Holy Bible

Darby Translation

Old Testament

Genesis

Chapter 1

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ²And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. ³And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. ⁴And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness. ⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the first day. ⁶And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters. ⁷And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so. ⁸And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning -- a second day. ⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so. ¹⁰And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so. ¹²And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³And there was evening, and there was morning -- a third day. ¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; ¹⁵and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so. ¹⁶And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the stars. ¹⁷And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth, ¹⁸and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fourth day. ²⁰And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens. ²¹And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²²And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth. ²³And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fifth day. ²⁴And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so. ²⁵And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth. ²⁷And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ²⁸And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth. ²⁹And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you; ³⁰and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so. ³¹And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the sixth day.

Chapter 2

¹And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished. ²And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it. ⁴These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens, ⁵and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. ⁶But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground. ⁷And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. ⁸And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed. ⁹And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams. ¹¹The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is. ¹²And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there. ¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates. ¹⁵And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it. ¹⁶And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat; ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die. ¹⁸And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like. ¹⁹And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought [them] to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name. ²⁰And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like. ²¹And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead. ²²And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man. ²³And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man. ²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Chapter 3

¹And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ²And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; ³but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die. ⁴And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die; ⁵but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil. ⁶And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. ⁸And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden. ⁹And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou? ¹⁰And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I feared, because I am naked; and I hid myself. ¹¹And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat? ¹²And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate. ¹³And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. ¹⁴And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life. ¹⁵And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel. ¹⁶To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee. ¹⁷And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; ¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return. ²⁰And Man called his wife`s name Eve; because she is the mother of all living. ²¹And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin, and clothed them. ²²And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ...! ²³Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Chapter 4

¹And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah. ²And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman. ³And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah. ⁴And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering; ⁵and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. ⁶And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. ⁸And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. ⁹And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother`s keeper? <sup>10</sup>And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother`s blood is crying to me from the ground. ¹¹And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother`s blood from thy hand. <sup>12</sup>When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth. <sup>13</sup>And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne. <sup>14</sup>Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, [that] every one who finds me will slay me. <sup>15</sup>And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. <sup>16</sup>And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, toward the east of Eden. <sup>17</sup>And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city; and he called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. <sup>18</sup>And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lemech. <sup>19</sup>And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah. <sup>20</sup>And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and [breed] cattle. <sup>21</sup>And his brother`s name was Jubal: he was the father of those who handle the harp and pipe. ²²And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of tool of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. ²³And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise. ²⁴If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold. ²⁵And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: ... For God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain has slain him. ²⁶And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.

Chapter 5

¹This is the book of Adam`s generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. ²Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. ³And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth. ⁴And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. ⁵And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died. ⁶And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh. ⁷And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. ⁸And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died. ⁹And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan. ¹⁰And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹¹And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died. ¹²And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel. ¹³And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. ¹⁵And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared. ¹⁶And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁷And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died. ¹⁸And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch. ¹⁹And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died. ²¹And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methushelah. ²²And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²³And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. ²⁵And Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lemech. ²⁶And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁷And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died. ²⁸And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son. ²⁹And he called his name Noah, saying, This [one] shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed. ³⁰And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters. ³¹And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died. ³²And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Chapter 6

¹And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them, ²that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose. ³And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown. ⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually. ⁶And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them. ⁸But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah. ⁹This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God. ¹⁰And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence. ¹²And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth. ¹³And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: [with] cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch. ¹⁵And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. ¹⁶A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story] shalt thou make it. ¹⁷For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire. ¹⁸But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons` wives with thee. ¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee: they shall be male and female. ²⁰Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive. ²¹And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather [it] to thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them. ²²And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

Chapter 7

¹And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. ²Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female. ³Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground. ⁵And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him. ⁶And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth. ⁷And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons` wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. <sup>8</sup>Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground, <sup>9</sup>there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. <sup>10</sup>And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. <sup>11</sup>In the six hundredth year of Noah`s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹²And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah`s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; ¹⁴they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind -- every bird of every wing. ¹⁵And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life. ¹⁶And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in. ¹⁷And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters. ¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered. ²⁰Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered. ²¹And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind: ²²everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry [land], died. ²³And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark. ²⁴And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Chapter 8

¹And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. ²And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped. ³And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated. ⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. ⁶And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. ⁷And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth. ⁸And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground. ⁹But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark. ¹⁰And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth. ¹²And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him. ¹³And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried. ¹⁴And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. ¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons` wives with thee. <sup>17</sup>Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth. <sup>18</sup>And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons` wives with him. ¹⁹All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl -- everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark. ²⁰And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar. ²¹And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man`s heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done. ²²Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Chapter 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth [on] the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. ³Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything. ⁴Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat. ⁵And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his brother, will I require the life of Man. ⁶Whoso sheddeth Man`s blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man. <sup>7</sup>And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it. <sup>8</sup>And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, <sup>9</sup>And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; <sup>10</sup>and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark -- every animal of the earth. <sup>11</sup>And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth. <sup>12</sup>And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations: <sup>13</sup>I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. <sup>14</sup>And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, <sup>15</sup>and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh. <sup>16</sup>And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth. <sup>17</sup>And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. <sup>18</sup>And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. <sup>19</sup>These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad. <sup>20</sup>And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard. <sup>21</sup>And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent. <sup>22</sup>And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside. <sup>23</sup>And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid [it] upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father`s nakedness. ²⁴And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren. ²⁶And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman. ²⁷Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman. ²⁸And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

Chapter 10

¹And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood. ²The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. ³And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. ⁶And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth. ⁹He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah! ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹From that land went out Asshur, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, ¹²and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city. ¹³-- And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim, ¹⁴and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim, out of whom came the Philistines, and the Caphtorim. ¹⁵-- And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, ¹⁶and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, ¹⁷and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, ¹⁸and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread themselves abroad. ¹⁹And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha. ²⁰These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations. ²¹And to Shem -- to him also were [sons] born; he is the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. ²²The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴-- And Arphaxad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber. ²⁵And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother`s name was Joktan. ²⁶And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, ²⁷and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, ²⁹and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were sons of Joktan. ³⁰And their dwelling was from Mesha, as one goes to Sephar, the eastern mountain. ³¹These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. ³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.

Chapter 11

¹And the whole earth had one language, and the same words. ²And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there. ³And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. ⁴And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth. ⁵And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built. ⁶And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing. ⁷Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another`s speech. <sup>8</sup>And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city. <sup>9</sup>Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. <sup>10</sup>These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. <sup>11</sup>And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>12</sup>And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah. <sup>13</sup>And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>14</sup>And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. <sup>15</sup>And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>16</sup>And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. <sup>17</sup>And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>18</sup>And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. <sup>19</sup>And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>20</sup>And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. <sup>21</sup>And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>22</sup>And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. <sup>23</sup>And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>24</sup>And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. <sup>25</sup>And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. <sup>26</sup>And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. <sup>27</sup>And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. <sup>28</sup>And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans. <sup>29</sup>And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram`s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor`s wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. <sup>30</sup>And Sarai was barren: she had no child. <sup>31</sup>And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son`s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram`s wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. ³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Chapter 12

¹And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father`s house, to the land that I will shew thee. <sup>2</sup>And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. <sup>3</sup>And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. <sup>4</sup>And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. <sup>5</sup>And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother`s son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. ⁶And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him. ⁸And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah. ⁹And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south. ¹⁰And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land. ¹¹And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a woman fair to look upon. ¹²And it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, She is his wife; and they will slay me, and save thee alive. ¹³Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee. ¹⁴And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh`s house. <sup>16</sup>And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels. <sup>17</sup>And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram`s wife. ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? ¹⁹Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take [her], and go away. ²⁰And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Chapter 13

¹And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south. ²And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. ³And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai; ⁴to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah. ⁵And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents. ⁶And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together. ⁷And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram`s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot`s cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land. ⁸And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren. ⁹Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left. ¹⁰And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar. ¹¹And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other: ¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom. ¹³And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah. ¹⁴And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward; ¹⁵for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. ¹⁶And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered. ¹⁷Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee. ¹⁸Then Abram moved [his] tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

Chapter 14

¹And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar, Arioch the king of El-lasar, Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations, ²[that] they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, and Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. ³All these were joined in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. ⁴Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ⁵And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim, ⁶and the Horites on their mount Seir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness. ⁷And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt at Hazazon-Tamar. ⁸And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim, ⁹with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar -- four kings with the five. ¹⁰And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain. ¹¹And they took all the property of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and departed. ¹²And they took Lot and his property, Abram`s brother`s son, and departed. For he dwelt in Sodom. ¹³And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Aner. And these were Abram`s allies. <sup>14</sup>And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he led out his trained [servants], born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] as far as Dan. <sup>15</sup>And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus. <sup>16</sup>And he brought back all the property, and brought again his brother Lot and his property, and the women also, and the people. <sup>17</sup>And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king`s valley. ¹⁸And Melchisedec king of Salem brought out bread and wine. And he was priest of the Most High God. ¹⁹And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heavens and earth. ²⁰And blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him the tenth of all. ²¹And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the souls, and take the property for thyself. ²²And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the Most High God, possessor of heavens and earth, ²³if from a thread even to a sandal-thong, yes, if of all that is thine, I take [anything] ...; that thou mayest not say, I have made Abram rich; ²⁴save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion.

Chapter 15

¹After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward. ²And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus. ³And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir. ⁴And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir. ⁵And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be! ⁶And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness. ⁷And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it. ⁸And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it? ⁹And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. ¹⁰And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide. ¹¹And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away. ¹²And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him. ¹³And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property. ¹⁵And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. ¹⁷And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces. ¹⁸On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates; ¹⁹the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, ²⁰and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, ²¹and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Chapter 16

¹And Sarai Abram`s wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar. <sup>2</sup>And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. <sup>3</sup>And Sarai Abram`s wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife. ⁴And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes. ⁵And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee! ⁶And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face. ⁷And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. ⁸And he said, Hagar, Sarai`s maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai. <sup>9</sup>And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. <sup>10</sup>And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. <sup>11</sup>And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction. <sup>12</sup>And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man`s hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren. ¹³And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou art the God who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have I seen after he has revealed himself. ¹⁴Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. ¹⁶And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Chapter 17

¹And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect. ²And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee. ³And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying, ⁴It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations. ⁵And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. ⁶And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. ⁷And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. ⁸And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. ⁹And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. ¹⁰This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee -- that every male among you be circumcised. ¹¹And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. ¹²And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you -- he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed. ¹³He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant. ¹⁵And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. ¹⁶And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her. ¹⁷And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear? ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee! ¹⁹And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. ²⁰And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year. ²²And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham. ²³And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money -- every male among the people of Abraham`s house -- and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him. ²⁴And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son; ²⁷and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

Chapter 18

¹And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day. ²And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth, ³and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. ⁴Let now a little water be fetched, that ye may wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. ⁵And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said. ⁶And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Knead quickly three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes. ⁷And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf tender and good, and gave [it] to the attendant; and he hasted to dress it. ⁸And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood before them under the tree, and they ate. ⁹And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. ¹⁰And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him. ¹¹Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. ¹²And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old? ¹³And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old? ¹⁴Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁵And Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but thou didst laugh. ¹⁶And the men rose up thence, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to conduct them. ¹⁷And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing? ¹⁸Since Abraham shall indeed become a great and mighty nation; and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. ¹⁹For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him. ²⁰And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous, ²¹I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know [it]. ²²And the men turned thence, and went towards Sodom; and Abraham remained yet standing before Jehovah. ²³And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked? ²⁴There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein? ²⁵Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked -- far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right? ²⁶And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sakes. ²⁷And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes. ²⁸Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy [it]. ²⁹And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty`s sake. <sup>30</sup>And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry that I speak! Perhaps there may be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there. <sup>31</sup>And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the Lord. Perhaps there may be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for the twenty`s sake. ³²And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for the ten`s sake. ³³And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

Chapter 19

¹And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground, ²and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant`s house, and lodge, and wash your feet; and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will pass the night in the open place. ³And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house. And he made them a repast, and baked unleavened cakes; and they ate. ⁴Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest -- all the people from every quarter. ⁵And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them. ⁶And Lot went out to them to the entrance, and shut the door after him, ⁷and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly! ⁸Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof. ⁹And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man -- on Lot; and drew near to break the door. ¹⁰And the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. ¹¹And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance. ¹²And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city -- bring [them] out of the place. ¹³For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it. ¹⁴And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law. ¹⁵And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city. ¹⁶And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city. ¹⁷And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish. ¹⁸And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord; ¹⁹behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die. ²⁰Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither -- is it not small? -- and my soul shall live. ²¹And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. ²²Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar. ²³The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven, ²⁵and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground. ²⁶And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Jehovah; ²⁸and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt. ³⁰And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. ³¹And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth: ³²come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father. ³³And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising. ³⁴And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father. ³⁵And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising. ³⁶And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day. ³⁸And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Chapter 20

¹And Abraham departed thence towards the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned at Gerar. ²And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. ³But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art [but] a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man`s wife. <sup>4</sup>But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou also kill a righteous nation? <sup>5</sup>Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and in the innocency of my hands have I done this. <sup>6</sup>And God said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered thee to touch her. <sup>7</sup>And now, restore the man`s wife; for he is a prophet, and will pray for thee, that thou mayest live. And if thou do not restore [her], know that thou shalt certainly die, thou and all that is thine. ⁸And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and spoke all these words in their ears; and the men were greatly afraid. ⁹And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What hast thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Thou hast done to me deeds that ought not to be done. ¹⁰And Abimelech said to Abraham, What hast thou seen that thou hast done this? ¹¹And Abraham said, Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife`s sake. <sup>12</sup>But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. <sup>13</sup>And it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my father`s house, that I said to her, Let this be thy kindness which thou shalt shew to me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. ¹⁴And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and bondmen and bondwomen, and gave [them] to Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. ¹⁵And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it is good in thine eyes. ¹⁶And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of silver; behold, let that be to thee a covering of the eyes, in respect of all that are with thee, and with all; and she was reproved. ¹⁷And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his handmaids, and they bore [children]. ¹⁸For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham`s wife.

Chapter 21

¹And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken. ²And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. ³And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. ⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him. ⁵And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. ⁶And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me. ⁷And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? For I have borne [him] a son in his old age. ⁸And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac. ¹¹And the thing was very grievous in Abraham`s sight because of his son. <sup>12</sup>And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee. <sup>13</sup>But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. <sup>14</sup>And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder -- and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. <sup>15</sup>And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs, <sup>16</sup>and she went and sat down over against [him], a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and lifted up her voice and wept. <sup>17</sup>And God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What [aileth] thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is. <sup>18</sup>Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation. <sup>19</sup>And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the flask with water, and gave the lad drink. <sup>20</sup>And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. <sup>21</sup>And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. <sup>22</sup>And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest. <sup>23</sup>And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest. <sup>24</sup>And Abraham said, I will swear. <sup>25</sup>And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech`s servants had violently taken away. ²⁶And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me [of it], neither have I heard [of it] but to-day. ²⁷And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. ²⁸And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves? ³⁰And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well. ³¹Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them. ³²And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines. ³³And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God. ³⁴And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines` land many days.

Chapter 22

¹And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I. ²And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son], whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. ³And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of. ⁴On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. ⁵And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. ⁶And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together. ⁷And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the sheep for a burnt-offering? ⁸And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself with the sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them together. ⁹And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. ¹⁰And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son. ¹¹And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I. ¹²And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], from me. ¹³And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son. ¹⁴And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided. ¹⁵And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from the heavens a second time, ¹⁶and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], ¹⁷I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; ¹⁸and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice. ¹⁹And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. ²⁰And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor: ²¹Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, ²²and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. ²³(And Bethuel begot Rebecca.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham`s brother. ²⁴And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maacah.

Chapter 23

¹And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. ²And Sarah died in Kirjath-Arba: that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. ³And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, ⁴I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me. ⁵And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, ⁶Hear us, my lord: thou art a prince of God among us: in the choicest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre for burying thy dead. ⁷And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth, ⁸and spoke to them, saying, If it be your will that I should bury my dead from before me, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar, ⁹that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which is his, which is at the end of his field; for the full money let him give it to me amongst you for a possession of a sepulchre. ¹⁰And Ephron was dwelling among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham, in the ears of the sons of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, ¹¹No, my lord: hear me. The field give I thee; and the cave that is in it, to thee I give it; before the eyes of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. ¹²And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land; ¹³and he spoke to Ephron, in the ears of the people of the land, saying, But if only thou wouldst listen to me, I give the money for the field: take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there. ¹⁴And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, ¹⁵My lord, hearken to me. A field of four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. ¹⁶And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the money that he had named in the ears of the sons of Heth -- four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant. ¹⁷So the field of Ephron, which was at Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all its borders round about, ¹⁸were assured to Abraham for a possession before the eyes of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. ¹⁹And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah, opposite to Mamre: that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. ²⁰And the field and the cave that was in it were assured to Abraham for a possession of a sepulchre by the sons of Heth.

Chapter 24

¹And Abraham was old, [and] advanced in age; and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. ²And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh, ³and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling; ⁴but thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. ⁵And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I, then, bring thy son again in any case to the land from which thou hast removed? ⁶And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again. ⁷Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my father`s house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land -- he will send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence. <sup>8</sup>And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be quit of this my oath: only, bring not my son thither again. <sup>9</sup>And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore unto him concerning that matter. <sup>10</sup>And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; now all the treasure of his master was under his hand; and he arose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor. <sup>11</sup>And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came out to draw [water]. <sup>12</sup>And he said, Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, meet me, I pray thee, [with thy blessing] this day, and deal kindly with my master Abraham. <sup>13</sup>Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. <sup>14</sup>And let it come to pass, [that] the maiden to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink, and who will say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also, be she whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and hereby I shall know that thou hast dealt kindly with my master. <sup>15</sup>And it came to pass before he had ended speaking, that behold, Rebecca came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham`s brother; and [she had] her pitcher upon her shoulder. ¹⁶And the maiden was very fair in countenance; a virgin, and no man had known her. And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. ¹⁷And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, sip a little water out of thy pitcher. ¹⁸And she said, Drink, my lord! And she hasted and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink. ¹⁹And when she had given him enough to drink, she said, I will draw [water] for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough. ²⁰And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw [water]; and she drew for all his camels. ²¹And the man was astonished at her, remaining silent, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not. ²²And it came to pass when the camels had drunk enough, that the man took a gold ring, of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands, ten [shekels] weight of gold, ²³and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room [in] thy father`s house for us to lodge? <sup>24</sup>And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. <sup>25</sup>And she said to him, There is straw, and also much provender with us; also room to lodge. <sup>26</sup>And the man stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah, <sup>27</sup>and said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not withdrawn his loving-kindness and his faithfulness from my master; I being in the way, Jehovah has led me to the house of my master`s brethren. ²⁸And the maiden ran and told these things to her mother`s house. <sup>29</sup>And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the well. <sup>30</sup>And it came to pass when he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister`s hand, and when he heard the words of Rebecca his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me -- that he came to the man, and behold, he was standing by the camels, by the well. ³¹And he said, Come in, blessed of Jehovah! why standest thou outside? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. ³²And the man came into the house; and he ungirded the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men who were with him. ³³And there was set [meat] before him to eat; but he said, I will not eat until I have made known my business. And he said, Speak on. ³⁴And he said, I am Abraham`s servant. <sup>35</sup>And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly, and he is become great; and he has given him sheep and cattle, and silver and gold, and bondmen and bondwomen, and camels and asses. <sup>36</sup>And Sarah, my master`s wife, bore a son to my master after she had grown old; and unto him has he given all that he has. ³⁷And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling; ³⁸but thou shalt by all means go to my father`s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son. <sup>39</sup>And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not follow me? <sup>40</sup>And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way, that thou mayest take a wife for my son of my family, and out of my father`s house. ⁴¹Then shalt thou be quit of my oath, when thou shalt have come to my family. And if they give thee not [one], thou shalt be quit of my oath. ⁴²And I came this day to the well, and said, Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, if now thou wilt prosper my way on which I go, ⁴³behold, I stand by the well of water, and let it come to pass that the damsel who cometh forth to draw [water], and to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water out of thy pitcher to drink, ⁴⁴and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels -- that she should be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master`s son. <sup>45</sup>Before I ended speaking in my heart, behold, Rebecca came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder, and went down to the well, and drew [water]; and I said to her, Give me, I pray thee, to drink. <sup>46</sup>And she hasted and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. And I drank; and she gave the camels drink also. <sup>47</sup>And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor`s son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. ⁴⁸And I stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah; and I blessed Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has led me the right way to take my master`s brother`s daughter for his son. ⁴⁹And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; and I will turn to the right hand or to the left. ⁵⁰And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from Jehovah: we cannot speak to thee bad or good. ⁵¹Behold, Rebecca is before thee: take [her], and go away; and let her be wife of thy master`s son, as Jehovah has said. <sup>52</sup>And it came to pass, when Abraham`s servant heard their words, that he bowed down to the earth before Jehovah. ⁵³And the servant brought forth silver articles, and gold articles, and clothing, and he gave [them] to Rebecca; and he gave to her brother, and to her mother, precious things. ⁵⁴And they ate and drank, he and the men that were with him, and lodged. And they rose up in the morning; and he said, Send me away to my master. ⁵⁵And her brother and her mother said, Let the maiden abide with us [some] days, or [say] ten; after that she shall go. ⁵⁶And he said to them, Do not hinder me, seeing Jehovah has prospered my way: send me away, and I will go to my master. ⁵⁷And they said, Let us call the maiden and inquire at her mouth. ⁵⁸And they called Rebecca and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. ⁵⁹And they sent away Rebecca their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham`s servant, and his men. <sup>60</sup>And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, Thou art our sister; mayest thou become thousands of tens of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gate of their enemies! <sup>61</sup>And Rebecca arose, and her maids, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebecca, and went away. <sup>62</sup>And Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi; for he was dwelling in the south country. <sup>63</sup>And Isaac had gone out to meditate in the fields toward the beginning of evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, camels were coming. <sup>64</sup>And Rebecca lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac, and she sprang off the camel. <sup>65</sup>And she had said to the servant, Who is the man that is walking in the fields to meet us? And the servant said, That is my master! Then she took the veil, and covered herself. <sup>66</sup>And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done. <sup>67</sup>And Isaac led her into his mother Sarah`s tent; and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after [the death of] his mother.

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¹And Abraham took another wife named Keturah. ²And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. ³And Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were the Asshurim, and the Letushim, and the Leummim. ⁴And the sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Enoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah. ⁵And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. ⁶And to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and, while he yet lived, sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward to the east country. ⁷And these are the days of the years of Abraham`s life which he lived: a hundred and seventy-five years. <sup>8</sup>And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and full [of days]; and was gathered to his peoples. <sup>9</sup>And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre -- <sup>10</sup>the field that Abraham had purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. <sup>11</sup>And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi. <sup>12</sup>And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham`s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah`s bondwoman, bore to Abraham. <sup>13</sup>And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names according to their generations: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, <sup>14</sup>and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, <sup>15</sup>Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah. <sup>16</sup>These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their hamlets and their encampments -- twelve princes of their peoples. <sup>17</sup>And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples. <sup>18</sup>And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt, as one goes towards Assyria. He settled before the face of all his brethren. <sup>19</sup>And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham`s son. Abraham begot Isaac. ²⁰And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian. ²¹And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived. ²²And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah. ²³And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And one people shall be stronger than the other people, And the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵And the first came out red -- all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. ²⁶And after that came his brother out; and his hand took hold of Esau`s heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. ²⁷And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents. ²⁸And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob. ²⁹And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field, and he was faint. ³⁰And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the red -- the red thing there, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom. ³¹And Jacob said, Sell me now thy birthright. ³²And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and of what use can the birthright be to me? ³³And Jacob said, Swear unto me now. And he swore unto him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴And Jacob gave Esau bread and the dish of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up and went away. Thus Esau despised the birthright.

Chapter 26

¹And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which had been in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar. ²And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of. ³Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries; and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father. ⁴And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and unto thy seed will I give all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves -- ⁵because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. ⁶And Isaac dwelt at Gerar. ⁷And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, my wife, [saying to himself,] Lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca -- because she was fair in countenance. ⁸And it came to pass when he had been there some time, that Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked out of the window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was dallying with Rebecca his wife. ⁹Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her. ¹⁰And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done to us? But a little and one of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought a trespass on us. ¹¹And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death. ¹²And Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold; and Jehovah blessed him. ¹³And the man became great, and he became continually greater, until he was very great. ¹⁴And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great number of servants; and the Philistines envied him. ¹⁵And all the wells that his father`s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them and filled them with earth. <sup>16</sup>And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for thou art become much mightier than we. <sup>17</sup>And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his camp in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. <sup>18</sup>And Isaac dug again the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and that the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. <sup>19</sup>And Isaac`s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. ²⁰But the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac`s shepherds, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they had quarrelled with him. <sup>21</sup>And they dug another well, and they strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah. <sup>22</sup>And he removed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth, and said, For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. <sup>23</sup>And he went up thence to Beer-sheba. <sup>24</sup>And Jehovah appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham`s sake. ²⁵And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac`s servants dug a well. <sup>26</sup>And Abimelech, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the captain of his host, went to him from Gerar. <sup>27</sup>And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have driven me away from you? <sup>28</sup>And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah is with thee; and we said, Let there be then an oath between us -- between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee, <sup>29</sup>that thou wilt do us no wrong, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have let thee go in peace; thou art now blessed of Jehovah. <sup>30</sup>And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. <sup>31</sup>And they rose early in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. <sup>32</sup>And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac`s servants came, and told him concerning the well that they had dug, and said to him, We have found water. ³³And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day. ³⁴And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebecca.

