance.a -<No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or forsake you.` ;<Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great Euphrates River-- all the land of the Hittites-- and west to the Mediterranean Sea.b_ A<I have given you every place where the sole of your foot treads, just as I promised Moses.^ <Moses My servant is dead. Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan to the land I am giving the Israelites.n] [