Chapter 27

¹And it came to pass when Isaac had become old, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, that he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Here am I. ²And he said, Behold now, I am become old; I know not the day of my death. ³And now, I pray thee, take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field and hunt me venison, ⁴and prepare me a savoury dish such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, in order that my soul may bless thee before I die. ⁵And Rebecca heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt venison, to bring it. ⁶And Rebecca spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying, ⁷Bring me venison, and prepare me a savoury dish, that I may eat, and bless thee before Jehovah, before my death. ⁸And now, my son, hearken to my voice in that which I command thee. ⁹Go, I pray thee, to the flock, and fetch me thence two good kids of the goats. And I will make of them a savoury dish for thy father, such as he loves. ¹⁰And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, in order that he may bless thee before his death. ¹¹And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. ¹²My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall be in his sight as one who mocks [him], and I shall bring a curse on me, and not a blessing. ¹³And his mother said to him, On me [be] thy curse, my son! Only hearken to my voice, and go, fetch [them]. ¹⁴And he went, and fetched and brought [them] to his mother. And his mother prepared a savoury dish such as his father loved. ¹⁵And Rebecca took the clothes of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son; ¹⁶and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck; ¹⁷and she gave the savoury dishes and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob. ¹⁸And he came to his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I: who art thou, my son? ¹⁹And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn. I have done according as thou didst say to me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, in order that thy soul may bless me. ²⁰And Isaac said to his son, How is it that thou hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah thy God put [it] in my way. ²¹And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be really my son Esau or not. ²²And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob`s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. <sup>23</sup>And he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau`s hands; and he blessed him. ²⁴And he said, Art thou really my son Esau? And he said, It is I. ²⁵And he said, Bring [it] near to me, that I may eat of my son`s venison, in order that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. <sup>26</sup>And his father Isaac said to him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my son. <sup>27</sup>And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelt the smell of his clothes, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed. <sup>28</sup>And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and new wine. <sup>29</sup>Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother`s sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee. ³⁰And it came to pass when Isaac had ended blessing Jacob, and when Jacob was only just gone out from Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came from his hunting. ³¹And he also had prepared savoury dishes, and he brought [them] in to his father, and said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son`s venison, in order that thy soul may bless me. <sup>32</sup>And Isaac his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau. <sup>33</sup>Then Isaac trembled with exceeding great trembling, and said, Who was he, then, that hunted venison and brought [it] to me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him; also blessed he shall be. <sup>34</sup>When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me -- me also, my father! <sup>35</sup>And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and has taken away thy blessing. <sup>36</sup>And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? <sup>37</sup>And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him lord over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants, and with corn and new wine have I supplied him -- and what can I do now for thee, my son? <sup>38</sup>And Esau said to his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me -- me also, my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. <sup>39</sup>And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above; <sup>40</sup>And by thy sword shalt thou live; And thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou rovest about, That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. <sup>41</sup>And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my brother Jacob. <sup>42</sup>And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, comforts himself that he will kill thee. <sup>43</sup>And now, my son, hearken to my voice, and arise, flee to Laban my brother, to Haran; <sup>44</sup>and abide with him some days, until thy brother`s fury turn away -- ⁴⁵until thy brother`s anger turn away from thee, and he forget what thou hast done to him; then I will send and fetch thee thence. Why should I be bereaved even of you both in one day? ⁴⁶And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?

Chapter 28

¹And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. ²Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother`s father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother`s brother. ³And the Almighty God bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest become a company of peoples. ⁴And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, in order that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham! ⁵And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Padan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob`s and Esau`s mother. ⁶And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-Aram, to take a wife thence, blessing him, and giving him a charge saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; ⁷and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram. ⁸And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the sight of Isaac his father. ⁹And Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham`s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. <sup>10</sup>And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went towards Haran. <sup>11</sup>And he lighted on a certain place, and lodged there, because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of the place, and made [it] his pillow, and lay down in that place. <sup>12</sup>And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to the heavens. And behold, angels of God ascended and descended upon it. <sup>13</sup>And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. <sup>14</sup>And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. <sup>15</sup>And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] to which thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done what I have spoken to thee of. <sup>16</sup>And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew [it] not. <sup>17</sup>And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. <sup>18</sup>And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had made his pillow, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. <sup>19</sup>And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but the name of that city was Luz at the first. <sup>20</sup>And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and keep me on this road that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and a garment to put on, <sup>21</sup>and I come again to my father`s house in peace -- then shall Jehovah be my God. ²²And this stone, which I have set up [for] a pillar, shall be God`s house; and of all that thou wilt give me I will without fail give the tenth to thee.

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¹And Jacob continued his journey, and went into the land of the children of the east. ²And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the fields, and behold there, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a great stone was at the mouth of the well. ³And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the mouth of the well in its place. ⁴And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. ⁵And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We do know [him]. ⁶And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, [He is] well; and behold, there comes Rachel his daughter with the sheep. ⁷And he said, Behold, it is yet high day; it is not time that the cattle should be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, feed [them]. ⁸And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep. ⁹While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father`s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. <sup>10</sup>And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother`s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother`s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban his mother`s brother. ¹¹And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. ¹²And Jacob told Rachel that he was a brother of her father, and that he was Rebecca`s son; and she ran and told her father. <sup>13</sup>And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister`s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house; and he told Laban all these things. ¹⁴And Laban said to him, Thou art indeed my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him a month`s time. ¹⁵And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou serve me for nothing? tell me, what shall be thy wages? ¹⁶And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel. ¹⁷And the eyes of Leah were tender; but Rachel was of beautiful form and beautiful countenance. ¹⁸And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. ¹⁹And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. ²⁰And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her. ²¹And Jacob said to Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her. ²²And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. ²³And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in to her. ²⁴And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his maidservant, to be maidservant to Leah his daughter. ²⁵And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done to me? Have I not served thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived me? ²⁶And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years. ²⁸And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week [with] this one, and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife. ²⁹And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah, his maidservant, to be her maidservant. ³⁰And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years. ³¹And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. ³²And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben; for she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me. ³³And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon. ³⁴And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi. ³⁵And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear.

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¹And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. ²And Jacob`s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God`s stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? ³And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her. ⁴And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. ⁵And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. ⁶And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan. ⁷And Bilhah Rachel`s maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son. <sup>8</sup>And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali. <sup>9</sup>And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife. <sup>10</sup>And Zilpah Leah`s maidservant bore Jacob a son. ¹¹And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad. ¹²And Zilpah Leah`s maidservant bore Jacob a second son. <sup>13</sup>And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher. <sup>14</sup>And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son`s mandrakes. ¹⁵And she said to her, Is it [too] little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son`s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son`s mandrakes. ¹⁶And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son`s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. <sup>17</sup>And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. <sup>18</sup>And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar. <sup>19</sup>And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son; <sup>20</sup>and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun. <sup>21</sup>And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah. <sup>22</sup>And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. <sup>23</sup>And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach. <sup>24</sup>And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son. <sup>25</sup>And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country. <sup>26</sup>Give [me] my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee. <sup>27</sup>And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes -- I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake. <sup>28</sup>And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it. <sup>29</sup>And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me. <sup>30</sup>For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house? <sup>31</sup>And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock: <sup>32</sup>I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [that] shall be my hire. <sup>33</sup>And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me. <sup>34</sup>And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word. <sup>35</sup>And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons. <sup>36</sup>And he put three days` journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban`s flock. <sup>37</sup>And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods. <sup>38</sup>And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink. <sup>39</sup>And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. <sup>40</sup>And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban`s flock. ⁴¹And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods; ⁴²but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban`s, and the strong Jacob`s. ⁴³And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.

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¹And he heard the words of Laban`s sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father`s, and of what was our father`s he has acquired all this glory. <sup>2</sup>And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as previously. <sup>3</sup>And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. <sup>4</sup>And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the fields to his flock, <sup>5</sup>and said to them, I see your father`s countenance, that it is not toward me as previously; but the God of my father has been with me. ⁶And you know that with all my power I have served your father. ⁷And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. ⁸If he said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked. ⁹And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me. ¹⁰And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. ¹¹And the Angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Here am I. ¹²And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee. ¹³I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this land, and return to the land of thy kindred. ¹⁴And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father`s house? <sup>15</sup>Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money. <sup>16</sup>For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children`s; and now whatever God has said to thee do. ¹⁷And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels, ¹⁸and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired -- the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan. ¹⁹And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [belonged] to her father. ²⁰And Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled. ²¹And he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] mount Gilead. ²²And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled. ²³And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days` journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead. <sup>24</sup>And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. <sup>25</sup>And Laban came up with Jacob; and Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain; Laban also with his brethren pitched on mount Gilead. <sup>26</sup>And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast deceived me, and hast carried away my daughters as captives of war? <sup>27</sup>Why didst thou flee away covertly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have conducted thee with mirth and with songs, with tambour and with harp; <sup>28</sup>and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted foolishly. <sup>29</sup>It would be in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. <sup>30</sup>And now that thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father`s house, why hast thou stolen my gods? ³¹And Jacob answered and said to Laban, I was afraid; for I said, Lest thou shouldest take by force thy daughters from me. ³²With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brethren discern what is thine with me, and take [it] to thee. But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. ³³And Laban went into Jacob`s tent, and into Leah`s tent, and into the two handmaids` tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah`s tent, and entered into Rachel`s tent. <sup>34</sup>Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them under the camel`s saddle; and she sat upon them. And Laban explored all the tent, but found nothing. ³⁵And she said to her father, Let it not be an occasion of anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched carefully, but did not find the teraphim. ³⁶And Jacob was angry, and he disputed with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my fault, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? ³⁷Whereas thou hast explored all my baggage, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both. ³⁸These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten. ³⁹What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, [whether] stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. ⁴¹I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. ⁴²Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night. ⁴³And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth? ⁴⁴And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee. ⁴⁵And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar. ⁴⁶And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap. ⁴⁷And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed. ⁴⁸And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed, ⁴⁹-- and Mizpah; for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another: ⁵⁰if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, -- no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee! ⁵¹And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee: ⁵²[let] this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that neither I pass this heap [to go] to thee, nor thou pass this heap and this pillar [to come] to me, for harm. ⁵³The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us! And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴And Jacob offered a sacrifice upon the mountain, and invited his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and lodged on the mountain. ⁵⁵And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.

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¹And Jacob went on his way; and the angels of God met him. ²And when Jacob saw them he said, This is the camp of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim. ³And Jacob sent messengers before his face to Esau his brother, into the land of Seir, the fields of Edom. ⁴And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord, to Esau: Thy servant Jacob speaks thus -- With Laban have I sojourned and tarried until now; ⁵and I have oxen, and asses, sheep, and bondmen, and bondwomen; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thine eyes. ⁶And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. ⁷Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep and the cattle and the camels, into two troops. ⁸And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape. ⁹And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst unto me: Return into thy country and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good, ¹⁰-- I am too small for all the loving-kindness and all the faithfulness that thou hast shewn unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two troops. ¹¹Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children. ¹²And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. ¹³And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother -- ¹⁴two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams; ¹⁵thirty milch camels with their colts; forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses. ¹⁶And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove. ¹⁷And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou, and where goest thou, and whose are these before thee? ¹⁸-- then thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob`s: it is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us. <sup>19</sup>And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, According to this word shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him. <sup>20</sup>And, moreover, ye shall say, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will propitiate him with the gift that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face: perhaps he will accept me. <sup>21</sup>And the gift went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp. <sup>22</sup>And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok; <sup>23</sup>and he took them and led them over the river, and led over what he had. <sup>24</sup>And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn. <sup>25</sup>And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the joint of his thigh; and the joint of Jacob`s thigh was dislocated as he wrestled with him. ²⁶And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me. ²⁷And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed. ²⁹And Jacob asked and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, How is it that thou askest after my name? And he blessed him there. ³⁰And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel -- For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved. ³¹And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him; and he limped upon his hip. ³²Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the joint of Jacob`s thigh -- the sinew.

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¹And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants: ²and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost. ³And he passed on before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came near to his brother. ⁴And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. ⁵And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children that God has graciously given thy servant. ⁶And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed. ⁷And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed. ⁸And he said, What [meanest] thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord. ⁹And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou hast be thine. ¹⁰And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure. ¹¹Take, I pray thee, my blessing which has been brought to thee; because God has been gracious to me, and because I have everything. And he urged him, and he took [it]. ¹²And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee. ¹³And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die. ¹⁴Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle that is before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir. ¹⁵And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find favour in the eyes of my lord. ¹⁶And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. ¹⁷And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth. ¹⁸And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city. ¹⁹And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem`s father, for a hundred kesitahs. ²⁰And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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¹And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ²And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. ³And his soul fastened on Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the maiden, and spoke consolingly to the maiden. ⁴And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this girl as wife. ⁵And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his cattle in the fields, and Jacob said nothing until they came. ⁶And Hamor the father of Shechem came out to Jacob, to speak to him. ⁷And the sons of Jacob came from the fields when they heard [it]; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought what was disgraceful in Israel, in lying with Jacob`s daughter, which thing ought not to be done. <sup>8</sup>And Hamor spoke to them, saying, My son Shechem`s soul cleaves to your daughter: I pray you, give her to him as wife. ⁹And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you. ¹⁰And dwell with us, and the land shall be before you: dwell and trade in it, and get yourselves possessions in it. ¹¹And Shechem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find favour in your eyes; and what ye shall say to me I will give. ¹²Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife. ¹³And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and spoke -- because he had defiled Dinah their sister -- ¹⁴and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach to us. ¹⁵But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised; ¹⁶then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people. ¹⁷But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go away. ¹⁸And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor`s son. <sup>19</sup>And the youth did not delay to do this, because he had delight in Jacob`s daughter. And he was honourable above all in the house of his father. ²⁰And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying, ²¹These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it. And the land -- behold, it is of wide extent before them. We will take their daughters as wives, and give them our daughters. ²²But only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people -- if every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised. ²³Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. ²⁴And all that went out at the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised -- all that went out at the gate of his city. ²⁵And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah`s brethren, took each his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. <sup>26</sup>And Hamor and Shechem his son they slew with the edge of the sword; and took Dinah out of Shechem`s house; and went out. ²⁷The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what [was] in the city, and what [was] in the field they took; ²⁹and all their goods, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and plundered them, and all that was in the houses. ³⁰And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, in that ye make me odious among the inhabitants of the land -- among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I am few men in number, and they will gather themselves against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. ³¹And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot?

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¹And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. ²And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went. ⁴And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that [is] by Shechem. ⁵And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. ⁶And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. ⁷And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. ⁸And Deborah, Rebecca`s nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. <sup>9</sup>And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him. <sup>10</sup>And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. <sup>11</sup>And God said to him, I am the Almighty God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins. <sup>12</sup>And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. <sup>13</sup>And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him. <sup>14</sup>And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it. <sup>15</sup>And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el. <sup>16</sup>And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing. <sup>17</sup>And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee. <sup>18</sup>And it came to pass as her soul was departing -- for she died -- that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin. <sup>19</sup>And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem. <sup>20</sup>And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel`s grave to [this] day. ²¹And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder. ²²And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father`s concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve. <sup>23</sup>The sons of Leah: Reuben -- Jacob`s firstborn -- and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel`s maidservant: Dan and Naphtali. <sup>26</sup>And the sons of Zilpah, Leah`s maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram. ²⁷And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre -- to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac. ²⁸And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. ²⁹And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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¹And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom. ²Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ³and Basmath Ishmael`s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. <sup>4</sup>And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel. <sup>5</sup>And Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan. <sup>6</sup>And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob. <sup>7</sup>For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle. <sup>8</sup>Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom. <sup>9</sup>And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir. <sup>10</sup>These are the names of Esau`s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basmath the wife of Esau. ¹¹-- And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹²And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau`s son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah Esau`s wife. ¹³-- And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau`s wife. <sup>14</sup>-- And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau`s wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. ¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, ¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. ¹⁷And these are the sons of Reuel Esau`s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basmath Esau`s wife. ¹⁸-- And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau`s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are the chiefs of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau`s wife. ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is Edom. ²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitant of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, ²¹and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. ²²-- And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan`s sister was Timna. <sup>23</sup>-- And these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. <sup>24</sup>-- And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. <sup>25</sup>-- And these are the sons of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. <sup>26</sup>-- And these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. <sup>27</sup>-- These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. <sup>28</sup>-- These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. <sup>29</sup>These are the chiefs of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, <sup>30</sup>chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. <sup>31</sup>And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a king over the children of Israel. <sup>32</sup>And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. <sup>33</sup>And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. <sup>34</sup>And Jobab died; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. <sup>35</sup>And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields of Moab, reigned in his stead. And the name of his city was Avith. <sup>36</sup>And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. <sup>37</sup>And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead. <sup>38</sup>And Saul died; and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. <sup>39</sup>And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died; and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife`s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred daughter of Mezahab. ⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, after their places, with their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, ⁴¹chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, ⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, ⁴³chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.

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¹And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned -- in the land of Canaan. ²These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father`s wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them. <sup>3</sup>And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours. <sup>4</sup>And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness. <sup>5</sup>And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told [it] to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more. <sup>6</sup>And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream, which I have dreamt: <sup>7</sup>Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves came round about and bowed down to my sheaf. <sup>8</sup>And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words. <sup>9</sup>And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me. <sup>10</sup>And he told [it] to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? <sup>11</sup>And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying. <sup>12</sup>And his brethren went to feed their father`s flock at Shechem. ¹³And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I. ¹⁴And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see after the welfare of thy brethren, and after the welfare of the flock; and bring me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and he came towards Shechem. ¹⁵And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? ¹⁶And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks]. ¹⁷And the man said, They have removed from this; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them at Dothan. ¹⁸And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death. ¹⁹And they said one to another, Behold, there comes that dreamer! ²⁰And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and we will see what becomes of his dreams. ²¹And Reuben heard [it], and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. ²²And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him -- in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to bring him to his father again. ²³And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his vest, the vest of many colours, which he had on; ²⁴and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty -- there was no water in it. ²⁵And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum -- going to carry [it] down to Egypt. ²⁶And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood? ²⁷Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened [to him]. ²⁸And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt. ²⁹And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his garments, ³⁰and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go? ³¹And they took Joseph`s vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood; <sup>32</sup>and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now whether it is thy son`s vest or not. ³³And he discerned it, and said, [It is] my son`s vest! an evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces! ³⁴And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him. ³⁶And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.

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¹And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a man of Adullam whose name was Hirah. ²And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanitish man whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her. ³And she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Er. ⁴And she again conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. ⁵And again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah; and he was at Chezib when she bore him. ⁶And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. ⁷And Er, Judah`s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah, and Jehovah slew him. <sup>8</sup>Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother`s wife, and fulfil to her the brother-in-law`s duty, and raise up seed to thy brother. <sup>9</sup>But when Onan knew that the seed should not be his own, it came to pass when he went in to his brother`s wife, that he spilled [it] on the ground, in order to give no seed to his brother. ¹⁰And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and he slew him also. ¹¹And Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father`s house, until Shelah my son is grown; for he said, Lest he die also, as his brethren. And Tamar went and remained in her father`s house. ¹²And as the days were multiplied, Judah`s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to his sheep-shearers, to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. <sup>13</sup>And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep. <sup>14</sup>And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the entry of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as wife. <sup>15</sup>And Judah saw her, and took her for a harlot; because she had covered her face. <sup>16</sup>And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me go in to thee; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in to me? <sup>17</sup>And he said, I will send [thee] a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, until thou send it? <sup>18</sup>And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy lace, and thy staff which is in thy hand. And he gave [it] her, and went in to her; and she conceived by him. <sup>19</sup>And she arose and went away; and she laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. <sup>20</sup>And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman`s hand; but he found her not. ²¹And he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute that was at Enaim, by the way-side? And they said, There was no prostitute here. ²²And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, No prostitute has been here. ²³Then Judah said, Let her take [it] for herself, lest we be put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. ²⁴And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has committed fornication, and behold, she is also with child by fornication. And Judah said, Bring her forth, that she may be burned. ²⁵When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man to whom these [belong] am I with child; and she said, Acknowledge, I pray thee, whose are this signet, and this lace, and this staff. ²⁶And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She is more righteous than I, because I have not given her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. ²⁷And it came to pass at the time of her delivery, that behold, twins were in her womb. ²⁸And it came to pass when she brought forth, that one stretched out [his] hand, and the midwife took it and bound round his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. ²⁹And it came to pass as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out; and she said, How hast thou broken forth! on thee be the breach! And they called his name Pherez. ³⁰And afterwards came out his brother, round whose hand was the scarlet thread; and they called his name Zerah.

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¹And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither. ²And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand. ⁴And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and attended on him; and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into his hand. ⁵And it came to pass from the time he had set him over his house and all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian`s house for Joseph`s sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had in the house and in the field. ⁶And he left all that he had in Joseph`s hand, and took cognizance of nothing with him, save the bread that he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful form and of a beautiful countenance. <sup>7</sup>And it came to pass after these things, that his master`s wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me! ⁸But he refused, and said to his master`s wife, Behold, my master takes cognizance of nothing with me: what is in the house, and all that he has, he has given into my hand. <sup>9</sup>There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? <sup>10</sup>And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day and he hearkened not to her, to lie with her [and] to be with her, <sup>11</sup>that on a certain day he went into the house to do his business, and there was none of the men of the house there in the house. <sup>12</sup>Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out. <sup>13</sup>And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled forth, <sup>14</sup>that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us, to mock us: he came in to me, to lie with me; and I cried with a loud voice; <sup>15</sup>and it came to pass when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went out. <sup>16</sup>And she laid his garment by her until his lord came home. <sup>17</sup>And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew bondman that thou hast brought to us came in to me to mock me; <sup>18</sup>and it came to pass as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled forth. <sup>19</sup>And it came to pass when his lord heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner did thy bondman to me, that his wrath was kindled. <sup>20</sup>And Joseph`s lord took him and put him into the tower-house, [the] place where the king`s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the tower-house. <sup>21</sup>And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him, and gave him favour in the eyes of the chief of the tower-house. <sup>22</sup>And the chief of the tower-house committed to Joseph`s hand all the prisoners that were in the tower-house; and whatever they had to do there he did. ²³The chief of the tower-house looked not to anything under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and what he did, Jehovah made it prosper.

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¹And it came to pass after these things, [that] the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. ²And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains -- with the chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers; ³and he put them in custody into the house of the captain of the life-guard, into the tower-house, into the place where Joseph was imprisoned. ⁴And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them, that he should attend on them. And they were [several] days in custody. ⁵And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house. ⁶And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked on them, and behold, they were sad. ⁷And he asked Pharaoh`s chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord`s house, saying, Why are your faces [so] sad to-day? ⁸And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [your dreams], I pray you. ⁹Then the chief of the cup-bearers told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; ¹⁰and in the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded: its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into grapes. ¹¹And Pharaoh`s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh`s cup, and gave the cup into Pharaoh`s hand. <sup>12</sup>And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days. <sup>13</sup>In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh`s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer. ¹⁴Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house; ¹⁵for indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. ¹⁶And when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. ¹⁷And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head. ¹⁸And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days. ¹⁹In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee on a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee. ²⁰And it came to pass the third day -- Pharaoh`s birthday -- that he made a feast to all his bondmen. And he lifted up the head of the chief of the cup-bearers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his bondmen. <sup>21</sup>And he restored the chief of the cup-bearers to his office of cup-bearer again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh`s hand. ²²And he hanged the chief of the bakers, as Joseph had interpreted to them. ²³But the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and forgot him.

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¹And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river. ²And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass. ³And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, bad-looking and lean-fleshed, and stood by the kine on the bank of the river. ⁴And the kine that were bad-looking and lean-fleshed ate up the seven kine that were fine-looking and fat. And Pharaoh awoke. ⁵And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good. ⁶And behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east wind, sprung up after them. ⁷And the thin ears devoured the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke; and behold, it was a dream. ⁸And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none to interpret them to Pharaoh. ⁹Then spoke the chief of the cup-bearers to Pharaoh, saying, I remember mine offences this day. ¹⁰Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard`s house, me and the chief of the bakers. <sup>11</sup>And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each according to the interpretation of his dream. <sup>12</sup>And there was there with us a Hebrew youth, a bondman of the captain of the life-guard, to whom we told [them], and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each he interpreted according to his dream. <sup>13</sup>And it came to pass, just as he interpreted to us, so it came about: me has he restored to my office, and him he hanged. <sup>14</sup>Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved [himself], and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh. <sup>15</sup>And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamt a dream, and there is none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, thou understandest a dream to interpret it. <sup>16</sup>And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace. <sup>17</sup>And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the bank of the river. <sup>18</sup>And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass. <sup>19</sup>And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed -- such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. <sup>20</sup>And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine; <sup>21</sup>and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke. <sup>22</sup>And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good. <sup>23</sup>And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them; <sup>24</sup>and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me. <sup>25</sup>And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh. <sup>26</sup>The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. <sup>27</sup>And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine. <sup>28</sup>This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has let Pharaoh see. <sup>29</sup>Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt. <sup>30</sup>And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land. <sup>31</sup>And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous. <sup>32</sup>And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it. <sup>33</sup>And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. <sup>34</sup>Let Pharaoh do [this]: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty, <sup>35</sup>and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep [it]. <sup>36</sup>And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine. <sup>37</sup>And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his bondmen. <sup>38</sup>And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find [one] as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? <sup>39</sup>And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none [so] discreet and wise as thou. <sup>40</sup>Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou. <sup>41</sup>And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. <sup>42</sup>And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph`s hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck. ⁴³And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁵And Pharaoh called Joseph`s name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. <sup>46</sup>And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt. <sup>47</sup>And in the seven years of plenty the land brought forth by handfuls. <sup>48</sup>And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it. <sup>49</sup>And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number. <sup>50</sup>And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him. <sup>51</sup>And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh -- For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father`s house. ⁵²And the name of the second he called Ephraim -- For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. ⁵³And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended; ⁵⁴and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do. ⁵⁶And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was [provision], and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy [grain], because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.

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¹And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? ²And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy [grain] for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die. ³And Joseph`s ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of Egypt. <sup>4</sup>But Benjamin, Joseph`s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him. ⁵So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan. ⁶And Joseph, he was the governor over the land -- he it was that sold [the corn] to all the people of the land. And Joseph`s brethren came and bowed down to him, the face to the earth. <sup>7</sup>And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them, and said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy food. <sup>8</sup>And Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him. <sup>9</sup>And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamt of them; and he said to them, Ye are spies: to see the exposed places of the land ye are come. <sup>10</sup>And they said to him, No, my lord; but to buy food are thy servants come. <sup>11</sup>We are all one man`s sons; we are honest: thy servants are not spies. ¹²And he said to them, No; but to see the exposed places of the land are ye come. ¹³And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. ¹⁴And Joseph said to them, That is it that I have spoken to you, saying, Ye are spies. ¹⁵By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh lives, ye shall not go forth hence, unless your youngest brother come hither! ¹⁶Send one of you, that he may fetch your brother, but ye shall be imprisoned, and your words shall be put to the proof, whether the truth is in you; and if not, as Pharaoh lives, ye are spies. ¹⁷And he put them in custody three days. ¹⁸And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God. ¹⁹If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households; ²⁰and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so. ²¹Then they said one to another, We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us, and we did not hearken; therefore this distress is come upon us. ²²And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the lad? But ye did not hearken; and now behold, his blood also is required. ²³And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them. ²⁴And he turned away from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. ²⁵And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man`s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. And thus did they to them. ²⁶And they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed thence. ²⁷And one of them opened his sack to give his ass food in the inn, and saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. ²⁸And he said to his brethren, My money is returned [to me], and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this [that] God has done to us? ²⁹And they came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying, ³⁰The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land. ³¹And we said to him, We are honest; we are not spies: ³²we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. ³³And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye are honest: leave one of your brethren with me, and take [for] the hunger of your households, and go, ³⁴and bring your youngest brother to me, and I shall know that ye are not spies, but are honest. Your brother will I give up to you; and ye may trade in the land. ³⁵And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man had his bundle of money in his sack; and they saw their bundles of money, they and their father, and were afraid. ³⁶And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things are against me. ³⁷And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons if I bring him not back to thee: give him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. ³⁸But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

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¹And the famine was grievous in the land. ²And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food. ³And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did positively testify to us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, unless your brother be with you. ⁴If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food; ⁵but if thou do not send [him], we will not go down, for the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face, unless your brother be with you. ⁶And Israel said, Why did ye deal [so] ill with me [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? ⁷And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down? ⁸And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we and thou and our little ones. ⁹I will be surety for him: of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not to thee, and set him before thy face, then shall I be guilty toward thee for ever. ¹⁰For had we not lingered, we should now certainly have returned already twice. ¹¹And their father Israel said to them, If it is then so, do this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a gift: a little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth and ladanum, pistacia-nuts and almonds. ¹²And take other money in your hand, and the money that was returned to you in the mouth of your sacks, carry back in your hand: perhaps it is an oversight. ¹³And take your brother, and arise, go again to the man. ¹⁴And the Almighty God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved. ¹⁵And the men took that gift, and took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and came before Joseph. ¹⁶And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and said to the [man] who was over his house, Bring the men into the house, and slaughter cattle, and make ready; for the men shall eat with me at noon. ¹⁷And the man did as Joseph had said; and the man brought the men into Joseph`s house. <sup>18</sup>And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph`s house, and said, Because of the money that was returned to us in our sacks at the beginning are we brought in, that he may turn against us, and fall upon us and take us for bondmen, and our asses. ¹⁹And they came up to the man that was over Joseph`s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, <sup>20</sup>and said, Ah! my lord, we came indeed down at the first to buy food. <sup>21</sup>And it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, [every] man`s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money according to its weight; and we have brought it again in our hand. ²²And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks. ²³And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; your money came to me. And he brought Simeon out to them. ²⁴And the man brought the men into Joseph`s house, and gave water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses food. <sup>25</sup>And they made ready the gift for Joseph`s coming at noon; for they had heard that they should eat bread there. ²⁶When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift that was in their hand, into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. ²⁷And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well -- the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive? ²⁸And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed, and made obeisance. ²⁹And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother`s son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son! <sup>30</sup>And Joseph made haste, for his bowels burned for his brother; and he sought [a place] to weep, and he went into the chamber, and wept there. <sup>31</sup>And he washed his face, and came out, and controlled himself, and said, Set on bread. <sup>32</sup>And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. <sup>33</sup>And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one at another. <sup>34</sup>And he had portions carried to them from before him. And Benjamin`s portion was five times greater than the portions of them all. And they drank, and made merry with him.

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¹And he commanded him who was over his house, saying, Fill the men`s sacks with food, as much as they can carry; and put every man`s money in the mouth of his sack. ²And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain-money. And he did according to the word of Joseph which he had spoken. ³In the morning, when it was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. ⁴They were gone out of the city, [and] not [yet] far off, when Joseph said to him who was over his house, Up! follow after the men; and when thou overtakest them, thou shalt say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good? ⁵Is not this [it] in which my lord drinks, and in which indeed he divines? Ye have done evil [in] what ye have done. ⁶And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words. ⁷And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants to do such a thing! ⁸Behold, the money that we found in our sacks` mouths we have brought again to thee from the land of Canaan; and how should we steal out of thy lord`s house silver or gold? ⁹With whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him die; and we also will be my lord`s bondmen. <sup>10</sup>And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according to your words: let him with whom it is found be my bondman, but ye shall be blameless. <sup>11</sup>And they hasted and laid down every man his sack on the ground, and opened every man his sack. <sup>12</sup>And he searched carefully: he began at the eldest, and ended at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin`s sack. ¹³Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his ass, and they returned to the city. ¹⁴And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph`s house; and he was still there; and they fell down before him to the ground. <sup>15</sup>And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done? Did ye not know that such a man as I can certainly divine? <sup>16</sup>And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak, and how justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold, we are my lord`s bondmen, both we, and he in whose hand the cup has been found. ¹⁷And he said, Far be it from me to do so! The man in whose hand the cup has been found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, go up in peace to your father. ¹⁸Then Judah came near to him, and said, Ah! my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord`s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh. <sup>19</sup>My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? <sup>20</sup>And we said to my lord, We have an aged father, and a child born to him in his old age, [yet] young; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him. <sup>21</sup>And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set mine eye on him. <sup>22</sup>And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, [his father] would die. <sup>23</sup>And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. <sup>24</sup>And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. <sup>25</sup>And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. <sup>26</sup>But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man`s face unless our youngest brother is with us. ²⁷And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two [sons]; ²⁸and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him [again] hitherto. ²⁹And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol. ³⁰And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, -- seeing that his life is bound up with his life, ³¹it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not [there], that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. ³²For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all my days. ³³And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren; ³⁴for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? -- lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

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¹And Joseph could not control himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried, Put every man out from me! And no man stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brethren. ²And he raised his voice in weeping; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. ³And Joseph said to his brethren, I am Joseph. Does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. ⁴And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. ⁵And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life. ⁶For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest. ⁷So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. ⁸And now it was not you [that] sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt. ⁹Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, tarry not. ¹⁰And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons` sons, and thy sheep, and thy cattle, and all that thou hast. <sup>11</sup>And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast. <sup>12</sup>And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth which speaks to you. <sup>13</sup>And tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and haste and bring down my father hither. <sup>14</sup>And he fell on his brother Benjamin`s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked with him. ¹⁶And the report was heard in Pharaoh`s house, saying, Joseph`s brethren are come. And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his bondmen. ¹⁷And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, Do this: load your beasts and depart, go into the land of Canaan, ¹⁸and take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. ¹⁹And thou art commanded -- this do: take waggons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and take up your father, and come. ²⁰And let not your eye regret your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt shall be yours. ²¹And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them waggons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. ²²To each one of them all he gave changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver and five changes of clothing. ²³And to his father he sent this: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread, and food for his father by the way. ²⁴And he sent his brethren away, and they departed. And he said to them, Do not quarrel on the way. ²⁵And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father. ²⁶And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them. ²⁷And they spoke to him all the words of Joseph, which he had spoken to them. And he saw the waggons that Joseph had sent to carry him. And the spirit of Jacob their father revived. ²⁸And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.

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¹And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. ²And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I. ³And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation. ⁴I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will also certainly bring thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand on thine eyes. ⁵And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, on the waggons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him; ⁷his sons and his sons` sons with him, his daughters and his sons` daughters and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt. ⁸And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Jacob`s firstborn, Reuben. <sup>9</sup>And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. <sup>10</sup>-- And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman. <sup>11</sup>-- And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. <sup>12</sup>-- And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul. <sup>13</sup>-- And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, and Job, and Shimron. <sup>14</sup>-- And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. <sup>15</sup>-- These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. <sup>16</sup>And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. <sup>17</sup>-- And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah; and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. <sup>18</sup>-- These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls. <sup>19</sup>The sons of Rachel Jacob`s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asnath bore to him, the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. ²¹-- And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. ²²-- These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. ²³And the sons of Dan: Hushim. ²⁴-- And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. ²⁵-- These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls were seven. ²⁶All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob`s sons` wives: all the souls were sixty-six. ²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob that came to Egypt were seventy. ²⁸And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give notice before he came to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹Then Joseph yoked his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and he presented himself to him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. ³⁰And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, after I have seen thy face, since thou still livest. ³¹And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father`s house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brethren and my father`s house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come to me; ³²and the men are shepherds, for they have been occupied with cattle; and they have brought their sheep, and their cattle, and all that they have. ³³And it shall come to pass that when Pharaoh shall call you and say, What is your occupation? ³⁴then ye shall say, Thy servants are men that have been occupied with cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers; in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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¹And Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brethren, and their sheep and their cattle, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen. ²And he took from the whole number of his brethren, five men, and set them before Pharaoh. ³And Pharaoh said to his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers. ⁴And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. ⁵And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee. ⁶The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land settle thy father and thy brethren: let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if thou knowest men of activity among them, then set them as overseers of cattle over what I have. ⁷And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? ⁹And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning. ¹⁰And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from Pharaoh. ¹¹And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. ¹²And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father`s household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones. <sup>13</sup>And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through the famine. <sup>14</sup>And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh`s house. ¹⁵And when money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread! for why should we die before thee? for [our] money is all gone. ¹⁶And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if [your] money be all gone. ¹⁷And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread for horses, and for flocks of sheep, and for herds of cattle, and for asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year. ¹⁸And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide [it] from my lord that since [our] money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land. ¹⁹Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate. ²⁰And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh`s. <sup>21</sup>And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end of it. <sup>22</sup>Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land. <sup>23</sup>And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and sow the land. <sup>24</sup>And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth to Pharaoh, and the four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. <sup>25</sup>And they said, Thou hast saved us alive. Let us find favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh`s bondmen. ²⁶And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, [that] the fifth should be for Pharaoh, except the land of the priests: theirs alone did not become Pharaoh`s. <sup>27</sup>And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they had possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly. <sup>28</sup>And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years. <sup>29</sup>And the days of Israel approached that he should die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt; <sup>30</sup>but when I shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word. <sup>31</sup>And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel worshipped on the bed`s head.

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¹And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick. And he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim. ²And one told Jacob and said, Behold, thy son Joseph is coming to thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. ³And Jacob said to Joseph, The Almighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, ⁴and he said to me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee [for] an everlasting possession. ⁵And now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon. ⁶And thy family which thou hast begotten after them shall be thine: they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. ⁷And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. ⁸And Israel beheld Joseph`s sons, and said, Who are these? <sup>9</sup>And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, to me, that I may bless them. <sup>10</sup>But the eyes of Israel were heavy from age: he could not see. And he brought them nearer to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. <sup>11</sup>And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and behold, God has let me see also thy seed. <sup>12</sup>And Joseph brought them out from his knees, and bowed down with his face to the earth. <sup>13</sup>And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel`s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel`s right hand, and brought [them] near to him. <sup>14</sup>But Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] on Ephraim`s head -- now he was the younger -- and his left hand on Manasseh`s head; guiding his hands intelligently, for Manasseh was the firstborn. <sup>15</sup>And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God that shepherded me all my life long to this day, <sup>16</sup>the Angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the land! <sup>17</sup>When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father`s hand to remove it from Ephraim`s head to Manasseh`s head. ¹⁸And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn: put thy right hand on his head. ¹⁹But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people, and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become the fulness of nations. ²⁰And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh! And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. ²¹And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. ²²And I have given to thee one tract [of land] above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

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¹And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days. ²Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your father. ³Reuben, thou art my firstborn, My might, and the firstfruits of my vigour: Excellency of dignity, and excellency of strength. ⁴Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father`s couch: Then defiledst thou [it]: he went up to my bed. <sup>5</sup>Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords. <sup>6</sup>My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen. <sup>7</sup>Cursed be their anger, for it [was] violent; And their rage, for it [was] cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. <sup>8</sup>Judah -- [as to] thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father`s children will bow down to thee. ⁹Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up? ¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples. ¹¹He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass`s colt to the choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine, And his garment in the blood of grapes. <sup>12</sup>The eyes are red with wine, And the teeth [are] white with milk. <sup>13</sup>Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; Yea, he will be at the shore of the ships, And his side [toucheth] upon Sidon. <sup>14</sup>Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles. <sup>15</sup>And he saw the rest that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And was a tributary servant. <sup>16</sup>Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of Israel. <sup>17</sup>Dan will be a serpent on the way, A horned snake on the path, Which biteth the horse`s heels, So that the rider falleth backwards. ¹⁸I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah. ¹⁹Gad -- troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon the heel. ²⁰Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give royal dainties. ²¹Naphtali is a hind let loose; He giveth goodly words. ²²Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; [His] branches shoot over the wall. ²³The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him; ²⁴But his bow abideth firm, And the arms of his hands are supple By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel: ²⁵From the God of thy father, and he will help thee; And from the Almighty, and he will bless thee -- With blessings of heaven from above, With blessings of the deep that lieth under, With blessings of the breast and of the womb. ²⁶The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my ancestors, Unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. ²⁷Benjamin -- [as] a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the morning he will devour the prey, And in the evening he will divide the booty. ²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he blessed them: every one according to his blessing he blessed them. ²⁹And he charged them, and said to them, I am gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre. ³¹There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife; and there I buried Leah. ³²The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth. ³³And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his peoples.

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¹And Joseph fell upon his father`s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. <sup>2</sup>And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel. <sup>3</sup>And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. <sup>4</sup>And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, <sup>5</sup>My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die; in my grave which I have dug myself in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. And now, let me go up, I pray thee, that I may bury my father; and I will come again. <sup>6</sup>And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. <sup>7</sup>And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the bondmen of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, <sup>8</sup>and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father`s house; only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. ⁹And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and the camp was very great. ¹⁰And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days. ¹¹And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. ¹²And his sons did to him according as he had commanded them; ¹³and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre. ¹⁴And, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that had gone up with him to bury his father. ¹⁵And when Joseph`s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him! <sup>16</sup>And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying, <sup>17</sup>Thus shall ye speak to Joseph: Oh forgive, I pray thee, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin! for they did evil to thee. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. <sup>18</sup>And his brethren also went and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we are thy bondmen. <sup>19</sup>And Joseph said to them, Fear not: am I then in the place of God? <sup>20</sup>Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as [it is] this day, to save a great people alive. <sup>21</sup>And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them. <sup>22</sup>And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father`s house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. ²³And Joseph saw Ephraim`s children of the third [generation]; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph`s knees. ²⁴And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ²⁵And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence. ²⁶And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus

Chapter 1

¹And these are the names of the sons of Israel who had come into Egypt; with Jacob had they come, each with his household: ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ⁴Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. ⁵And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt. ⁶And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. ⁷And the children of Israel were fruitful, and swarmed and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was full of them. ⁸And there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. ⁹And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we. ¹⁰Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land. ¹¹And they set over them service-masters to oppress them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses. ¹²But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and spread; and they were distressed because of the children of Israel. ¹³And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness; ¹⁴and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness. ¹⁵And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives -- of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah -- ¹⁶and he said, When ye help the Hebrew women in bearing, and see [them] on the stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if a daughter, then she shall live. ¹⁷But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive. ¹⁸And the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, Why have ye done this, and saved the male children alive? ¹⁹And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian; for they are strong, and they have borne before the midwife comes to them. ²⁰And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. ²¹And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. ²²Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, but every daughter ye shall save alive.

Chapter 2

¹And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi. ²And the woman conceived, and bore a son. And she saw him that he was fair, and hid him three months. ³And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid [it] in the sedge on the bank of the river. ⁴And his sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him. ⁵And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river`s side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it. <sup>6</sup>And she opened [it], and saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is [one] of the Hebrews` children. ⁷And his sister said to Pharaoh`s daughter, Shall I go and call thee a wet-nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? <sup>8</sup>And Pharaoh`s daughter said to her, Go. And the damsel went and called the child`s mother. <sup>9</sup>And Pharaoh`s daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it. ¹⁰And when the child was grown, she brought him to Pharaoh`s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water. <sup>11</sup>And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. <sup>12</sup>And he turned this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. <sup>13</sup>And he went out on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarrelling; and he said to him that was in the wrong, Why art thou smiting thy neighbour? <sup>14</sup>And he said, Who made thee ruler and judge over us? dost thou intend to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Then Moses feared, and said, Surely the matter is known. <sup>15</sup>And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat by the well. <sup>16</sup>And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs, to water their father`s flock. ¹⁷And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose and helped them, and watered their flock. ¹⁸And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, Why are ye come so soon to-day? ¹⁹And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] abundantly for us, and watered the flock. ²⁰And he said to his daughters, And where is he? why then have ye left the man behind? Call him, that he may eat bread. ²¹And Moses consented to remain with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. ²²And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. ²³And it came to pass during those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and cried; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage; ²⁴and God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob; ²⁵and God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged [them].

Chapter 3

¹And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God -- to Horeb. ²And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn-bush: and he looked, and behold, the thorn-bush burned with fire, and the thorn-bush was not being consumed. ³And Moses said, Let me now turn aside and see this great sight, why the thorn-bush is not burnt. ⁴And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him out of the midst of the thorn-bush and said, Moses, Moses! And he said, Here am I. ⁵And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. ⁶And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God. ⁷And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. ⁸And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and spacious land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ⁹And now behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me; and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. ¹⁰And now come, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. ¹¹And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? ¹²And he said, For I will be with thee; and this shall be the sign to thee that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. ¹³And Moses said to God, Behold, [when] I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? ¹⁴And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM hath sent me unto you. ¹⁵And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. ¹⁶Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, I have indeed visited you, and [seen] that which is done unto you in Egypt; ¹⁷and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁸And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us; and now, let us go, we pray thee, three days` journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. ¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a powerful hand. ²⁰And I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof; and after that he will let you go. ²¹And I will give this people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and it shall come to pass, when ye go out, that ye shall not go out empty; ²²but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is the inmate of her house, utensils of silver, and utensils of gold, and clothing; and ye shall put [them] on your sons and on your daughters, and shall spoil the Egyptians.

Chapter 4

¹And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to thee. ²And Jehovah said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A staff. ³And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. ⁴And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand and take it by the tail -- and he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand -- ⁵that they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. ⁶And Jehovah said moreover to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous, as snow. ⁷And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and took it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his flesh. ⁸And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the other sign. ⁹And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also those two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour [it] on the dry [land]; and the water that thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land]. ¹⁰And Moses said to Jehovah, Ah Lord! I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken to thy servant, for I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue. ¹¹And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? [have] not I, Jehovah? ¹²And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say. ¹³And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt send. ¹⁴Then the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also behold, he goeth out to meet thee; and when he seeth thee he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. ¹⁶And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and it shall come to pass that he shall be to thee for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him for God. ¹⁷And thou shalt take this staff in thy hand, with which thou shalt do the signs. ¹⁸And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, that I may see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. ¹⁹And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life. ²⁰And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them riding upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. ²¹And Jehovah said to Moses, When thou goest to return to Egypt, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in thy hand. And I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. ²²And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn. ²³And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. ²⁴And it came to pass on the way, in the inn, that Jehovah came upon him, and sought to slay him. ²⁵Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me! ²⁶And he let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband -- because of the circumcision. ²⁷And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him. ²⁸And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah who had sent him, and all the signs that he had commanded him. ²⁹And Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel; ³⁰and Aaron spoke all the words that Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and did the signs before the eyes of the people. ³¹And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Chapter 5

¹And afterwards Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people go that they may celebrate a feast to me in the wilderness. ²And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, to whose voice I am to hearken to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go. ³And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days` journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with sword. <sup>4</sup>And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, wish to have the people go off from their works? Away, to your burdens! <sup>5</sup>And Pharaoh said, Behold the people of the land are now many, and ye wish to make them rest from their burdens. <sup>6</sup>And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, <sup>7</sup>Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. <sup>8</sup>And the number of the bricks they have made heretofore shall ye lay upon them: ye shall not diminish any of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to our God. <sup>9</sup>Let them put heavier labour on the men, that they may be taken up with it, and not regard vain words. <sup>10</sup>And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw: <sup>11</sup>go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished. <sup>12</sup>And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. <sup>13</sup>And the taskmasters urged [them], saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw. <sup>14</sup>And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh`s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] it was said, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and to-day, as heretofore? ¹⁵Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy bondmen? ¹⁶There is no straw given to thy bondmen, and they say to us, Make brick; and behold, thy bondmen are beaten, but it is the fault of thy people. ¹⁷And he said, Ye are idle, idle! therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah. ¹⁸And now go -- work! and straw shall not be given you, and ye shall deliver the measure of bricks. ¹⁹And the officers of the children of Israel saw [that] it stood ill with them, because it was said, Ye shall not diminish anything from your bricks, the daily work. ²⁰And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood there to meet them, as they came out from Pharaoh. ²¹And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, that ye have made our odour to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his bondmen, putting a sword into their hand to kill us! ²²And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Lord, why hast thou done evil to this people? why now hast thou sent me? ²³For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all!

Chapter 6

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. ²And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am Jehovah. ³And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as the Almighty God; but by my name Jehovah I was not made known to them. ⁴And I established also my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were sojourners. ⁵And I have heard also the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians have forced to serve, and I have remembered my covenant. ⁶Therefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their service, and I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments. ⁷And I will take you to me for a people, and will be your God; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah your God, am he who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸And I will bring you into the land concerning which I swore to give it unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; and I will give it you for a possession: I am Jehovah. ⁹And Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses from anguish of spirit, and from hard service. ¹⁰And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. ¹²And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, Lo, the children of Israel do not hearken to me: how then should Pharaoh hearken to me, to me of uncircumcised lips? ¹³And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a commandment to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁴These are the heads of their fathers` houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch and Phallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben. <sup>15</sup>-- And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon. <sup>16</sup>And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years. <sup>17</sup>The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. <sup>18</sup>And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Jizhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years. <sup>19</sup>And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations. <sup>20</sup>And Amram took Jochebed his aunt as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. <sup>21</sup>And the sons of Jizhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zicri. <sup>22</sup>And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. <sup>23</sup>And Aaron took Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. <sup>24</sup>And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites. <sup>25</sup>And Eleazar Aaron`s son took [one] of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. ²⁶This is that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts. ²⁷These are they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: this is that Moses and Aaron. ²⁸And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹that Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee. ³⁰And Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how will Pharaoh hearken unto me?

Chapter 7

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made thee God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. ²Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. ³And I will render Pharaoh`s heart obdurate, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. <sup>4</sup>And Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. <sup>5</sup>And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. <sup>6</sup>And Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah had commanded them: so did they. <sup>7</sup>And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. <sup>8</sup>And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, <sup>9</sup>When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Do a miracle for yourselves, -- then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy staff and cast [it] before Pharaoh -- it will become a serpent. <sup>10</sup>And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and did so, as Jehovah had commanded; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his bondmen, and it became a serpent. <sup>11</sup>And Pharaoh also called the sages and the sorcerers; and they too, the scribes of Egypt, did so with their enchantments: <sup>12</sup>they cast down every man his staff, and they became serpents; but Aaron`s staff swallowed up their staves. ¹³And Pharaoh`s heart was stubborn, and he hearkened not to them, as Jehovah had said. <sup>14</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh`s heart is hardened: he refuseth to let the people go. ¹⁵Go unto Pharaoh in the morning -- behold, he will go out unto the water -- and take thy stand by the bank of the river in front of him; and take in thy hand the staff that was turned into a serpent. ¹⁶And say unto him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has sent me to thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; but behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened. ¹⁷Thus saith Jehovah: In this shalt thou know that I am Jehovah -- behold, I will smite with the staff that is in my hand upon the water which is in the river, and it shall be turned into blood. ¹⁸And the fish that is in the river shall die; and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink the water out of the river. ¹⁹And Jehovah said to Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy staff, and stretch out thy hand upon the waters of the Egyptians -- upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in [vessels of] wood and in [vessels of] stone. ²⁰And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah had commanded; and he lifted up the staff, and smote the waters that were in the river before the eyes of Pharaoh, and before the eyes of his bondmen; and all the waters that were in the river were turned into blood. ²¹And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river; and the blood was throughout the land of Egypt. ²²And the scribes of Egypt did so with their sorceries; and Pharaoh`s heart was stubborn, neither did he hearken to them, as Jehovah had said. ²³And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and took not this to heart either. ²⁴And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. ²⁵And seven days were fulfilled, after Jehovah had smitten the river.

Chapter 8

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Let my people go, that they may serve me. ²And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. ³And the river shall swarm with frogs, and they shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedroom, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs. ⁴And the frogs shall come up both upon thee and upon thy people, and upon all thy bondmen. ⁵And Jehovah said to Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand with thy staff over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt. ⁶And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷And the scribes did so with their sorceries, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. ⁸And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat Jehovah, that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Jehovah. ⁹And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me, for what time shall I intreat for thee, and for thy bondmen, and for thy people, to cut off the frogs from thee and from thy houses; [so that] they shall remain in the river only? ¹⁰And he said, For to-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like Jehovah our God. ¹¹And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy bondmen, and from thy people: they shall remain in the river only. ¹²And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried to Jehovah because of the frogs that he had brought against Pharaoh. ¹³And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. ¹⁴And they gathered them in heaps; and the land stank. ¹⁵And Pharaoh saw that there was respite; and he hardened his heart, and hearkened not to them, as Jehovah had said. ¹⁶And Jehovah said to Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy staff, and smite the dust of the earth, and it shall become gnats throughout the land of Egypt. ¹⁷And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and smote the dust of the earth, and there arose gnats on man and on beast: all the dust of the land became gnats throughout the land of Egypt. ¹⁸And the scribes did so with their sorceries, to bring forth gnats; but they could not. And the gnats were on man and on beast. ¹⁹Then the scribes said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God! But Pharaoh`s heart was stubborn, and he hearkened not to them, as Jehovah had said. <sup>20</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh -- behold, he will go out to the water -- and say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me. <sup>21</sup>For, if thou do not let my people go, behold, I will send dog-flies upon thee, and upon thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of dog-flies, and also the ground on which they are. <sup>22</sup>And I will distinguish in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no dog-flies shall be there; that thou mayest know that I Jehovah am in the midst of the land. <sup>23</sup>And I will put a separation between my people and thy people; to-morrow shall this sign be. <sup>24</sup>And Jehovah did so; and there came dog-flies in a multitude into the house of Pharaoh, and [into] the houses of his bondmen; and throughout the land of Egypt, the land was corrupted by the dog-flies. <sup>25</sup>And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to your God in the land. <sup>26</sup>And Moses said, It is not proper to do so; for we should sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, if we sacrificed the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, would they not stone us? <sup>27</sup>We will go three days` journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us. ²⁸And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only, go not very far away: intreat for me! ²⁹And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and will intreat Jehovah; and the dog-flies will depart from Pharaoh, from his bondmen, and from his people, to-morrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah. ³⁰And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Jehovah. ³¹And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the dog-flies from Pharaoh, from his bondmen, and from his people; there remained not one. ³²And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and would not let the people go.

Chapter 9

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me. ²For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still, ³behold, the hand of Jehovah shall be on thy cattle which is in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the oxen and on the sheep, with a very grievous plague. ⁴And Jehovah will distinguish between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that the children of Israel have. ⁵And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow will Jehovah do this thing in the land. ⁶And Jehovah did this thing on the following day, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. ⁷And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go. ⁸And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take to yourselves handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh. ⁹And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall become boils on man and on cattle, breaking out [with] blisters, throughout the land of Egypt. ¹⁰And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens; and it became boils [with] blisters breaking out on man and on cattle. ¹¹And the scribes could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the scribes, and on all the Egyptians. ¹²And Jehovah made Pharaoh`s heart stubborn, and he did not hearken to them, as Jehovah had told Moses. <sup>13</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and set thyself before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me. <sup>14</sup>For I will at this time send all my plagues to thy heart, and on thy bondmen, and on thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. <sup>15</sup>For now shall I put forth my hand, and I will smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. <sup>16</sup>And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to shew thee my power; and that my name may be declared in all the earth. <sup>17</sup>Dost thou still exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? <sup>18</sup>Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since its foundation until now. <sup>19</sup>And now send, [and] secure thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field: all the men and the cattle that are found in the field, and are not brought home -- on them the hail shall come down, and they shall die. <sup>20</sup>He that feared the word of Jehovah among the bondmen of Pharaoh made his bondmen and his cattle flee into the houses. <sup>21</sup>But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field. <sup>22</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be hail throughout the land of Egypt, upon men, and upon cattle, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt. <sup>23</sup>And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and Jehovah gave thunder and hail; and the fire ran along the ground; and Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. <sup>24</sup>And there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there had been none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. <sup>25</sup>And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both men and cattle; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. <sup>26</sup>Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. <sup>27</sup>And Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is the righteous [one], but I and my people are the wicked [ones]. <sup>28</sup>Intreat Jehovah that it may be enough, that there be no more thunder of God and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer! <sup>29</sup>And Moses said to him, When I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah: the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah`s. ³⁰But as to thee and thy bondmen, I know that ye do not yet fear Jehovah Elohim. ³¹And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they were not come out into ear. ³³And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Jehovah; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not [any more] poured on the earth. ³⁴And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, and he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he, and his bondmen. ³⁵And the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, neither would he let the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by Moses.

Chapter 10

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his bondmen, that I might do these my signs in their midst, ²and that thou mightest tell in the ears of thy son and thy son`s son what I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. <sup>3</sup>And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: How long dost thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. <sup>4</sup>For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders; <sup>5</sup>and they shall cover the face of the land, so that ye will not be able to see the land; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which ye have remaining from the hail, and shall eat every tree which ye have growing in the field; <sup>6</sup>and they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy bondmen, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers` fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. ⁷And Pharaoh`s bondmen said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God: dost thou not yet know that Egypt is ruined? <sup>8</sup>And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh. And he said to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God. Who are they that shall go? <sup>9</sup>And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters; with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we have a feast of Jehovah. <sup>10</sup>And he said to them, Let Jehovah be so with you, as I let you go, and your little ones: see that evil is before you! <sup>11</sup>Not so: go now, ye [that are] men, and serve Jehovah! for it is that ye have desired. And they were driven out from Pharaoh`s presence. ¹²And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land -- all that the hail hath left. ¹³And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. ¹⁴And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such. ¹⁵And they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing on the trees, and in the herbs of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. ¹⁶And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. ¹⁷And now, forgive, I pray you, my sin only this time, and intreat Jehovah your God that he may take away from me this death only! ¹⁸And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Jehovah. ¹⁹And Jehovah turned a very powerful west wind, which took away the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea: there remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. ²⁰And Jehovah made Pharaoh`s heart stubborn, and he did not let the children of Israel go. <sup>21</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness in the land of Egypt -- so that one may feel darkness. <sup>22</sup>And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens; and there was a thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt three days: <sup>23</sup>they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place, for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. <sup>24</sup>And Pharaoh called Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah; only, let your flocks and your herds remain; let your little ones also go with you. <sup>25</sup>And Moses said, Thou must give also sacrifices and burnt-offerings into our hands, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. <sup>26</sup>Our cattle also must go with us: there shall not a hoof be left behind; for we must take thereof to serve Jehovah our God; and we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come there. <sup>27</sup>But Jehovah made Pharaoh`s heart stubborn, and he would not let them go. ²⁸And Pharaoh said to him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die. ²⁹And Moses said, Thou hast spoken rightly: I will see thy face again no more!

Chapter 11

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Yet one plague will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let [you] go altogether, he shall utterly drive you out hence. ²Speak now in the ears of the people, that they ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, utensils of silver and utensils of gold. ³And Jehovah gave the people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt -- in the eyes of Pharaoh`s bondmen, and in the eyes of the people. <sup>4</sup>And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah: About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt. <sup>5</sup>And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sitteth on his throne, even unto the firstborn of the bondwoman that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle. <sup>6</sup>And there shall be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more. <sup>7</sup>But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know that Jehovah distinguisheth between the Egyptians and Israel. <sup>8</sup>And all these thy bondmen shall come down unto me, and bow down to me, saying, Go out, thou, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a glowing anger. <sup>9</sup>And Jehovah had said to Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. <sup>10</sup>And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; but Jehovah made Pharaoh`s heart stubborn, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Chapter 12

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ²This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³Speak unto all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take themselves each a lamb, for a father`s house, a lamb for a house. <sup>4</sup>And if the household be too small for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; each according to [the measure] of his eating shall ye count for the lamb. <sup>5</sup>Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats. <sup>6</sup>And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings. <sup>7</sup>And they shall take of the blood, and put [it] on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. <sup>8</sup>And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter [herbs] shall they eat it. <sup>9</sup>Ye shall eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with its in-wards. <sup>10</sup>And ye shall let none of it remain until the morning; and what remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. <sup>11</sup>And thus shall ye eat it: your loins shall be girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is Jehovah`s passover. ¹²And I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah. ¹³And the blood shall be for you as a sign on the houses in which ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be among you for destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall celebrate it [as] a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations [as] an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it. ¹⁵Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread: on the very first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day -- that soul shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶And on the first day ye shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation: no manner of work shall be done on them, save what is eaten by every person -- that only shall be done by you. ¹⁷And ye shall keep the [feast of] unleavened [bread]; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; and ye shall keep this day in your generations [as] an ordinance for ever. ¹⁸In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening. ¹⁹Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eateth what is leavened -- that soul shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or born in the land. ²⁰Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your dwellings shall ye eat unleavened bread. ²¹And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover. ²²And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that is in the bason, and smear the lintel and the two door-posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. ²³And Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite [you]. ²⁴And ye shall observe this as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever. ²⁵And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service. ²⁶And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service? ²⁷that ye shall say, It is a sacrifice of passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped. ²⁸And the children of Israel went away, and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so did they. ²⁹And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. ³⁰And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead. ³¹And he called Moses and Aaron in the night, and said, Rise up, go away from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said. ³²Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and go; and bless me also. ³³And the Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead [men]! ³⁴And the people took their dough before it was leavened; their kneading-troughs bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. ³⁵And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked of the Egyptians utensils of silver, and utensils of gold, and clothing. ³⁶And Jehovah had given the people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they gave to them; and they spoiled the Egyptians. ³⁷And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, besides children. ³⁸And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks and herds -- very much cattle. ³⁹And they baked the dough that they brought forth out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened; for they were driven out of Egypt, and could not wait; neither had they prepared for themselves any food. ⁴⁰And the residence of the children of Israel that they resided in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that same day it came to pass that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴²It is a night of observance to Jehovah, because of their being brought out from the land of Egypt: that same night is an observance to Jehovah for all the children of Israel in their generations. ⁴³And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: No stranger shall eat of it; ⁴⁴but every man`s bondman that is bought for money -- let him be circumcised: then shall he eat it. ⁴⁵A settler and a hired servant shall not eat it. ⁴⁶In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth any of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. ⁴⁷All the assembly of Israel shall hold it. ⁴⁸And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and would hold the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and hold it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. ⁴⁹One law shall be for him that is home-born and for the sojourner that sojourneth among you. ⁵⁰And all the children of Israel did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so did they. ⁵¹And it came to pass on that same day, [that] Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their hosts.

Chapter 13

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Hallow unto me every firstborn, whatever breaketh open the womb among the children of Israel, of man and of cattle: it is mine. ³And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for with a powerful hand hath Jehovah brought you out from this; and nothing leavened shall be eaten. ⁴Ye come out to-day, in the month Abib. ⁵And it shall be when Jehovah hath brought thee into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. ⁶Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread; and in the seventh day is a feast to Jehovah. ⁷Unleavened bread shall be eaten the seven days; and leavened bread shall not be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy borders. ⁸And thou shalt inform thy son in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did to me when I came out of Egypt. ⁹And it shall be for a sign to thee on thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth; for with a powerful hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt. ¹⁰And thou shalt keep this ordinance at its set time from year to year. ¹¹And it shall be when Jehovah hath brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he hath sworn to thee and to thy fathers, and hath given it thee, ¹²that thou shalt offer unto Jehovah all that breaketh open the womb, and every firstling that cometh of cattle which is thine: the males [shall be] Jehovah`s. ¹³And every firstling of an ass shalt thou ransom with a lamb; and if thou do not ransom it, thou shalt break its neck; and every firstborn of a man among thy sons shalt thou ransom. ¹⁴And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say to him, With a powerful hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹⁵And it came to pass, when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, that Jehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of men and the firstborn of cattle: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that breaketh open the womb -- being males; and every firstborn of my children I ransom. ¹⁶And it shall be for a sign on thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes, for with a powerful hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt. ¹⁷And it came to pass, when Pharaoh let the people go, that God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, That the people may not repent when they see conflict, and return to Egypt. ¹⁸And God led the people about, the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went arrayed out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁹And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had made the children of Israel swear an oath, saying, God will be sure to visit you; then ye shall carry my bones with you hence. ²⁰And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, at the end of the wilderness. ²¹And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them [in] the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night. ²²The pillar of the cloud did not remove [from] before the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.

Chapter 14

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea: before Baal-Zephon, opposite to it, shall ye encamp by the sea. ³And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has hemmed them in. ⁴And I will harden Pharaoh`s heart, that he may pursue after them; and I will glorify myself in Pharaoh, and in all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so. <sup>5</sup>And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his bondmen was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from our service? <sup>6</sup>And he yoked his chariot, and took his people with him. <sup>7</sup>And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. <sup>8</sup>And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; and the children of Israel had gone out with a high hand. <sup>9</sup>And the Egyptians pursued after them, -- all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them where they had encamped by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, opposite to Baal-Zephon. <sup>10</sup>And Pharaoh approached; and the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and the children of Israel were much afraid, and cried out to Jehovah. <sup>11</sup>And they said to Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, thou hast taken us away to die in the wilderness? why hast thou done this to us, that thou hast led us out of Egypt? <sup>12</sup>Is not this what we told thee in Egypt, when we said, Let us alone, and we will serve the Egyptians? For [it had been] better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness. <sup>13</sup>And Moses said to the people, Fear not: stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you to-day; for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. <sup>14</sup>Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall be still. <sup>15</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Why dost thou cry unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. <sup>16</sup>And thou, lift thy staff, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea. <sup>17</sup>And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall pursue after them; and I will glorify myself in Pharaoh and in all his host, in his chariots and in his horsemen. <sup>18</sup>And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have glorified myself in Pharaoh, in his chariots and in his horsemen. <sup>19</sup>And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before them, and stood behind them. <sup>20</sup>And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and was a cloud and darkness, and lit up the night; and the one did not come near the other all the night. <sup>21</sup>And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah made the sea go [back] by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided. <sup>22</sup>And the children of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry [ground]; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. <sup>23</sup>And the Egyptians pursued and came after them -- all Pharaoh`s horses, his chariots and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea. ²⁴And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked upon the camp of the Egyptians, in the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and embarrassed the camp of the Egyptians. ²⁵And he took off their chariot wheels, and caused them to drive with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee before Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians! ²⁶And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may return upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen. ²⁷And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength toward the morning; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overturned the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. ²⁸And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the host of Pharaoh that had come into the sea after them; there remained not even one of them. ²⁹And the children of Israel walked on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. ³⁰Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore. ³¹And Israel saw the great power [with] which Jehovah had wrought against the Egyptians; and the people feared Jehovah, and believed in Jehovah, and in Moses his bondman.

Chapter 15

¹Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to Jehovah, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah, for he is highly exalted: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. ²My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will glorify him; My father`s God, and I will extol him. <sup>3</sup>Jehovah is a man of war; Jehovah, his name. <sup>4</sup>Pharaoh`s chariots and his army hath he cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. ⁵The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone. ⁶Thy right hand, Jehovah, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, Jehovah, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. ⁷And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble. ⁸And by the breath of thy nostrils the waters were heaped up; The streams stood as a mound; The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. ⁹The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them. ¹⁰Thou didst blow with thy breath, the sea covered them; They sank as lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹Who is like unto thee, Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like unto thee, glorifying thyself in holiness, Fearful [in] praises, doing wonders? ¹²Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. ¹³Thou by thy mercy hast led forth the people that thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them by thy strength unto the abode of thy holiness. ¹⁴The peoples heard it, they were afraid: A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia. ¹⁵Then the princes of Edom were amazed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them; All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. ¹⁶Fear and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased. ¹⁷Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place that thou, Jehovah, hast made thy dwelling, The Sanctuary, Lord, that thy hands have prepared. ¹⁸Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever! ¹⁹For the horse of Pharaoh, with his chariots and with his horsemen, came into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them; and the children of Israel went on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea. ²⁰And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances. ²¹And Miriam answered them, Sing to Jehovah, for he is highly exalted: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. ²²And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. ²³And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah. ²⁴And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? ²⁵And he cried to Jehovah; and Jehovah shewed him wood, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance; and there he tested them. ²⁶And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do what is right in his eyes, and incline thine ears to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the complaints upon thee that I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who healeth thee. ²⁷And they came to Elim; and twelve springs of water were there, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

Chapter 16

¹And they journeyed from Elim, and the whole assembly of the children of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt. ²And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness. ³And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger! ⁴Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. ⁵And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare what they have brought in; and it shall be twice as much as they shall gather daily. ⁶And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening, then shall ye know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt; ⁷and in the morning, then shall ye see the glory of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings against Jehovah; -- and what are we, that ye murmur against us? ⁸And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which ye murmur against him ... and what [are] we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. ⁹And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the assembly of the children of Israel, Come near into the presence of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings. ¹⁰And it came to pass, when Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, that they turned toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud. ¹¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, Between the two evenings ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God. ¹³And it came to pass in the evening, that quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round the camp. ¹⁴And when the dew that lay [round it] was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was [something] fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground. ¹⁵And the children of Israel saw [it], and said one to another, What is it? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Gather of it every man according to what he can eat, an omer a poll, [according to] the number of your persons: ye shall take every man for those that are in his tent. ¹⁷And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some much, some little. ¹⁸And they measured with the omer: then he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little wanted nothing: they had gathered every man according to the measure of his eating. ¹⁹And Moses said to them, Let no man leave [any] of it until the morning. ²⁰But they did not hearken to Moses; and some men left of it until the morning; then worms bred in it and it stank. And Moses was wroth with them. ²¹And they gathered it every morning, every man as much as he could eat; and when the sun became hot, it melted. ²²And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one; and all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses. ²³And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has said: To-morrow is the rest, the holy sabbath, of Jehovah: bake what ye will bake, and cook what ye will cook; and lay up for yourselves all that remains over, to be kept for the morning. ²⁴And they laid it up for the morning, as Moses had commanded; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it. ²⁵And Moses said, Eat it to-day; for to-day is sabbath to Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field. ²⁶Six days shall ye gather it; but on the seventh day is sabbath: on it there shall be none. ²⁷And it came to pass on the seventh day that there went out [some] from the people to gather [it], and they found none. ²⁸And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? ²⁹See, for Jehovah hath given you the sabbath; therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days. Abide every man in his place: let no man go from his place on the seventh day. ³⁰And the people rested on the seventh day. ³¹And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey. ³²And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread that I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. ³³And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put in it an omer full of manna, and deposit it before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations. ³⁴As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so Aaron deposited it before the Testimony, to be kept. ³⁵And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. ³⁶Now an omer is the tenth [part] of an ephah.

Chapter 17

¹And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their journeys, at the command of Jehovah; and they encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. ²And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah? ³And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? ⁴And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me! ⁵And Jehovah said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel, and thy staff with which thou didst smite the river, take in thy hand, and go. ⁶Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock on Horeb; and thou shalt strike the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. ⁷And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not? ⁸And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. ⁹And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand. ¹⁰And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹And it came to pass when Moses raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹²And Moses` hands were heavy; then they took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on this side, and one on that side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ¹³And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in the book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens. ¹⁵And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi. ¹⁶And he said, For the hand is on the throne of Jah; Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation!

Chapter 18

¹And Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses` father-in-law, heard of all that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people; that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt. <sup>2</sup>And Jethro, Moses` father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses` wife, after he had sent her back, <sup>3</sup>and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom -- for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land, <sup>4</sup>-- and the name of the other, Eliezer -- For the God of my father has been my help, and has delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. <sup>5</sup>And Jethro, Moses` father-in-law, came to Moses with his sons and his wife into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mountain of God. ⁶And he sent word to Moses: I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. ⁷And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other [after] their welfare, and went into the tent. ⁸And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel`s sake; all the trouble that had befallen them on the way, and [how] Jehovah had delivered them. <sup>9</sup>And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness that Jehovah had done to Israel; that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. <sup>10</sup>And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. <sup>11</sup>Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily [he was] above them. <sup>12</sup>And Jethro, Moses` father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses` father-in-law in the presence of God. <sup>13</sup>And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening. <sup>14</sup>And Moses` father-in-law saw all that he did with the people, and said, What is this thing which thou art doing with the people? why dost thou sit alone, and all the people are standing by thee from morning to evening? ¹⁵And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to enquire of God. ¹⁶When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between one and another; and I make known [to them] the statutes of God, and his laws. ¹⁷And Moses` father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good. ¹⁸Thou wilt be quite exhausted, both thou and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee: thou canst not perform it alone. ¹⁹Hearken now to my voice: I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee. Be thou for the people with God, and bring the matters before God; ²⁰and teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. ²¹But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [them] over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, ²²that they may judge the people at all times; and it shall be [that] they shall bring to thee every great matter, and that they shall judge every small matter, and they shall lighten [the task] on thee, and they shall bear [it] with thee. ²³If thou do this thing, and God command thee [so], thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. ²⁴And Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. ²⁵And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens. ²⁶And they judged the people at all times: the hard matters they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged. ²⁷And Moses sent away his father-in-law, and he departed into his land.

Chapter 19

¹In the third month after the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai: ²they departed from Rephidim, and came [into] the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in the wilderness; and Israel encamped there before the mountain. ³And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: ⁴Ye have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and [how] I have borne you on eagles` wings and brought you to myself. <sup>5</sup>And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples -- for all the earth is mine -- <sup>6</sup>and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. <sup>7</sup>And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and laid before the mall these words which Jehovah had commanded him. <sup>8</sup>And all the people answered together, and said, All that Jehovah has spoken will we do! And Moses brought the words of the people back to Jehovah. <sup>9</sup>And Jehovah said to Moses, Lo, I will come to thee in the cloud`s thick darkness, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee also for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah. ¹⁰And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and hallow them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes; ¹¹and let them be ready for the third day; for on the third day Jehovah will come down before the eyes of all the people on mount Sinai. ¹²And set bounds round about the people, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [not] to go up unto the mountain nor touch the border of it: whatever toucheth the mountain shall certainly be put to death: ¹³not a hand shall touch it, but it shall certainly be stoned, or shot through; whether it be a beast or a man, it shall not live. When the long drawn note of the trumpet soundeth, they shall come up to the mountain. ¹⁴And Moses came down from the mountain to the people, and hallowed the people; and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near [your] wives. ¹⁶And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud; and the whole people that was in the camp trembled. ¹⁷And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the foot of the mountain. ¹⁸And the whole of mount Sinai smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly. ¹⁹And the sound of the trumpet increased and became exceeding loud; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. ²⁰And Jehovah came down on mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain; and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. ²¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, testify to the people that they break not through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. ²²And the priests also, who come near to Jehovah, shall hallow themselves, lest Jehovah break forth on them. ²³And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou hast testified to us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain, and hallow it. ²⁴And Jehovah said to him, Go, descend, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but the priests and the people shall not break through to go up to Jehovah, lest he break forth on them. ²⁵So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

Chapter 20

¹And God spoke all these words, saying, ²I am Jehovah thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁴Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth: ⁵thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth [generation] of them that hate me, ⁶and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. ⁷Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name. ⁸Remember the sabbath day to hallow it. ⁹Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; ¹⁰but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. ¹¹For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ¹²Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. ¹³Thou shalt not kill. ¹⁴Thou shalt not commit adultery. ¹⁵Thou shalt not steal. ¹⁶Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ¹⁷Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour`s house, thou shalt not desire thy neighbour`s wife, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour`s. ¹⁸And all the people saw the thunderings, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw [it], they trembled, and stood afar off, ¹⁹and said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not. ²¹And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was. ²²And Jehovah said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: Ye have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens. ²³Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold. ²⁴An altar of earth shalt thou make unto me, and shalt sacrifice on it thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen: in all places where I shall make my name to be remembered, I will come unto thee, and bless thee. ²⁵And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy sharp tool upon it, thou hast profaned it. ²⁶Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Chapter 21

¹And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. ²If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master`s, and he shall go out alone. <sup>5</sup>But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free; <sup>6</sup>then his master shall bring him before the judges, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall be his bondman for ever. <sup>7</sup>And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out. <sup>8</sup>If she is unacceptable in the eyes of her master, who had taken her for himself, then shall he let her be ransomed: to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power, after having dealt unfaithfully with her. <sup>9</sup>And if he have appointed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the law of daughters. <sup>10</sup>If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish. <sup>11</sup>And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money. <sup>12</sup>He that striketh a man, so that he die, shall certainly be put to death. <sup>13</sup>But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered [him] into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee. <sup>14</sup>But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour, and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. <sup>15</sup>And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death. <sup>16</sup>And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death. <sup>17</sup>And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death. <sup>18</sup>And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to [his] bed, <sup>19</sup>-- if he rise, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that struck [him] be guiltless; only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed. <sup>20</sup>And if a man strike his bondman or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, he shall certainly be avenged. <sup>21</sup>Only, if he continue [to live] a day or two days, he shall not be avenged; for he is his money. <sup>22</sup>And if men strive together, and strike a woman with child, so that she be delivered, and no mischief happen, he shall in any case be fined, according as the woman`s husband shall impose on him, and shall give it as the judges estimate. ²³But if mischief happen, then thou shalt give life for life, ²⁴eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁶And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye. ²⁷And if he knock out his bondman`s tooth or his handmaid`s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth. ²⁸And if an ox gore a man or a woman, so that they die, then the ox shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless. ²⁹But if the ox have gored heretofore, and it have been testified to its owner, and he have not kept it in, and it kill a man or a woman, -- the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. ³⁰If there be imposed on him a satisfaction, then he shall give the ransom of his life, according to what is imposed on him. ³¹Whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him. ³²If the ox gore a bondman or a handmaid, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. ³³-- And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it, ³⁴the owner of the pit shall make it good, shall give money to the owner of them; and the dead [ox] shall be his. ³⁵-- And if one man`s ox gore his neighbour`s ox, and it die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money thereof, and divide the dead also. ³⁶Or if it be known that the ox have gored heretofore, and its owner have not kept him in, he shall in any case restore ox for ox; and the dead shall be his.

Chapter 22

¹If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep. ²If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him. ³If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft. ⁴If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double. ⁵If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man`s field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make [it] good. <sup>6</sup>-- If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good. <sup>7</sup>-- If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man`s house; if the thief be found, let him restore double; ⁸if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, [to see] if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour`s goods. <sup>9</sup>As to all manner of fraud, -- as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which [a man] saith, It is this -- the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour. <sup>10</sup>If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, and no man see [it], <sup>11</sup>an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour`s goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make [it] good. ¹²But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner. ¹³If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it [as] witness: he shall not make good what was torn. ¹⁴-- And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good; ¹⁵if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire. ¹⁶And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife. ¹⁷If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins. ¹⁸-- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. ¹⁹-- Every one that lieth with a beast shall certainly be put to death. ²⁰-- He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction. ²¹Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. ²²Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. ²³If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry; ²⁴and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. ²⁵-- If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest. ²⁶-- If thou at all take thy neighbour`s garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down; ²⁷for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin: on what shall he lie down? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. ²⁸Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people. ²⁹-- Thou shalt not delay the fulness of thy [threshing-floor] and the outflow of thy [winepress]. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. ³⁰Likewise shalt thou do with thy calf, with thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. ³¹-- And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog.

Chapter 23

¹Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness. ²Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert [judgment]. ³Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause. ⁴-- If thou meet thine enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt certainly bring it back to him. <sup>5</sup>If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving [it] to him: thou shalt certainly loosen [it] with him. <sup>6</sup>Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause. <sup>7</sup>Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. <sup>8</sup>And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous. <sup>9</sup>And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. <sup>10</sup>And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in its produce; <sup>11</sup>but in the seventh thou shalt let it rest and lie [fallow], that the poor of thy people may eat [of it]; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thine olive-tree. <sup>12</sup>-- Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed. <sup>13</sup>And ye shall be on your guard as to everything that I have said unto you; and shall make no mention of the name of other gods -- it shall not be heard in thy mouth. <sup>14</sup>Thrice in the year thou shalt celebrate a feast to me. <sup>15</sup>Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread, (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I have commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear in my presence empty;) <sup>16</sup>and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field. <sup>17</sup>Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the presence of the Lord Jehovah. <sup>18</sup>Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. <sup>19</sup>The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother`s milk. ²⁰Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place that I have prepared. ²¹Be careful in his presence, and hearken unto his voice: do not provoke him, for he will not forgive your transgressions; for my name is in him. ²²But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries. ²³For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. ²⁴Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly destroy them, and utterly shatter their statues. ²⁵And ye shall serve Jehovah your God; and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from thy midst. ²⁶There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days will I fulfil. ²⁷I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee. ²⁸And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. ²⁹I will not drive them out from before thee in one year: lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. ³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou art fruitful, and possess the land. ³¹And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee. ³²Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it is sure to be a snare unto thee.

Chapter 24

¹And he said to Moses, Go up to Jehovah, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship afar off. ²And let Moses alone come near Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him. ³And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words that Jehovah has said will we do! ⁴And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent the youths of the children of Israel, and they offered up burnt-offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offering of bullocks to Jehovah. ⁶And Moses took half the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷And he took the book of the covenant, and read [it] in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey! ⁸And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. ⁹And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up; ¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were work of transparent sapphire, and as it were the form of heaven for clearness. ¹¹And on the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: they saw God, and ate and drank. ¹²And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law, and the commandment that I have written, for their instruction. ¹³And Moses rose up, and Joshua his attendant; and Moses went up to the mountain of God. ¹⁴And he said to the elders, Wait here for us, until we return to you; and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matter, let him come before them. ¹⁵And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. ¹⁶And the glory of Jehovah abode on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel. ¹⁸And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Chapter 25

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me a heave-offering: of every one whose heart prompteth him, ye shall take my heave-offering. ³And this is the heave-offering that ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and copper, ⁴and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats` [hair], <sup>5</sup>and rams` skins dyed red, and badgers` skins; and acacia-wood; ⁶oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs; ⁷onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. ⁸And they shall make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. ⁹According to all that I shall shew thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the utensils thereof, even so shall ye make [it]. ¹⁰And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ¹¹And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold: inside and outside shalt thou overlay it; and shalt make upon it a border of gold round about. ¹²And cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] at the four corners thereof, that two rings may be upon the one side thereof and two rings upon the other side thereof. ¹³And make staves of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴And put the staves into the rings upon the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. ¹⁵The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not come out from it. ¹⁶And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. ¹⁷And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. ¹⁸And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat. ¹⁹And make one cherub at the end of the one side, and one cherub at the end of the other side; out of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim at the two ends thereof. ²⁰And the cherubim shall stretch out [their] wings over it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat, and their faces opposite to one another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be [turned]. ²¹And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. ²²And there will I meet with thee, and will speak with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, everything that I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. ²³And thou shalt make a table of acacia-wood, two cubits the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ²⁴And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make upon it a border of gold round about. ²⁵And thou shalt make for it a margin of a handbreadth round about, and shalt make a border of gold for the margin thereof round about. ²⁶And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings at the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. ²⁷Close to the margin shall the rings be, as receptacles of the staves to carry the table. ²⁸And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold; and the table shall be carried upon them. ²⁹And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and cups thereof, and goblets thereof, and bowls thereof, with which to pour out: of pure gold shalt thou make them. ³⁰And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me continually. ³¹And thou shalt make a lamp-stand of pure gold; [of] beaten work shall the lamp-stand be made: its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of the same. ³²And six branches shall come out of the sides thereof -- three branches of the lamp-stand out of one side thereof, and three branches of the lamp-stand out of the other side thereof; ³³three cups shaped like almonds in the one branch, a knob and a flower: and three cups shaped like almonds in the other branch, a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the lamp-stand. ³⁴And in the lamp-stand four cups shaped like almonds, its knobs and its flowers; ³⁵and a knob under two branches of it, and [again] a knob under two branches of it, and [again] a knob under two branches of it, for the six branches that proceed out of the lamp-stand. ³⁶Their knobs and their branches shall be of itself -- all of one beaten work of pure gold. ³⁷And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof, and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may shine out before it; ³⁸and the snuffers thereof, and the snuff-trays thereof, of pure gold. ³⁹Of a talent of pure gold shall they make it, with all these utensils. ⁴⁰And see that thou make [them] according to their pattern, which hath been shewn to thee in the mountain.

Chapter 26

¹And thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work shalt thou make them. ²The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for all the curtains. ³Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled one to another. ⁴And thou shalt make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make [them] in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling. ⁵Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make at the end of the curtain in the other coupling: the loops shall be opposite to one another. ⁶And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one [whole]. ⁷And thou shalt make curtains of goats` [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them. <sup>8</sup>The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for the eleven curtains. <sup>9</sup>And thou shalt couple five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the front of the tent. <sup>10</sup>And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling. <sup>11</sup>And thou shalt make fifty clasps of copper, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent, that it may be one [whole]. <sup>12</sup>And that which remaineth hanging over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the rear of the tabernacle. <sup>13</sup>And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. <sup>14</sup>And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams` skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers` skins over [that]. ¹⁵And the boards for the tabernacle thou shalt make of acacia-wood, standing up; ¹⁶ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board. ¹⁷One board shall have two tenons, connected one with the other: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. ¹⁸And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. ¹⁹And thou shalt make forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons. ²⁰And for the other side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards. ²¹And their forty bases of silver; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board. ²²And for the rear of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. ²³And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear; ²⁴and they shall be joined beneath, and together shall be united at the top thereof to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. ²⁵And there shall be eight boards, and their bases, of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board. ²⁶And thou shalt make bars of acacia-wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward; ²⁸and the middle bar in the midst of the boards reaching from one end to the other. ²⁹And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make [of] gold their rings, the receptacles of the bars, and shalt overlay the bars with gold. ³⁰And thou shalt set up the tabernacle according to its fashion, as hath been shewn thee on the mountain. ³¹And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; of artistic work shall it be made, with cherubim. ³²And thou shalt attach it to four pillars of acacia-wood overlaid with gold, their hooks of gold; they shall be on four bases of silver. ³³And thou shalt bring the veil under the clasps, and bring in thither, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and the curtain shall make a division to you between the holy [place] and the holiest of all. ³⁴And thou shalt put the mercy-seat on the ark of the testimony in the holiest of all. ³⁵And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the lamp-stand opposite to the table on the side of the tabernacle southward; and thou shalt put the table on the north side. ³⁶And thou shalt make for the entrance of the tent a curtain of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery. ³⁷And thou shalt make for the curtain five pillars of acacia[-wood], and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast five bases of copper for them.

Chapter 27

¹And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth; the altar shall be square; and the height thereof three cubits. ²And thou shalt make its horns at the four corners thereof; its horns shall be of itself; and thou shalt overlay it with copper. ³And thou shalt make its pots to cleanse it of the fat, its shovels, and its bowls, and its forks, and its firepans; for all the utensils thereof thou shalt employ copper. ⁴And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of copper; and on the net shalt thou make four copper rings at its four corners; ⁵and thou shalt put it under the ledge of the altar beneath, and the net shall be to the very middle of the altar. ⁶And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with copper. ⁷And its staves shall be put into the rings, that the staves may be on both sides of the altar, when it is carried. ⁸Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it hath been shewn thee on the mountain, so shall they make [it]. ⁹And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side, southward, hangings for the court of twined byssus; a hundred cubits the length for the one side, ¹⁰and the twenty pillars thereof, and their twenty bases of copper, the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver. ¹¹And likewise on the north side in length, hangings a hundred [cubits] long, and its twenty pillars, and their twenty bases of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver. ¹²-- And the breadth of the court on the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their bases ten. ¹³-- And the breadth of the court on the east side, eastward, fifty cubits; ¹⁴the hangings on the one wing, of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their bases three. ¹⁵And on the other wing hangings of fifteen [cubits]; their pillars three, and their bases three. ¹⁶-- And for the gate of the court a curtain of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, embroidered with needlework; their pillars four, and their bases four. ¹⁷All the pillars of the court round about shall be fastened together with [rods of] silver; their hooks of silver, and their bases of copper. ¹⁸The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of twined byssus; and their bases of copper. ¹⁹All the utensils of the tabernacle for the service thereof and all the pegs thereof, and all the pegs of the court shall be of copper. ²⁰And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee olive oil, pure, beaten, for the light, to light the lamp continually. ²¹In the tent of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall dress them from evening to morning before Jehovah: [it is] an everlasting statute, for their generations, on the part of the children of Israel.

Chapter 28

¹And thou shalt take thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may serve me as priest -- Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron`s sons. <sup>2</sup>And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for ornament. <sup>3</sup>And thou shalt speak with all [that are] wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron`s garments to hallow him, that he may serve me as priest. ⁴And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a cloak, and a checkered vest, a turban, and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may serve me as priest. ⁵And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, ⁶and shall make the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, scarlet and twined byssus, of artistic work. ⁷It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined at the two ends thereof, where it is joined together. ⁸And the girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to its work of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet and twined byssus. ⁹And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel: ¹⁰six of their names on the one stone, and the six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. ¹¹According to the work of an engraver in stone, as the engravings of a seal, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; surrounded by enclosures of gold shalt thou make them. ¹²And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod [as] stones of memorial for the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial. ¹³And thou shalt make enclosures of gold; ¹⁴and two chains of pure gold; of laced work shalt thou make them, of wreathen work, and fasten the wreathen chains to the enclosures. ¹⁵And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment of artistic work, like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus shalt thou make it. ¹⁶Square shall it be, doubled; a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof. ¹⁷And thou shalt set in it settings of stones -- four rows of stones: [one] row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald -- the first row; ¹⁸and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹⁹and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; enclosed in gold shall they be in their settings. ²¹And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal: every one according to his name shall they be for the twelve tribes. ²²And thou shalt make on the breastplate chains of laced work, of wreathen work, of pure gold. ²³And thou shalt make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴And thou shalt put the two wreathen [cords] of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate; ²⁵and the two ends of the two wreathen [cords] thou shalt fasten to the two enclosures, and shalt put [them] on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on the front thereof. ²⁶And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the border thereof, which faceth the ephod inwards. ²⁷And two rings of gold shalt thou make, and shalt put them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, to the front thereof just by the coupling thereof, above the girdle of the ephod. ²⁸And they shall bind the breastplate with its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. ²⁹And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the sanctuary, for a memorial before Jehovah continually. ³⁰And thou shalt put into the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, that they may be upon Aaron`s heart when he goeth in before Jehovah; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually. <sup>31</sup>And thou shalt make the cloak of the ephod all of blue. <sup>32</sup>And its opening for the head shall be in the midst thereof; there shall be a binding of woven work at its opening round about; as the opening of a coat of mail, it shall be in it -- it shall not rend. <sup>33</sup>And on the skirts thereof thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: <sup>34</sup>a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, in the skirts of the cloak round about. <sup>35</sup>And it shall be on Aaron for service; that his sound may be heard when he goeth into the sanctuary before Jehovah, and when he cometh out, that he may not die. <sup>36</sup>And thou shalt make a thin plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, as the engravings of a seal, Holiness to Jehovah! <sup>37</sup>And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the turban -- upon the front of the turban shall it be. <sup>38</sup>And it shall be upon Aaron`s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all gifts of their holy things; and it shall be continually on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah. ³⁹And thou shalt weave the vest of byssus; and thou shalt make a turban of byssus; and thou shalt make a girdle of embroidery. ⁴⁰And for Aaron`s sons thou shalt make vests; and thou shalt make for them girdles; and high caps shalt thou make for them, for glory and for ornament. ⁴¹And thou shalt clothe with them Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and hallow them, that they may serve me as priests. ⁴²And thou shalt make them linen trousers to cover the flesh of nakedness; from the loins even to the hips shall they reach. ⁴³And they shall be upon Aaron and his sons when they enter into the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to serve in the sanctuary; that they may not bear iniquity and die -- an everlasting statute for him and his seed after him.

Chapter 29

¹And this is the thing which thou shalt do to them to hallow them, that they may serve me as priests: take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, ²and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil -- of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. ³And thou shalt put them into one basket, and present them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. ⁴And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring near the entrance of the tent of meeting, and shalt bathe them with water. ⁵And thou shalt take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the vest, and the cloak of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and shalt gird him with the girdle of the ephod. ⁶And thou shalt put the turban upon his head, and fasten the holy diadem to the turban, ⁷and shalt take the anointing oil, and pour [it] on his head, and anoint him. ⁸And thou shalt bring his sons near, and clothe them with the vests. ⁹And thou shalt gird them with the girdle -- Aaron and his sons, and bind the high caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting statute; and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. ¹⁰And thou shalt present the bullock before the tent of meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock; ¹¹and thou shalt slaughter the bullock before Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting; ¹²and thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger, and shalt pour all the blood at the bottom of the altar. ¹³And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. ¹⁴And the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire outside the camp: it is a sin-offering. ¹⁵And thou shalt take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram; ¹⁶and thou shalt slaughter the ram, and shalt take its blood, and sprinkle [it] on the altar round about. ¹⁷And thou shalt cut up the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put [them] upon its pieces, and upon its head; ¹⁸and thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering to Jehovah -- a sweet odour; it is an offering by fire to Jehovah. ¹⁹And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram; ²⁰and thou shalt slaughter the ram, and take of its blood, and put [it] on the tip of the [right] ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and thou shalt sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. ²¹And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons` garments with him. <sup>22</sup>Also of the ram shalt thou take the fat, and the fat-tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder -- for it is a ram of consecration -- <sup>23</sup>and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened [bread] that is before Jehovah; <sup>24</sup>and thou shalt put all this in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons, and shalt wave them as a wave-offering before Jehovah. <sup>25</sup>And thou shalt receive them of their hand and burn [them] upon the altar over the burnt-offering, for a sweet odour before Jehovah: it is an offering by fire to Jehovah. <sup>26</sup>And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of consecration which is for Aaron, and wave it as a wave-offering before Jehovah; and it shall be thy part. <sup>27</sup>And thou shalt hallow the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, that hath been waved and heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, of that which is for Aaron, and of [that] which is for his sons. <sup>28</sup>And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, as an everlasting statute, on the part of the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering; and it shall be a heave-offering on the part of the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, [as] their heave-offering to Jehovah. <sup>29</sup>And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons` after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. ³⁰The son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tent of meeting to serve in the sanctuary. ³¹And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place. ³²And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ³³They shall eat the things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to hallow them; but a stranger shall not eat [of them], for they are holy. ³⁴And if [any] of the flesh of the consecration, and of the bread, remain until the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is holy. ³⁵And thus shalt thou do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them. ³⁶And thou shalt offer every day a bullock as a sin-offering for atonement; and the altar shalt thou cleanse from sin, by making atonement for it, and shalt anoint it, to hallow it. ³⁷Seven days shalt thou make atonement for the altar and hallow it; and the altar shall be most holy: whatever toucheth the altar shall be holy. ³⁸And this is what thou shalt offer upon the altar -- two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. ³⁹The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer between the two evenings. ⁴⁰And with the one lamb a tenth part of wheaten flour mingled with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin; and a drink-offering, a fourth part of a hin of wine. ⁴¹And the second lamb shalt thou offer between the two evenings; as the oblation in the morning, and as its drink-offering shalt thou offer with this, for a sweet odour, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁴²It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you, to speak there with thee. ⁴³And there will I meet with the children of Israel; and it shall be hallowed by my glory. ⁴⁴And I will hallow the tent of meeting, and the altar; and I will hallow Aaron and his sons, that they may serve me as priests. ⁴⁵And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God. ⁴⁶And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who have brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, to dwell in their midst: I am Jehovah their God.

Chapter 30

¹And thou shalt make an altar for the burning of incense: of acacia-wood shalt thou make it; ²a cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof -- square shall it be; and two cubits its height; of itself shall be its horns. ³And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make upon it a border of gold round about. ⁴And two rings of gold shalt thou make for it under its border; by its two corners shalt thou make [them], on the two sides thereof; and they shall be for receptacles for the staves, with which to carry it. ⁵And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. ⁶And thou shalt put it in front of the veil which is before the ark of the testimony in front of the mercy-seat which is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. ⁷And Aaron shall burn thereon fragrant incense: every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn the incense. ⁸And when Aaron lighteth the lamps between the two evenings, he shall burn the incense -- a continual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations. ⁹Ye shall offer up no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor oblation; neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon. ¹⁰And Aaron shall make atonement for its horns once in the year: with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement shall he make atonement for it, once in the year, throughout your generations: it is most holy to Jehovah. ¹¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to those of them that are numbered, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah on their being numbered, that there be no plague among them on their being numbered. ¹³This shall they give -- every one that passeth among them that are numbered -- half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, -- twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah. ¹⁴Every one that passeth among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the heave-offering of Jehovah. ¹⁵The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when ye give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. ¹⁶And thou shalt take the atonement-money of the children of Israel, and devote it to the service of the tent of meeting; and it shall be a memorial to the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. ¹⁷And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸Thou shalt also make a laver of copper, and its stand of copper, for washing; and thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water in it. ¹⁹And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet out of it. ²⁰When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to serve, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²¹And they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die; and it shall be an everlasting statute for them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations. ²²And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²³And thou, take best spices -- of liquid myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon the half -- two hundred and fifty, and of sweet myrtle two hundred and fifty, ²⁴and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin; ²⁵and make of it an oil of holy ointment, a perfume of perfumery after the work of the perfumer: it shall be the holy anointing oil. ²⁶And thou shalt anoint the tent of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony, ²⁷and the table and all its utensils, and the lamp-stand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, ²⁸and the altar of burnt-offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. ²⁹And thou shalt hallow them, that they may be most holy: whatever toucheth them shall be holy. ³⁰And Aaron and his sons thou shalt anoint, and shalt hallow them, that they may serve me as priests. ³¹And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, A holy anointing oil shall this be unto me throughout your generations. ³²Upon man`s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make [any] like it, after the preparation of it: it is holy -- holy shall it be unto you. ³³Whoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whoever putteth [any] of it upon any strange thing, shall be cut off from his peoples. ³⁴And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant drugs -- stacte, and onycha, and galbanum -- fragrant drugs and pure frankincense; in like proportions shall it be. ³⁵And thou shalt make it into incense, a perfume, after the work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy. ³⁶And thou shalt beat [some] of it to powder, and put [some] of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. ³⁷And the incense that thou shalt make, ye shall not make for yourselves according to the proportions of it; it shall be unto thee holy to Jehovah. ³⁸Whoever maketh like unto it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his peoples.

Chapter 31

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, ³and have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in every work, ⁴to devise artistic work -- to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper, ⁵and in cutting of stones, for setting, and for carving of timber -- to work in all manner of work. ⁶And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of every one that is wise-hearted have I given wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee -- ⁷the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the utensils of the tent, ⁸and the table and its utensils, and the pure lamp-stand and all its utensils, and the altar of incense; ⁹and the altar of burnt-offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand; ¹⁰and the garments of service, both the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests; ¹¹and the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs for the sanctuary: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do. ¹²And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹³And thou, speak thou unto the children of Israel, saying, Surely my sabbaths shall ye keep; for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that it is I, Jehovah, who do hallow you. ¹⁴Keep the sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you; every one that profaneth it shall certainly be put to death: yea, whoever doeth work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his peoples. ¹⁵Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah: whoever doeth work on the sabbath day shall certainly be put to death. ¹⁶And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations -- [it is] an everlasting covenant. ¹⁷It shall be a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; for [in] six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. ¹⁸And he gave to Moses, when he had ended speaking with him on mount Sinai, the two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Chapter 32

¹And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people collected together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, -- we do not know what is become of him! ²And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] to me. ³Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought [them] to Aaron. ⁴And he took [them] out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! ⁵And Aaron saw [it], and built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to Jehovah! ⁶And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport. ⁷Then Jehovah said to Moses, Away, go down! for thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, is acting corruptly. ⁸They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! ⁹And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰And now let me alone, that my anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation. ¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? ¹²Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people! ¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall possess [it] for ever! ¹⁴And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people. ¹⁵And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, [with] the two tables of the testimony in his hand -- tables written on both their sides: on this side and on that were they written. ¹⁶And the tables [were] God`s work, and the writing was God`s writing, engraven on the tables. ¹⁷And Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, and said to Moses, There is a shout of war in the camp. ¹⁸And he said, It is not the sound of a shout of victory, neither is it the sound of a shout of defeat: it is the noise of alternate singing I hear. ¹⁹And it came to pass, when he came near the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses` anger burned, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and shattered them beneath the mountain. ²⁰And he took the calf that they had made, and burned [it] with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed [it] on the water, and made the children of Israel drink [it]. ²¹And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin on them? ²²And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord burn! thou knowest the people, that they are [set] on mischief. ²³And they said to me, Make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him! ²⁴And I said to them, Who has gold? They broke [it] off, and gave [it] me, and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. ²⁵And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to [their] shame before their adversaries. ²⁶And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, He that is for Jehovah, [let him come] to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered to him. ²⁷And he said to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his hip; go and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour. ²⁸And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ²⁹And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to Jehovah, yea, every man with his son, and with his brother, and bring on yourselves a blessing to-day. ³⁰And it came to pass the next day, that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah: perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin. ³¹And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves a god of gold! ³²And now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ... but if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book that thou hast written. ³³And Jehovah said to Moses, Whoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ³⁴And now go, lead the people whither I have told thee: behold, my Angel shall go before thee; but in the day of my visiting I will visit their sin upon them. ³⁵And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron had made.

Chapter 33

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, into the land that I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it, ²(and I will send an angel before thee, and dispossess the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,) ³into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, -- lest I consume thee on the way. ⁴And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments. ⁵Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: in one moment I will come up into the midst of thee and will consume thee. And now put off thine ornaments from thee, and I will know what I will do unto thee. ⁶And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments at mount Horeb. ⁷And Moses took the tent, and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the Tent of meeting. And it came to pass [that] every one who sought Jehovah went out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp. ⁸And it came to pass, when Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and stood every man at the entrance of his tent, and they looked after Moses until he entered into the tent. ⁹And it came to pass when Moses entered into the tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the entrance of the tent, and [Jehovah] talked with Moses. ¹⁰And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent; and all the people rose and worshipped, every man at the entrance of his tent. ¹¹And Jehovah spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. And he returned to the camp; but his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from within the tent. ¹²And Moses said to Jehovah, Behold, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people; but thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me; and thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in mine eyes. ¹³And now, if indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, make me now to know thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thine eyes; and consider that this nation is thy people! ¹⁴And he said, My presence shall go, and I will give thee rest. ¹⁵And he said to him, If thy presence do not go, bring us not up hence. ¹⁶And how shall it be known then that I have found grace in thine eyes -- I and thy people? [Is it] not by thy going with us? so shall we be distinguished, I and thy people, from every people that is on the face of the earth. ¹⁷And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast said; for thou hast found grace in mine eyes, and I know thee by name. ¹⁸And he said, Let me, I pray thee, see thy glory. ¹⁹And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. ²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for Man shall not see me, and live. ²¹And Jehovah said, Behold, [there is] a place by me: there shalt thou stand on the rock. ²²And it shall come to pass, when my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand, until I have passed by. ²³And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see me from behind; but my face shall not be seen.

Chapter 34

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken. ²And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to mount Sinai, and stand there before me on the top of the mountain. ³And let no man go up with thee, neither shall any man be seen on all the mountain; neither shall sheep and oxen feed in front of that mountain. ⁴And he hewed two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. ⁵And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. ⁶And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children`s children, upon the third and upon the fourth [generation]. <sup>8</sup>And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped, <sup>9</sup>and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance! <sup>10</sup>And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels that have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people in the midst of which thou [art] shall see the work of Jehovah; for a terrible thing it shall be that I will do with thee. <sup>11</sup>Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. <sup>12</sup>Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee; <sup>13</sup>but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs. <sup>14</sup>For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah -- Jealous is his name -- is a jealous God; <sup>15</sup>lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice, <sup>16</sup>and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. <sup>17</sup>-- Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods. <sup>18</sup>-- The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. <sup>19</sup>-- All that openeth the womb [is] mine; and all the cattle that is born a male, the firstling of ox and sheep. <sup>20</sup>But the firstling of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou ransom [it] not, then shalt thou break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt ransom; and none shall appear before me empty. <sup>21</sup>-- Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. <sup>22</sup>-- And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. <sup>23</sup>Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. <sup>24</sup>For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year. <sup>25</sup>-- Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left over night until the morning. <sup>26</sup>-- The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother`s milk. ²⁷And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel. ²⁸-- And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. -- And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words. ²⁹And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai -- and the two tables of testimony were in Moses` hand, when he came down from the mountain -- that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone through his talking with him. <sup>30</sup>And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. <sup>31</sup>And Moses called to them; and they turned to him, -- Aaron and all the principal men of the assembly; and Moses talked with them. <sup>32</sup>And afterwards, all the children of Israel came near; and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on mount Sinai. <sup>33</sup>And Moses ended speaking with them; and he had put on his face a veil. <sup>34</sup>And when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded. <sup>35</sup>And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses` face shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Chapter 35

¹And Moses collected all the assembly of the children of Israel, and said to them, These are the things which Jehovah has commanded, to do them. ²Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah: whoever does work on it shall be put to death. ³Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the sabbath day. ⁴And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which Jehovah has commanded, saying, ⁵Take from among you a heave-offering to Jehovah: every one whose heart [is] willing, let him bring it, Jehovah`s heave-offering -- gold, and silver, and copper, <sup>6</sup>and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats` [hair], ⁷and rams` skins dyed red, and badgers` skins, and acacia-wood, ⁸and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs; ⁹and onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate. ¹⁰And all who are wise-hearted among you shall come and make all that Jehovah has commanded: ¹¹the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; ¹²the ark, and its staves; the mercy-seat, and the veil of separation; ¹³the table and its staves, and all its utensils, and the shewbread; ¹⁴and the lamp-stand for the light, and its utensils, and its lamps, and the oil for the light; ¹⁵and the altar of incense, and its staves; and the anointing-oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs; and the entrance-curtain at the entrance of the tabernacle; ¹⁶the altar of burnt-offering, and the copper grating for it, its staves, and all its utensils; the laver and its stand; ¹⁷the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the curtains of the gate of the court; ¹⁸the pegs of the tabernacle, and the pegs of the court, and their cords; ¹⁹the garments of service, to do service in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests. ²⁰And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from before Moses. ²¹And they came, every one whose heart moved him, and every one whose spirit prompted him; they brought Jehovah`s heave-offering for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. <sup>22</sup>And they came, both men and women; every one who was of willing heart brought nose-rings, and earrings, and rings, and bracelets, all kinds of utensils of gold: every man that waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah. <sup>23</sup>And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats` [hair], and rams` skins dyed red, and badgers` skins, brought [them]. ²⁴All they that offered a heave-offering of silver and copper brought Jehovah`s heave-offering. And every one with whom was found acacia-wood for all manner of work of the service, brought [it]. <sup>25</sup>And every woman that was wise-hearted spun with her hands, and brought what she had spun: the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the byssus. <sup>26</sup>And all the women whose heart moved them in wisdom spun goats` [hair]. ²⁷And the principal men brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; ²⁸and the spice, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs. ²⁹The children of Israel brought a voluntary offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose heart prompted them to bring for all manner of work, which Jehovah, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done. ³⁰And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, ³¹and he has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, ³²and to devise artistic things: to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper, ³³and in cutting of stones, for setting, and in carving of wood, to execute all artistic work; ³⁴and he has put in his heart to teach, he and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: ³⁵he has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work of the engraver, and of the artificer, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in byssus, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do every kind of work, and of those that devise artistic work

Chapter 36

¹Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whom Jehovah had put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work of the service of the sanctuary -- according to all that Jehovah had commanded. ²And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whose heart God had put wisdom, every one whose heart moved him to come to the work to do it. ³And they took from Moses every heave-offering that the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought him voluntary offerings morning by morning. ⁴And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they wrought, ⁵and spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded to be done. ⁶Then Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed through the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary! So the people were restrained from bringing; ⁷for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much. ⁸And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubim of artistic work did he make them. ⁹The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for all the curtains. ¹⁰And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled he one to another. ¹¹And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling. ¹²He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops at the end of the curtain that was in the other coupling: the loops were opposite to one another. ¹³And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one. ¹⁴And he made curtains of goats` [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them. <sup>15</sup>The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain -- one measure for the eleven curtains. <sup>16</sup>And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves. <sup>17</sup>And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling. <sup>18</sup>And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one. <sup>19</sup>And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams` skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers` skins above [that]. ²⁰And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up; ²¹ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board; ²²two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. ²³And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward; ²⁴and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board, for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons. ²⁵And for the other side of the tabernacle, on the side toward the north, he made twenty boards, ²⁶and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board, and two bases under another board. ²⁷And at the rear of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards; ²⁸and he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear; ²⁹and they were joined beneath, and were coupled together at the top thereof into one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners; ³⁰and there were eight boards, and their silver bases: sixteen bases, under every board two bases. ³¹-- And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ³²and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear, westward. ³³And he made the middle bar in the midst of the boards reach from one end to the other. ³⁴And he overlaid the boards with gold; and made their rings of gold [as] receptacles for the bars; and overlaid the bars with gold. ³⁵And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus: of artistic work he made it [with] cherubim. ³⁶And he made four pillars of acacia[-wood] for it, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver. ³⁷And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery; ³⁸and its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their connecting-rods with gold; and their five bases were of copper.

Chapter 37

¹And Bezaleel made the ark of acacia-wood; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ²And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a border of gold upon it round about. ³And he cast for it four rings of gold, for its four corners: two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ⁴And he made staves of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold. ⁵And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. ⁶-- And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof. ⁷And he made two cherubim of gold; of beaten work did he make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat; ⁸one cherub at the end of one side, and one cherub at the end of the other side; out of the mercy-seat he made the two cherubim at the two ends thereof. ⁹And the cherubim spread out [their] wings over it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat; and their faces were opposite to one another: the faces of the cherubim were [turned] toward the mercy-seat. ¹⁰And he made the table of acacia-wood; two cubits the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ¹¹And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made upon it a border of gold round about. ¹²And he made for it a margin of a hand-breadth round about; and made a border of gold for the margin thereof round about. ¹³And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that were on the four feet thereof. ¹⁴Close to the margin were the rings, as receptacles of the staves to carry the table. ¹⁵And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. ¹⁶And he made the utensils that were on the table, the dishes thereof, and the cups thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the goblets with which to pour out, of pure gold. ¹⁷And he made the candlestick of pure gold; [of] beaten work he made the candlestick: its base, and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of itself. ¹⁸And six branches went out of the sides thereof -- three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof; ¹⁹[there were] three cups shaped like almonds in the one branch, a knob and a flower; and three cups shaped like almonds in the other branch, a knob and a flower: so in the six branches which went out of the candlestick. ²⁰And in the candlestick were four cups, shaped like almonds, its knobs, and its flowers; ²¹and a knob under two branches thereof, and [again] a knob under two branches thereof, and [again] a knob under two branches thereof, for the six branches which went out of it. ²²Their knobs and their branches were of itself -- all of one beaten work of pure gold. ²³And he made the seven lamps thereof, and the snuffers thereof, and the snuff-trays thereof, of pure gold. ²⁴Of a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its utensils. ²⁵And he made the altar of incense of acacia-wood; a cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, square, and two cubits the height thereof: its horns were of itself. ²⁶And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and made upon it a border of gold round about. ²⁷And he made two rings of gold for it under its border, by its two corners, on the two sides thereof, as receptacles for the staves with which to carry it. ²⁸And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold. ²⁹And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of fragrant drugs, according to the work of the perfumer.

Chapter 38

¹And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia-wood; five cubits the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, square, and three cubits the height thereof. ²And he made its horns on the four corners thereof; its horns were of itself; and he overlaid it with copper. ³And he made all the utensils of the altar: the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls, the forks, and the firepans; all its utensils made he of copper. ⁴And he made for the altar a grating of network of copper under its ledge from beneath, to the very middle of it. ⁵And he cast four rings for the four corners of the grating of copper, as receptacles for the staves. ⁶And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with copper. ⁷And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. Hollow with boards did he make it. ⁸And he made the laver of copper, and its stand of copper, of the mirrors of the crowds of women who crowded before the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁹And he made the court. On the south side southward, the hangings of the court were of twined byssus, a hundred cubits; ¹⁰their pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver. ¹¹And on the north side, a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver. ¹²And on the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver. ¹³And for the east side, eastward, fifty cubits; ¹⁴the hangings on the one wing of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their bases three; ¹⁵and on the other wing, on this side as on that side of the gate of the court, hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their bases three. ¹⁶All the hangings of the court round about were of twined byssus; ¹⁷and the bases of the pillars of copper, the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were fastened together with [rods of] silver. ¹⁸-- And the curtain of the gate of the court was of embroidery of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; and the length was twenty cubits, and the height like the breadth, five cubits, just as the hangings of the court; ¹⁹and their pillars four, and their bases four, of copper; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their connecting-rods of silver. ²⁰And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court round about were of copper. ²¹These are the things numbered of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, by the service of the Levites, under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest. ²²And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah had commanded Moses; ²³and with him Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and artificer, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in byssus. ²⁴All the gold that it took for the work in all the work of the sanctuary -- the gold of the wave-offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. ²⁵And the silver of them that were numbered of the assembly was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary: ²⁶a bekah the head -- half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed the numbering from twenty years old and upward, [of] the six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. ²⁷And there were a hundred talents of silver for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases of a hundred talents, a talent for a base. ²⁸And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five [shekels] he made the hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and fastened them [with rods]. ²⁹And the copper of the wave-offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels. ³⁰And he made with it the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the copper altar, and the copper grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar. ³¹And the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs of the court round about.

Chapter 39

¹And of the blue and purple and scarlet they made garments of service, for service in the sanctuary, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus. ³And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it [into] wires, to work it artistically into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the byssus. ⁴They made shoulder-pieces for it, joining it: at its two ends was it joined together. ⁵And the girdle of his ephod, which was on it, was of the same, according to its work, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ⁶And they wrought the onyx stones mounted in enclosures of gold, engraved with the engravings of a seal, according to the names of the sons of Israel. ⁷And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, [as] stones of memorial for the children of Israel; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ⁸And he made the breastplate of artistic work, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus. ⁹It was square; double did they make the breastplate, a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, doubled. ¹⁰And they set in it four rows of stones: [one] row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald -- the first row; ¹¹and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹²and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper; mounted in enclosures of gold in their settings. ¹⁴And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes. ¹⁵And they made on the breastplate chains of laced work of wreathen work, of pure gold. ¹⁶And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ¹⁷And they put the two wreathen [cords] of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate; ¹⁸and the two ends of the two wreathen [cords] they fastened to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on the front thereof. ¹⁹And they made two rings of gold, and put [them] on the two ends of the breastplate, on the border thereof, which faceth the ephod inwards. ²⁰And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, to the front thereof, just by the coupling thereof, above the girdle of the ephod. ²¹And they bound the breastplate with its rings to the rings of the ephod with lace of blue, that it might be above the girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²²And he made the cloak of the ephod of woven work, all of blue; ²³and the opening of the cloak in its middle, as the opening of a coat of mail; a binding was round about the opening, that it should not rend. ²⁴And they made on the skirts of the cloak pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, twined. ²⁵And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates, in the skirts of the cloak, round about, between the pomegranates: ²⁶a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, in the skirts of the cloak round about, for service; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²⁷And they made the vests of byssus of woven work, for Aaron, and for his sons; ²⁸and the turban of byssus; and the ornamental caps, of byssus; and the linen trousers, of twined byssus; ²⁹and the girdle, of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of embroidery; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ³⁰And they made the thin plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold, and wrote on it with the writing of the engravings of a seal, Holiness to Jehovah! ³¹And they fastened to it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on the turban above; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ³²And all the labour of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ended; and the children of Israel had done [it] according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses -- so had they done [it]. ³³And they brought the tabernacle to Moses -- the tent, and all its utensils, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases; ³⁴and the covering of rams` skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers` skins, and the veil of separation; ³⁵the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and the mercy-seat; ³⁶the table, all its utensils, and the shewbread; ³⁷the pure candlestick, its lamps, the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light; ³⁸and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs; and the curtain for the entrance of the tent; ³⁹the copper altar, and the copper grating that was for it, its staves and all its utensils; the laver and its stand; ⁴⁰the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases; and the curtain for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the vessel`s of service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; <sup>41</sup>the garments of service, for service in the sanctuary; the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons` garments, to serve as priests. ⁴²According to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so had the children of Israel done all the labour. ⁴³And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Jehovah had commanded -- so had they done [it]; and Moses blessed them.

Chapter 40

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. ³And thou shalt put in it the ark of the testimony, and shalt cover the ark with the veil. ⁴And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it. And thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light its lamps. ⁵And thou shalt set the golden altar for the incense before the ark of the testimony; and hang up the curtain of the entrance to the tabernacle. ⁶And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. ⁷And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water in it. ⁸And thou shalt fix the court round about, and hang up the curtain at the gate of the court. ⁹And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shalt hallow it, and all its utensils; and it shall be holy. ¹⁰And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its utensils; and thou shalt hallow the altar, and the altar shall be most holy. ¹¹And thou shalt anoint the laver and its stand, and hallow it. ¹²And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons near, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and bathe them with water. ¹³And thou shalt clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and anoint him, and hallow him, that he may serve me as priest. ¹⁴And thou shalt bring his sons near, and clothe them with vests. ¹⁵And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall be to them an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. ¹⁶And Moses did so: as Jehovah had commanded him, so did he. ¹⁷And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, that the tabernacle was set up. ¹⁸And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put in its bases, and fixed its boards, and put in its bars, and set up its pillars. ¹⁹And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above over it; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²⁰And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and put the staves in the ark, and put the mercy-seat above on the ark. ²¹And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and hung up the veil of separation, and covered the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²²And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil, ²³and arranged the bread in order upon it before Jehovah; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²⁴And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, opposite to the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. ²⁵And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²⁶And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil. ²⁷And he burnt on it fragrant incense; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²⁸And he hung up the curtain of the entrance to the tabernacle. ²⁹And he put the altar of burnt-offering at the entrance to the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt-offering and the oblation; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ³⁰And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing. ³¹And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet out of it: ³²when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they drew near to the altar, they washed; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ³³And he set up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the curtain of the gate of the court. And so Moses finished the work. ³⁴And the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. ³⁵And Moses could not enter into the tent of meeting, for the cloud abode on it, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. ³⁶And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel journeyed in all their journeys. ³⁷And if the cloud were not taken up, then they did not journey until the day that it was taken up. ³⁸For the cloud of Jehovah was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

Leviticus

Chapter 1

¹And Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When any man of you presenteth an offering to Jehovah, ye shall present your offering of the cattle, of the herd and of the flock. ³If his offering be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall present it a male without blemish: at the entrance of the tent of meeting shall he present it, for his acceptance before Jehovah. ⁴And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ⁵And he shall slaughter the bullock before Jehovah; and Aaron`s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood round about on the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. <sup>6</sup>And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it up into its pieces. <sup>7</sup>And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; <sup>8</sup>and Aaron`s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; ⁹but its inwards and its legs shall he wash in water; and the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt-offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour. ¹⁰And if his offering be of the flock, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt-offering, he shall present it a male without blemish. ¹¹And he shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah; and Aaron`s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. ¹²And he shall cut it into its pieces, and its head, and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; ¹³but the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall present [it] all, and burn [it] on the altar: it is a burnt-offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour. ¹⁴And if his offering to Jehovah be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall present his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons. ¹⁵And the priest shall bring it near to the altar and pinch off its head and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be pressed out at the side of the altar. ¹⁶And he shall remove its crop with its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east, into the place of the ashes; ¹⁷and he shall split it open at its wings, [but] shall not divide [it] asunder; and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on the fire: it is a burnt-offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour.

Chapter 2

¹And when any one will present an oblation to Jehovah, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense thereon. ²And he shall bring it to Aaron`s sons, the priests; and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial thereof on the altar, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour. <sup>3</sup>And the remainder of the oblation shall be Aaron`s and his sons`: [it is] most holy of Jehovah`s offerings by fire. ⁴And if thou present an offering of an oblation baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. ⁵And if thine offering be an oblation [baken] on the pan, it shall be fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. ⁶Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is an oblation. ⁷And if thine offering be an oblation [prepared] in the cauldron, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. ⁸And thou shalt bring the oblation that is made of these things to Jehovah; and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. ⁹And the priest shall take from the oblation a memorial thereof, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour. ¹⁰And the remainder of the oblation [shall be] Aaron`s and his sons`: [it is] most holy of Jehovah`s offerings by fire. ¹¹No oblation which ye shall present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven; for no leaven and no honey shall ye burn [in] any fire-offering to Jehovah. ¹²As to the offering of the first-fruits, ye shall present them to Jehovah; but they shall not be offered upon the altar for a sweet odour. ¹³And every offering of thine oblation shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thine oblation: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. ¹⁴And if thou present an oblation of thy first-fruits to Jehovah, thou shalt present as the oblation of thy first-fruits green ears of corn roasted in fire, corn beaten out of full ears. ¹⁵And thou shalt put oil on it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is an oblation. ¹⁶And the priest shall burn the memorial thereof, [part] of the beaten corn thereof, and [part] of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: [it is] an offering by fire to Jehovah.

Chapter 3

¹And if his offering be a sacrifice of peace-offering, -- if he present [it] of the herd, whether a male or female, he shall present it without blemish before Jehovah. ²And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of meeting; and Aaron`s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. <sup>3</sup>And he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offering an offering by fire to Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, <sup>4</sup>and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys; <sup>5</sup>and Aaron`s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt-offering which [lieth] on the wood that is upon the fire: [it is] an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour. ⁶And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah be of small cattle, male or female, he shall present it without blemish. ⁷If he present a sheep for his offering, then shall he present it before Jehovah, ⁸and shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slaughter it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron`s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about. <sup>9</sup>And he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offering an offering by fire to Jehovah; the fat thereof, the whole fat tail, which he shall take off close by the backbone, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, <sup>10</sup>and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys; <sup>11</sup>and the priest shall burn it on the altar: [it is] the food of the offering by fire to Jehovah. <sup>12</sup>And if his offering be a goat, then he shall present it before Jehovah. <sup>13</sup>And he shall lay his hand on the head of it, and slaughter it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof on the altar round about. <sup>14</sup>And he shall present thereof his offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is on the inwards, <sup>15</sup>and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys; <sup>16</sup>and the priest shall burn them on the altar: [it is] the food of the offering by fire for a sweet odour. All the fat [shall be] Jehovah`s. ¹⁷[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.

Chapter 4

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through inadvertence against any of the commandments of Jehovah [in things] that ought not to be done, and do any of them; ³if the priest that is anointed sin according to the trespass of the people; then for his sin which he hath sinned shall he present a young bullock without blemish to Jehovah for a sin-offering. ⁴And he shall bring the bullock to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Jehovah; and shall lay his hand on the bullock`s head, and slaughter the bullock before Jehovah. <sup>5</sup>And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock`s blood, and bring it into the tent of meeting; ⁶and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah before the veil of the sanctuary; ⁷and the priest shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense, which is in the tent of meeting, before Jehovah; and he shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁸And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering shall he take off from it; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, ⁹and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys, ¹⁰as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt-offering. ¹¹And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung, ¹²even the whole bullock shall he carry forth outside the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt. ¹³And if the whole assembly of Israel sin inadvertently, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the congregation, and they do [somewhat against] any of all the commandments of Jehovah [in things] which should not be done, and are guilty; ¹⁴and the sin wherewith they have sinned against it have become known; then the congregation shall present a young bullock for the sin-offering, and shall bring it before the tent of meeting; ¹⁵and the elders of the assembly shall lay their hands on the head of the bullock before Jehovah; and one shall slaughter the bullock before Jehovah. ¹⁶And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock`s blood into the tent of meeting; <sup>17</sup>and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil; <sup>18</sup>and he shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Jehovah which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. <sup>19</sup>And all its fat shall he take off from it and burn on the altar. <sup>20</sup>And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock of sin-offering: so shall he do with it. And the priest shall make atonement for them; and it shall be forgiven them. <sup>21</sup>And he shall carry forth the bullock outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin-offering of the congregation. <sup>22</sup>When a prince sinneth and through inadvertence doeth [somewhat against] any of all the commandments of Jehovah his God [in things] which should not be done, and is guilty; <sup>23</sup>if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge, he shall bring his offering, a buck of the goats, a male without blemish. <sup>24</sup>And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and slaughter it at the place where they slaughter the burnt-offering before Jehovah: it is a sin-offering. <sup>25</sup>And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering. <sup>26</sup>And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him [to cleanse him] from his sin, and it shall be forgiven him. <sup>27</sup>And if any one of the people of the land sin through inadvertence, that he do [somewhat against] any of the commandments of Jehovah [in things] which should not be done, and be guilty; <sup>28</sup>if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge, then he shall bring his offering, a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. <sup>29</sup>And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and slaughter the sin-offering at the place of the burnt-offering. <sup>30</sup>And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. <sup>31</sup>And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, for a sweet odour to Jehovah; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. <sup>32</sup>And if he bring a sheep for his offering for sin, a female without blemish shall he bring it. <sup>33</sup>And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and slaughter it for a sin-offering at the place where they slaughter the burnt-offering. <sup>34</sup>And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. <sup>35</sup>And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, with Jehovah`s offerings by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

Chapter 5

¹And if any one sin, and hear the voice of adjuration, and he is a witness whether he hath seen or known [it], if he do not give information, then he shall bear his iniquity. ²Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcase of an unclean beast, or the carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean crawling thing, and it be hid from him, -- he also is unclean and guilty; ³or if he touch the uncleanness of man, any uncleanness of him by which he is defiled, and it be hid from him, when he knoweth [it], then he is guilty. ⁴Or if any one swear, talking rashly with the lips, to do evil or to do good, in everything that a man shall say rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him, when he knoweth [it], then is he guilty in one of these. ⁵And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these, that he shall confess wherein he hath sinned; ⁶and he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the small cattle, a sheep or doe goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him [to cleanse him] from his sin. ⁷And if his hand be not able to bring what is so much as a sheep, then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath sinned two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, to Jehovah; one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering. ⁸And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall present that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off his head at the neck, but shall not divide it; ⁹and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering on the wall of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin-offering. ¹⁰And he shall offer the other for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance. And the priest shall make atonement for him [to cleanse him] from his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. ¹¹But if his hand cannot attain to two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering. ¹²And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, with Jehovah`s offerings by fire: it is a sin-offering. <sup>13</sup>And the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him; and it shall be the priest`s, as the oblation. ¹⁴And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁵If any one act unfaithfully and sin through inadvertence in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle, according to thy valuation by shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering. ¹⁶And he shall make restitution for the wrong that he hath done in the holy things, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and shall give it unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and it shall be forgiven him. ¹⁷And if any one sin and do against any of all the commandments of Jehovah what should not be done, and hath not known [it], yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. ¹⁸And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the small cattle, according to thy valuation, as trespass-offering, unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his inadvertence wherein he sinned inadvertently, and knew [it] not, and it shall be forgiven him. ¹⁹It is a trespass-offering: he hath certainly trespassed against Jehovah.

Chapter 6

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²If any one sin and act unfaithfully against Jehovah, and lie to his neighbour as to an entrusted thing or a deposit or [that in which] he hath robbed or wronged his neighbour, ³or have found what was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely in anything of all that man doeth, sinning therein; ⁴then it shall be, if he hath sinned and transgressed, that he shall restore what he robbed or that in which he hath defrauded, or the deposit, or the lost thing which he found, ⁵or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; and he shall restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto; to [him to] whom it belongeth shall he give it, on the day of his trespass-offering. ⁶And his trespass-offering shall he bring to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle according to thy valuation, as a trespass-offering, unto the priest. ⁷And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah, and it shall be forgiven him concerning anything of all that he hath done so as to trespass therein. ⁸And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁹Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt-offering; this, the burnt-offering, shall be on the hearth on the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. ¹⁰And the priest shall put on his linen raiment, and his linen breeches shall he put on his flesh, and take up the ashes to which the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. ¹¹And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. ¹²And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning on it: it shall not be put out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. ¹³A continual fire shall be kept burning on the altar: it shall never go out. ¹⁴And this is the law of the oblation: [one of] the sons of Aaron shall present it before Jehovah, before the altar. ¹⁵And he shall take of it his handful of the fine flour of the oblation, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is on the meat-offering, and shall burn [it] on the altar: [it is] a sweet odour of the memorial thereof to Jehovah. ¹⁶And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: unleavened shall it be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting shall they eat it. ¹⁷It shall not be baken with leaven. As their portion have I given it [unto them] of my offerings by fire: it is most holy; as the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering. ¹⁸All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. [It is] an everlasting statute in your generations, [their portion] of Jehovah`s offerings by fire: whatever toucheth these shall be holy. ¹⁹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁰This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall present to Jehovah on the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a continual oblation, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. ²¹It shall be prepared in the pan with oil: saturated with oil shalt thou bring it: baken pieces of the oblation shalt thou present [for] a sweet odour to Jehovah. ²²And the priest who is anointed of his sons in his stead shall prepare it: [it is] an everlasting statute; it shall be wholly burned to Jehovah. ²³And every oblation of the priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten. ²⁴And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁵Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin-offering. At the place where the burnt-offering is slaughtered shall the sin-offering be slaughtered before Jehovah: it is most holy. ²⁶The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. ²⁷Everything that toucheth the flesh thereof shall be holy; and if there be splashed of the blood thereof on a garment -- that whereon it is sprinkled shalt thou wash in a holy place. ²⁸And the earthen vessel wherein it hath been sodden shall be broken; and if it have been sodden in a copper pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed with water. ²⁹All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy. ³⁰And no sin-offering whereof blood hath been brought to the tent of meeting, to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.

Chapter 7

¹And this is the law of the trespass-offering -- it is most holy: ²in the place where they slaughter the burnt-offering shall they slaughter the trespass-offering; and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle on the altar round about. ³And he shall present of it all the fat thereof; the fat tail and the fat that covereth the inwards, ⁴and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver, which he shall take away as far as the kidneys. ⁵And the priest shall burn them on the altar, an offering by fire to Jehovah: it is a trespass-offering. ⁶Every male among the priests shall eat thereof; in a holy place shall it be eaten: it is most holy. ⁷As the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering; [there shall] be one law for them: it shall be the priest`s who maketh atonement therewith. <sup>8</sup>And [as to] the priest that presenteth any man`s burnt-offering, the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath presented shall be the priest`s for himself. <sup>9</sup>And every oblation that is baken in the oven, and all that is prepared in the cauldron and in the pan, shall be the priest`s who offereth it; to him it shall belong. ¹⁰And every oblation, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as the other. ¹¹And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which [a man] shall present to Jehovah. ¹²If he present it for a thanksgiving, then he shall present with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour saturated with oil, cakes mingled with oil. ¹³Besides the cakes, he shall present his offering of leavened bread with the sacrifice of his peace-offering of thanksgiving. ¹⁴And of it he shall present one out of the whole offering as a heave-offering to Jehovah; to the priest that sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offering, to him it shall belong. ¹⁵And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offering of thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is presented; he shall not let any of it remain until the morning. ¹⁶And if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or voluntary, it shall be eaten the same day that he presented his sacrifice; on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten; ¹⁷and the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. ¹⁸And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offering be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, it shall not be reckoned to him that hath presented it; it shall be an unclean thing, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. ¹⁹And the flesh that toucheth anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. And as to the flesh, all that are clean may eat [the] flesh. ²⁰But the soul that eateth the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offering which is for Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples. ²¹And if any one touch anything unclean, the uncleanness of man, or unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which is for Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples. ²²And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²³Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, No fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat shall ye eat. ²⁴But the fat of a dead carcase, and the fat of that which is torn, may be used in any other use; but ye shall in no wise eat it. ²⁵For whoever eateth the fat of the beast of which men present an offering by fire to Jehovah, the soul that hath eaten shall be cut off from his peoples. ²⁶And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle. ²⁷Whatever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples. ²⁸And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that presenteth the sacrifice of his peace-offering to Jehovah shall bring his offering to Jehovah of the sacrifice of his peace-offering. ³⁰His own hands shall bring Jehovah`s offerings by fire, the fat with the breast shall he bring: the breast, that it may be waved as a wave-offering before Jehovah. <sup>31</sup>And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar; and the breast shall be Aaron`s and his sons`. <sup>32</sup>And the right shoulder of the sacrifices of your peace-offerings shall ye give as a heave-offering unto the priest. <sup>33</sup>He of the sons of Aaron that presenteth the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his] part. <sup>34</sup>For the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, have I taken of the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons from the children of Israel by an everlasting statute. <sup>35</sup>This is [the portion] of the anointing of Aaron and of the anointing of his sons, from Jehovah`s offerings by fire, in the day [when] he presented them to serve Jehovah as priests, ³⁶which Jehovah commanded to be given them by the children of Israel in the day that he anointed them: [it is] an everlasting statute, throughout their generations. ³⁷This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the oblation, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecration-offering, and of the sacrifice of peace-offering, ³⁸which Jehovah commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Chapter 8

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened [bread]; ³and gather all the assembly together at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁴And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded him; and the assembly was collected at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁵And Moses said to the assembly, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded to be done. ⁶And Moses brought Aaron near, and his sons, and bathed them with water. ⁷And he put upon him the vest and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the cloak, and put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the girdle of the ephod, and fastened the ephod on him. ⁸And he put the breastplate on it, and put on the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim; ⁹and he put the turban upon his head; and upon the turban, on the front of it, he put the golden plate, the holy diadem; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ¹⁰And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and hallowed them. ¹¹And he sprinkled thereof on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, to hallow them. ¹²And he poured of the anointing oil on Aaron`s head, and anointed him, to hallow him. <sup>13</sup>And Moses brought Aaron`s sons near and clothed them with the vests, and girded them with the girdles, and bound the high caps on them, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ¹⁴And he brought near the bullock for the sin-offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bullock for the sin-offering; ¹⁵and he slaughtered [it], and Moses took the blood, and put [it] on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and cleansed the altar from sin, and the blood he poured at the bottom of the altar, and hallowed it, making atonement for it. ¹⁶And he took all the fat that was on the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned [them] on the altar. ¹⁷And the bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung he burned with fire outside the camp, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ¹⁸And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram; ¹⁹and he slaughtered [it]; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about. ²⁰And the ram he cut up into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat; ²¹and the inwards and the legs he washed in water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar: it was a burnt-offering for a sweet odour, it was an offering by fire to Jehovah; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ²²And he presented the second ram, the ram of consecration; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram; ²³and one slaughtered [it]; and Moses took of its blood, and put [it] on the tip of Aaron`s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot; <sup>24</sup>and he brought Aaron`s sons near, and Moses put of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. ²⁵And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right shoulder; ²⁶and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and upon the right shoulder; ²⁷and he gave all into Aaron`s hands, and into his sons` hands, and waved them as a wave-offering before Jehovah. ²⁸And Moses took them from off their hands, and burned [them] on the altar, over the burnt-offering: they were a consecration-offering for a sweet odour: it was an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²⁹And Moses took the breast, and waved it as a wave-offering before Jehovah; of the ram of consecration it was Moses` part; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. <sup>30</sup>And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled [it] on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons` garments with him; and hallowed Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons` garments with him. ³¹And Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting; and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of the consecration-offering, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. ³²And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire. ³³And ye shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting seven days, until the day when the days of your consecration are at an end: for seven days shall ye be consecrated. ³⁴As he hath done this day, [so] Jehovah hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you. ³⁵And ye shall abide at the entrance of the tent of meeting day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die not; for so I am commanded. ³⁶And Aaron and his sons did all things that Jehovah had commanded by the hand of Moses.

Chapter 9

¹And it came to pass on the eighth day, [that] Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel, ²and said to Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and present [them] before Jehovah; ³and to the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, Take a buck of the goats for a sin-offering, and a calf and a lamb, yearlings, without blemish, for a burnt-offering; ⁴and a bullock and a ram for a peace-offering, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and an oblation mingled with oil; for to-day Jehovah will appear to you. ⁵And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the assembly approached and stood before Jehovah. ⁶And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded that ye should do; and the glory of Jehovah shall appear to you. ⁷And Moses said unto Aaron, Go to the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Jehovah has commanded. ⁸And Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin-offering which was for himself; ⁹and the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put [it] on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar. ¹⁰And the fat, and the kidneys, and the net above the liver, of the sin-offering, he burned on the altar, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ¹¹And the flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp. ¹²And he slaughtered the burnt-offering; and Aaron`s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar round about. <sup>13</sup>And they delivered the burnt-offering to him, in the pieces thereof, and the head; and he burned [them] on the altar. <sup>14</sup>And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burned [them] upon the burnt-offering, on the altar. <sup>15</sup>And he presented the people`s offering, and took the goat of the sin-offering which was for the people and slaughtered it, and offered it for sin, as the first. ¹⁶And he presented the burnt-offering and offered it according to the ordinance. ¹⁷And he presented the oblation, and took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning. ¹⁸And he slaughtered the bullock and the ram of the sacrifice of peace-offering which was for the people. And Aaron`s sons delivered to him the blood, and he sprinkled it on the altar round about; ¹⁹and the pieces of fat of the bullock and of the ram, the fat tail and what covers [the inwards], and the kidneys, and the net of the liver; ²⁰and they put the pieces of fat on the breast-pieces, and he burned the pieces of fat on the altar; ²¹and the breast-pieces and the right shoulder Aaron waved as a wave-offering before Jehovah, as Moses had commanded. ²²And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and came down after the offering of the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offering. ²³And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out and blessed the people; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people. ²⁴And there went out fire from before Jehovah, and consumed on the altar the burnt-offering, and the pieces of fat; and all the people saw it, and they shouted, and fell on their face.

Chapter 10

¹And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them. ²And there went out fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah. ³And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be hallowed in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent. ⁴And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. ⁵And they went near, and carried them in their vests out of the camp, as Moses had said. ⁶And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons, Your heads shall ye not uncover, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come on all the assembly; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled. ⁷And ye shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses. ⁸And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying, ⁹Thou shalt not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, lest ye die -- [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations, ¹⁰that ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between unclean and clean, ¹¹and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses. ¹²And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the oblation that is left of Jehovah`s offerings by fire, and eat it with unleavened bread beside the altar; for it is most holy. <sup>13</sup>And ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons` due, of Jehovah`s offerings by fire; for so I am commanded. <sup>14</sup>And the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering shall ye eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for [as] thy due, and thy sons` due, are they given of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the children of Israel. ¹⁵The shoulder of the heave-offering and the breast of the wave-offering shall they bring, with the fire-offering of the pieces of fat, to wave [them] as a wave-offering before Jehovah; and they shall be thine, and thy sons` with thee, for an everlasting statute, as Jehovah has commanded. ¹⁶And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was burnt up: then he was wroth with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying, ¹⁷Why have ye not eaten the sin-offering in a holy place? for it is most holy, and he has given it to you that ye might bear the iniquity of the assembly, to make atonement for them before Jehovah. ¹⁸Lo, its blood was not brought in within the sanctuary: ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded. ¹⁹And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, to-day have they presented their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and such things have befallen me; and had I to-day eaten the sin-offering, would it have been good in the sight of Jehovah? ²⁰And Moses heard it; and it was good in his sight.

Chapter 11

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat of all the beasts which are on the earth. ³Whatever hath cloven hoofs, and feet quite split open, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts -- that shall ye eat. ⁴Only these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with cloven hoofs: the camel, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you; ⁵and the rock-badger, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you; ⁶and the hare, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you; ⁷and the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, and feet quite split open, but it cheweth not the cud -- it shall be unclean unto you. ⁸Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch: they shall be unclean unto you. ⁹These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatever hath fins and scales in waters, in seas and in rivers, these shall ye eat; ¹⁰but all that have not fins and scales in seas and in rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of every living soul which is in the waters -- they shall be an abomination unto you. ¹¹They shall be even an abomination unto you: of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase ye shall have in abomination. ¹²Whatever in the waters hath no fins and scales, that shall be an abomination unto you. ¹³And these shall ye have in abomination of the fowls; they shall not be eaten; an abomination shall they be: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle, ¹⁴and the falcon, and the kite, after its kind; ¹⁵every raven after its kind; ¹⁶and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind; ¹⁷and the owl, and the gannet, and the ibis, ¹⁸and the swan, and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, ¹⁹and the stork; the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. ²⁰Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you. ²¹Yet these shall ye eat of every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four: those which have legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth. ²²These shall ye eat of them: the arbeh after its kind, and the solam after its kind, and the hargol after its kind, and the hargab after its kind. ²³But every winged crawling thing that hath four feet shall be an abomination unto you. ²⁴And by these ye shall make yourselves unclean; whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. ²⁵And whoever carrieth [ought] of their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even. ²⁶Every beast that hath cloven hoofs, but not feet quite split open, nor cheweth the cud, shall be unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. ²⁷And whatever goeth on its paws, among all manner of beasts that go upon all four, those are unclean unto you: whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. ²⁸And he that carrieth their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even: they shall be unclean unto you. ²⁹And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the lizard, after its kind; ³⁰and the groaning lizard, and the great red lizard, and the climbing lizard, and the chomet, and the chameleon. ³¹These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even. ³²And on whatever any of them when they are dead doth fall, it shall be unclean; all vessels of wood, or garment, or skin, or sack, every vessel wherewith work is done -- it shall be put into water, and be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean. ³³And every earthen vessel into which [any] of them falleth -- whatever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it. ³⁴All food that is eaten on which [such] water hath come shall be unclean; and all drink that is drunk shall be unclean, in every [such] vessel. ³⁵And everything where upon [any part] of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; oven and hearth shall be broken down: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. ³⁶Nevertheless, a spring or a well, a quantity of water, shall be clean. But he that toucheth their carcase shall be unclean. ³⁷And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean; ³⁸but if water have been put on the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you. ³⁹And if any beast which is to you for food die, he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even. ⁴⁰And he that eateth of its carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even: he also that carrieth its carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even. ⁴¹And every crawling thing which crawleth on the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. ⁴²Whatever goeth on the belly, and whatever goeth on all four, and all that have a great many feet, of every manner of crawling thing which crawleth on the earth -- these ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination. ⁴³Ye shall not make yourselves abominable through any crawling thing which crawleth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. ⁴⁴For I am Jehovah your God; and ye shall hallow yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean through any manner of crawling thing which creepeth on the earth. ⁴⁵For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. ⁴⁶This is the law of cattle, and of fowl, and of every living soul that moveth in the waters, and of every soul that crawleth on the earth; ⁴⁷to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that is to be eaten and the beast that is not to be eaten.

Chapter 12

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a male, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the separation of her infirmity shall she be unclean. ³And on the eighth day shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised. ⁴And she shall continue thirty-three days in the blood of her cleansing; no holy thing shall she touch, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled. ⁵And if she bear a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue sixty-six days in the blood of her cleansing. ⁶And when the days of her cleansing are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a yearling lamb for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove for a sin-offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, unto the priest. ⁷And he shall present it before Jehovah, and make atonement for her; and she shall be clean from the flux of her blood. This is the law for her that hath borne a male or a female. ⁸And if her hand cannot find what is sufficient for a sheep, she shall bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons; one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her; and she shall be clean.

Chapter 13

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising or a scab, or bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh a sore [as] of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests. ³And when the priest looketh on the sore in the skin of the flesh, and the hair in the sore is turned white, and the sore looketh deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the sore of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean. ⁴But if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and look not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the sore seven days. ⁵And the priest shall look on him the seventh day; and behold, in his sight, the sore remaineth as it was, the sore hath not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days a second time. ⁶And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day, and behold, the sore is become pale and the sore hath not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a scab; and he shall wash his garments and be clean. ⁷But if the scab have spread much in the skin, after that he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again; ⁸and the priest shall look on him, and behold, the scab hath spread in the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy. ⁹When a sore [as] of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought unto the priest; ¹⁰and the priest shall look on him, and behold, there is a white rising in the skin, and it hath turned the hair white, and a trace of raw flesh is in the rising: ¹¹it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. ¹²But if the leprosy break out much in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of [him that hath] the sore, from his head even to his foot, wherever the eyes of the priest look, ¹³and the priest looketh, and behold, the leprosy covereth all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the sore; it is all turned white; he is clean. ¹⁴And on the day when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. ¹⁵And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and shall pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy. ¹⁶But if the raw flesh change again, and be turned white, he shall come unto the priest; ¹⁷and the priest shall look on him, and behold, the sore is turned white; then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the sore: he is clean. ¹⁸And the flesh -- when in the skin thereof cometh a boil, and it is healed, ¹⁹and there is in the place of the boil a white rising, or a white-reddish bright spot, it shall be shewn to the priest; ²⁰and the priest shall look on it, and behold, it looketh deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof is turned white; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the sore of leprosy broken out in the boil. ²¹But if the priest look on it, and behold, there are no white hairs therein, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is pale, the priest shall shut him up seven days; ²²and if it spread much in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the sore. ²³But if the bright spot have remained in its place, [and] have not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. ²⁴Or if in the flesh, in the skin thereof, there is a burning inflammation, and the place of the inflammation become a bright spot white-reddish or white, ²⁵and the priest look on it, and behold, the hair is turned white in the bright spot, and it looketh deeper than the skin, it is a leprosy which is broken out in the inflammation; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the sore of leprosy. ²⁶But if the priest look on it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no deeper than the skin, and is pale, the priest shall shut him up seven days. ²⁷And the priest shall look on him the seventh day, and if it have spread much in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the sore of leprosy. ²⁸But if the bright spot have remained in its place, [and] not spread in the skin, and is pale, it is the rising of the inflammation; and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of the inflammation. ²⁹And if a man or a woman have a sore on the head or on the beard, ³⁰and the priest look on the sore, and behold, it looketh deeper than the skin, and there is in it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scall, the leprosy of the head or the beard. ³¹And if the priest look on the sore of the scall, and behold, it is not in sight deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the sore of the scall seven days. ³²And when the priest looketh on the sore on the seventh day, and behold, the scall hath not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the scall doth not look deeper than the skin, ³³he [that hath the sore] shall shave himself; but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the scall seven days a second time. ³⁴And the priest shall look on the scall on the seventh day, and behold, the scall hath not spread in the skin, nor is in sight deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his garments, and be clean. ³⁵But if the scall have spread much in the skin after his cleansing, ³⁶and the priest shall look on him, and behold, the scall hath spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair: he is unclean. ³⁷But if the scall have in his sight remained as it was, and there is black hair grown up therein, the scall is healed: he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. ³⁸And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, white bright spots, ³⁹and the priest look, and behold, there are in the skin of their flesh pale white spots, it is an eruption which is broken out in the skin: he is clean. ⁴⁰And if a man`s hair have fallen off his head, he is bald: he is clean; ⁴¹and if he have the hair fallen off from the part of the head towards his face, he is forehead-bald: he is clean. ⁴²And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white-reddish sore, it is a leprosy which hath broken out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. ⁴³And the priest shall look on it, and behold, the rising of the sore is white-reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of the leprosy in the skin of the flesh; ⁴⁴he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his sore is in his head. ⁴⁵And as to the leper in whom the sore is, -- his garments shall be rent, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall put a covering on his beard, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean! ⁴⁶All the days that the sore shall be in him he shall be unclean: he is unclean; he shall dwell apart; outside the camp shall his dwelling be. ⁴⁷And if a sore of leprosy is in a garment, in a woollen garment, or a linen garment, ⁴⁸either in the warp or in the woof of linen or of wool, or in a skin, or in anything made of skin, ⁴⁹and the sore is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is the sore of leprosy, and shall be shewn unto the priest. ⁵⁰And the priest shall look on the sore, and shall shut up [that which hath] the sore seven days. ⁵¹And he shall see the sore on the seventh day: if the sore have spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin, in any work that may be made of skin, the sore is a corroding leprosy: it is unclean. ⁵²And they shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, of wool or of linen, or anything of skin, wherein the sore is; for it is a corroding leprosy: it shall be burned with fire. ⁵³But if the priest look, and behold, the sore hath not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, ⁵⁴then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the sore is, and he shall shut it up seven days a second time. ⁵⁵And the priest shall look on the sore after the washing, and behold, if the sore have not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the nap is gone. ⁵⁶But if the priest look, and behold, the sore hath become pale after the washing of it, then he shall rend it from the garment, or from the skin, or from the warp, or from the woof. ⁵⁷And if it appear still in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is a [leprosy] breaking out: thou shalt burn with fire that wherein the sore is. ⁵⁸But the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin which thou hast washed, and the sore departeth from them, it shall be washed a second time, and it is clean. ⁵⁹This is the law of the sore of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, to cleanse it, or to pronounce it unclean.

Chapter 14

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest, ³and the priest shall go out of the camp; and when the priest looketh, and behold, the sore of leprosy is healed in the leper, ⁴then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two clean living birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. ⁵And the priest shall command that one bird be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: ⁶as to the living bird -- he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water; ⁷and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. ⁸And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shave all his hair, and bathe in water, and he shall be clean; and afterwards shall he come into the camp, and shall abide outside his tent seven days. ⁹And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair, his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave, and he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in water, and he is clean. ¹⁰And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one yearling ewe-lamb without blemish, and three tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil, for an oblation, and one log of oil. ¹¹And the priest that cleanseth [him] shall present the man that is to be cleansed and those things before Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ¹²And the priest shall take one he-lamb, and present it for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave-offering before Jehovah. ¹³And he shall slaughter the he-lamb at the place where the sin-offering and the burnt-offering are slaughtered, in a holy place; for as the sin-offering, so the trespass-offering is the priest`s: it is most holy. <sup>14</sup>And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. <sup>15</sup>And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into his, the priest`s, left hand; ¹⁶and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah. ¹⁷And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering. ¹⁸And the remainder of the oil that is in the priest`s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah. <sup>19</sup>And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterwards shall he slaughter the burnt-offering. <sup>20</sup>And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the oblation upon the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. <sup>21</sup>But if he be poor, and his hand be not able to get it, then he shall take one lamb for a trespass-offering, for a wave-offering, to make atonement for him; and one tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for an oblation; and a log of oil, <sup>22</sup>and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, as his hand may be able to get: the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering. <sup>23</sup>And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his cleansing unto the priest, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah. <sup>24</sup>And the priest shall take the he-lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave-offering before Jehovah. <sup>25</sup>And he shall slaughter the he-lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. <sup>26</sup>And the priest shall pour of the oil into [his], the priest`s, left hand, ²⁷and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah. ²⁸And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering. ²⁹And the remainder of the oil that is in the priest`s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah. ³⁰And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, of what his hand was able to get; ³¹of what his hand was able to get shall the one be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering, with the oblation; and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah. ³²This is the law for him in whom is the sore of leprosy, whose hand cannot get what is [regularly prescribed] in his cleansing. ³³And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ³⁴When ye come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a leprous plague in a house of the land of your possession, ³⁵then he whose house it is shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me like a plague in the house; ³⁶and the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterwards the priest shall go in to see the house. ³⁷And when he looketh on the plague, and behold, the plague is in the walls of the house, greenish or reddish hollows, and their look is deeper than the surface of the wall, ³⁸then the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house, and shut up the house seven days. ³⁹And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the walls of the house, ⁴⁰then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them out of the city, in an unclean place. ⁴¹And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they have scraped off, out of the city in an unclean place. ⁴²And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. ⁴³And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered, ⁴⁴then the priest shall come, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house: it is unclean. ⁴⁵And they shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place. ⁴⁶And he that goeth into the house as long as it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. ⁴⁷And he that sleepeth in the house shall wash his garments, and he that eateth in the house shall wash his garments. ⁴⁸But if the priest shall come in and look, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house hath been plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague is healed. ⁴⁹And he shall take, to purge the house from the defilement, two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop; ⁵⁰and he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water; ⁵¹and he shall take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times; ⁵²and he shall purge the house from the defilement with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; ⁵³and he shall let the living bird loose out of the city into the open field; and he shall make atonement for the house, and it is clean. ⁵⁴This is the law for every sore of leprosy, and for the scall, ⁵⁵and for the leprosy of garments, and of houses, ⁵⁶and for the rising, and for the scab, and for the bright spot, ⁵⁷to teach when there is uncleanness, and when it is purified: this is the law of leprosy.

Chapter 15

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man have a flux from his flesh, because of his flux he is unclean. ³And this shall be his uncleanness in his flux: whether his flesh run with his flux, or his flesh be closed from his flux, it is his uncleanness. ⁴Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the flux shall be unclean; and every object on which he sitteth shall be unclean. ⁵And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ⁶And he that sitteth on any object whereon he sat that hath the flux shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ⁷And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the flux shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ⁸And if he that hath the flux spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ⁹And what carriage soever he rideth upon that hath the flux shall be unclean. ¹⁰And whoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even; and he that carrieth them shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ¹¹And whomsoever he toucheth who hath the flux and hath not rinsed his hands in water -- he shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ¹²And the vessel of earth that he toucheth who hath the flux shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. ¹³And when he that hath a flux is clean of his flux, then he shall count seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and he shall be clean. ¹⁴And on the eighth day he shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, and give them unto the priest. ¹⁵And the priest shall offer them, one as a sin-offering, and one as a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah for his flux. ¹⁶And if any man`s seed of copulation pass from him, then he shall bathe his whole flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. ¹⁷And every garment, and every skin, whereon the seed of copulation shall be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. ¹⁸And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation -- they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ¹⁹And if a woman have a flux, and her flux in her flesh be blood, she shall be seven days in her separation, and whoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. ²⁰And everything that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean; and everything that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. ²¹And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ²²And whoever toucheth any object that she sat upon shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ²³And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. ²⁴And if a man lie with her at all, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. ²⁵And if a woman have her flux of blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if she have the flux beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the flux of her uncleanness shall she be as [in] the days of her separation: she is unclean. ²⁶Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her flux shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and every object on which she sitteth shall be unclean, according to the uncleanness of her separation. ²⁷And whoever toucheth them shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ²⁸And if she be cleansed of her flux then she shall count seven days, and after that she shall be clean. ²⁹And on the eighth day she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting. ³⁰And the priest shall offer the one as a sin-offering, and the other as a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the flux of her uncleanness. ³¹And ye shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst. ³²This is the law for him that hath a flux, and for the one whose seed of copulation goeth from him, and who is defiled therewith: ³³and for a woman who is sick in her separation, and for him that hath his flux; for the man and for the woman, and for him that lieth with her that is unclean.

Chapter 16

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Jehovah and died; ²and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he die not; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. ³In this manner shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering. ⁴A holy linen vest shall he put on, and linen trousers shall be upon his flesh, and he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. ⁵And of the assembly of the children of Israel shall he take two bucks of the goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering. ⁶And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house. ⁷And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Jehovah, before the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁸And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for Jehovah, and the other lot for Azazel. ⁹And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for Jehovah, and offer it [as] a sin-offering. ¹⁰And the goat upon which the lot fell for Azazel shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement with it, to send it away as Azazel into the wilderness. ¹¹And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slaughter the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself. ¹²And he shall take the censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and both his hands full of fragrant incense beaten small, and bring it inside the veil. ¹³And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat which is upon the testimony, that he die not. ¹⁴And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle with his finger upon the front of the mercy-seat eastward; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood seven times with his finger. ¹⁵And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin-offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat; ¹⁶and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, [to cleanse it] from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions in all their sins; and so shall he do for the tent of meeting which dwelleth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. ¹⁷And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth in to make atonement in the sanctuary until he come out; and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for the whole congregation of Israel. ¹⁸And he shall go out unto the altar which is before Jehovah, and make atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about; ¹⁹and he shall sprinkle upon it of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel. ²⁰And when he hath ended making atonement for the sanctuary, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the living goat; ²¹and Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the living goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away to the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready; ²²that the goat may bear upon him all their iniquities to a land apart [from men]; and he shall send away the goat into the wilderness. ²³And Aaron shall go into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the sanctuary, and shall leave them there; ²⁴and he shall bathe his flesh with water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and go forth, and offer his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself, and for the people. ²⁵And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar. ²⁶And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water; and afterwards he may come into the camp. ²⁷And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall one carry forth outside the camp; and they shall burn with fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. ²⁸And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water; and afterwards he may come into the camp. ²⁹And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you. In the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, the home-born, and the stranger that sojourneth among you; ³⁰for on that day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you: from all your sins shall ye be clean before Jehovah. ³¹A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls: [it is] an everlasting statute. ³²And the priest who hath been anointed, and who hath been consecrated, to exercise the priesthood in his father`s stead, shall make atonement; and he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments. ³³And he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary; and for the tent of meeting, and for the altar shall he make atonement; and for the priests, and for the whole people of the congregation shall he make atonement. ³⁴And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel [to cleanse them] from all their sins once a year. And he did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Chapter 17

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, ³Every one of the house of Israel that slaughtereth an ox, or sheep, or goat, in the camp, or that slaughtereth it out of the camp, ⁴and doth not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to Jehovah, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood shall be reckoned unto that man: he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people, ⁵to the end that the children of Israel bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they bring them to Jehovah, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace-offerings to Jehovah. ⁶And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet odour to Jehovah. ⁷And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto demons, after whom they go a whoring. This shall be an everlasting statute unto them for their generations. ⁸And thou shalt say unto them, Every one of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn among them, that offereth up a burnt-offering or sacrifice, ⁹and bringeth it not to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to offer it up to Jehovah -- that man shall be cut off from his peoples. ¹⁰And every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, -- I will set my face against the soul that hath eaten blood, and will cut him off from among his people; ¹¹for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. ¹²Therefore have I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall the stranger who sojourneth among you eat blood. ¹³And every one of the children of Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn among them, that catcheth in the hunt a beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with earth; ¹⁴for as to the life of all flesh, its blood is the life in it; and I have said unto the children of Israel, Of the blood of no manner of flesh shall ye eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood: whoever eateth it shall be cut off. ¹⁵And every soul that eateth of a dead carcase, or of that which was torn, be it one home-born, or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even: then he shall be clean. ¹⁶And if he wash them not nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Chapter 18

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God. ³After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their customs. ⁴Mine ordinances shall ye do and my statutes shall ye observe to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God. ⁵And ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, by which the man that doeth them shall live: I am Jehovah. ⁶No one shall approach to any that is his near relation, to uncover his nakedness: I am Jehovah. ⁷The nakedness of thy father, and the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. ⁸The nakedness of thy father`s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father`s nakedness. ⁹The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home, or born abroad -- their nakedness shalt thou not uncover. ¹⁰The nakedness of thy son`s daughter, or of thy daughter`s daughter -- their nakedness shalt thou not uncover; for theirs is thy nakedness. ¹¹The nakedness of thy father`s wife`s daughter, begotten of thy father: she is thy sister: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. ¹²The nakedness of thy father`s sister shalt thou not uncover: she is thy father`s near relation. ¹³The nakedness of thy mother`s sister shalt thou not uncover; for she is thy mother`s near relation. ¹⁴The nakedness of thy father`s brother shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not approach his wife: she is thine aunt. <sup>15</sup>The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law shalt thou not uncover: she is thy son`s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. ¹⁶The nakedness of thy brother`s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother`s nakedness. ¹⁷The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not take her son`s daughter, nor her daughter`s daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are her near relations: it is wickedness. ¹⁸And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life. ¹⁹And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness. ²⁰And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour`s wife, to become unclean with her. ²¹And thou shalt not give of thy seed to let them pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. ²²And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination. ²³And thou shalt lie with no beast to become unclean therewith; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion. ²⁴Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have the nations which I am casting out before you made themselves unclean. ²⁵And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants. ²⁶But ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of all these abominations: the home-born, and the stranger that sojourneth among you; ²⁷(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean); ²⁸that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹For whoever committeth any of these abominations, ... the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. ³⁰And ye shall observe my charge, that ye commit not [any] of the abominable customs which were committed before you; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Chapter 19

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Holy shall ye be, for I Jehovah your God am holy. ³Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God. ⁴Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God. ⁵And if ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice it for your acceptance. ⁶On the day when ye sacrifice it shall it be eaten, and on the morrow; and that which remaineth until the third day shall be burned with fire. ⁷And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an unclean thing: it shall not be accepted. ⁸And he that eateth it shall bear his iniquity; for he hath profaned the hallowed thing of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his peoples. ⁹And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt not gather. ¹⁰And thy vineyard shalt thou not glean, neither shalt thou gather what hath been left of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am Jehovah your God. ¹¹Ye shall not steal, and ye shall not deal falsely, and ye shall not lie one to another. ¹²And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. ¹³Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, neither rob him. The wages of the hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. ¹⁴Thou shalt not revile a deaf person, and thou shalt not put a stumbling-block before a blind one; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. ¹⁵Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. ¹⁶Thou shalt not go about as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand up against the life of thy neighbour: I am Jehovah. ¹⁷Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him. ¹⁸Thou shalt not avenge thyself, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am Jehovah. ¹⁹My statutes shall ye observe. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with another sort; thou shalt not sow thy field with seed of two sorts; and a garment woven of two materials shall not come upon thee. ²⁰And if a man lie with a woman for copulation, and she is a bondwoman betrothed to a husband, but not at all ransomed, nor hath freedom been given to her, there shall be a chastisement: they shall not be put to death, for she was not free. ²¹And he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a trespass-offering. ²²And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Jehovah for his sin which he hath done; and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. ²³And when ye come into the land and plant all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count its fruit as uncircumcised, three years shall it be uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of; ²⁴and in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy for praise to Jehovah; ²⁵and in the fifth year shall ye eat the fruit thereof, that it may increase unto you the produce thereof: I am Jehovah your God. ²⁶Ye shall eat nothing with the blood. -- Ye shall not practise enchantment, nor use auguries. ²⁷-- Ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard. ²⁸And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah. ²⁹-- Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy. ³⁰-- My sabbaths shall ye keep, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah. ³¹-- Turn not unto necromancers and unto soothsayers; seek not after them to make yourselves unclean: I am Jehovah your God. ³²Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. ³³And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not molest him. ³⁴As one born among you shall the stranger who sojourneth with you be unto you; and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. ³⁵Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, and in measure of capacity: ³⁶just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. ³⁷And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.

Chapter 20

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Thou shalt say also to the children of Israel, Every one of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech, shall certainly be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, so as to make my sanctuary unclean, and to profane my holy name. ⁴And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, that they kill him not, ⁵then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. ⁶-- And the soul that turneth unto necromancers and unto soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. ⁷Hallow yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Jehovah your God. ⁸And ye shall observe my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who hallow you. ⁹Whatever man revileth his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death: he hath reviled his father and his mother; his blood is upon him. ¹⁰And a man that committeth adultery with a man`s wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour`s wife, -- the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death. ¹¹And a man that lieth with his father`s wife hath uncovered his father`s nakedness: both of them shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them. ¹²And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall certainly be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood is upon them. ¹³And if a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them. ¹⁴And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is infamy: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no infamy among you. ¹⁵And if a man lie with a beast for copulation, he shall certainly be put to death; and ye shall kill the beast. ¹⁶And if a woman approach unto any beast to gender therewith, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them. ¹⁷And if a man take his sister, his father`s daughter, or his mother`s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, that is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off before the eyes of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister`s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. <sup>18</sup>And if a man shall lie with a woman in her infirmity, and uncover her nakedness, her flux doth he lay bare, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. <sup>19</sup>And the nakedness of thy mother`s sister, and of thy father`s sister shalt thou not uncover; for he hath laid naked his near relation: they shall bear their iniquity. <sup>20</sup>And if a man lie with his aunt, he hath uncovered his uncle`s nakedness: their sin shall they bear: they shall die childless. ²¹And if a man take his brother`s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother`s nakedness: they shall be childless. ²²And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein vomit you not out. ²³And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for all these things have they done, and they became an abomination to me. ²⁴And I have said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you for a possession; a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who have separated you from the peoples. ²⁵And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring [it] as unclean. ²⁶And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine. ²⁷And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them.

Chapter 21

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none make himself unclean for a dead person among his peoples, ²except for his immediate relation, who is near unto him -- for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother; ³and for his sister, a virgin, that is near unto him, who hath had no husband, for her may he make himself unclean. ⁴He shall not make himself unclean [who is] a chief among his peoples, to profane himself. ⁵They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. ⁶They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they present Jehovah`s offerings by fire, the bread of their God; therefore shall they be holy. <sup>7</sup>They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God. <sup>8</sup>And thou shalt hallow him; for the bread of thy God doth he present: he shall be holy unto thee; for I, Jehovah, who hallow you am holy. <sup>9</sup>And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burned with fire. <sup>10</sup>And the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his garments. <sup>11</sup>Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother; <sup>12</sup>neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Jehovah. <sup>13</sup>And he shall take a wife in her virginity. <sup>14</sup>A widow, or a divorced woman, or a dishonoured one, a harlot, these shall he not take; but he shall take as wife a virgin from among his peoples. <sup>15</sup>And he shall not profane his seed among his peoples; for I am Jehovah who do hallow him. <sup>16</sup>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, <sup>17</sup>Speak unto Aaron, saying, Any of thy seed throughout their generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present the bread of his God; <sup>18</sup>for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb longer than the other, <sup>19</sup>or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, <sup>20</sup>or hump-backed, or withered, or that hath a spot in his eye, or hath the itch, or scabs, or his testicles broken. <sup>21</sup>No man of the seed of Aaron the priest that hath defect shall come near to present Jehovah`s offerings by fire: he hath a defect; he shall not come near to present the bread of his God. ²²The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat; ²³only he shall not come in unto the veil, nor shall he draw near unto the altar; for he hath a defect: that he profane not my sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them. ²⁴And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

Chapter 22

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in the things that they hallow unto me: I am Jehovah. ³Say unto them, Every one of all your seed, throughout your generations, that approacheth the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am Jehovah. ⁴Whatsoever man of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a flux, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And he that toucheth any one that is unclean by a dead person, or a man whose seed of copulation hath passed from him; ⁵or a man that toucheth any crawling thing whereby he becometh unclean, or a man by whom he may become unclean, whatever may be his uncleanness, ⁶-- a person that toucheth any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things; but he shall bathe his flesh with water, ⁷and when the sun goeth down, he shall be clean, and may afterwards eat of the holy things; for it is his food. ⁸Of a dead carcase and what is torn shall he not eat, to make himself unclean therewith: I am Jehovah. ⁹And they shall keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die by it, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who do hallow them. ¹⁰And no stranger shall eat the holy thing; the sojourner with the priest, and the hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. ¹¹But if a priest buy any one for money, he may eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they may eat of his food. ¹²And a priest`s daughter who is [married] to a stranger may not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things. <sup>13</sup>But a priest`s daughter that becometh a widow, or is divorced, and hath no seed, and returneth unto her father`s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father`s food; but no stranger shall eat thereof. ¹⁴And if a man eat of a holy thing through inadvertence, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing. ¹⁵And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto Jehovah, ¹⁶and cause them to bear the iniquity of trespass when they eat their holy things; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them. ¹⁷And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, that presenteth his offering for any of his vows, and for any of his voluntary offerings, which they present to Jehovah as a burnt-offering, ¹⁹it shall be for your acceptance, without blemish, a male of the oxen, of the sheep, and of the goats. ²⁰Nothing that hath a defect shall ye present; for it shall not be acceptable for you. ²¹And if any present a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or a voluntary offering of oxen or small cattle, it shall be without blemish to be accepted: there shall be no defect therein. ²²Blind, or broken, or maimed, or ulcerous, or with itch, or scabbed -- ye shall not present these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Jehovah. ²³A bullock and a sheep that hath a member too long or too short, that mayest thou offer as a voluntary offering; but as a vow it shall not be accepted. ²⁴That which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut shall ye not present to Jehovah; neither in your land shall ye do [the like]. ²⁵Nor from the hand of the stranger shall ye present the bread of your God, of any of these; for their corruption is in them: a defect is in them; they shall not be accepted for you. ²⁶And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷An ox, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is brought forth, shall be seven days under its dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²⁸A cow, or sheep -- it and its young shall ye not slaughter in one day. ²⁹And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice it for your acceptance. ³⁰On that day shall it be eaten: ye shall leave none of it until morning: I am Jehovah. ³¹And ye shall observe my commandments and do them: I am Jehovah. ³²And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am Jehovah who do hallow you, ³³who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah.

Chapter 23

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim as holy convocations -- these are my set feasts. ³Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; no manner of work shall ye do: it is the sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings. ⁴These are the set feasts of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons: ⁵In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah. ⁶And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to Jehovah; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. ⁷On the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ⁸And ye shall present to Jehovah an offering by fire seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ⁹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I give unto you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest. ¹¹And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you; on the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. ¹²And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, a he-lamb without blemish, a yearling, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah; ¹³and the oblation thereof: two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Jehovah for a sweet odour; and the drink-offering thereof, of wine, a fourth part of a hin. ¹⁴And ye shall not eat bread, or roast corn, or green ears, until the same day that ye have brought the offering of your God: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ¹⁵And ye shall count from the morning after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven weeks; they shall be complete; ¹⁶even unto the morning after the seventh sabbath shall ye count fifty days; and ye shall present a new oblation to Jehovah. ¹⁷Out of your dwellings shall ye bring two wave-loaves, of two tenths of fine flour; with leaven shall they be baken; [as] first-fruits to Jehovah. ¹⁸And ye shall present with the bread seven he-lambs without blemish, yearlings, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt-offering to Jehovah with their oblation, and their drink-offerings, an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah. ¹⁹And ye shall sacrifice one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs, yearlings, for a sacrifice of peace-offering. ²⁰And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits as a wave-offering before Jehovah, with the two he-lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah, for the priest. ²¹And ye shall make proclamation on that same day -- a holy convocation shall it be unto you: no manner of servile work shall ye do: [it is] an everlasting statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations. ²²And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not in thy harvest entirely reap the corners of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest shalt thou not gather: thou shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger: I am Jehovah your God. ²³And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall ye have a rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ²⁵No manner of servile work shall ye do; and ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²⁶And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷Also on the tenth of this seventh month is the day of the atonement: a holy convocation shall it be unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and present an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²⁸And ye shall do no manner of work on that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Jehovah your God. ²⁹For every soul that is not afflicted on that same day, shall be cut off from among his peoples. ³⁰And every soul that doeth any manner of work on that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. ³¹No manner of work shall ye do: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³²A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls. On the ninth of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. ³³And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths seven days to Jehovah. ³⁵On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ³⁶Seven days ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; no manner of servile work shall ye do. ³⁷These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and an oblation, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, everything upon its day; ³⁸besides the sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings, which ye give to Jehovah. ³⁹But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the produce of the land, ye shall celebrate the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day there shall be rest, and on the eighth day there shall be rest. ⁴⁰And ye shall take on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, palm branches and the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. ⁴¹And ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month shall ye celebrate it. ⁴²In booths shall ye dwell seven days; all born in Israel shall dwell in booths; ⁴³that your generations may know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. ⁴⁴And Moses declared the set feasts of Jehovah to the children of Israel.

Chapter 24

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to light the lamp continually. ³Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron dress it from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations. ⁴Upon the pure candlestick shall he arrange the lamps before Jehovah continually. ⁵And thou shalt take fine wheaten flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof; each cake shall be of two tenths. ⁶And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah. ⁷And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row; and it shall be a bread of remembrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁸Every sabbath day he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, on the part of the children of Israel: [it is] an everlasting covenant. ⁹And it shall be Aaron`s and his sons`; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of Jehovah`s offerings by fire: [it is] an everlasting statute. <sup>10</sup>And the son of an Israelitish woman -- but withal the son of an Egyptian, -- went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelitess and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; <sup>11</sup>and the Israelitish woman`s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. And his mother`s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹²And they confined him, that they might decide at the mouth of Jehovah. ¹³And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴Lead the reviler outside the camp; and all that heard [him] shall lay their hands upon his head, and the whole assembly shall stone him. ¹⁵And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Every one when he revileth his God shall bear his sin. ¹⁶And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah shall certainly be put to death; all the assembly shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger as he that is home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name, shall be put to death. ¹⁷And if any one smiteth any man mortally, he shall certainly be put to death. ¹⁸And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour, as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; ²⁰breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him. ²¹He that smiteth a beast [mortally] shall make it good; and he that smiteth a man [mortally] shall be put to death. ²²Ye shall have one law: as the stranger, so the home-born; for I am Jehovah your God. ²³And Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they led the reviler outside the camp and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Chapter 25

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah. ³Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof, ⁴but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune. ⁵That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land. ⁶And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle, ⁷and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food. ⁸And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years. ⁹Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout your land. ¹⁰And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a [year of] jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family; ¹¹a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather [the fruit of] its undressed vines. ¹²For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce. ¹³In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. ¹⁴And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour`s hand, ye shall not overreach one another. <sup>15</sup>According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto thee. <sup>16</sup>According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto thee. <sup>17</sup>And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am Jehovah your God. <sup>18</sup>And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely. <sup>19</sup>And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely. <sup>20</sup>And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce; <sup>21</sup>then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years; <sup>22</sup>and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old. <sup>23</sup>And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. <sup>24</sup>And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. <sup>25</sup>If thy brother grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold. <sup>26</sup>And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption, <sup>27</sup>then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto his possession. <sup>28</sup>And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. <sup>29</sup>And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption. <sup>30</sup>But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. <sup>31</sup>But the houses in villages that have no wall round about them shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. <sup>32</sup>But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption. <sup>33</sup>And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. <sup>34</sup>And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession. <sup>35</sup>And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, [be he] stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee. <sup>36</sup>Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee. <sup>37</sup>Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. <sup>38</sup>I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God. <sup>39</sup>And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: <sup>40</sup>as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee. <sup>41</sup>Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. <sup>42</sup>For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as [men] sell bondmen. <sup>43</sup>Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thy God. <sup>44</sup>And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have -- of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids. <sup>45</sup>Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession. <sup>46</sup>And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour. <sup>47</sup>And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger`s family, ⁴⁸after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him. ⁴⁹Either his uncle or his uncle`s son may redeem him, or one of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his means be sufficient, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him. ⁵¹If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] out of the money that he was bought for; ⁵²and if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his [remaining] years [of service] shall he give him back his redemption [money]. ⁵³As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; [his master] shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes. ⁵⁴And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him. ⁵⁵For the children of Israel are servants unto me; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

Chapter 26

¹Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God. ²Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah. ³If ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them, ⁴then I will give your rain in the season thereof, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; ⁵and your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely. ⁶And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land. ⁷And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword; ⁸and five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall beside you by the sword. ⁹And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰And ye shall eat old store, and clear away the old because of the new. ¹¹And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you; ¹²and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be to me a people. ¹³I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright. ¹⁴But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments, ¹⁵and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant, ¹⁶I also will do this unto you -- I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. ¹⁸And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins, ¹⁹and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze, ²⁰and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. ²¹And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins. ²²And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate. ²³And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me, ²⁴then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins. ²⁵And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ²⁶When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. ²⁷And if for this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary unto me, ²⁸then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins. ²⁹And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. ³⁰And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. ³¹And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours. ³²And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it. ³³And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste. ³⁴Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies` land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. <sup>35</sup>All the days of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein. <sup>36</sup>And as to those that remain of you -- I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth; <sup>37</sup>and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. <sup>38</sup>And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. <sup>39</sup>And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies` lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them. ⁴⁰And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me, ⁴¹so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, ⁴²I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. ⁴³For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and their soul abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God. ⁴⁵But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah. ⁴⁶These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

Chapter 27

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When any one devoteth [anything] by a vow, the persons shall be for Jehovah according to thy valuation. ³And thy valuation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old: thy valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary; ⁴and if it be of a female, thy valuation shall be thirty shekels. ⁵And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, thy valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. ⁶And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, thy valuation of the male shall be five shekels of silver; and for the female thy valuation shall be three shekels of silver. ⁷And if it be from sixty years old and above, if it be a male, thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female ten shekels. ⁸And if he be poorer than thy valuation, he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him: according to his means that vowed shall the priest value him. ⁹And if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering unto Jehovah, all that they give of such unto Jehovah shall be holy. ¹⁰They shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. ¹¹And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not bring an offering unto Jehovah, then he shall present the beast before the priest; ¹²and the priest shall value it, [judging] between good and bad: according to the valuation of the priest, so shall it be. ¹³And if they will in any wise redeem it, then they shall add a fifth [part] thereof unto thy valuation. ¹⁴And when any one halloweth his house, that it may be holy to Jehovah, the priest shall value it, [judging] between good and bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. ¹⁵And if he that halloweth it will redeem his house, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be his. ¹⁶And if a man hallow to Jehovah [part] of a field of his possession, thy valuation shall be according to what may be sown in it: the homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷If he hallow his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy valuation shall it stand; ¹⁸but if he hallow his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee; and there shall be a reduction from thy valuation. ¹⁹And if he that hallowed the field will in any wise redeem it, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him; ²⁰but if he do not redeem the field, or if he sell the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed any more; ²¹and the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest`s. <sup>22</sup>And if he hallow to Jehovah a field that he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession, <sup>23</sup>the priest shall reckon unto him the amount of thy valuation, unto the year of the jubilee; and he shall give thy valuation on that day, [as] holy to Jehovah. <sup>24</sup>In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought -- to him to whom the land belonged. <sup>25</sup>And all thy valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. <sup>26</sup>Only the firstling which is offered as firstling to Jehovah among the cattle, that shall no man hallow, whether it be ox or sheep; it is Jehovah`s. ²⁷But if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom it according to thy valuation, and shall add a fifth of it thereto; and if it be not redeemed, it shall be sold according to thy valuation. ²⁸Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man hath devoted to Jehovah of all that he hath, of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Jehovah. ²⁹Nothing devoted, which shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed: it shall certainly be put to death. ³⁰And as to every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of the tree, it is Jehovah`s: it is holy to Jehovah. ³¹And if any one will at all redeem of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth thereof. ³²And as to every tithe of the herd, or of the flock, of whatever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Jehovah. ³³He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it; and if he change it at all, then both it and the exchange thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. ³⁴These are the commandments which Jehovah commanded Moses for the children of Israel upon mount Sinai.

Numbers

Chapter 1

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, saying, ²Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, every male, according to their polls; <sup>3</sup>from twenty years and upward, all that go forth to military service in Israel: ye shall number them according to their hosts, thou and Aaron. <sup>4</sup>And with you there shall be a man for every tribe, a man who is the head of his father`s house. ⁵And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ⁶for Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷for Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab; ⁸for Issachar, Nethaneel the son of Zuar; ⁹for Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon; ¹⁰for the children of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; ¹¹for Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni; ¹²for Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; ¹³for Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran; ¹⁴for Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel; ¹⁵for Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan. ¹⁶These were those summoned of the assembly, princes of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the thousands of Israel. ¹⁷And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by their names, ¹⁸and gathered the whole assembly together on the first of the second month. And they declared their pedigrees after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, according to their polls. <sup>19</sup>As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. <sup>20</sup>And the sons of Reuben, Israel`s eldest son, their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: <sup>21</sup>those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. <sup>22</sup>Of the sons of Simeon: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, those that were numbered of them, by the number of the names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: ²³those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. ²⁴Of the sons of Gad: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: <sup>25</sup>those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. <sup>26</sup>Of the sons of Judah: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: ²⁷those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. ²⁸Of the sons of Issachar: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: <sup>29</sup>those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. <sup>30</sup>Of the sons of Zebulun: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: ³¹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. ³²Of the sons of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: <sup>33</sup>those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred. <sup>34</sup>Of the children of Manasseh: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: ³⁵those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. ³⁶Of the sons of Benjamin: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: <sup>37</sup>those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. <sup>38</sup>Of the sons of Dan: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: ³⁹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. ⁴⁰Of the sons of Asher: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: <sup>41</sup>those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. <sup>42</sup>Of the sons of Naphtali: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: ⁴³those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. ⁴⁴These are those that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, the twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. ⁴⁵And all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, according to their fathers` houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service in Israel, ⁴⁶all they that were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. ⁴⁷But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸For Jehovah had spoken to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel. ⁵⁰But thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels; and they shall serve it, and round about the tabernacle shall they encamp; ⁵¹and when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encampeth, the Levites shall set it up; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death. ⁵²And the children of Israel shall encamp every man in his camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts; ⁵³but the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there come not wrath upon the assembly of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony. ⁵⁴And the children of Israel did so; according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did they.

Chapter 2

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²The children of Israel shall encamp every one by his standard, with the ensign of their father`s house; round about the tent of meeting, afar off, opposite to it shall they encamp. <sup>3</sup>And [for] those encamping eastward toward the sun-rising [there shall be] the standard of the camp of Judah according to their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab; <sup>4</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. <sup>5</sup>And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar shall be Nethaneel the son of Zuar; <sup>6</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty-four thousand four hundred. <sup>7</sup>[With them shall be] the tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon; <sup>8</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty-seven thousand four hundred. <sup>9</sup>All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first. <sup>10</sup>The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be southward according to their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur; <sup>11</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, forty-six thousand five hundred. <sup>12</sup>And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; <sup>13</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, fifty-nine thousand three hundred. <sup>14</sup>And [with them shall be] the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel; <sup>15</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. <sup>16</sup>All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth second. <sup>17</sup>And the tent of meeting shall set forth, the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set forth, every man in his place, according to their standards. <sup>18</sup>The standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts shall be westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud; <sup>19</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred. <sup>20</sup>And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; <sup>21</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand two hundred. <sup>22</sup>And [with them shall be] the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni; <sup>23</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, thirty-five thousand four hundred. <sup>24</sup>All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred and eight thousand one hundred, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth third. <sup>25</sup>The standard of the camp of Dan shall be northward according to their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; <sup>26</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, sixty-two thousand seven hundred. <sup>27</sup>And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran; <sup>28</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty-one thousand five hundred. <sup>29</sup>And [with them shall be] the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan; <sup>30</sup>and his host, even those that were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. <sup>31</sup>All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set forth last according to their standards. <sup>32</sup>These are those that were numbered of the children of Israel, according to their fathers` houses: all those that were numbered of the camps, according to their hosts, were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. ³³But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. ³⁴And the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses: so they encamped according to their standards, and so they journeyed, every one according to their families, according to their fathers` houses.

Chapter 3

¹And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on mount Sinai. ²And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ³These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, who were consecrated to exercise the priesthood. ⁴And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father. ⁵And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him; ⁷and they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole assembly, before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. ⁸And they shall keep all the utensils of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. ⁹And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel. ¹⁰And Aaron and his sons shalt thou appoint that they may attend to their priest`s office; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death. <sup>11</sup>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, <sup>12</sup>And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn that breaketh open the womb among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine; <sup>13</sup>for every firstborn is mine. On the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and beast; mine shall they be: I am Jehovah. <sup>14</sup>And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, <sup>15</sup>Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers` houses, after their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. ¹⁶And Moses numbered them, according to the commandment of Jehovah, -- as he had been commanded. ¹⁷And these are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their families: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹And the sons of Kohath according to their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. ²⁰And the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers` houses. <sup>21</sup>Of Gershon, the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. <sup>22</sup>Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred. <sup>23</sup>The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward. <sup>24</sup>And the prince of the father`s house of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael. ²⁵And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was: the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting. ²⁶And the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance to the court, which surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof for all its service. ²⁷And of Kohath, the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary. ²⁹The families of the sons of Kohath encamped on the side of the tabernacle southward. ³⁰And the prince of the father`s house of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. <sup>31</sup>And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, and the curtain, and all that belongs to its service. <sup>32</sup>And the prince of princes of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: he had the oversight of them that kept the charge of the sanctuary. <sup>33</sup>Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. <sup>34</sup>And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred. <sup>35</sup>And the prince of the father`s house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They encamped on the side of the tabernacle northward. ³⁶And the charge of the sons of Merari consisted in the oversight of the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its bases, and all its furniture, and all that belongs to its service, ³⁷and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords. ³⁸And those who encamped before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, who kept the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death. ³⁹All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, according to their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. ⁴⁰And Jehovah said to Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. ⁴¹And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. ⁴²And Moses numbered, as Jehovah had commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. ⁴³And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names, from a month old and upward, according to their numbering, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. ⁴⁴And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁵Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah. ⁴⁶And for those that are to be ransomed, the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are in excess over the Levites, ⁴⁷thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, according to the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them, -- twenty gerahs the shekel; ⁴⁸and thou shalt give the money unto Aaron and unto his sons for those in excess among them who are to be ransomed. ⁴⁹And Moses took the ransom-money from them that were over and above those who were ransomed by the Levites; ⁵⁰of the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five [shekels], according to the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁵¹And Moses gave the money of them that were ransomed to Aaron and to his sons, according to the commandment of Jehovah, -- as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Chapter 4

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, <sup>3</sup>from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. <sup>4</sup>This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: it is most holy. <sup>5</sup>And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall take down the veil of separation and cover the ark of testimony with it; <sup>6</sup>and shall put thereon a covering of badgers` skin, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put its staves [to it]. ⁷And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue; and put thereon the dishes, and the cups, and the bowls, and goblets of the drink-offering; and the continual bread shall be thereon. ⁸And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of badgers` skin, and shall put its staves [to it]. <sup>9</sup>And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff-trays, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they perform its service; <sup>10</sup>and they shall put it and all the utensils thereof within a covering of badgers` skin, and shall put it upon a pole. ¹¹And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers` skin, and shall put its staves [to it]. <sup>12</sup>And they shall take all the instruments of service, wherewith they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers` skin, and shall put them upon a pole. ¹³And they shall cleanse the altar of the ashes, and spread a purple cloth thereon; ¹⁴and they shall put upon it all the utensils thereof, wherewith they perform service about it: the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the bowls, -- all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers` skin, and put its staves [to it]. <sup>15</sup>And when Aaron and his sons have ended covering the sanctuary, and all the utensils of the sanctuary, when the camp setteth forward, then afterwards the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. This is what the sons of Kohath have to carry in the tent of meeting. <sup>16</sup>And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have the oversight of the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual oblation, and the anointing oil, -- the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its furniture. <sup>17</sup>And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, <sup>18</sup>Ye shall not cut off the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites, <sup>19</sup>but this shall ye do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they draw near unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden; <sup>20</sup>but they shall not go in and see for a moment the holy things, lest they die. <sup>21</sup>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, <sup>22</sup>Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, according to their fathers` houses, after their families. ²³From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old shalt thou number them; every one that cometh to labour in the work, to perform the service in the tent of meeting. ²⁴This shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying: ²⁵they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of badgers` skin that is above upon it, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting, <sup>26</sup>and the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance, of the gate of the court, which surroundeth the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof, and all the instruments of their service; and all that is to be done for these things shall they perform. <sup>27</sup>At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their carrying, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their carrying. <sup>28</sup>This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting, and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. <sup>29</sup>The sons of Merari: after their families, according to their fathers` houses shalt thou number them; ³⁰from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the labour, to perform the service of the tent of meeting. ³¹And this shall be the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and bases thereof, ³²and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords, all their instruments, according to all their service; and by name ye shall number to them the materials which are their charge to carry. ³³This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. ³⁴And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the assembly numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and according to their fathers` houses, <sup>35</sup>from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered into the labour, for service in the tent of meeting. <sup>36</sup>And those that were numbered of them according to their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. <sup>37</sup>These are they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, every one that served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses. <sup>38</sup>And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, after their families, and according to their fathers` houses, ³⁹from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered into the labour, for service in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁰even those that were numbered of them, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, were two thousand six hundred and thirty. <sup>41</sup>These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah. <sup>42</sup>And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, after their families, according to their fathers` houses, ⁴³from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered into the labour, for service in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁴even those that were numbered of them according to their families, were three thousand two hundred. ⁴⁵These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses. ⁴⁶All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, after their families and according to their fathers` houses, ⁴⁷from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that came to serve [in] the work of the service, and [in] the work of carrying, in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁸even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, every one for his service, and for his burden, and numbered by him, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Chapter 5

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by a dead person: ³both male and female shall ye put out; outside the camp shall ye put them, that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. ⁴And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp: as Jehovah had said to Moses, so did the children of Israel. ⁵And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah, and that soul is guilty, ⁷then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall recompense his trespass according to the principal thereof, and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. ⁸And if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, the trespass which is recompensed to Jehovah shall be the priest`s, besides the ram of the atonement, wherewith an atonement is made for him. <sup>9</sup>And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his. <sup>10</sup>And every man`s hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth the priest shall be his. ¹¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man`s wife go astray, and commit unfaithfulness against him, <sup>13</sup>and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she be defiled in secret, and there be no witness against her, and she have not been caught; <sup>14</sup>and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have been defiled, -- or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have not been defiled, <sup>15</sup>-- then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an oblation of jealousy, a memorial oblation, bringing iniquity to remembrance. <sup>16</sup>And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah. <sup>17</sup>And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water. <sup>18</sup>And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman`s head, and put the memorial oblation in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse. ¹⁹And the priest shall adjure her, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray in uncleanness, in being with another instead of thy husband, be free from this bitter water that bringeth the curse. ²⁰But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband, and hast been defiled, and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee, ²¹-- then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman: Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink, and thy belly to swell; ²²and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels, to make the belly to swell, and the thigh to shrink. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. ²³And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water, ²⁴and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that bringeth the curse, that the water that bringeth the curse may enter into her for bitterness. ²⁵And the priest shall take out of the woman`s hand the oblation of jealousy, and shall wave the oblation before Jehovah, and shall present it at the altar. ²⁶And the priest shall take a handful of the oblation as a memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar; and afterwards he shall make the woman drink the water. ²⁷And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed unfaithfulness against her husband, that the water that bringeth the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall shrink; and the woman shall become a curse among her people. ²⁸But if the woman have not been defiled, and be clean, then she shall be clear, and shall conceive seed. ²⁹This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband and is defiled, ³⁰or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous as regards his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall do to her according to all this law. ³¹Then shall the man be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.

Chapter 6

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If a man or a woman have vowed the special vow of a Nazarite, to consecrate themselves to Jehovah; ³he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, nor vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat grapes, fresh or dried. ⁴All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine, from the seed-stones, even to the skin. ⁵All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, that he hath consecrated himself to Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. ⁶All the days that he hath consecrated himself to Jehovah, he shall come near no dead body. ⁷He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister when they die; for the consecration of his God is upon his head. ⁸All the days of his separation he is holy to Jehovah. ⁹And if any one die unexpectedly by him suddenly, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day shall he shave it. ¹⁰And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ¹¹And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead person; and he shall hallow his head that same day. ¹²And he shall [again] consecrate to Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a yearling lamb for a trespass-offering. But the first days are forfeited, for his consecration hath been defiled. ¹³And this is the law of the Nazarite on the day when the days of his consecration are fulfilled: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting. ¹⁴And he shall present his offering to Jehovah, one yearling he-lamb without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one yearling ewe-lamb without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace-offering; ¹⁵and a basket with unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their oblation, and their drink-offerings. ¹⁶And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering and his burnt-offering: ¹⁷and he shall offer the ram, a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also his oblation and his drink-offering. ¹⁸And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his consecration at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his consecration, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offering. ¹⁹And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after he hath shaven [the hair of] his consecration. ²⁰And the priest shall wave them as wave-offering before Jehovah; it is holy for the priest, with the breast of the wave-offering and with the shoulder of the heave-offering; and afterwards the Nazarite may drink wine. ²¹This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed: his offering to Jehovah for his consecration, beside what his hand is able to get; according to the vow which he vowed, so shall he do, according to the law of his consecration. ²²And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²³Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: saying unto them, ²⁴Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee; ²⁵Jehovah make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; ²⁶Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. ²⁷And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

Chapter 7

¹And it came to pass on the day that Moses had completed the setting up of the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and hallowed it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed them, and hallowed them, ²that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers` houses, the princes of the tribes, they that were over them that had been numbered, offered; ³and they brought their offering before Jehovah, six covered waggons, and twelve oxen; a waggon for two princes, and an ox for each; and they presented them before the tabernacle. ⁴And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁵Take it of them, and they shall be for the performance of the service of the tent of meeting, and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to each according to his service. ⁶And Moses took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. ⁷Two waggons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service; ⁸and four waggons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, -- under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. ⁹But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, for the service of the sanctuary was upon them: they bore [what they carried] upon the shoulder. ¹⁰And the princes presented the dedication-gift of the altar on the day that it was anointed; and the princes presented their offering before the altar. ¹¹And Jehovah said to Moses, They shall present their offering for the dedication of the altar, each prince on his day. ¹²And he that presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. ¹³And his offering was one silver dish of the weight of a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl, of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for an oblation; ¹⁴one cup of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense; ¹⁵one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering; ¹⁶one buck of the goats for a sin-offering; ¹⁷and for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five yearling lambs. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ¹⁸On the second day offered Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar;