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The Tanach or Jewish Bible
This is the text of the public domain 1917 Jewish Publication Societies' English
translation
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This book was obtained from the Internet Sacred Text Archive at http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm and is included here on this CD with their permission.
Note from the Sacred Text Archive: "The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible, the quintessential sacred text. The first five books of this comprise the Torah (or Pentateuch), the core sacred
writings of the ancient Jews, traditionally written by Moses under divine inspiration."
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Table of Contents:
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Psalms
Proverbs
Job
Song of Solomon
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiastes
Esther
Daniel
Ezra
Nehemiah
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
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Genesis
1:1 IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the
deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
1:3 And God said: 'Let there be light' And there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the
darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night And there was
evening and there was morning, one day.
1:6 And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters'.
1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven And there was evening and there was
morning, a second day.
1:9 And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one
place, and let the dry land appear' And it was so.
1:10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters
called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
1:11 And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and
fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the
earth' And it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and
tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw
that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
1:14 And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days
and years;
1:15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth' And it was so.
1:16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and
the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.
1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth,
1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
1:20 And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and
let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven'.
1:21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that
creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl
after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth'.
1:23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
1:24 And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind' And it
was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and
God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth'.
1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him;
male and female created He them.
1:28 And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth
upon the earth'.
1:29 And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;
1:30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given
every green herb for food' And it was so.
1:31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good And
there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
2:1 And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2:2 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He
rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He
rested from all His work which God in creating had made.
2:4 These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.
2:5 No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet
sprung up; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was not a man to till the ground;
2:6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground.
2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the
man whom He had formed.
2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was
parted, and became four heads.
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land
of Havilah, where there is gold;
2:12 and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth
the whole land of Cush.
2:14 And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward
the east of Asshur And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress
it and to keep it.
2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat;
2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
2:18 And the Lord God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will
make him a help meet for him.'
2:19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and
every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call
them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be
the name thereof.
2:20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.
2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept;
and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof.
2:22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, made He a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
2:23 And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat
of any tree of the garden?'
3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the
garden we may eat;
3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath
said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'
3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;
3:5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.'
3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she
took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with
her, and he did eat.
3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.
3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden toward the
cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of
the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
3:9 And the Lord God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'
3:10 And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I
was naked; and I hid myself.'
3:11 And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the
tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
3:12 And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of
the tree, and I did eat.'
3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman: 'What is this thou hast done?' And
the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.'
3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this,
cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and
her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.'
3:16 Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail;
in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband,
and he shall rule over thee.'
3:17 And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy
wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt
not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it
all the days of thy life.
3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat
the herb of the field.
3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return.'
3:20 And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all
living.
3:21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and
clothed them.
3:22 And the Lord God said: 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life, and eat, and live for ever.'
3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken.
3:24 So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden
the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to
the tree of life.
4:1 And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I
have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.'
4:2 And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but
Cain was a tiller of the ground.
4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of
the ground an offering unto the Lord.
4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering;
4:5 but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect. And Cain was very
wroth, and his countenance fell.
4:6 And the Lord said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen?
4:7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well,
sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over
it.'
4:8 And Cain spoke unto 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.
4:9 And the Lord said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said: 'I
know not; am I my brother's keeper?'
4:10 And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth
unto Me from the ground.
4:11 And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to
receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her
strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.'
4:13 And Cain said unto the Lord: 'My punishment is greater than I can bear.
4:14 Behold, Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the land; and
from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the
earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.'
4:15 And the Lord said unto him: 'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance
shall be taken on him sevenfold.' And the Lord set a sign for Cain, lest any
finding him should smite him.
4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of
Nod, on the east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a
city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot
Methushael; and Methushael begot Lamech.
4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives; the name of one was Adah, and the name
of the other Zillah.
4:20 And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have
cattle.
4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle
the harp and pipe.
4:22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting
instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of
Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a
young man for bruising me;
4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth:
'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'
4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name
Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made He him;
5:2 male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name
Adam, in the day when they were created.
5:3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own
likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
5:4 And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he
begot sons and daughters.
5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he
died.
5:6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
5:7 And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot
sons and daughters.
5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
5:9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.
5:10 And Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and
begot sons and daughters.
5:11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
5:12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.
5:13 And Kenan lived after he begot Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and
begot sons and daughters.
5:14 And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
5:15 And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared.
5:16 And Mahalalel lived after he begot Jared eight hundred and thirty years,
and begot sons and daughters.
5:17 And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and
he died.
5:18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begot Enoch.
5:19 And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons
and daughters.
5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he
died.
5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.
5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years,
and begot sons and daughters.
5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years.
5:24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.
5:25 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.
5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two
years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and
he died.
5:28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begot a son.
5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying: 'This same shall comfort us in our
work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the Lord
hath cursed.'
5:30 And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred ninety and five years,
and begot sons and daughters.
5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years; and
he died.
5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them,
6:2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
6:3 And the Lord said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he
also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'
6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the
sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them;
the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
6:5 And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6:6 And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved
Him at His heart.
6:7 And the Lord said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of
the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it
repenteth Me that I have made them.'
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man
righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.
6:10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.
6:12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted their way upon the earth.
6:13 And God said unto Noah: 'The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the
earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them
with the earth.
6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and
shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
6:15 And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred
cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
6:16 A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it
upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower,
second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
6:17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is
in the earth shall perish.
6:18 But I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the
ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring
into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
6:20 Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto
thee, to keep them alive.
6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee;
and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.'
6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
7:1 And the Lord said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for
thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.
7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, each with his
mate; and of the beasts that are not clean two and two, each with his mate;
7:3 of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female; to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out
from off the face of the earth.'
7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the
earth.
7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him,
into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of
every thing that creepeth upon the ground,
7:9 there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God
commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13 In the selfsame day entered 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;
7:14 they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind,
and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every
fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein
is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and
bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark
went upon the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high
mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were
covered.
7:21 And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle,
and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man;
7:22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was
in the dry land, died.
7:23 And He blotted out every living substance which was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and
they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only was left, and they that were
with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that
were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the
waters assuaged;
8:2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained.
8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of
a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth
month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of
the ark which he had made.
8:7 And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters
were dried up from off the earth.
8:8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off
the face of the ground.
8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto
him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put
forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.
8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of
the ark.
8:11 And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf
freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she
returned not again unto him any more.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month,
the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and
Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the
ground was dried.
8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was
the earth dry. 15 And God spoke unto Noah, saying:
8:16 'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'
wives with thee.
8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh,
both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth;
that they may swarm in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.'
8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with
him;
8:19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon
the earth, after their families; went forth out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and
of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in His heart: 'I
will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every
thing living, as I have done.
8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and
multiply, and replenish the earth.
9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the
earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground
teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.
9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb
have I given you all.
9:4 Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not
eat.
9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every
beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's
brother, will I require the life of man.
9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image
of God made He man.
9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply
therein.'
9:8 And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:
9:9 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed
after you;
9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and
every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every
beast of the earth.
9:11 And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut
off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood
to destroy the earth.'
9:12 And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me
and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
9:13 I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant
between Me and the earth.
9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow
is seen in the cloud,
9:15 that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every
living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh.
9:16 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 creature of all
flesh that is upon the earth.'
9:17 And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'
9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth
overspread.
9:20 And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard.
9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his
tent.
9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told
his two brethren without.
9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders,
and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces
were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto
him.
9:25 And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his
brethren.
9:26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their
servant.
9:27 God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let
Canaan be their servant.
9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth;
and unto them were sons born after the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5 Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one
after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
10:6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
10:7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and
Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
10:8 And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod
a mighty hunter before the Lord.'
10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and
Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir,
and Calah,
10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah--the same is the great city.
10:13 And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
10:14 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim--whence went forth the Philistines--and
Caphtorim.
10:15 And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;
10:16 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
10:17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;
10:18 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were
the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.
10:19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward
Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim,
unto Lasha.
10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in
their lands, in their nations.
10:21 And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother
of Japheth, to him also were children born.
10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
10:23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24 And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.
10:25 And unto 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.
10:26 And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah;
10:27 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah;
10:28 and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;
10:29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the
mountain of the east.
10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in
their lands, after their nations.
10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in
their nations; and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the
flood.
11:1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
11:3 And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
11:4 And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in
heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of
the whole earth.'
11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of
men builded.
11:6 And the Lord said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one
language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden
from them, which they purpose to do. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound
their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
11:8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth; and they left off to build the city.
11:9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there
confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
11:10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot
Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11:11 And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot
sons and daughters.
11:12 And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.
11:13 And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years,
and begot sons and daughters.
11:14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
11:15 And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and
begot sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.
11:17 And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and
begot sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
11:19 And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot
sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.
11:21 And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot
sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
11:23 And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and
daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.
11:25 And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and
begot sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and
Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
11:28 And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai;
and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of
Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
11:30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and
Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them
from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there.
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in
Haran.
12:1 Now the Lord said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.
12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy
name great; and be thou a blessing.
12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I
curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
12:4 So Abram went, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him; and
Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their
substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan
they came.
12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the
terebinth of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
12:7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this
land'; and he builded there an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
12:8 And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and
pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east; and he builded
there an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
12:10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to
sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he
said unto Sarai his wife: 'Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look
upon.
12:12 And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they
will say: This is his wife; and they will kill me, but thee they will keep
alive.
12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy
sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.'
12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians
beheld the woman that she was very fair.
12:15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the
woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
12:16 And he dealt well with Abram for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and
he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
12:17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of
Sarai Abram's wife.
12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said: 'What is this that thou hast done unto
me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
12:19 Why saidst thou: She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife; now
therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.'
12:20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him; and they brought him on the
way, and his wife, and all that he had.
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the South.
13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
13:3 And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place
where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai;
13:4 unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first; and
Abram called there on the name of the Lord.
13:5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for
their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the
herdmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the
land.
13:8 And Abram said unto Lot: 'Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me
and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.
13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me;
if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take
the right hand, then I will go to the left.'
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that
it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
13:11 So Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and
they separated themselves the one from the other.
13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the
Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the Lord exceedingly.
13:14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him: 'Lift
up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and
southward and eastward and westward;
13:15 for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed
for ever.
13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
for unto thee will I give it.'
13:18 And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre,
which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of
Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
14:2 that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of
Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of
Bela--the same is Zoar.
14:3 All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim--the same is the Salt Sea.
14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they
rebelled.
14:5 And 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-kiriathaim,
14:6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the
wilderness.
14:7 And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote
all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in
Hazazon-tamar.
14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the
king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela--the same is Zoar;
and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim;
14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel
king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
14:10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.
14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals,
and went their way.
14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his
goods, and departed.
14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew--now he
dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of
Aner; and these were confederate with Abram.
14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his
trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far
as Dan.
14:15 And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and
smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot,
and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the
slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of
Shaveh--the same is the King's Vale.
14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was
priest of God the Most High.
14:19 And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of
heaven and earth;
14:20 and blessed be God the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into
thy hand.' And he gave him a tenth of all.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram: 'Give me the persons, and take the
goods to thyself.'
14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom: 'I have lifted up my hand unto the
Lord, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,
14:23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine,
lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich;
14:24 save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men
which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion.'
15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision,
saying: 'Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, thy reward shall be exceeding great.'
15:2 And Abram said: 'O L-rd GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence
childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?'
15:3 And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born
in my house is to be mine heir.'
15:4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying: 'This man shall
not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be
thine heir.'
15:5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said: 'Look now toward heaven, and
count the stars, if thou be able to count them'; and He said unto him: 'So shall
thy seed be.'
15:6 And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.
15:7 And He said unto him: 'I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.'
15:8 And he said: 'O L-rd GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'
15:9 And He said unto 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.'
15:10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each
half over against the other; but the birds divided he not.
15:11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them
away.
15:12 And it came to pass, that, when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
upon Abram; and, lo, a dread, even a great darkness, fell upon him.
15:13 And He said unto Abram: 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall
afflict them four hundred years;
15:14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward
shall they come out with great substance.
15:15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good
old age.
15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity
of the Amorite is not yet full.'
15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick
darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between
these pieces.
15:18 In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'Unto thy seed
have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
Euphrates;
15:19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
15:20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
15:21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'
16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an
Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram: 'Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from
bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded
up through her.' And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram
had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to
be his wife.
16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had
conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram: 'My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into
thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes:
the Lord judge between me and thee.'
16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai: 'Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that
which is good in thine eyes.' And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled
from her face.
16:7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
16:8 And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither
goest thou?' And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.'
16:9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and
submit thyself under her hands.'
16:10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy
seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
16:11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her: 'Behold, thou art with child, and
shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath
heard thy affliction.
16:12 And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man,
and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his
brethren.'
16:13 And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her, Thou art a God of
seeing; for she said: 'Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me?'
16:14 Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between
Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom
Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to
Abram.
17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram,
and said unto him: 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted.
17:2 And I will make My covenant between Me and thee, and will multiply thee
exceedingly.'
17:3 And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying:
17:4 'As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father
of a multitude of nations.
17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.
17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee,
and kings shall come out of thee.
17:7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after
thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto
thee and to thy seed after thee.
17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy
sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will
be their God.'
17:9 And God said unto Abraham: 'And as for thee, thou shalt keep My covenant,
thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.
17:10 This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed
after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.
17:11 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be
a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you.
17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male
throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money
of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed.
17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must
needs be circumcised; and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant.
17:14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My
covenant.'
17:15 And God said unto Abraham: 'As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
17:16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I
will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be
of her.'
17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart:
'Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah,
that is ninety years old, bear?'
17:18 And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'
17:19 And God said: ''Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall 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.
17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; behold, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall
he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
17:21 But My covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto
thee at this set time in the next year.'
17:22 And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and
all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's
house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God
had said unto him.
17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
17:25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
17:27 And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought
with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
18:1 And the Lord appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the
tent door in the heat of the day;
18:2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against
him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed
down to the earth,
18:3 and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away,
I pray thee, from thy servant.
18:4 Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline
yourselves under the tree.
18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye
shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do,
as thou hast said.'
18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready
quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'
18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave
it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it.
18:8 And he took curd, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it
before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
18:9 And they said unto him: 'Where is Sarah thy wife?' And he said: 'Behold, in
the tent.'
18:10 And He said: 'I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh
round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.' And Sarah heard in the tent
door, which was behind him.--
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to
be with Sarah after the manner of women.--
18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I
have pleasure, my lord being old also?'
18:13 And the Lord said unto Abraham: 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying: Shall
I of a surety bear a child, who am old?
18:14 Is any thing too hard for the Lord. At the set time I will return unto
thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'
18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying: 'I laughed not'; for she was afraid. And He
said: 'Nay; but thou didst laugh.'
18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked out toward Sodom; and Abraham
went with them to bring them on the way.
18:17 And the Lord said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing;
18:18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all
the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his
household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness
and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath
spoken of him.'
18:20 And the Lord said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and,
verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.
18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to
the cry of it, which is come unto Me; and if not, I will know.'
18:22 And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood
yet before the Lord.
18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said: 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the
righteous with the wicked?
18:24 Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed
sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
18:25 That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with
the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from
Thee; shall not the judge of all the earth do justly?'
18:26 And the Lord said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,
then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'
18:27 And Abraham answered and said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak
unto the L-rd, who am but dust and ashes.
18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou
destroy all the city for lack of five?' And He said: 'I will not destroy it, if
I find there forty and five.'
18:29 And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be
forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.'
18:30 And he said: 'Oh, let not the L-rd be angry, and I will speak.
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it,
if I find thirty there.'
18:31 And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the L-rd.
Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not
destroy it for the twenty's sake.'
18:32 And he said: 'Oh, let not the L-rd be angry, and I will speak yet but this
once. Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy
it for the ten's sake.'
18:33 And the Lord went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to Abraham;
and Abraham returned unto his place.
19:1 And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom;
and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he fell down on his face to the
earth;
19:2 and he said: 'Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your
servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up
early, and go on your way.' And they said: 'Nay; but we will abide in the broad
place all night.'
19:3 And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into
his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did
eat.
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom,
compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every
quarter.
19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him: 'Where are the men that came
in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.'
19:6 And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.
19:7 And he said: 'I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray
you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only
unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my
roof.'
19:9 And they said: 'Stand back.' And they said: 'This one fellow came in to
sojourn, and he will needs play the judge; now will we deal worse with thee,
than with them.' And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to
break the door.
19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them,
and the door they shut.
19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness,
both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
19:12 And the men said unto Lot: 'Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and
thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city; bring them
out of the place;
19:13 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great
before the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.'
19:14 And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his
daughters, and said: 'Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy
the city.' But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested.
19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying: 'Arise,
take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here; lest thou be swept away in
the iniquity of the city.'
19:16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of
his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto
him. And they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he
said: 'Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the
Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be swept away.'
19:18 And Lot said unto them: 'Oh, not so, my lord;
19:19 behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast
magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life; and I
cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.
19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one; oh,
let me escape thither--is it not a little one? --and my soul shall live.'
19:21 And he said unto him: 'See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing
also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.
19:22 Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come
thither.' --Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.--
19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.
19:24 Then the Lord caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and
fire from the Lord out of heaven;
19:25 and He overthrow those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants
of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood
before the Lord.
19:28 And he looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of
the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a
furnace.
19:29 And 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.
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two
daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he
and his two daughters.
19:31 And the first-born said unto the younger: 'Our father is old, and there is
not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.
19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we
may preserve seed of our father.'
19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went
in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she
arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the
younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine
this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of
our father.'
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger
arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
19:37 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab--the same is the
father of the Moabites unto this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi--the
same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt
between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: 'She is my sister.' And Abimelech king
of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him:
'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a
man's wife.'
20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: 'L-rd, wilt Thou slay
even a righteous nation?
20:5 Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself
said: He is my brother. In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my
hands have I done this.'
20:6 And God said unto him in the dream: 'Yea, I know that in the simplicity of
thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against Me.
Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
20:7 Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall
pray for thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not, know thou that
thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.'
20:8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and
told all these things in their ears; and the men were sore afraid.
20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him: 'What hast thou done unto
us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on
my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.'
20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done
this thing?'
20:11 And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in
this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
20:12 And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not
the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.
20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house,
that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at
every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.'
20:14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants,
and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
20:15 And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it
pleaseth thee.'
20:16 And unto Sarah he said: 'Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand
pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are
with thee; and before all men thou art righted.'
20:17 And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and
his maid-servants; and they bore children.
20:18 For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech,
because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
21:1 And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah
as He had spoken.
21:2 And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time
of which God had spoken to him.
21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah
bore to him, Isaac.
21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God
had commanded him.
21:5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
21:6 And Sarah said: 'God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will
laugh on account of me.'
21:7 And she said: 'Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give
children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.'
21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the
day that Isaac was weaned.
21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto
Abraham, making sport.
21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for
the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.'
21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
21:12 And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of
the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.
21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is
thy seed.'
21:14 And Abraham arose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of
water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and
sent her away; and she departed, and strayed in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
21:15 And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of
the shrubs.
21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were
a bow-shot; for she said: 'Let me not look upon the death of the child.' And she
sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar
out of heaven, and said unto her: 'What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God
hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast by thy hand; for I will make him
a great nation.'
21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
21:20 And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and
became an archer.
21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife
out of the land of Egypt.
21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of
his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: 'God is with thee in all that thou doest.
21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely
with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son; but according to the kindness
that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou
hast sojourned.'
21:24 And Abraham said: 'I will swear.'
21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which
Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
21:26 And Abimelech said: 'I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst
thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.'
21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they
two made a covenant.
21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which
thou hast set by themselves?'
21:30 And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand,
that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'
21:31 Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both
of them.
21:32 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol
the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
21:33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the
name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and
said unto him: 'Abraham'; and he said: 'Here am I.'
22:2 And He said: 'Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even
Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a
burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.'
22:3 And 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 cleaved the wood for the
burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men: 'Abide ye here with the ass, and I and
the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back to you.'
22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his
son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them
together.
22:7 And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And he
said: 'Here am I, my son.' And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where
is the lamb for a burnt-offering?'
22:8 And Abraham said: 'God will provide Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering,
my son.' So they went both of them together.
22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him
on the altar, upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
22:11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said:
'Abraham, Abraham.' And he said: 'Here am I.'
22:12 And he said: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing
unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.'
22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram
caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and
offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-jireh; as it is said to
this day: 'In the mount where the Lord is seen.'
22:15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven,
22:16 and said: 'By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,
22:17 that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and
thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
22:18 and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because
thou hast hearkened to My voice.'
22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together
to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying:
'Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:
22:21 Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram;
22:22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.'
22:23 And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's
brother.
22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham,
and Tahash, and Maacah.
23:1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were
the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan;
and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
23:3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of
Heth, saying:
23:4 'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a
burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'
23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:
23:6 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our
sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but
that thou mayest bury thy dead.'
23:7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the
children of Heth.
23:8 And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my
dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the
end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you
for a possession of a burying-place.'
23:10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron
the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all
that went in at the gate of his city, saying:
23:11 'Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is
therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it
thee; bury thy dead.'
23:12 And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
23:13 And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying:
'But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field;
take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.'
23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him:
23:15 'My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of
silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.'
23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred
shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
23:17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre,
the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the
field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure
23:18 unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth,
before all that went in at the gate of his city.
23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of
Machpelah before Mamre--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan.
23:20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham
for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.
24:1 And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham
in all things.
24:2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over
all that he had: 'Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh.
24:3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of
the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for
my son, even for Isaac.'
24:5 And the servant said unto him: 'Peradventure the woman will not be willing
to follow me unto this land; must I needs bring thy son back unto the land from
whence thou camest?'
24:6 And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back
thither.
24:7 the Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from
the land of my nativity, and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying:
Unto thy seed will I give this land; He will send His angel before thee, and
thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.
24:8 And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear
from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.'
24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and
swore to him concerning this matter.
24:10 And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and
departed; having all goodly things of his master's in his hand; and he arose,
and went to Aram-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor.
24:11 And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water
at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
24:12 And he said: 'O the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray
Thee, good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.
24:13 Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of
the city come out to draw water.
24:14 So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down thy
pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will
give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy
servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown kindness
unto my master.'
24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah
came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor,
Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man
known her; and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came
up.
24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drink, I pray thee,
a little water of thy pitcher.'
24:18 And she said: 'Drink, my lord'; and she hastened, and let down her pitcher
upon her hand, and gave him drink.
24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said: 'I will draw for thy
camels also, until they have done drinking.'
24:20 And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again
unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
24:21 And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether
the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a
golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten
shekels weight of gold;
24:23 and said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in
thy father's house for us to lodge in?'
24:24 And she said unto him: 'I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah,
whom she bore unto Nahor.'
24:25 She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and
room to lodge in.'
24:26 And the man bowed his head, and prostrated himself before the Lord.
24:27 And he said: 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who hath
not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord hath
led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.'
24:28 And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.
24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out unto
the man, unto the fountain.
24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his
sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying: 'Thus
spoke the man unto me,' that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the
camels at the fountain.
24:31 And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou
without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.'
24:32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and he gave
straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of
the men that were with him.
24:33 And there was set food before him to eat; but he said: 'I will not eat,
until I have told mine errand.' And he said: 'Speak on.'
24:34 And he said: 'I am Abraham's servant.
24:35 And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great; and
He hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and
maid-servants, and camels and asses.
24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old; and
unto him hath he given all that he hath.
24:37 And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son
of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.
24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a
wife for my son.
24:39 And I said unto my master: Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
24:40 And he said unto me: the Lord, before whom I walk, will send His angel
with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my
kindred, and of my father's house;
24:41 then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and
if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
24:42 And I came this day unto the fountain, and said: O the Lord, the God of my
master Abraham, if now Thou do prosper my way which I go:
24:43 behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that
the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee,
a little water from thy pitcher to drink;
24:44 and she shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
camels; let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed for my master's
son.
24:45 And before I had done speaking to my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth
with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew.
And I said unto her: Let me drink, I pray thee.
24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said:
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the
camels drink also.
24:47 And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she said: The
daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore unto him. And I put the ring
upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.
24:48 And I bowed my head, and prostrated myself before the Lord, and blessed
the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take
my master's brother's daughter for his son.
24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if
not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.'
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said: 'The thing proceedeth from the
Lord; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy
master's son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken.'
24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he
bowed himself down to the earth unto the Lord.
24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he gave also to her brother and to her mother
precious things.
24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried
all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said: 'Send me away unto my
master.'
24:55 And her brother and her mother said: 'Let the damsel abide with us a few
days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.'
24:56 And he said unto them: 'Delay me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my
way; send me away that I may go to my master.'
24:57 And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.'
24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Wilt thou go with this man?'
And she said: 'I will go.'
24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's
servant, and his men.
24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the
mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those
that hate them.'
24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and
followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
24:62 And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of
the South.
24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted
up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from
the camel.
24:65 And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field
to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and
covered herself.
24:66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and
she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted for his mother.
25:1 And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
25:2 And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak,
and Shuah.
25:3 And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim,
and Letushim, and Leummim.
25:4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and
Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts;
and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the
east country.
25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a
hundred threescore and fifteen years.
25:8 And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of
years; and was gathered to his people.
25:9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the
field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
25:10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there was
Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his
son; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.
25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the
Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.
25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according
to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam,
25:14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa;
25:15 Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem;
25:16 these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their
villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.
25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and
seven years; and he expired and died; and was gathered unto his people.
25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest
toward Asshur: over against all his brethren he did settle.
25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot
Isaac.
25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of
Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his
wife.
25:21 And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the
Lord let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be
so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the Lord.
25:23 And the Lord said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples
shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than
the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins
in her womb.
25:25 And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they
called his name Esau.
25:26 And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's
heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was threescore years old when she
bore them.
25:27 And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and
Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison; and Rebekah loved
Jacob.
25:29 And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red,
red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said: 'Sell me first thy birth right.'
25:32 And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall
the birthright do to me?'
25:33 And Jacob said: 'Swear to me first'; and he swore unto him; and he sold
his birthright unto Jacob.
25:34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and
drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the
days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto
Gerar.
26:2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said: 'Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in
the land which I shall tell thee of.
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for
unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish
the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;
26:4 and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy
seed all these lands; and by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless
themselves;
26:5 because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My
commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'
26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: 'She is my
sister'; for he feared to say: 'My wife'; 'lest the men of the place should kill
me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.'
26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech
king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was
sporting with Rebekah his wife.
26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: 'Behold, of a surety she is thy wife;
and how saidst thou: She is my sister?' And Isaac said unto him: 'Because I
said: Lest I die because of her.'
26:10 And Abimelech said: 'What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the
people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought
guiltiness upon us.'
26:11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man
or his wife shall surely be put to death.'
26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundred-fold;
and the Lord blessed him.
26:13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very
great.
26:14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great
household; and the Philistines envied him.
26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of
Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with
earth.
26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier
than we.'
26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt
there.
26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the
days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death
of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had
called them.
26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
living water.
26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water
is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with
him.
26:21 And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called
the name of it Sitnah.
26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they
strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said: 'For now the
Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.'
26:23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
26:24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said: 'I am the God of
Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and
multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham's sake.'
26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and
pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol
the captain of his host.
26:27 And Isaac said unto them: 'Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate
me, and have sent me away from you?'
26:28 And they said: 'We saw plainly that the Lord was with thee; and we said:
Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a
covenant with thee;
26:29 that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have
done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace; thou art now
the blessed of the Lord.'
26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another; and
Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him
concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him: 'We have found
water.'
26:33 And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto
this day.
26:34 And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of
Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
26:35 And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him: 'My
son'; and he said unto him: 'Here am I.'
27:2 And he said: 'Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.
27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and
go out to the field, and take me venison;
27:4 and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may
eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.'
27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the
field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
27:6 And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying: 'Behold, I heard thy father
speak unto Esau thy brother, saying:
27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee
before the Lord before my death.
27:8 Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice according to that which I
command thee.
27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats;
and I will make them savoury food for thy father, such as he loveth;
27:10 and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may
bless thee before his death.'
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy
man, and I am a smooth man.
27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a mocker;
and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.'
27:13 And his mother said unto him: 'Upon me be thy curse, my son; only hearken
to my voice, and go fetch me them.'
27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother; and his mother
made savoury food, such as his father loved.
27:15 And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which were
with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.
27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon
the smooth of his neck.
27:17 And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into
the hand of her son Jacob.
27:18 And he came unto his father, and said: 'My father'; and he said: 'Here am
I; who art thou, my son?'
27:19 And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done
according as thou badest me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that
thy soul may bless me.'
27:20 And Isaac said unto his son: 'How is it that thou hast found it so
quickly, my son?' And he said: 'Because the Lord thy God sent me good speed.'
27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob: 'Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee,
my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.'
27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said: 'The
voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'
27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother
Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
27:24 And he said: 'Art thou my very son Esau?' And he said: 'I am.'
27:25 And he said: 'Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison,
that my soul may bless thee.' And he brought it near to him, and he did eat; and
he brought him wine, and he drank.
27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him: 'Come near now, and kiss me, my son.'
27:27 And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment,
and blessed him, and said: See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field
which the Lord hath blessed.
27:28 So God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fat places of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine.
27:29 Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. Be lord over thy
brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be every one that
curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee.
27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob,
and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that
Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
27:31 And he also made savoury food, and brought it unto his father; and he said
unto his father: 'Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy
soul may bless me.'
27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him: 'Who art thou?' And he said: 'I am thy
son, thy first-born, Esau.'
27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said: 'Who then is he that hath
taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest,
and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.'
27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great
and bitter cry, and said unto his father: 'Bless me, even me also, O my father.'
27:35 And he said: 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy
blessing.'
27:36 And he said: 'Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me
these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away
my blessing.' And he said: 'Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?'
27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: 'Behold, I have made him thy lord,
and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine
have I sustained him; and what then shall I do for thee, my son?'
27:38 And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my father?
bless me, even me also, O my father.' And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him: Behold, of the fat places
of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above;
27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; and it
shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose, that thou shalt shake his yoke
from off thy neck.
27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed
him. And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at
hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'
27:42 And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and
called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him: 'Behold, thy brother Esau, as
touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
27:43 Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban
my brother to Haran;
27:44 and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
27:45 until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which
thou hast done to him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence; why should
I be bereaved of you both in one day?'
27:46 And Rebekah 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 shall my life do me?'
28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto
him: 'Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
28:2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and
take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee,
that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples;
28:4 and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee;
that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto
Abraham.'
28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of
Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
28:6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram,
to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
saying: 'Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan';
28:7 and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to
Paddan-aram;
28:8 and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
28:9 so Esau went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives that he had Mahalath the
daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
28:11 And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the
sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his
head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
28:13 And, behold, the Lord stood beside him, and said: 'I am the Lord, the God
of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
28:14 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.
28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest,
and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have
done that which I have spoken to thee of.'
28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the Lord is in
this place; and I knew it not.'
28:17 And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is none
other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'
28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put
under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
28:19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el, but the name of the city was
Luz at the first.
28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying: 'If God will be with me, and will keep me
in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
28:21 so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be
my God,
28:22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house;
and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.'
29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the
east.
29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of
sheep lying there by it. --For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the
stone upon the well's mouth was great.
29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered; and they rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back upon the well's
mouth in its place.--
29:4 And Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence are ye?' And they said: 'Of
Haran are we.'
29:5 And he said unto them: 'Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?' And they said: 'We
know him.'
29:6 And he said unto them: 'Is it well with him?' And they said: 'It is well;
and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.'
29:7 And he said: 'Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle
should be gathered together; water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.'
29:8 And they said: 'We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and
they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.'
29:9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep;
for she tended them.
29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his
mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went
near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban
his mother's brother.
29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was
Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.
29:13 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.
29:14 And Laban said to him: 'Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.' And he
abode with him the space of a month.
29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou
therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?'
29:16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name
of the younger was Rachel.
29:17 And Leah's eyes were weak; but Rachel was of beautiful form and fair to
look upon.
29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said: 'I will serve thee seven years for
Rachel thy younger daughter.'
29:19 And Laban said: 'It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should
give her to another man; abide with me.'
29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a
few days, for the love he had to her.
29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban: 'Give me my wife, for my days are filled, that
I may go in unto her.'
29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and
brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
29:24 And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
29:25 And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah; and he said
to Laban: 'What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for
Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?'
29:26 And Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger
before the first-born.
29:27 Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.'
29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week; and he gave him Rachel his
daughter to wife.
29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her
handmaid.
29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and
served with him yet seven other years.
29:31 And the Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel
was barren.
29:32 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for
she said: 'Because the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband
will love me.'
29:33 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Because the Lord hath
heard that I am hated, He hath therefore given me this son also.' And she called
his name Simeon.
29:34 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Now this time will my
husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons.' Therefore was
his name called Levi.
29:35 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she said: 'This time will I
praise the Lord.' Therefore she called his name Judah; and she left off bearing.
30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister; and she said unto Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die.'
30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said: 'Am I in God's
stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'
30:3 And she said: 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear
upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.'
30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jacob went in unto her.
30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
30:6 And Rachel said: 'God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and
hath given me a son.' Therefore called she his name Dan.
30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
30:8 And Rachel said: 'With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,
and have prevailed.' And she called his name Naphtali.
30:9 When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid,
and gave her to Jacob to wife.
30:10 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.
30:11 And Leah said: 'Fortune is come!' And she called his name Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.
30:13 And Leah said: 'Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy.' And she
called his name Asher.
30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the
field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give
me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.'
30:15 And she said unto her: 'Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my
husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?' And Rachel said:
'Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.'
30:16 And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet
him, and said: 'Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my
son's mandrakes.' And he lay with her that night.
30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth
son.
30:18 And Leah said: 'God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to
my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
30:20 And Leah said: 'God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband
dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.' And she called his name
Zebulun.
30:21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said: 'God hath taken away my
reproach.'
30:24 And she called his name Joseph, saying: 'The the Lord add to me another
son.'
30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto
Laban: 'Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
30:26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me
go; for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.'
30:27 And Laban said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes--I have
observed the signs, and the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.'
30:28 And he said: 'Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.'
30:29 And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy
cattle have fared with me.
30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased
abundantly; and the Lord hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. And now when
shall I provide for mine own house also?'
30:31 And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not
give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock
and keep it.
30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every
speckled and spotted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted
and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire.
30:33 So shall my righteousness witness against me hereafter, when thou shalt
come to look over my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled
and spotted among the goats, and dark among the sheep, that if found with me
shall be counted stolen.'
30:34 And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.'
30:35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and
all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in
it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his
sons.
30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed
the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37 And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the
plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was
in the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the
gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they
conceived when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought
forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob separated the lambs--he also set the faces of the flocks toward
the streaked and all the dark in the flock of Laban-- and put his own droves
apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.
30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they
might conceive among the rods;
30:42 but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were
Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants
and men-servants, and camels and asses.
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying: 'Jacob hath taken away all
that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all
this wealth.'
31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward
him as beforetime.
31:3 And the Lord said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to
thy kindred; and I will be with thee.'
31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
31:5 and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward
me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.
31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
31:7 And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God
suffered him not to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore
speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all
the flock streaked.
31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up
mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the
flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
31:11 And the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am
I.
31:12 And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap
upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that
Laban doeth unto thee.
31:13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou
didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto
the land of thy nativity.'
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: 'Is there yet any portion
or inheritance for us in our father's house?
31:15 Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also
quite devoured our price.
31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours
and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' .
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;
31:18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had
gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go
to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.
31:19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that
were her father's.
31:20 And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he
fled.
31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the
River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days'
journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
31:24 And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto
him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.' .
31:25 And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the
mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted
me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword?
31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me,
that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with
harp;
31:28 and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou
done foolishly.
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father
spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to
Jacob either good or bad.
31:30 And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy
father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?'
31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said:
Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.
31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our
brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.' --For Jacob
knew not that Rachel had stolen them.--
31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent
of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent,
and entered into Rachel's tent.
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the
camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
31:35 And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise
up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found
not the teraphim. .
31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to
Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after
me?
31:37 Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy
household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may
judge betwixt us two.
31:38 These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have
not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.
31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of
it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
31:40 Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night;
and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
31:41 These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years
for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my
wages ten times.
31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac,
had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen
mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.' .
31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: 'The daughters are my daughters,
and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that
thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for
their children whom they have borne?
31:44 And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a
witness between me and thee.'
31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones,
and made a heap. And they did eat there by the heap.
31:47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.
31:48 And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.'
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
31:49 and Mizpah, for he said: 'The the Lord watch between me and thee, when we
are absent one from another.
31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my
daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.'
31:51 And Laban said to Jacob: 'Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I
have set up betwixt me and thee.
31:52 This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over
this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar
unto me, for harm.
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge
betwixt us.' And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
31:54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to
eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.
32:1 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his
daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
32:2 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
32:3 And Jacob said when he saw them: 'This is God's camp.' And he called the
name of that place Mahanaim.
32:4 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of
Seir, the field of Edom.
32:5 And he commanded them, saying: 'Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus
saith thy servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.
32:6 And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants;
and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.'
32:7 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau,
and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.'
32:8 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people
that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two
camps.
32:9 And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp
which is left shall escape.'
32:10 And Jacob said: 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O
the Lord, who saidst unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I
will do thee good;
32:11 I am not worthy of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast
shown unto Thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I
am become two camps.
32:12 Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of
Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
32:13 And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand
of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'
32:14 And he lodged there that night; and took of that which he had with him a
present for Esau his brother:
32:15 two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty
rams,
32:16 thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty
she-asses and ten foals.
32:17 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by
itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space
betwixt drove and drove.'
32:18 And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee,
and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are
these before thee?
32:19 then thou shalt say: They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent
unto my lord, even unto Esau; and, behold, he also is behind us.'
32:20 And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him;
32:21 and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.' For
he said: 'I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and
afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.'
32:22 So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in
the camp.
32:23 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids,
and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
32:24 And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which
he had.
32:25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the
breaking of the day.
32:26 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow
of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with
him.
32:27 And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me.'
32:28 And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And be said: 'Jacob.'
32:29 And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou
hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'
32:30 And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he
said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him
there.
32:31 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: 'for I have seen God face
to face, and my life is preserved.'
32:32 And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his
thigh.
32:33 Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which
is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of
Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein.
33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with
him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel,
and unto the two handmaids.
33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
33:3 And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and
kissed him; and they wept. .
33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said:
'Who are these with thee?' And he said: 'The children whom God hath graciously
given thy servant.'
33:6 Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed down.
33:7 And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed down; and after came
Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed down.
33:8 And he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met?' And he said:
'To find favour in the sight of my lord.'
33:9 And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be
thine.'
33:10 And Jacob said: 'Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favour in thy
sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as
one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
33:11 Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt
graciously with me, and because I have enough.' And he urged him, and he took
it.
33:12 And he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before
thee.'
33:13 And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and
that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive
them one day, all the flocks will die.
33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will journey
on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according
to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.'
33:15 And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with
me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.'
.
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for
his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
33:18 And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of
Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
33:19 And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the
hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne unto Jacob, went out to
see the daughters of the land.
34:2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her;
and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
34:3 And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the
damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.
34:4 And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to
wife.'
34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were
with his cattle in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came.
34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to speak with him.
34:7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the
men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed
in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
34:8 And Hamor spoke with them, saying 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for
your daughter. I pray you give her unto him to wife.
34:9 And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our
daughters unto you.
34:10 And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and
trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.'
34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren: 'Let me find
favour in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall
say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.'
34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile,
and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
34:14 and said unto them: 'We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one
that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.
34:15 Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are,
that every male of you be circumcised;
34:16 then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters
to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take
our daughter, and we will be gone.'
34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in
Jacob's daughter. And he was honoured above all the house of his father.
34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and spoke
with the men of their city, saying:
34:21 'These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land,
and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take
their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
34:22 Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to
become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are
circumcised.
34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours?
only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.'
34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the
gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate
of his city.
34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of
the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword,
and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.
34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and
took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth.
34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they
had defiled their sister.
34:28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was
in the city and that which was in the field;
34:29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they
captive and spoiled, even all that was in the house.
34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious
unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites;
and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and
smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.'
34:31 And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'
35:1 And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and
make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from
the face of Esau thy brother.'
35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put
away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your
garments;
35:3 and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto
God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which
I went.'
35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and
the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which
was by Shechem.
35:5 And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round
about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. .
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan--the same is
Beth-el--he and all the people that were with him.
35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el, because there
God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
35:8 And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under
the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and
blessed him.
35:10 And God said unto him: 'Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called
any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name'; and He called his name Israel.
35:11 And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a
nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of
thy loins;
35:12 and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it,
and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.'
35:13 And God went up from him in the place where He spoke with him.
35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He spoke with him, a pillar
of stone, and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon.
35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.
.
35:16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to
Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said
unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'
35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing--for she died--that she
called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath--the same is
Beth-lehem.
35:20 And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day.
35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.
35:22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and
lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of
Jacob were twelve:
35:23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;
35:24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
35:25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;
35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons
of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriatharba--the same is
Hebron--where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
35:28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.
35:29 And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and
full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau--the same is Edom.
36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon
the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the
Hivite,
36:3 and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
36:4 And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel;
36:5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of
Esau, that were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
36:6 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, which
he had gathered in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his
brother Jacob.
36:7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land
of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
36:8 And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir--Esau is Edom.
36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of a the Edomites in the
mountain-land of Seir.
36:10 These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of
Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz
Amalek. These are the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife.
36:14 And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter
of Zibeon, Esau's wife; and she bore to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
36:15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
first-born of Esau: the chief of Teman, the chief of Omar, the chief of Zepho,
the chief of Kenaz,
36:16 the chief of Korah, the chief of Gatam, the chief of Amalek. These are the
chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.
36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the chief
of Zerah, the chief of Shammah, the chief of Mizzah. These are the chiefs that
came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath Esau's wife.
36:18 And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau's wife: the chief of Jeush, the
chief of Jalam, the chief of Korah. These are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah
the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
36:19 These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs; the same is Edom.
36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan
and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,
36:21 and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These are the chiefs that came of the
Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was
Timna.
36:23 And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho
and Onam.
36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah--this is Anah who
found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his
father.
36:25 And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of
Anah.
36:26 And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and
Cheran.
36:27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan.
36:28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
36:29 These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: the chief of Lotan, the
chief of Shobal, the chief of Zibeon, the chief of Anah,
36:30 the chief of Dishon, the chief of Ezer, the chief of Dishan. These are the
chiefs that came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there
reigned any king over the children of Israel.
36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was
Dinhabah.
36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his
stead.
36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field
of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.
36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
36:37 And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.
36:38 And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
36:39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and
the name of the city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
36:40 And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to
their families, after their places, by their names: the chief of Timna, the
chief of Alvah, the chief of Jetheth;
36:41 the chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon;
36:42 the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;
36:43 the chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom,
according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau the
father of the Edomites.
37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of
Canaan.
37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was
feeding the flock with his brethren, being still a lad even with the sons of
Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought evil
report of them unto their father.
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son
of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.
37:4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his
brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. .
37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren; and they hated
him yet the more.
37:6 And he said unto them: 'Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
37:7 for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose,
and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and bowed
down to my sheaf.'
37:8 And his brethren said to him: 'Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt
thou indeed have dominion over us?' And they hated him yet the more for his
dreams, and for his words.
37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said:
'Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and
eleven stars bowed down to me.'
37:10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked
him, and said unto him: 'What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and
thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to thee to the earth?'
37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind. .
37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Do not thy brethren feed the flock in
Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them.' And he said to him: 'Here am I.'
37:14 And he said to him: 'Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and
well with the flock; and bring me back word.' So he sent him out of the vale of
Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.
And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'
37:16 And he said: 'I seek my brethren. Tell me, I pray thee, where they are
feeding the flock.'
37:17 And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us
go to Dothan.' And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
37:18 And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they
conspired against him to slay him.
37:19 And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh.
37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the
pits, and we will say: An evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what
will become of his dreams.'
37:21 And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let
us not take his life.'
37:22 And Reuben said unto them: 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is
in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him' --that he might deliver him out of
their hand, to restore him to his father. .
37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they
stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colours that was on him;
37:24 and they took him, and cast him into the pit--and the pit was empty, there
was no water in it.
37:25 And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked,
and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels
bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.
37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren: 'What profit is it if we slay our
brother and conceal his blood?
37:27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon
him; for he is our brother, our flesh.' And his brethren hearkened unto him.
37:28 And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up
Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of
silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.
37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit;
and he rent his clothes.
37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said: 'The child is not; and as for
me, whither shall I go?' .
37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in
the blood;
37:32 and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their
father; and said: 'This have we found. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or
not.'
37:33 And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath
devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'
37:34 And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned
for his son many days.
37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he
refused to be comforted; and he said: 'Nay, but I will go down to the grave to
my son mourning.' And his father wept for him.
37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren,
and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua;
and he took her, and went in unto her.
38:3 And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er.
38:4 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan.
38:5 And she yet again bore a son, and called his name Shelah; and he was at
Chezib, when she bore him.
38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
38:7 And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the
Lord slew him.
38:8 And Judah said unto Onan: 'Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the
duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.'
38:9 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass when he
went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he
should give seed to his brother.
38:10 And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of the Lord; and He slew
him also.
38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law: 'Remain a widow in thy
father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up'; for he said: 'Lest he also die,
like his brethren.' And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
38:12 And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah
was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend
Hirah the Adullamite.
38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to
Timnah to shear his sheep.'
38:14 And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered
herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the entrance of Enaim,
which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was
not given unto him to wife.
38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her
face.
38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said: 'Come, I pray thee, let me
come in unto thee'; for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. And she
said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'
38:17 And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she
said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?'
38:18 And he said: 'What pledge shall I give thee?' And she said: 'Thy signet
and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand.' And he gave them to her, and
came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
38:19 And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on
the garments of her widowhood.
38:20 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.
38:21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying: 'Where is the harlot, that was
at Enaim by the wayside?' And they said: 'There hath been no harlot here.'
38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said: 'I have not found her; and also the
men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.'
38:23 And Judah said: 'Let her take it, lest we be put to shame; behold, I sent
this kid, and thou hast not found her.'
38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah,
saying: 'Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold,
she is with child by harlotry.' And Judah said: 'Bring her forth, and let her be
burnt.'
38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying: 'By the
man, whose these are, am I with child'; and she said: 'Discern, I pray thee,
whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff.'
38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said: 'She is more righteous than I;
forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son.' And he knew her again no more.
38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were
in her womb.
38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand; and the
midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying: 'This came out
first.'
38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother
came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?'
Therefore his name was called Perez.
38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his
hand; and his name was called Zerah.
39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the
Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither.
39:2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in
the house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all
that he did to prosper in his hand.
39:4 And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he
appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he appointed him overseer in his
house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for
Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in the
house and in the field.
39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and, having him, he knew not
aught save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was of beautiful form, and
fair to look upon. .
39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her
eyes upon Joseph; and she said: 'Lie with me.'
39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife: 'Behold, my master, having
me, knoweth not what is in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my
hand;
39:9 he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing
from me but thee, because thou art his wife. How then can I do this great
wickedness, and sin against God?'
39:10 And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened
not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
39:11 And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to do
his work, and there was none of the men of the house there within,
39:12 that she caught him by his garment, saying: 'Lie with me.' And he left his
garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. .
39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her
hand, and was fled forth,
39:14 that she called unto the men of her house, and spoke unto them, saying:
'See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie
with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
39:15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him out.'
39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
39:17 And she spoke unto him according to these words, saying: 'The Hebrew
servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me.
39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his
garment by me, and fled out.' .
39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which
she spoke unto him, saying: 'After this manner did thy servant to me'; that his
wrath was kindled.
39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where
the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.
39:21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him
favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners
that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand,
because the Lord was with him; and that which he did, the Lord made it to
prosper.
40:1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the
butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the
prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph to be with them, and he
ministered unto them; and they continued a season in ward.
40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night,
each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker
of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold,
they were sad.
40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his
master's house, saying: 'Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?'
40:8 And they said unto him: 'We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that
can interpret it.' And Joseph said unto them: 'Do not interpretations belong to
God? tell it me, I pray you.'
40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him: 'In my
dream, behold, a vine was before me;
40:10 and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms
shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes,
40:11 and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.'
40:12 And Joseph said unto him: 'This is the interpretation of it: the three
branches are three days;
40:13 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee
unto thine office; and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the
former manner when thou wast his butler.
40:14 But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show
kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring
me out of this house.
40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also
have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.'
40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto
Joseph: 'I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were
on my head;
40:17 and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for
Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.'
40:18 And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the
three baskets are three days;
40:19 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and
shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.'
40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he
made a feast unto all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief
butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
40:21 And he restored the chief butler back unto his butlership; and he gave the
cup into Pharaoh's hand.
40:22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and, behold, he stood by the river.
41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favoured and
fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill
favoured and lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the
river.
41:4 And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven
well-favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
41:5 And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn
came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
41:6 And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up
after them.
41:7 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he
sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof;
and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them
unto Pharaoh.
41:9 Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying: 'I make mention of my
faults this day:
41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in the ward of the house
of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
41:12 And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain
of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man
according to his dream he did interpret.
41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was: I was restored
unto mine office, and he was hanged.'
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of
the dungeon. And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto
Pharaoh.
41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I have dreamed a dream, and there is none
that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a
dream thou canst interpret it.'
41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give
Pharaoh an answer of peace.'
41:17 And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph: 'In my dream, behold, I stood upon the
brink of the river.
41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and
well-favoured; and they fed in the reedgrass.
41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very
ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
badness.
41:20 And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.
41:21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten
them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke.
41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk,
full and good.
41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them.
41:24 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the
magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.'
41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh: 'The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is
about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh.
41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven
years: the dream is one.
41:27 And the seven lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven
years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be
seven years of famine.
41:28 That is the thing which I spoke unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do He
hath shown unto Pharaoh.
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of
Egypt.
41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty
shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
41:31 and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine
which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.
41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the
thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him
over the land of Egypt.
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take
up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty.
41:35 And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up
corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
41:36 And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of
famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through
the famine.'
41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his
servants.
41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants: 'Can we find such a one as this, a man
in whom the spirit of God is?'
41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this,
there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
41:40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than thou.'
41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'See, I have set thee over all the land of
Egypt.'
41:42 And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain
about his neck.
41:43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried
before him: 'Abrech'; and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.'
41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife
Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the
land of Egypt.--
41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of
Egypt. --And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout
all the land of Egypt.
41:47 And in the seven years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps.
41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land
of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; the food of the field, which was
round about every city, laid he up in the same.
41:49 And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left
off numbering; for it was without number.
41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom
Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.
41:51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made
me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'
41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: 'for God hath made me
fruitful in the land of my affliction.'
41:53 And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an
end.
41:54 And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said;
and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread; and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians: 'Go unto Joseph; what he
saith to you, do.'
41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all
the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the
land of Egypt.
41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the
famine was sore in all the earth.
42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons:
'Why do ye look one upon another?'
42:2 And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt. Get you
down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'
42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.
42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he
said: 'Lest peradventure harm befall him.'
42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine
was in the land of Caanan.
42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the
people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down to him with their
faces to the earth.
42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange
unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: 'Whence come ye?'
And they said: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.'
42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not.
42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto
them: 'Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.'
42:10 And they said unto him: 'Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants
come.
42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are upright men, thy servants are no spies.'
42:12 And he said unto them: 'Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are
come.'
42:13 And they said: 'We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man
in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father,
and one is not.'
42:14 And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye
are spies.
42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence,
except your youngest brother come hither.
42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound,
that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as
Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.'
42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day. 'This do, and live; for I fear
God:
42:19 if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your
prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;
42:20 and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified,
and ye shall not die.' And they did so.
42:21 And they said one to another: 'We are verily guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we
would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.'
42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not
sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood
is required.'
42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for the interpreter was
between them.
42:24 And he turned himself about 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.
42:25 Then Joseph commanded 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 was it done unto them.
42:26 And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.
42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the
lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his
sack.
42:28 And he said unto his brethren: 'My money is restored; and, lo, it is even
in my sack.' And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to
another, saying: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?'
42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told
him all that had befallen them, saying:
42:30 'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for
spies of the country.
42:31 And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies.
42:32 We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest
is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
42:33 And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that
ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the
famine of your houses, and go your way.
42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no
spies, but that ye are upright men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye
shall traffic in the land.'
42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's
bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their
bundles of money, they were afraid.
42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them: 'Me have ye bereaved of my
children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; upon
me are all these things come.'
42:37 And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying: 'Thou shalt slay my two sons, if
I bring him not to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to
thee.'
42:38 And he said: 'My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead,
and he only is left; if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye
bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought
out of Egypt, that their father said unto them: 'Go again, buy us a little
food.'
43:3 And Judah spoke unto him, saying: 'The man did earnestly forewarn us,
saying: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;
43:5 but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down, for the man said unto
us: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.'
43:6 And Israel said: 'Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man
whether ye had yet a brother?'
43:7 And they said: 'The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning
our kindred, saying: Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we
told him according to the tenor of these words; could we in any wise know that
he would say: Bring your brother down?'
43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father: 'Send the lad with me, and we will
arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our
little ones.
43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him
not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever.
43:10 For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.'
43:11 And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: take of
the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present,
a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;
43:12 and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the
mouth of your sacks carry back in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight;
43:13 take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man;
43:14 and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto
you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I be bereaved of my
children, I am bereaved.'
43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand,
and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his
house: 'Bring the men into the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat;
for the men shall dine with me at noon.'
43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's
house.
43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house;
and they said: 'Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first
time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us,
and take us for bondmen, and our asses.'
43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke unto
him at the door of the house,
43:20 and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.
43:21 And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our
sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in
full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand.
43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food. We know not
who put our money in our sacks.'
43:23 And he said: 'Peace be to you, fear not; your God, and the God of your
father, hath given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money.' And he brought
Simeon out unto them.
43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and
they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for they
heard that they should eat bread there.
43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their
hand into the house, and bowed down to him to the earth.
43:27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the
old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?'
43:28 And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they
bowed the head, and made obeisance.
43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son,
and said: 'Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?' And he said:
'God be gracious unto thee, my son.'
43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned toward his brother; and he
sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
43:31 And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said:
'Set on bread.'
43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for
the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might
not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and
the youngest according to his youth; and the men marveled one with another.
43:34 And portions were taken unto them from before him; but Benjamin's portion
was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with
him.
44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying: 'Fill the men's sacks
with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's
mouth.
44:2 And put my goblet, the silver goblet, in the sack's mouth of the youngest,
and his corn money.' And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their
asses.
44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph
said unto his steward: 'Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake
them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth?
ye have done evil in so doing.'
44:6 And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these words.
44:7 And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these?
Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.
44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought back
unto thee out of the land of Canaan; how then should we steal out of thy lord's
house silver or gold?
44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will
be my lord's bondmen.'
44:10 And he said: 'Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom
it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless.'
44:11 Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and
opened every man his sack.
44:12 And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest;
and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.
44:13 And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to
the city.
44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, and he was yet there;
and they fell before him on the ground.
44:15 And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye
not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'
44:16 And Judah said: 'What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or
how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants;
behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is
found.'
44:17 And he said: 'Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand
the goblet is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace
unto your father.'
44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said: 'Oh my lord, let thy servant, I
pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against
thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.
44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying: Have ye a father, or a brother?
44:20 And we said unto my lord: We have a father, an old man, and a child of his
old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his
mother, and his father loveth him.
44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set
mine eyes upon him.
44:22 And we said unto my lord: The lad cannot leave his father; for if he
should leave his father, his father would die.
44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down
with you, ye shall see my face no more.
44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told
him the words of my lord.
44:25 And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.
44:26 And we said: We cannot go down; if our youngest brother be with us, then
will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother
be with us.
44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us: Ye know that my wife bore me two
sons;
44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said: Surely he is torn in pieces; and
I have not seen him since;
44:29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring
down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not
with us; seeing that his soul is bound up with the lad's soul;
44:31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he
will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our
father with sorrow to the grave.
44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying: If I
bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.
44:33 Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a
bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look
upon the evil that shall come on my father.'
45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him;
and he cried: 'Cause every man to go out from me.' And there stood no man with
him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
45:2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?'
And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.
45:4 And Joseph said unto 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.
45:5 And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither;
for God did send me before you to preserve life.
45:6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet
five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
45:7 And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save
you alive for a great deliverance.
45:8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God; and He hath made me a
father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of
Egypt.
45:9 Hasten ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him: Thus saith thy son
Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not.
45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto
me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy
herds, and all that thou hast;
45:11 and there will I sustain thee; for there are yet five years of famine;
lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.
45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it
is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye
have seen; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither.'
45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept
upon his neck.
45:15 And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his
brethren talked with him.
45:16 And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying: 'Joseph's
brethren are come'; and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade
your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
45:18 and take your father and your households, and come unto me; and I will
give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of
Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good things of all the land of Egypt
are yours.'
45:21 And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to
the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he
gave three hundred shekels of silver, and five changes of raiment.
45:23 And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good
things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his
father by the way.
45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed; and he said unto them:
'See that ye fall not out by the way.'
45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob
their father.
45:26 And they told him, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all
the land of Egypt.' And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.
45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them;
and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of
Jacob their father revived.
45:28 And Israel said: 'It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and
see him before I die.'
46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba,
and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
46:2 And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said: 'Jacob,
Jacob.' And he said: 'Here am I.'
46:3 And He said: 'I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into
Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.
46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up
again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.'
46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob
their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the
land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;
46:7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons'
daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt,
Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.
46:9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
46:10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and
Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
46:11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
46:12 And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but
Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and
Hamul.
46:13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
46:14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with
his daughter Dinah; all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and
three.
46:16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,
and Areli.
46:17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah
their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and
these she bore unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom
Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.
46:21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman,
Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls were
fourteen.
46:23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter,
and these she bore unto Jacob; all the souls were seven.
46:26 All the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of
his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.
46:27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all
the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to show the way before him unto
Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father,
to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on
his neck a good while.
46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Now let me die, since I have seen thy face,
that thou art yet alive.'
46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house: 'I will go
up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him: My brethren, and my father's house,
who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
46:32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they
have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say:
What is your occupation?
46:34 that ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth
even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of
Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.'
47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said: 'My father and my brethren,
and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the
land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.'
47:2 And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto
Pharaoh.
47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: 'What is your occupation?' And they
said unto Pharaoh: 'Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.'
47:4 And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there
is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of
Canaan. Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of
Goshen.'
47:5 And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father and thy brethren are
come unto thee;
47:6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father
and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou
knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.'
47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And
Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy
life?'
47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a
hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my
life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my
fathers in the days of their sojournings.'
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession
in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as
Pharaoh had commanded.
47:12 And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's
household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.
47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so
that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the
famine.
47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt,
and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought; and Joseph brought
the money into Pharaoh's house.
47:15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why
should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.'
47:16 And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you bread for your
cattle, if money fail.'
47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in
exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the
asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that
year.
47:18 And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said
unto him: 'We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and
the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord,
but our bodies, and our lands.
47:19 Wherefore 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 unto Pharaoh; and
give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'
47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold
every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became
Pharaoh's.
47:21 And as for the people, he removed them city by city, from one end of the
border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion
from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they
sold not their land.
47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and
your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
47:24 And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth
unto Pharaoh, and 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.'
47:25 And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight
of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'
47:26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day,
that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became
not Pharaoh's.
47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got
them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of
Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.
47:29 And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph,
and said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, put, I pray thee,
thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray
thee, in Egypt.
47:30 But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and
bury me in their burying-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.'
47:31 And he said: 'Swear unto me.' And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed down
upon the bed's head.
48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold,
thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
48:2 And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.'
And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph: 'God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the
land of Canaan, and blessed me,
48:4 and said unto 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.
48:5 And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I
came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and
Simeon, shall be mine.
48:6 And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall
be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
48:7 And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died unto me in the land of
Canaan in the way, when there was still some way to come unto Ephrath; and I
buried her there in the way to Ephrath--the same is Beth-lehem.'
48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said: 'Who are these?'
48:9 And Joseph said unto his father: 'They are my sons, whom God hath given me
here.' And he said: 'Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.'
48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he
brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph: 'I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo,
God hath let me see thy seed also.'
48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he fell down on
his face to the earth.
48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left
hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them
near unto him.
48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head,
who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands
wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.
48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham
and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this
day,
48:16 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my
name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let
them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.'
48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand upon the
head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he held up his father's hand, to remove
it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
48:18 And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the
first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.'
48:19 And his father refused, and said: 'I know it, my son, I know it; he also
shall become a people, and he also shall be great; howbeit his younger brother
shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.'
48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, saying:
God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh.' And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and
bring you back unto the land of your fathers.
48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took
out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.'
49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: 'Gather yourselves together, that
I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days.
49:2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel
your father.
49:3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my
strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.
49:4 Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to
thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it--he went up to my couch.
49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.
49:6 Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my glory
not be united; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they
houghed oxen.
49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was
cruel; I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel
49:8 Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of
thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.
49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He
stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from
between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the
obedience of the peoples be.
49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine;
he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes;
49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, and he shall be a shore for
ships, and his flank shall be upon Zidon.
49:14 Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.
49:15 For he saw a resting-place that it was good, and the land that it was
pleasant; and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant under
task-work
49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned snake in the path, that biteth
the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward.
49:18 I wait for Thy salvation, O L-rd.
49:19 Gad, a troop shall troop upon him; but he shall troop upon their heel.
49:20 As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
49:22 Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run
over the wall.
49:23 The archers have dealt bitterly with him, and shot at him, and hated him;
49:24 But his bow abode firm, and the arms of his hands were made supple, by the
hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from thence, from the Shepherd, the Stone of
Israel,
49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty,
who shall bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that
coucheth beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
49:26 The blessings of thy father are mighty beyond the blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the
head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren.
49:27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey,
and at even he divideth the spoil.'
49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their
father spoke unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he
blessed them.
49:29 And be charged them, and said unto them: 'I am to be gathered unto my
people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the
Hittite,
49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in
the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite
for a possession of a burying-place.
49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and
Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
49:32 The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the
children of Heth.'
49:33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet
into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.
50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And
the physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of
embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house
of Pharaoh, saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you,
in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:
50:5 My father made me swear, saying: Lo, I die; in my grave which I have digged
for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go
up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come back.'
50:6 And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee
swear.'
50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the
servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of
Egypt,
50:8 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.
50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very
great company.
50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning
for his father seven days.
50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in
the floor of Atad, they said: 'This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.'
Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them.
50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the
cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a
possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre.
50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up
with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It
may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we
did unto him.'
50:16 And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command
before he died, saying:
50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression
of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we
pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.'
And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said:
'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'
50:19 And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the place of God?
50:20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to
bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
50:21 Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.' And
he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a
hundred and ten years.
50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children
also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.
50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember
you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob.'
50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: 'God will
surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.'
50:26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him,
and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus
1:1 NOW THESE are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with
Jacob; every man came with his household:
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls;
and Joseph was in Egypt already.
1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now
there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
1:9 And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel
are too many and too mighty for us;
1:10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to
pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our
enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.'
1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their
burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more
they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel.
1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour.
1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick,
and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they
made them serve with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew
midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other
Puah;
1:16 and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye
shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if
it be a daughter, then she shall live.'
1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the men-children alive.
1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them: 'Why
have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?'
1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as
the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come
unto them.'
1:20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed
very mighty.
1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them
houses.
1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye
shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.'
2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of
Levi.
2:2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a
goodly child, she hid him three months.
2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of
bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child
therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 5 And the
daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked
along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her
handmaid to fetch it.
2:6 And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept.
And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'
2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?'
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the
child's mother.
2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child away, and nurse it
for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took the child, and
nursed it.
2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he
became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out
of the water.' 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up,
that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an
Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man,
he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
2:13 And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were
striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest
thou thy fellow?'
2:14 And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to
kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely
the thing is known.'
2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a
well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew
water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped
them, and watered their flock.
2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are
come so soon to-day?'
2:19 And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds,
and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'
2:20 And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have
left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter.
2:22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have
been a stranger in a strange land.' 23 And it came to pass in the course of
those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed
by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage.
2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.
3:1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to
the mountain of God, unto Horeb.
3:2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the
midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the
bush was not consumed.
3:3 And Moses said: 'I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the
bush is not burnt.'
3:4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out
of the midst of the bush, and said: 'Moses, Moses.' And he said: 'Here am I.'
3:5 And He said: 'Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.'
3:6 Moreover 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 upon God. 7 And the Lord said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My
people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their pains;
3:8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing
with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3:9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover
I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest
bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt.' 11 And Moses said
unto God: 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring
forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?'
3:12 And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token
unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of
Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.'
3:13 And Moses said unto 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 to me: What is His name? what shall I say unto them?'
3:14 And God said unto 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.'
3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel: the Lord, 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. 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them: the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying: I have surely
remembered you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
3:17 And I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto
the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the
elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him: the Lord,
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 the Lord our God.
3:19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, except by
a mighty hand.
3:20 And I will put forth 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.
3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. And it
shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty;
3:22 but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in
her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put
them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'
4:1 And Moses answered and said: 'But, behold, they will not believe me, nor
hearken unto my voice; for they will say: The lord hath not appeared unto thee.'
4:2 And the Lord said unto him: 'What is that in thy hand?' And he said: 'A
rod.'
4:3 And He said: 'Cast it on the ground.' And he cast it on the ground, and it
became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4:4 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the
tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his
hand--
4:5 that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.'
4:6 And the Lord said furthermore unto him: 'Put now thy hand into thy bosom.'
And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand
was leprous, as white as snow.
4:7 And He said: 'Put thy hand back into thy bosom. --And he put his hand back
into his bosom; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned
again as his other flesh.--
4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to
the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter
sign.
4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs,
neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river,
and pour it upon the dry land; and the water which thou takest out of the river
shall become blood upon the dry land.' 10 And Moses said unto the Lord: 'Oh
L-rd, I am not a man of words, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken
unto Thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.'
4:11 And the Lord said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man
dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the Lord?
4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou
shalt speak.'
4:13 And he said: 'Oh L-rd, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt
send.'
4:14 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: 'Is there
not Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also,
behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in
his heart.
4:15 And 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.
4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass,
that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him in God's stead.
4:17 And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the
signs.' 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said
unto him: 'Let me go, I pray thee, and unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and
see whether they be yet alive.' And Jethro said to Moses: 'Go in peace.'
4:19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for all the
men are dead that sought thy life.'
4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he
returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
4:21 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'When thou goest back into Egypt, see that
thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand; but I will
harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is My son, My
first-born.
4:23 And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou
hast refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.'-- 24
And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the Lord met him, and
sought to kill him.
4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast
it at his feet; and she said: 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.'
4:26 So He let him alone. Then she said: 'A bridegroom of blood in regard of the
circumcision.'
4:27 And the Lord said to Aaron: 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' And he
went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord wherewith He had sent him,
and all the signs wherewith He had charged him.
4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the
children of Israel.
4:30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did
the signs in the sight of the people.
4:31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had remembered
the children of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed
their heads and worshiped.
5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the
Lord, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in
the wilderness.'
5:2 And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the Lord, that I should hearken unto His voice to
let Israel go? I know not the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go.' 3
And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray
thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the Lord our
God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.'
5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron,
cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.'
5:5 And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye
make them rest from their burdens?'
5:6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their
officers, saying:
5:7 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let
them go and gather straw for themselves.
5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay
upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore
they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
5:9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let
them not regard lying words.' 10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and
their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying: 'Thus saith Pharaoh: I
will not give you straw.
5:11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work
shall be diminished.'
5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to
gather stubble for straw.
5:13 And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily
task, as when there was straw.'
5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had
set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your
appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?' 15 Then
the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying:
'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
5:16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us: Make brick;
and, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people.'
5:17 But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and
sacrifice to the Lord.
5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet
shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.'
5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were set on
mischief, when they said: 'Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your
daily task.'
5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from
Pharaoh;
5:21 and they said unto them: 'The the Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye
have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of
his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.'
5:22 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said: 'L-rd, wherefore hast Thou
dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me?
5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with
this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all.'
6:1 And the Lord said unto 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.'
6:2 And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: 'I am the Lord;
6:3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty,
but by My name hwhy [This divine name is traditionally not pronounced; instead,
Adonai, (the) Lord, is regularly substituted for it.] I made Me not known to
them.
6:4 And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.
6:5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered My covenant.
6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel: I am the Lord, and I will bring
you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from
their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great
judgments;
6:7 and I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye
shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians.
6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand
to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a
heritage: I am the Lord.'
6:9 And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto
Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage. 10 And the Lord spoke
unto Moses, saying:
6:11 'Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land.'
6:12 And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying: 'Behold, the children of Israel
have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of
uncircumcised lips?'
6:13 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto
the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt. 14 These are the heads of their fathers'
houses: the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron,
and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben.
6:15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar,
and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. These are the families of Simeon.
6:16 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
thirty and seven years.
6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the
years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years.
6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the
Levites according to their generations.
6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him
Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty
and seven years.
6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of
Nahshon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the
families of the Korahites.
6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife;
and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the
Levites according to their families.
6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said: 'Bring out the
children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.'
6:27 These are they that spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the
children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.
6:28 And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spoke unto Moses in the land
of Egypt,
6:29 that the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: 'I am the Lord; speak thou unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee.'
6:30 And Moses said before the Lord: 'Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and
how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?'
7:1 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to
Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
7:2 Thou 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.
7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in
the land of Egypt.
7:4 But 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.
7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth My
hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.'
7:6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old,
when they spoke unto Pharaoh. 8 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying:
7:9 'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou
shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it
become a serpent.'
7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had
commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants,
and it became a serpent.
7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also,
the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts.
7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's
rod swallowed up their rods.
7:13 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the
Lord had spoken. 14 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn,
he refuseth to let the people go.
7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and
thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned
to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.
7:16 And thou shalt say unto him: the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me
unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness;
and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened;
7:17 thus saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord--behold, I
will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the
river, and they shall be turned to blood.
7:18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become
foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'
7:19 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch
out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams,
and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become
blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in
vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'
7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted up the
rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and
in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were
turned to blood.
7:21 And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and
the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout
all the land of Egypt.
7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their secret arts; and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had
spoken.
7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to
heart.
7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for
they could not drink of the water of the river.
7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.
7:26 And the Lord spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus
saith the Lord: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
7:27 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders
with frogs.
7:28 And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy
house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy
servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy
kneading-troughs.
7:29 And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon
all thy servants.'
8:1 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand with
thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to
come up upon the land of Egypt.'
8:2 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs
came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
8:3 And the magicians did in like manner with their secret arts, and brought up
frogs upon the land of Egypt.
8:4 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said: 'Entreat the Lord, that
He take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people
go, that they may sacrifice unto the Lord.'
8:5 And Moses said unto Pharaoh: 'Have thou this glory over me; against what
time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that
the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?'
8:6 And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be it according to thy word;
that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.
8:7 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy
servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.'
8:8 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the Lord
concerning the frogs, which He had brought upon Pharaoh.
8:9 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of
the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
8:10 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
8:11 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and
hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken. 12 And the Lord said unto
Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth,
that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'
8:13 And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote
the dust of the earth, and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast; all the
dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
8:14 And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but
they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.
8:15 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh: 'This is the finger of God'; and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had
spoken. 16 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him: Thus
saith the Lord: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
8:17 Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of
flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy
houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and
also the ground whereon they are.
8:18 And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people
dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end that thou mayest know
that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
8:19 And I will put a division between My people and thy people--by to-morrow
shall this sign be.'
8:20 And the Lord did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house
of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land
was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies.
8:21 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said: 'Go ye, sacrifice to
your God in the land.'
8:22 And Moses said: 'It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God; lo, if we sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
8:23 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the
Lord our God, as He shall command us.'
8:24 And Pharaoh said: 'I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away; entreat for me.'
8:25 And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the Lord
that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from
his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not
letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.'
8:26 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord.
8:27 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and He removed the swarms
of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained
not one.
8:28 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the
people go.
9:1 Then the Lord said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him: Thus saith
the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
9:2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
9:3 behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon
the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the
flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain.
9:4 And the Lord shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the
cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the
children of Israel.'
9:5 And the Lord appointed a set time, saying: 'Tomorrow the Lord shall do this
thing in the land.'
9:6 And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died;
but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of
the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let
the people go. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you
handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight
of Pharaoh.
9:9 And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a
boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land
of Egypt.'
9:10 And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses
threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man
and upon beast.
9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for
the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
9:12 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them;
as the Lord had spoken unto Moses. 13 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the
Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
9:14 For I will this time send all My plagues upon thy person, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like Me
in all the earth.
9:15 Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with
pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.
9:16 But in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee My
power, and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.
9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them
go?
9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous
hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until
now.
9:19 Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the
field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not
be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.'
9:20 He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses;
9:21 and he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his
cattle in the field. 22 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Stretch forth thy hand
toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and
upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.'
9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder
and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the Lord caused to hail upon the
land of Egypt.
9:24 So there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous,
such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the
field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke
every tree of the field.
9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no
hail.
9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: 'I
have sinned this time; the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
9:28 Entreat the Lord, and let there be enough of these mighty thunderings and
hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.'
9:29 And Moses said unto him: 'As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will
spread forth my hands unto the Lord; the thunders shall cease, neither shall
there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord'S.
9:30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord
God.'--
9:31 And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear,
and the flax was in bloom.
9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late.--
9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread forth his hands
unto the Lord; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured
upon the earth.
9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were
ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of
Israel go; as the Lord had spoken by Moses.
10:1 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his
heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these My signs in the
midst of them;
10:2 and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son,
what I have wrought upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that
ye may know that I am the Lord.'
10:3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him: 'Thus saith
the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself
before Me? let My people go, that they may serve Me.
10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring
locusts into thy border;
10:5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, that one shall not be able to
see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which
remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you
out of the field;
10:6 and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the
houses of all the Egyptians; as 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.
10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long shall this man be a snare
unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God, knowest thou
not yet that Egypt is destroyed?'
10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them:
'Go, serve the Lord your God; but who are they that shall go?'
10:9 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 we will go; for we
must hold a feast unto the Lord.'
10:10 And he said unto them: 'So be the Lord with you, as I will let you go, and
your little ones; see ye that evil is before your face.
10:11 Not so; go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that is what ye
desire.' And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. 12 And the Lord said
unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that
they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even
all that the hail hath left.'
10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord
brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it
was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the
borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was
darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the
trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing, either
tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said: 'I have
sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the
Lord your God, that He may take away from me this death only.'
10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord.
10:19 And the Lord turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the
locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all
the border of Egypt.
10:20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of
Israel go. 21 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven,
that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be
felt.'
10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
10:23 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.
10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said: 'Go ye, serve the Lord; only let
your flocks and your herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you.'
10:25 And Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and
burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind;
for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we
must serve the Lord, until we come thither.'
10:27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
10:28 And Pharaoh said unto 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.'
10:29 And Moses said: 'Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no
more.'
11:1 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I bring upon
Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he shall let
you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his
neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold.'
11:3 And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover
the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's
servants, and in the sight of the people. 4 And Moses said: 'Thus saith the
Lord: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;
11:5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born
of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the
maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.
11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as
there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog whet his tongue,
against man or beast; that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel.
11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down unto me,
saying: Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will
go out.' And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
11:9 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.'
11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the Lord
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of
his land.
12:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying:
12:2 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the
first month of the year to you.
12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of
this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers'
houses, a lamb for a household;
12:4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his
neighbour next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls;
according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take
it from the sheep, or from the goats;
12:6 and ye shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month; and the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at dusk.
12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on
the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its
head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.
12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which
remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
12:11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet,
and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste--it is the Lord'S
passover.
12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all
the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the
gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are;
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be
upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a
feast to the Lord; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an
ordinance for ever.
12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall
put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the
first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
12:16 And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the
seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save
that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame
day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye
observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall
eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever
eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation
of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.
12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.' 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill
the passover lamb.
12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is
in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the
morning.
12:23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth
the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the Lord will pass over
the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
you.
12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons
for ever.
12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will
give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What
mean ye by this service?
12:27 that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of the Lord'S passover, for that He
passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they. 29 And it came to pass at midnight, that the Lord
smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh
that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the
dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the
Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where
there was not one dead.
12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said: 'Rise up, get you
forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve
the Lord, as ye have said.
12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and
bless me also.'
12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the
land in haste; for they said: 'We are all dead men.'
12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.
12:36 And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that
they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians. 37 And the
children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand
men on foot, beside children.
12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even
very much cattle.
12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out
of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and
could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred
and thirty years.
12:41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the
selfsame day it came to pass, that all the host of the Lord went out from the
land of Egypt.
12:42 It was a night of watching unto the Lord for bringing them out from the
land of Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the Lord for all the
children of Israel throughout their generations. 43 And the Lord said unto Moses
and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat
thereof;
12:44 but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
12:45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.
12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the
flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to
the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep
it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person
shall eat thereof.
12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among you.'
12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.
12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day that the Lord did bring the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
13:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
13:2 'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the
children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.'
13:3 And Moses said unto the people: 'Remember this day, in which ye came out
from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord
brought you out from this place; there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
13:4 This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
13:5 And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and
honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be
a feast to the Lord.
13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall
no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with
thee, in all thy borders.
13:8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that
which the Lord did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.
13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a
strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.
13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the
Canaanite, as He swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
13:12 that thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the womb; every
firstling that is a male, which thou hast coming of a beast, shall be the
Lord'S.
13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou
wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck; and all the first-born of
man among thy sons shalt thou redeem.
13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: What is
this? that thou shalt say unto him: By strength of hand the Lord brought us out
from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
13:15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go that the Lord
slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the
first-born of beast; therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the
womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.
13:16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine
eyes; for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.' 17 And it
came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the
way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said: 'Lest
peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.'
13:18 But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea;
and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the
children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up
my bones away hence with you.'
13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the
edge of the wilderness.
13:21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them
the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might
go by day and by night:
13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not
from before the people.
14:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
14:2 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before
Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon, over against it
shall ye encamp by the sea.
14:3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the
land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I
will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall
know that I am the Lord.' And they did so.
14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart
of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned towards the people, and they said:
'What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
14:6 And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him.
14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and
captains over all of them.
14:8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued
after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high
hand.
14:9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of
Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea,
beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the
children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were
marching after them; and they were sore afraid; and the children of Israel cried
out unto the Lord.
14:11 And they said unto Moses: 'Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast
thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with
us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
14:12 Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying: Let us
alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the
Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.'
14:13 And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear ye not, stand still, and see the
salvation of the Lord, which He will work for you to-day; for whereas ye have
seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14:14 the Lord will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.' 15 And the
Lord said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of
Israel, that they go forward.
14:16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and
divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry
ground.
14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall
go in after them; and I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host,
upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten Me
honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.'
14:19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went
behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind
them;
14:20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there
was the cloud and the darkness here, yet gave it light by night there; and the
one came not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all
the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry
ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their
left.
14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the
sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
14:24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that the Lord looked forth upon
the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and
discomfited the host of the Egyptians.
14:25 And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so
that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord
fighteth for them against the Egyptians.'
14:26 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the
waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen.'
14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to
its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and
the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even
all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not
so much as one of them.
14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea;
and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and
Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.
14:31 And Israel saw the great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians, and
the people feared the Lord; and they believed in the Lord, and in His servant
Moses.
15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and
spoke, saying: I will sing unto the Lord, for He is highly exalted; the horse
and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
15:2 the Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation; this is my
God, and I will glorify Him; my father's God, and I will exalt Him.
15:3 the Lord is a man of war, the Lord is His name.
15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath He cast into the sea, and his chosen
captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
15:5 The deeps cover them--they went down into the depths like a stone.
15:6 Thy right hand, O the Lord, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O the Lord,
dasheth in pieces the enemy.
15:7 And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou overthrowest them that rise
up against Thee; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
15:8 And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up--the floods
stood upright as a heap; the deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
15:9 The enemy said: 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall
destroy them.'
15:10 Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in
the mighty waters.
15:11 Who is like unto Thee, O the Lord, among the mighty? who is like unto
Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
15:12 Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand--the earth swallowed them.
15:13 Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast
guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.
15:14 The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the
inhabitants of Philistia.
15:15 Then were the chiefs of Edom affrighted; the mighty men of Moab, trembling
taketh hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
15:16 Terror and dread falleth upon them; by the greatness of Thine arm they are
as still as a stone; till Thy people pass over, O the Lord, till the people pass
over that Thou hast gotten.
15:17 Thou bringest them in, and plantest them in the mountain of Thine
inheritance, the place, O the Lord, which Thou hast made for Thee to dwell in,
the sanctuary, O L-rd, which Thy hands have established.
15:18 the Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen
into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the
children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
15:21 And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the Lord, for He is highly exalted:
the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
15:22 And Moses led Israel onward 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.
15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah,
for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying: 'What shall we drink?'
15:25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, and he cast it
into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a
statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them;
15:26 and He said: 'If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy
God, and wilt do that which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to His
commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon
thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord that healeth thee.'
15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score
and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.
16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and
Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the
land of Egypt.
16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and against Aaron in the wilderness;
16:3 and the children of Israel said unto them: 'Would that we had died by the
hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we
did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to
kill this whole assembly with hunger.'
16:4 Then said the Lord unto Moses: 'Behold, I will cause to rain bread from
heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every
day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or not.
16:5 And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare that
which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.'
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel: 'At even, then ye
shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
16:7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that He
hath heard your murmurings against the Lord; and what are we, that ye murmur
against us?'
16:8 And Moses said: 'This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening
flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth
your murmurings which ye murmur against Him; and what are we? your murmurings
are not against us, but against the Lord.'
16:9 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Say unto all the congregation of the children
of Israel: Come near before the Lord; for He hath heard your murmurings.'
16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke unto the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the
glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
16:11 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
16:12 'I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them,
saying: At dusk ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with
bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.' 13 And it came to pass at
even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there
was a layer of dew round about the camp.
16:14 And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the
wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: 'What is
it?' --for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them: 'It is the bread
which the Lord hath given you to eat.
16:16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: Gather ye of it every man
according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your
persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.'
16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing
over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according
to his eating.
16:19 And Moses said unto them: 'Let no man leave of it till the morning.'
16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it
until the morning, and it bred worms, and rotted; and Moses was wroth with them.
16:21 And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his
eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22 And it came to pass that on the
sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
16:23 And he said unto them: 'This is that which the Lord hath spoken: To-morrow
is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto the Lord. Bake that which ye will bake,
and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you
to be kept until the morning.'
16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not rot,
neither was there any worm therein.
16:25 And Moses said: 'Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord;
to-day ye shall not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it
there shall be none.'
16:27 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the
people to gather, and they found none.
16:28 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My commandments
and My laws?
16:29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath; therefore He giveth you on
the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man
go out of his place on the seventh clay.'
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like
coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32
And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: Let an omerful
of it be kept throughout your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith
I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'
16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna
therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations.'
16:34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to
be kept.
16:35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came
to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of
the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the commandment of the Lord,
and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2 Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we
may drink.' And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye
try the Lord?'
17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against
Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and
our children and our cattle with thirst?'
17:4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people?
they are almost ready to stone me.'
17:5 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with
thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river,
take in thy hand, and go.
17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou
shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may
drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7 And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the
striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the Lord, saying: 'Is
the Lord among us, or not?' 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim.
17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua: 'Choose us out men, and go out, fight with
Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my
hand.'
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed;
and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
17:12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him,
and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one
side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going
down of the sun.
17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
17:14 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and
rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance
of Amalek from under heaven.'
17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Adonai-nissi.
17:16 And he said: 'The hand upon the throne of the Lord: the Lord will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.'
18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that
God had done for Moses, and for Israel His people, how that the Lord had brought
Israel out of Egypt.
18:2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had
sent her away,
18:3 and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said: 'I
have been a stranger in a strange land';
18:4 and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my
help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'
18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto
Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God;
18:6 and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee,
and thy wife, and her two sons with her.' 7 And Moses went out to meet his
father-in-law, and bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their
welfare; and they came into the tent.
18:8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh
and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them
by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.
18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel,
in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
18:10 And Jethro said: 'Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath delivered the
people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
18:11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods; yea, for that they
dealt proudly against them.'
18:12 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 before God.
18:14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said:
'What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself
alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?'
18:15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law: 'Because the people come unto me to
inquire of God;
18:16 when they have a matter, it cometh unto me; and I judge between a man and
his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and His laws.'
18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him: 'The thing that thou doest is not
good.
18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee;
for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself
alone.
18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee:
be thou for the people before God, and bring thou the causes unto God.
18:20 And thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them
the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear
God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of
thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
18:22 And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every
great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge
themselves; so shall they make it easier for thee and bear the burden with thee.
18:23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be
able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.'
18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he
had said.
18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the
people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens.
18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought
unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
18:27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own
land.
19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the
land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
19:2 And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness
of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the
mount.
19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the
mountain, saying: 'Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel:
19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles'
wings, and brought you unto Myself.
19:5 Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My
covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the
earth is Mine;
19:6 and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are
the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.'
19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them
all these words which the Lord commanded him.
19:8 And all the people answered together, and said: 'All that the Lord hath
spoken we will do.' And Moses reported the words of the people unto the Lord. 9
And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the
people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever.' And
Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.
19:10 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Go unto the people, and sanctify them
to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments,
19:11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day the Lord will come
down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take heed
to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it;
whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death;
19:13 no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the ram's horn soundeth
long, they shall come up to the mount.'
19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the
people; and they washed their garments.
19:15 And he said unto the people: 'Be ready against the third day; come not
near a woman.' 16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning,
that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and
the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp
trembled.
19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they
stood at the nether part of the mount.
19:18 Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the Lord descended upon
it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mount quaked greatly.
19:19 And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and
God answered him by a voice.
19:20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount; and the
Lord called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
19:21 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Go down, charge the people, lest they break
through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
19:22 And let the priests also, that come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves,
lest the Lord break forth upon them.'
19:23 And Moses said unto the Lord: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai;
for thou didst charge us, saying: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.'
19:24 And the Lord said unto him: 'Go, get thee down, and thou shalt come up,
thou, and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests and the people break through
to come up unto the Lord, lest He break forth upon them.'
19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and told them.
20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
20:2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage.
20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness,
of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth;
20:5 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
20:6 and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and
keep My commandments.
20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.
20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;
20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt
not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates;
20:11 for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath
day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be
long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
20:13 Thou shalt not murder.
20:13 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
20:13 Thou shalt not steal.
20:13 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
20:14 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 15 And all the people perceived the
thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain
smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
20:16 And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let
not God speak with us, lest we die.'
20:17 And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to prove you,
and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not.'
20:18 And the people stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness
where God was. 19 And the Lord said unto Moses: Thus thou shalt say unto the
children of Israel: Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from
heaven.
20:20 Ye shall not make with Me--gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not
make unto you.
20:21 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy
burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen; in every
place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless
thee.
20:22 And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.
20:23 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be
not uncovered thereon.
21:1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
21:2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh
he shall go out free for nothing.
21:3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married,
then his wife shall go out with him.
21:4 If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife
and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free;
21:6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door,
or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl;
and he shall serve him for ever.
21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out
as the men-servants do.
21:8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall
he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no
power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
21:9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner
of daughters.
21:10 If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal
rights, shall he not diminish.
21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing,
without money. 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put
to death.
21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I
will appoint thee a place whither he may flee.
21:14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with
guile; thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die.
21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to
death.
21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his
hand, he shall surely be put to death.
21:17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to
death.
21:18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his
fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
21:19 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote
him be quit; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to
be thoroughly healed.
21:20 And if a man smite his bondman, or his bondwoman, with a rod, and he die
under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21:21 Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for
he is his money. 22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so
that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined,
according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the
judges determine.
21:23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman,
and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
21:27 And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he
shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
21:28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely
stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
21:29 But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and warning hath been given
to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman;
the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
21:30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of
his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
21:31 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this
judgment shall it be done unto him.
21:32 If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master
thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover
it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,
21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the
owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth; then they shall sell
the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide.
21:36 Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner
hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be
his own.
21:37 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay
five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
22:1 If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there
shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
22:2 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him--he
shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
22:3 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or
sheep, he shall pay double.
22:4 If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast
loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of
the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
22:5 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of corn, or the
standing corn, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely
make restitution. 6 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, he shall pay
double.
22:7 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near
unto God, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
22:8 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for
raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith: 'This is it,' the
cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay
double unto his neighbour.
22:9 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any
beast, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it;
22:10 the oath of the Lord shall be between them both, to see whether he have
not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept
it, and he shall not make restitution.
22:11 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner
thereof.
22:12 If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make
good that which was torn.
22:13 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the
owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
22:14 If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a
hireling, he loseth his hire. 15 And if a man entice a virgin that is not
betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
22:16 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.
22:17 Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
22:18 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
22:19 He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the Lord only, shall be
utterly destroyed.
22:20 And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for
ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22:21 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
22:22 If thou afflict them in any wise--for if they cry at all unto Me, I will
surely hear their cry--
22:23 My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives
shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 24 If thou lend money to any of
My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor;
neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
22:25 If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore
it unto him by that the sun goeth down;
22:26 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein
shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will
hear; for I am gracious.
22:27 Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people.
22:28 Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the
outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me.
22:29 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep; seven days it
shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me.
22:30 And ye shall be holy men unto Me; therefore ye shall not eat any flesh
that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
23:1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be
an unrighteous witness.
23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear
witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;
23:3 neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.
23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely
bring it back to him again.
23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, thou
shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him.
23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou
not; for I will not justify the wicked.
23:8 And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.
23:9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger,
seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 And six years thou shalt sow
thy land, and gather in the increase thereof;
23:11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor
of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In
like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest;
that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the
stranger, may be refreshed.
23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed; and make no
mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.
23:15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month
Abib--for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me
empty;
23:16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou
sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when
thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.
23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the L-rd GOD.
23:18 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.
23:19 The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of
the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. 20 Behold, I
send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the
place which I have prepared.
23:21 Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious against
him; for he will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in him.
23:22 But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak;
then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries.
23:23 For Mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their
doings; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their
pillars.
23:25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy
water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
23:26 None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I
will fulfil.
23:27 I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to
whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto
thee.
23:28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land
become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be
increased, and inherit the land.
23:31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River; for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee.
23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land--lest they make thee sin against Me, for
thou wilt serve their gods--for they will be a snare unto thee.
24:1 And unto Moses He said: 'Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off;
24:2 and Moses alone shall come near unto the Lord; but they shall not come
near; neither shall the people go up with him.'
24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the
ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said: 'All the words
which the L-rd hath spoken will we do.'
24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the
morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to
the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:5 And he sent the young men of the children of Israel, who offered
burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the
blood he dashed against the altar.
24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the
people; and they said: 'All that the Lord hath spoken will we do, and obey.'
24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said: 'Behold
the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you in agreement with
all these words.' 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel;
24:10 and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under His feet the like of a
paved work of sapphire stone, and the like of the very heaven for clearness.
24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not His hand; and
they beheld God, and did eat and drink. 12 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Come
up to Me into the mount and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone,
and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach
them.'
24:13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the
mount of God.
24:14 And unto the elders he said: 'Tarry ye here for us, until we come back
unto you; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whosoever hath a cause, let
him come near unto them.'
24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
24:16 And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it
six days; and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the
cloud.
24:17 And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the
top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
24:18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount;
and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
25:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
25:2 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of
every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take My offering.
25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and
brass;
25:4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;
25:5 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;
25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense;
25:7 onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
25:8 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
25:9 According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the
pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it. 10 And they
shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length
thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof.
25:11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou
overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four
feet thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the
other side of it.
25:13 And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.
25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark,
wherewith to bear the ark.
25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from
it.
25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
25:17 And thou shalt make an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall
be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make
them, at the two ends of the ark-cover.
25:19 And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of
one piece with the ark-cover shall ye make the cherubim of the two ends thereof.
25:20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, screening the
ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the
ark-cover shall the faces of the cherubim be.
25:21 And thou shalt put the ark-cover above upon the ark; and in the ark thou
shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will speak with thee from above the
ark-cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the
testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children
of Israel. 23 And thou shalt make a table of acacia-wood: two cubits shall be
the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof.
25:24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold
round about.
25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and
thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
25:26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the
four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
25:27 Close by the border shall the rings be, for places for the staves to bear
the table.
25:28 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold,
that the table may be borne with them.
25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the jars
thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out; of pure gold shalt thou
make them.
25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me alway. 31 And thou
shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be
made, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall
be of one piece with it.
25:32 And there shall be six branches going out of the sides thereof: three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of
the candle-stick out of the other side thereof;
25:33 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower;
and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a
flower; so for the six branches going out of the candlestick.
25:34 And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops
thereof, and the flowers thereof.
25:35 And a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two
branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with
it, for the six branches going out of the candlestick.
25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of
it one beaten work of pure gold.
25:37 And thou shalt make the lamps thereof, seven; and they shall light the
lamps thereof, to give light over against it.
25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.
25:40 And see that thou make them after their pattern, which is being shown thee
in the mount.
26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains: of fine twined
linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful
workman shalt thou make them.
26:2 The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the
breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one measure.
26:3 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five
curtains shall be coupled one to another.
26:4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that is
outmost in the first set; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the
curtain that is outmost in the second set.
26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou
make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be
opposite one to another.
26:6 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to
another with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole. 7 And thou shalt
make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains
shalt thou make them.
26:8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the
tent.
26:10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is
outmost in the first set, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is
outmost in the second set.
26:11 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the
loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
26:12 And as for the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the
tent, the half curtain that remaineth over shall hang over the back of the
tabernacle.
26:13 And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that
which remaineth over 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.
26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a
covering of sealskins above. 15 And thou shalt make the boards for the
tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.
26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the
breadth of each board.
26:17 Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt
thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
26:18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the
south side southward:
26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two
sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board
for its two tenons;
26:20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty
boards.
26:21 And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
26:22 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six
boards.
26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the
hinder part.
26:24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be
complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring; thus shall it be for them
both; they shall be for the two corners.
26:25 Thus there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen
sockets: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26:26 And thou shalt make bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one
side of the tabernacle,
26:27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward;
26:28 and the middle bar in the midst of the boards, which shall pass through
from end to end.
26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold
for holders for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof
which hath been shown thee in the mount. 31 And thou shalt make a veil of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the
skilful workman shall it be made.
26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold,
their hooks being of gold, upon four sockets of silver.
26:33 And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in
thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall divide unto
you between the holy place and the most holy.
26:34 And thou shalt put the ark-cover upon the ark of the testimony in the most
holy place.
26:35 And thou shalt set the table without the veil, and the candlestick over
against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and thou shalt
put the table on the north side.
26:36 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours.
26:37 And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay
them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast five sockets
of brass for them.
27:1 And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five
cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be
three cubits.
27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the
horns thereof shall be of one piece with it; and thou shalt overlay it with
brass.
27:3 And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and
its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou
shalt make of brass.
27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of brass; and upon the net
shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.
27:5 And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net
may reach halfway up the altar.
27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and
overlay them with brass.
27:7 And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be
upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.
27:8 Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee in the
mount, so shall they make it. 9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle:
for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine
twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side.
27:10 And the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of
brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a
hundred cubits long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty,
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of
fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty
cubits.
27:14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:15 And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits: their pillars
three, and their sockets three.
27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in
colours: their pillars four, and their sockets four.
27:17 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver;
their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
27:18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty
every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets
of brass.
27:19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all
the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee
pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
27:21 In the tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony,
Aaron and his sons shall set it in order, to burn from evening to morning before
the Lord; it shall be a statute for ever throughout their generations on the
behalf of the children of Israel.
28:1 And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him,
from among the children of Israel, that they may minister unto Me in the
priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for splendour and
for beauty.
28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled
with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that
he may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an
ephod, and a robe, and a tunic of chequer work, a mitre, and a girdle; and they
shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may
minister unto Me in the priest's office.
28:5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the
scarlet, and the fine linen. 6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue,
and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman.
28:7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it
may be joined together.
28:8 And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on,
shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the
children of Israel:
28:10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain
on the other stone, according to their birth.
28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet,
shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of
Israel; thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.
28:12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod,
to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their
names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
28:13 And thou shalt make settings of gold;
28:14 and two chains of pure gold; of plaited thread shalt thou make them, of
wreathen work; and thou shalt put the wreathen chains on the settings. 15 And
thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like
the work of the ephod thou shalt make it: of gold, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
28:16 Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof,
and a span the breadth thereof.
28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of
carnelian, topaz, and smaragd shall be the first row;
28:18 and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald;
28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
28:20 and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be
inclosed in gold in their settings.
28:21 And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one
according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work
of pure gold.
28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put
the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the
ends of the breastplate.
28:25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the
two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart
thereof.
28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the
two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which is toward the side of
the ephod inward.
28:27 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two
shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the
coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of
the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of
the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place,
for a memorial before the Lord continually.
28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the
Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord;
and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart
before the Lord continually. 31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of
blue.
28:32 And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof; it shall have
a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a
coat of mail that it be not rent.
28:33 And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of
purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold
between them round about:
28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the
skirts of the robe round about.
28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister; and the sound thereof shall be
heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh
out, that he die not.
28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the
engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE the Lord.
28:37 And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre;
upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity
committed in the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow, even in
all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be
accepted before the Lord.
28:39 And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou
shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the
weaver in colours. 40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou
shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for
splendour and for beauty.
28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with
him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they
may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.
28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the
tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy
place; that they bear not iniquity, and die; it shall be a statute for ever unto
him and unto his seed after him.
29:1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to
minister unto Me in the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams
without blemish,
29:2 and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers
unleavened spread with oil; of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with
the bullock and the two rams.
29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of
meeting, and shalt wash them with water.
29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the tunic, and the
robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the
skilfully woven band of the ephod.
29:6 And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the
mitre.
29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and
anoint him.
29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put tunics upon them.
29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind
head-tires on them; and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute;
and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
29:10 And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of meeting; and Aaron and
his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock.
29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, at the door of the tent
of meeting.
29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns
of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the remaining blood at
the base of the altar.
29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the lobe
above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and make
them smoke upon the altar.
29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn
with fire without the camp; it is a sin-offering.
29:15 Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their
hands upon the head of the ram.
29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and dash it
round about against the altar.
29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its
legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
29:18 And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it is a
burnt-offering unto the Lord; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire
unto the Lord.
29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their
hands upon the head of the ram.
29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it upon the
tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons,
and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right
foot, and dash the blood against the altar round about.
29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the
anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his
sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him; and he and his garments shall
be hallowed, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat
that covereth the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and
the fat that is upon them, and the right thigh; for it is a ram of consecration;
29:23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of
the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord.
29:24 And thou shalt put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands
of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave-offering before the Lord.
29:25 And thou shalt take them from their hands, and make them smoke on the
altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord; it is an
offering made by fire unto the Lord.
29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it
for a wave-offering before the Lord; and it shall be thy portion.
29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of
the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of
consecration, even of that which is Aaron's, and of that which is his sons'.
29:28 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons as a due for ever from the children
of Israel; for it is a heave-offering; and it shall be a heave-offering from the
children of Israel of their sacrifices of peace-offerings, even their
heave-offering unto the Lord.
29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be
anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
29:30 Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, even he
who cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a
holy place.
29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that
is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to
consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because
they are holy.
29:34 And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain
unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be
eaten, because it is holy.
29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that
I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
29:36 And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering, beside the
other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar
when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
29:37 Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; thus
shall the altar be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
29:38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs of the
first year day by day continually.
29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou
shalt offer at dusk.
29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with
the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for
a drink-offering.
29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at dusk, and shalt do thereto
according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the
drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the
Lord.
29:42 It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the
door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to
speak there unto thee.
29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be
sanctified by My glory.
29:44 And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar; Aaron also and his
sons will I sanctify, to minister to Me in the priest's office.
29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
29:46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.
30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt
thou make it.
30:2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof;
foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns
thereof shall be of one piece with it.
30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown
of gold round about.
30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the crown thereof, upon
the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they
shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it.
30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.
30:6 And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony,
before the ark-cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when
he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.
30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at dusk, he shall burn it, a perpetual
incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor
meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon.
30:10 And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with
the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make
atonement for it throughout your generations; it is most holy unto the Lord.' 11
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
30:12 'When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to their
number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when
thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest
them.
30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered,
half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary--the shekel is twenty
gerahs--half a shekel for an offering to the Lord.
30:14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old
and upward, shall give the offering of the Lord.
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the
half shekel, when they give the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your
souls.
30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and
shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a
memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for your
souls.' 17 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
30:18 'Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass,
whereat to wash; and thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the
altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
30:19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat;
30:20 when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that
they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to cause an
offering made by fire to smoke unto the Lord;
30:21 so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not; and it
shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout
their generations.' 22 Moreover the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
30:23 'Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred
shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of
sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,
30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of
olive oil a hin.
30:25 And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after
the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
30:26 And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the
testimony,
30:27 and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the
vessels thereof, and the altar of incense,
30:28 and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels thereof, and the
laver and the base thereof.
30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever
toucheth them shall be holy.
30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may
minister unto Me in the priest's office.
30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a
holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations.
30:32 Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any
like it, according to the composition thereof; it is holy, and it shall be holy
unto you.
30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a
stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'
30:34 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and
onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there
be a like weight.
30:35 And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the
perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
30:36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the
testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee; it shall be unto
you most holy.
30:37 And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition
thereof ye shall not make for yourselves; it shall be unto thee holy for the
Lord.
30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off
from his people.'
31:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
31:2 'See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah;
31:3 and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
31:4 to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
31:5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in
all manner of workmanship.
31:6 And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of
the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise-hearted I have put
wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee:
31:7 the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark-cover that
is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent;
31:8 and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its
vessels, and the altar of incense;
31:9 and the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its
base;
31:10 and the plaited garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office;
31:11 and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place;
according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.'
31:12 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
31:13 'Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying: Verily ye shall keep
My sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations,
that ye may know that I am the Lord who sanctify you.
31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you; every one
that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31:15 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn
rest, holy to the Lord; whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall
surely be put to death.
31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
31:17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six
days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work
and rested.'
31:18 And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of speaking with him upon
mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the
finger of God.
32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the
people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him: 'Up, make us
a god who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.'
32:2 And Aaron said unto them: 'Break off the golden rings, which are in the
ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto
me.'
32:3 And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and
brought them unto Aaron.
32:4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and
made it a molten calf; and they said: 'This is thy god, O Israel, which brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt.'
32:5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the Lord.'
32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and
brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose
up to make merry.
32:7 And the Lord spoke unto Moses: 'Go, get thee down; for thy people, that
thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have dealt corruptly;
32:8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they
have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto
it, and said: This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt.'
32:9 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, it is
a stiffnecked people.
32:10 Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may wax hot against them, and
that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.'
32:11 And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said: 'the Lord, why doth Thy
wrath wax hot against Thy people, that Thou hast brought forth out of the land
of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying: For evil did He bring them
forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the
earth? Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou didst
swear by Thine own self, and saidst unto them: I will multiply your seed as the
stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your
seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.'
32:14 And the Lord repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His
people.
32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the
testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one
side and on the other were they written.
32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of
God, graven upon the tables.
32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said
unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp.'
32:18 And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither
is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that
sing do I hear.'
32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw
the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out
of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount.
32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and
ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of
Israel drink of it.
32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast
brought a great sin upon them?'
32:22 And Aaron said: 'Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the
people, that they are set on evil.
32:23 So they said unto me: Make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for
this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not
what is become of him.
32:24 And I said unto them: Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so
they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.'
32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose--for Aaron had let
them loose for a derision among their enemies--
32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said: 'Whoso is on the
Lord'S side, let him come unto me.' And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves
together unto him.
32:27 And he said unto them: 'Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Put ye
every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his
companion, and every man his neighbour.'
32:28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of
the people that day about three thousand men.
32:29 And Moses said: 'Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord, for every man
hath been against his son and against his brother; that He may also bestow upon
you a blessing this day.'
32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye
have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the Lord, peradventure I
shall make atonement for your sin.'
32:31 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said: 'Oh, this people have sinned a
great sin, and have made them a god of gold.
32:32 Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray
Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'
32:33 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will
I blot out of My book.
32:34 And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto
thee; behold, Mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I
visit, I will visit their sin upon them.'
32:35 And the Lord smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron
made.
33:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses: 'Depart, go up hence, thou and the people
that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I
swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying: Unto thy seed will I give
it--
33:2 and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite,
the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite--
33:3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst
of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I consume thee in the way.'
33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did
put on him his ornaments.
33:5 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Say unto the children of Israel: Ye are a
stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall
consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know
what to do unto thee.'
33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from
mount Horeb onward.
33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off
from the camp; and he called it The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that
every one that sought the Lord went out unto the tent of meeting, which was
without the camp.
33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the Tent, that all the people
rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he
was gone into the Tent.
33:9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud
descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and the Lord spoke with Moses.
33:10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the
Tent, all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.
33:11 And the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his
friend. And he would return into the camp; but his minister Joshua, the son of
Nun, a young man, departed not out of the Tent.
33:12 And Moses said unto the Lord: 'See, Thou sayest unto me: Bring up this
people; and Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me. Yet Thou hast
said: I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in My sight.
33:13 Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in Thy sight, show me
now Thy ways, that I may know Thee, to the end that I may find grace in Thy
sight; and consider that this nation is Thy people.'
33:14 And He said: 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.'
33:15 And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up
hence.
33:16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sight, I
and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are
distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of
the earth?'
33:17 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'I will do this thing also that thou hast
spoken, for thou hast found grace in My sight, and I know thee by name.'
33:18 And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.'
33:19 And He said: 'I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and will
proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will
be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.'
33:20 And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and
live.'
33:21 And the Lord said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand
upon the rock.
33:22 And it shall come to pass, while 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.
33:23 And I will take away My hand, and thou shalt see My back; but My face
shall not be seen.'
34:1 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the
first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables,
which thou didst break.
34:2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai,
and present thyself there to Me on the top of the mount.
34:3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout
all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.'
34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up
early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded
him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
34:5 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of the Lord.
34:6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed: 'The the Lord, the Lord,
God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth;
34:7 keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children,
unto the third and unto the fourth generation.'
34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
34:9 And he said: 'If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O L-rd, let the L-rd,
I pray Thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.'
34:10 And He said: 'Behold, I make a covenant; before all thy people I will do
marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and
all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord that I am
about to do with thee, that it is tremendous.
34:11 Observe thou that which I am commanding thee this day; behold, I am
driving out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of
the land whither thou goest, lest they be for a snare in the midst of thee.
34:13 But ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars,
and ye shall cut down their Asherim.
34:14 For thou shalt bow down to no other god; for the Lord, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God;
34:15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go
astray after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and they call thee,
and thou eat of their sacrifice;
34:16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go
astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods.
34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib,
for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
34:19 All that openeth the womb is Mine; and of all thy cattle thou shalt
sanctify the males, the firstlings of ox and sheep.
34:20 And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou
wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the first-born of thy
sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty.
34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in
plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of
wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.
34:23 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the L-rd GOD,
the God of Israel.
34:24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders; neither
shall any man covet thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the Lord thy
God three times in the year.
34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the
morning.
34:26 The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of
the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.'
34:27 And the Lord said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor
of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.'
34:28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither
eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the
covenant, the ten words.
34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two
tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that
Moses knew not that the skin of his face sent forth beams while He talked with
him.
34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
of his face sent forth beams; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the
congregation returned unto him; and Moses spoke to them.
34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh, and he gave them in
commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
34:33 And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34:34 But when Moses went in before the Lord that He might speak with him, he
took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out; and spoke unto the
children of Israel that which he was commanded.
34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses'
face sent forth beams; and Moses put the veil back upon his face, until he went
in to speak with Him.
35:1 And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and
said unto them: 'These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye
should do them.
35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a
holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whosoever doeth any work therein
shall be put to death.
35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.'
35:4 And Moses spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel,
saying: 'This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying:
35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord, whosoever is of a willing
heart, let him bring it, the Lord'S offering: gold, and silver, and brass;
35:6 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;
35:7 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;
35:8 and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense;
35:9 and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the
breastplate.
35:10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the Lord
hath commanded:
35:11 the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards,
its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
35:12 the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the
screen;
35:13 the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread;
35:14 the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and
the oil for the light;
35:15 and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the
sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
35:16 the altar of burnt-offering, with its grating of brass, its staves, and
all its vessels, the laver and its base;
35:17 the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the
screen for the gate of the court;
35:18 the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;
35:19 the plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office.'
35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the
presence of Moses.
35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom
his spirit made willing, and brought the Lord'S offering, for the work of the
tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments.
35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and
brought nose-rings, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and girdles, all jewels of
gold; even every man that brought an offering of gold unto the Lord.
35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them.
35:24 Every one that did set apart an offering of silver and brass brought the
Lord'S offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia-wood for any work of
the service, brought it.
35:25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the
fine linen.
35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats'
hair.
35:27 And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the
ephod, and for the breastplate;
35:28 and the spice, and the oil, for the light, and for the anointing oil, and
for the sweet incense.
35:29 The children of Israel brought a freewill-offering unto the Lord; every
man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which
the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses to be made.
35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel: 'See, the Lord hath called by
name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
35:31 And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
35:32 And to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
35:33 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in
all manner of skilful workmanship.
35:34 And He hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35:35 Them hath He filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of
workmanship, of the craftsman, and of the skilful workman, and of the weaver in
colours, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the
weaver, even of them that do any workmanship, and of those that devise skilful
works.
36:1 And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom the
Lord hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the
service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord hath commanded.'
36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose
heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come
unto the work to do it.
36:3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel
had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it.
And they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning.
36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came
every man from his work which they wrought.
36:5 And they spoke unto Moses, saying: 'The people bring much more than enough
for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.'
36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the camp, saying: 'Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering
of the sanctuary.' So the people were restrained from bringing.
36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too
much. 8 And every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work made the
tabernacle with ten curtains: of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman made he them.
36:9 The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of
each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure.
36:10 And he coupled five curtains one to another; and the other five curtains
he coupled one to another.
36:11 And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that was
outmost in the first set; likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was
outmost in the second set.
36:12 Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the
edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to
another.
36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another
with the clasps; so the tabernacle was one. 14 And he made curtains of goats'
hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he made them.
36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth
of each curtain; the eleven curtains had one measure.
36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves.
36:17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the
first set, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which was
outmost in the second set.
36:18 And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it
might be one.
36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering of sealskins above.
36:20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.
36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth
of each board.
36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. Thus did he make for all
the boards of the tabernacle.
36:23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south
side southward.
36:24 And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets
under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its
two tenons.
36:25 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made
twenty boards,
36:26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
36:27 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder
part;
36:29 that they might be double beneath, and in like manner they should be
complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring. Thus he did to both of them
in the two corners.
36:30 And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets:
under every board two sockets.
36:31 And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of
the tabernacle,
36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
36:33 And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from
the one end to the other.
36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for
holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
36:35 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen; with the cherubim the work of the skilful workman made he it.
36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold,
their hooks being of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
36:37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours;
36:38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks; and he overlaid their
capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of brass.
37:1 And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was the
length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half
the height of it.
37:2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of
gold to it round about.
37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof: even two
rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
37:4 And he made staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold.
37:5 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the
ark.
37:6 And he made an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length
thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
37:7 And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two
ends of the ark-cover:
37:8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of one piece
with the ark-cover made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof.
37:9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover
with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the
faces of the cherubim.
37:10 And he made the table of acacia-wood: two cubits was the length thereof,
and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round
about.
37:12 And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a
golden crown to the border thereof round about.
37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four
corners that were on the four feet thereof.
37:14 Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the
table.
37:15 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to
bear the table.
37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes thereof, and
the pans thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the jars thereof, wherewith to pour
out, of pure gold.
37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the
candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers,
were of one piece with it.
37:18 And there were six branches going 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;
37:19 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower;
and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a
flower. So for the six branches going out of the candlestick.
37:20 And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops
thereof, and the flowers thereof;
37:21 and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two
branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with
it, for the six branches going out of it.
37:22 Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it
was one beaten work of pure gold.
37:23 And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the tongs thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, of pure gold.
37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
37:25 And he made the altar of incense of acacia-wood: a cubit was the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, four-square; and two cubits was the
height thereof; the horns thereof were of one piece with it.
37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof
round about, and the horns of it; and he made unto it a crown of gold round
about.
37:27 And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two
ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for holders for staves wherewith to bear
it.
37:28 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold.
37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices,
after the art of the perfumer.
38:1 And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia-wood: five cubits was the
length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, four-square, and three
cubits the height thereof.
38:2 And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns
thereof were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with brass.
38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and
the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans; all the vessels thereof made he
of brass.
38:4 And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge
round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be
holders for the staves.
38:6 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with brass.
38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, wherewith
to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.
38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the
mirrors of the serving women that did service at the door of the tent of
meeting.
38:9 And he made the court; for the south side southward the hangings of the
court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits.
38:10 Their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
38:11 And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their
sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten,
and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
38:14 The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
38:15 And so for the other side; on this hand and that hand by the gate of the
court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
three.
38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars
and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and
all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
38:18 And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the weaver in
colours, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty
cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable
to the hangings of the court.
38:19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets four of brass; their hooks
of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.
38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of
brass.
38:21 These are the accounts of the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the
testimony, as they were rendered according to the commandment of Moses, through
the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the
priest.--
38:22 And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made
all that the Lord commanded Moses.
38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a
craftsman, and a skilful workman, and a weaver in colours, in blue, and in
purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.--
38:24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary,
even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred
and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a
hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and three-score and fifteen
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
38:26 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old
and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and
fifty men.
38:27 And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the
sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil: a hundred sockets for the hundred
talents, a talent for a socket.
38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks
for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand and
four hundred shekels.
38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and
the brazen altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the
altar,
38:31 and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the gate of
the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court
round about.
39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments, for
ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord
commanded Moses.
39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads, to
work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine
linen, the work of the skilful workman.
39:4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it
joined together.
39:5 And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on,
was of the same piece and like the work thereof: of gold, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the Lord commanded Moses.
39:6 And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with
the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
39:7 And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of
memorial for the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
39:8 And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful workman, like the work
of the ephod: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
39:9 It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length
thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and
smaragd was the first row.
39:11 And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald.
39:12 And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.
39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were inclosed in
fittings of gold in their settings.
39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one
according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
39:15 And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of
pure gold.
39:16 And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two
rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the ends
of the breastplate.
39:18 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two
settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart
thereof.
39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two ends of the
breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was toward the side of the ephod
inward.
39:20 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces
of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof,
above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of
the ephod with a thread of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band
of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as
the Lord commanded Moses.
39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;
39:23 and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of
mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.
39:24 And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the
pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates:
39:26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the
robe round about, to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.
39:27 And they made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for
his sons,
39:28 and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and
the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
39:29 and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
the work of the weaver in colours; as the Lord commanded Moses.
39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it
a writing, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE the Lord.
39:31 And they tied unto it a thread of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above;
as the Lord commanded Moses.
39:32 Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting;
and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses,
so did they.
39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its
furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets;
39:34 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins,
and the veil of the screen;
39:35 the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the ark-cover;
39:36 the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;
39:37 the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps to be set in
order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light;
39:38 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and
the screen for the door of the Tent;
39:39 the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its
vessels, the laver and its base;
39:40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen
for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the
instruments of the service of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting;
39:41 the plaited garments for ministering in the holy place; the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office.
39:42 According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel
did all the work.
39:43 And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as the Lord had
commanded, even so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.
40:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
40:2 'On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of
the tent of meeting.
40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen
the ark with the veil.
40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the bread that is upon
it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
40:5 And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the
testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
40:6 And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and
shalt put water therein.
40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the
gate of the court.
40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all
that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the furniture thereof; and it
shall be holy.
40:10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels,
and sanctify the altar; and the altar shall be most holy.
40:11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
40:12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of
meeting, and shalt wash them with water.
40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments; and thou shalt anoint
him, and sanctify him, that he may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
40:14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put tunics upon them.
40:15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they
may minister unto Me in the priest's office; and their anointing shall be to
them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.' 16 Thus did
Moses; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.
40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first
day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the
boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars.
40:19 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the
tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.
40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the
ark, and put the ark-cover above upon the ark.
40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the
screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.
40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the
tabernacle northward, without the veil.
40:23 And he set a row of bread in order upon it before the Lord; as the Lord
commanded Moses.
40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table,
on the side of the tabernacle southward.
40:25 And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.
40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;
40:27 and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as the Lord commanded Moses.
40:28 And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
40:29 And the altar of burnt-offering he set at the door of the tabernacle of
the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the
meal-offering; as the Lord commanded Moses.
40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put
water therein, wherewith to wash;
40:31 that Moses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet
thereat;
40:32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the
altar, they should wash; as the Lord commanded Moses.
40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and
set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord
filled the tabernacle.
40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the
cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.--
40:36 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children
of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys.
40:37 But if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day
that it was taken up.
40:38 For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was
fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all
their journeys.
Leviticus
1:1 THE the Lord called unto Moses, and spoke unto him out of the tent of
meeting, saying:
1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man of you
bringeth an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle,
even of the herd or of the flock. 3 If his offering be a burnt-offering of the
herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish; he shall bring it to the door of
the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.
1:4 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall
be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord; and Aaron's sons, the
priests, shall present the blood, and dash the blood round about against the
altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.
1:6 And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.
1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood
in order upon the fire.
1:8 And Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, and the head, and the
suet, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar;
1:9 but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall
make the whole smoke on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
1:10 And if his offering be of the flock, whether of the sheep, or of the goats,
for a burnt-offering, he shall offer it a male without blemish.
1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord;
and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against the altar round
about.
1:12 And he shall cut it into its pieces; and the priest shall lay them, with
its head and its suet, in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon
the altar.
1:13 But the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall
offer the whole, and make it smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
1:14 And if his offering to the Lord be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall
bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons.
1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and pinch off its head, and
make it smoke on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the
side of the altar.
1:16 And he shall take away its crop with the feathers thereof, and cast it
beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.
1:17 And he shall rend it by the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder;
and the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon
the fire; it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the Lord.
2:1 And when any one bringeth a meal-offering unto the Lord, his offering shall
be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon.
2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take
thereout his handful of the fine flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, together
with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall make the memorial-part
thereof smoke upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the Lord.
2:3 But that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aaron's and his sons';
it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
2:4 And when thou bringest a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be
unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers spread
with oil.
2:5 And if thy offering be a meal-offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of
fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
2:6 Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering.
2:7 And if thy offering be a meal-offering of the stewing-pan, it shall be made
of fine flour with oil.
2:8 And thou shalt bring the meal-offering that is made of these things unto the
Lord; and it shall be presented unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the
altar.
2:9 And the priest shall take off from the meal-offering the memorial-part
thereof, and shall make it smoke upon the altar--an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the Lord.
2:10 But that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aaron's and his sons';
it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
2:11 No meal-offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with
leaven; for ye shall make no leaven, nor any honey, smoke as an offering made by
fire unto the Lord.
2:12 As an offering of first-fruits ye may bring them unto the Lord; but they
shall not come up for a sweet savour on the altar.
2:13 And every meal-offering of thine shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt
thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy
meal-offering; with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt.
2:14 And if thou bring a meal-offering of first-fruits unto the Lord, thou shalt
bring for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits corn in the ear parched with
fire, even groats of the fresh ear.
2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a
meal-offering.
2:16 And the priest shall make the memorial-part of it smoke, even of the groats
thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; it is an
offering made by fire unto the Lord.
3:1 And if his offering be a sacrifice of peace-offerings: if he offer of the
herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.
3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the
door of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons the priests shall dash the blood
against the altar round about.
3:3 And he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by
fire unto the Lord: the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is
upon the inwards,
3:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and
the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away hard by the kidneys.
3:5 And Aaron's sons shall make it smoke on the altar upon the burnt-offering,
which is upon the wood that is on the fire; it is an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the Lord.
3:6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the Lord be of
the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
3:7 If he bring a lamb for his offering, then shall he present it before the
Lord.
3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before
the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall dash the blood thereof against the
altar round about.
3:9 And he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by
fire unto the Lord: the fat thereof, the fat tail entire, which he shall take
away hard by the rump-bone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the
fat that is upon the inwards,
3:10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins,
and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.
3:11 And the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the
offering made by fire unto the Lord.
3:12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall present it before the Lord.
3:13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tent
of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall dash the blood thereof against the altar
round about.
3:14 And he shall present thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire
unto the Lord: the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon
the inwards,
3:15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins,
and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.
3:16 And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the
offering made by fire, for a sweet savour; all the fat is the Lord'S.
3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your
dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
4:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any one shall sin through
error, in any of the things which the Lord hath commanded not to be done, and
shall do any one of them:
4:3 if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then
let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish
unto the Lord for a sin-offering.
4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tent of meeting before
the Lord; and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and kill the
bullock before the Lord.
4:5 And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it
to the tent of meeting.
4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood
seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
4:7 And the priest shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet
incense before the Lord, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the remaining
blood of the bullock shall he pour out at the base of the altar of
burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
4:8 And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he shall take off from
it; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
4:9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins,
and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by kidneys,
4:10 as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the
priest shall make them smoke upon the altar of burnt-offering.
4:11 But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its
legs, and its inwards, and its dung,
4:12 even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without 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.
4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel shall err, the thing being hid from
the eyes of the assembly, and do any of the things which the Lord hath commanded
not to be done, and are guilty:
4:14 when the sin wherein they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall
offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and bring it before the tent of
meeting.
4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of
the bullock before the Lord; and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.
4:16 And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent
of meeting.
4:17 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven
times before the Lord, in front of the veil.
4:18 And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before
the Lord, that is in the tent of meeting, and all the remaining blood shall he
pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the
tent of meeting.
4:19 And all the fat thereof shall he take off from it, and make it smoke upon
the altar.
4:20 Thus shall he do with the bullock; as he did with the bullock of the
sin-offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for
them, and they shall be forgiven.
4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he
burned the first bullock; it is the sin-offering for the assembly.
4:22 When a ruler sinneth, and doeth through error any one of all the things
which the Lord his God hath commanded not to be done, and is guilty:
4:23 if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be known to him, he shall bring for his
offering a goat, a male without blemish.
4:24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the
place where they kill the burnt-offering before the Lord; it is a sin-offering.
4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger,
and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and the remaining
blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering.
4:26 And all the fat thereof shall he make smoke upon the altar, as the fat of
the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him as
concerning his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through error, in doing any of the
things which the Lord hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty:
4:28 if his sin, which he hath sinned, be known to him, then he shall bring for
his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
4:29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill the
sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering.
4:30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it
upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining blood
thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.
4:31 And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat is taken away from
off the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make it smoke upon
the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement
for him, and he shall be forgiven.
4:32 And if he bring a lamb as his offering for a sin-offering, he shall bring
it a female without blemish.
4:33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill it
for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the burnt-offering.
4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger,
and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining
blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.
4:35 And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken
away from the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make them smoke
on the altar, upon the offerings of the Lord made by fire; and the priest shall
make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned, and he shall be
forgiven.
5:1 And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he being a
witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter it, then he shall
bear his iniquity;
5:2 or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an
unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean
swarming things, and be guilty, it being hidden from him that he is unclean;
5:3 or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be
wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be
guilty;
5:4 or if any one swear clearly with his lips to do evil, or to do good,
whatsoever it be that a man shall utter clearly with an oath, and it be hid from
him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty in one of these things;
5:5 and it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he
shall confess that wherein he hath sinned;
5:6 and he shall bring his forfeit unto the Lord for his sin which he hath
sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering; and the
priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin.
5:7 And if his means suffice not for a lamb, then he shall bring his forfeit for
that wherein he hath sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, unto the
Lord: one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering.
5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for
the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its neck, but shall not
divide it asunder.
5:9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering upon the side of the
altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar;
it is a sin-offering.
5:10 And he shall prepare the second for a burnt-offering, according to the
ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin
which he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
5:11 But if his means suffice not for two turtledoves, or two young pigeons,
then he shall bring his offering for that wherein he hath sinned, the tenth part
of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall put no oil upon it,
neither shall he put any frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering.
5:12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful
of it as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke on the altar, upon the
offerings of the Lord made by fire; it is a sin-offering.
5:13 And the priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he
hath sinned in any of these things, and he shall be forgiven; and the remnant
shall be the priest's, as the meal-offering.
5:14 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
5:15 If any one commit a trespass, and sin through error, in the holy things of
the Lord, then he shall bring his forfeit unto the Lord, a ram without blemish
out of the flock, according to thy valuation in silver by shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt-offering.
5:16 And he shall make restitution for that which he hath done amiss in the holy
thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and
the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering, and
he shall be forgiven.
5:17 And if any one sin, and do any of the things which the Lord hath commanded
not to be done, though he know it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his
iniquity.
5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy
valuation, for a guilt-offering, unto the priest; and the priest shall make
atonement for him concerning the error which he committed, though he knew it
not, and he shall be forgiven.
5:19 It is a guilt-offering--he is certainly guilty before the Lord.
5:20 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
5:21 If any one sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and deal falsely
with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of pledge, or of robbery, or have
oppressed his neighbour;
5:22 or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear to a
lie; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein;
5:23 then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore
that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression,
or the deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost thing which he found,
5:24 or any thing about which he hath sworn falsely, he shall even restore it in
full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto; unto him to whom it
appertaineth shall he give it, in the day of his being guilty.
5:25 And he shall bring his forfeit unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of
the flock, according to thy valuation, for a guilt-offering, unto the priest.
5:26 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall
be forgiven, concerning whatsoever he doeth so as to be guilty thereby.
6:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
6:2 Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt-offering:
it is that which goeth up on its firewood upon the altar all night unto the
morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning thereby.
6:3 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall
he put upon his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes whereto the fire hath
consumed the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the
altar.
6:4 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry
forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
6:5 And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby, it shall not go
out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the
burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the
peace-offerings.
6:6 Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
6:7 And this is the law of the meal-offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it
before the Lord, in front of the altar.
6:8 And he shall take up therefrom his handful, of the fine flour of the
meal-offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon
the meal-offering, and shall make the memorial-part thereof smoke upon the altar
for a sweet savour unto the Lord.
6:9 And that which is left thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat; it shall be
eaten without leaven in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they
shall eat it.
6:10 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My
offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the
guilt-offering.
6:11 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as a due for ever
throughout your generations, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire;
whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
6:12 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
6:13 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto
the Lord in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine
flour for a meal-offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half
thereof in the evening.
6:14 On a griddle it shall be made with oil; when it is soaked, thou shalt bring
it in; in broken pieces shalt thou offer the meal-offering for a sweet savour
unto the Lord.
6:15 And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from among his sons
shall offer it, it is a due for ever; it shall be wholly made to smoke unto the
Lord.
6:16 And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it
shall not be eaten.
6:17 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
6:18 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying: This is the law of the
sin-offering: in the place where the burnt-offering is killed shall the
sin-offering be killed before the Lord; it is most holy.
6:19 The 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.
6:20 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is
sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it
was sprinkled in a holy place.
6:21 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be
sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
6:22 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it is most holy.
6:23 And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of
meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt
with fire.
7:1 And this is the law of the guilt-offering: it is most holy.
7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the
guilt-offering: and the blood thereof shall be dashed against the altar round
about.
7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that
covereth the inwards,
7:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and
the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.
7:5 And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by
fire unto the Lord; it is a guilt-offering.
7:6 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it shall be eaten in a holy
place; it is most holy.
7:7 As is the sin-offering, so is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them;
the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it.
7:8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt-offering, even the priest shall
have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered.
7:9 And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed
in the stewing-pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offereth it.
7:10 And every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of
Aaron have, one as well as another.
7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one may
offer unto the Lord.
7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice
of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread
with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked.
7:13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the
sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.
7:14 And of it he shall present one out of each offering for a gift unto the
Lord; it shall be the priest's that dasheth the blood of the peace-offerings
against the altar.
7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving
shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until
the morning.
7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a freewill-offering, it
shall be eaten on the day that he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow that
which remaineth of it may be eaten.
7:17 But that which remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day
shall be burnt with fire.
7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be at all
eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed
unto him that offereth it; it shall be an abhorred thing, and the soul that
eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall
be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean may eat
thereof.
7:20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings,
that pertain unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be
cut off from his people.
7:21 And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, whether it be the
uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean detestable thing, and
eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which pertain unto the
Lord, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7:22 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or
sheep, or goat.
7:24 And the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is
torn of beasts, may be used for any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat
of it.
7:25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men present an offering
made by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from
his people.
7:26 And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in
any of your dwellings.
7:27 Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his
people.
7:28 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth his sacrifice
of peace-offerings unto the Lord shall bring his offering unto the Lord out of
his sacrifice of peace-offerings.
7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire: the fat
with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering
before the Lord.
7:31 And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast
shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
7:32 And the right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out
of your sacrifices of peace-offerings.
7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace-offerings,
and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.
7:34 For the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving have I taken of the
children of Israel out of their sacrifices of peace-offerings, and have given
them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons as a due for ever from the children
of Israel.
7:35 This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of
his sons, out of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when they
were presented to minister unto the Lord in the priest's office;
7:36 which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the
day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.
7:37 This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the
sin-offering, and of the guilt-offering, and of the consecration-offering, and
of the sacrifice of peace-offerings;
7:38 which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded
the children of Israel to present their offerings unto the Lord, in the
wilderness of Sinai.
8:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
8:2 'Take 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;
8:3 and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.'
8:4 And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the congregation was assembled
at the door of the tent of meeting.
8:5 And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the Lord hath
commanded to be done.'
8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
8:7 And he put upon him the tunic, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed
him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the
skilfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
8:8 And he placed the breastplate upon him; and in the breastplate he put the
Urim and the Thummim.
8:9 And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set
the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.
8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that
was therein, and sanctified them.
8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar
and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.
8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to
sanctify him.
8:13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with tunics, and girded
them with girdles, and bound head-tires upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses.
8:14 And the bullock of the sin-offering was brought; and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands upon the head of the bullock of the sin-offering.
8:15 And when it was slain, Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of
the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out
the remaining blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make
atonement for it.
8:16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe of the
liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses made it smoke upon the
altar.
8:17 But the bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, were burnt with
fire without the camp; as the Lord commanded Moses.
8:18 And the ram of the burnt-offering was presented; and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
8:19 And when it was killed, Moses dashed the blood against the altar round
about.
8:20 And when the ram was cut into its pieces, Moses made the head, and the
pieces, and the suet smoke.
8:21 And when the inwards and the legs were washed with water, Moses made the
whole ram smoke upon the altar; it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savour; it
was an offering made by fire unto the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.
8:22 And the other ram was presented, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his
sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
8:23 And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood thereof, and put it upon the
tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot.
8:24 And Aaron's sons were brought, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of
their right ear, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe
of their right foot; and Moses dashed the blood against the altar round about.
8:25 And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was upon the
inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the
right thigh.
8:26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he
took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed
them on the fat, and upon the right thigh.
8:27 And he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his
sons, and waved them for a wave-offering before the Lord.
8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and made them smoke on the altar
upon the burnt-offering; they were a consecration-offering for a sweet savour;
it was an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering before the
Lord; it was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as the Lord commanded
Moses.
8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the
altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons,
and upon his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, and his garments,
and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
8:31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons: 'Boil the flesh at the door of
the tent of meeting; and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of
consecration, as I commanded, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
8:32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with
fire.
8:33 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days,
until the days of your consecration be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you
seven days.
8:34 As hath been done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make
atonement for you.
8:35 And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven
days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not; for so I am commanded.
8:36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord commanded by the
hand of Moses.
9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons,
and the elders of Israel;
9:2 and he said unto Aaron: 'Take thee a bull-calf for a sin-offering, and a ram
for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
9:3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying: Take ye a he-goat
for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without
blemish, for a burnt-offering;
9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord; and a
meal-offering mingled with oil; for to-day the Lord appeareth unto you.'
9:5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and
all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.
9:6 And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should
do; that the glory of the Lord may appear unto you.'
9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Draw near unto the altar, and offer thy
sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for
the people; and present the offering of the people, and make atonement for them;
as the Lord commanded.'
9:8 So Aaron drew near unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering,
which was for himself.
9:9 And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger
in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood
at the base of the altar.
9:10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver of the
sin-offering, he made smoke upon the altar; as the Lord commanded Moses.
9:11 And the flesh and the skin were burnt with fire without the camp.
9:12 And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the
blood, and he dashed it against the altar round about.
9:13 And they delivered the burnt-offering unto him, piece by piece, and the
head; and he made them smoke upon the altar.
9:14 And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the
burnt-offering on the altar.
9:15 And the people's offering was presented; and he took the goat of the
sin-offering which was for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as
the first.
9:16 And the burnt-offering was presented; and he offered it according to the
ordinance.
9:17 And the meal-offering was presented; and he filled his hand therefrom, and
made it smoke upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning.
9:18 He slew also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which
was for the people; and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the blood, and he dashed
it against the altar round about,
9:19 and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which
covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.
9:20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the
altar.
9:21 And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before
the Lord; as Moses commanded.
9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he
came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the
peace-offerings.
9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and
blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people.
9:24 And there came forth fire from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar
the burnt-offering and the fat; and when all the people saw it, they shouted,
and fell on their faces.
10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and
put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the
Lord, which He had not commanded them.
10:2 And there came forth fire from before the Lord, and devoured them, and they
died before the Lord.
10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron: 'This is it that the Lord spoke, saying:
Through them that are nigh unto Me I will be sanctified, and before all the
people I will be glorified.' And Aaron held his peace.
10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of
Aaron, and said unto them: 'Draw near, carry your brethren from before the
sanctuary out of the camp.'
10:5 So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as
Moses had said.
10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons:
'Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither tend your clothes, that ye die
not, and that He be not wroth with all the congregation; but let your brethren,
the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.
10:7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die;
for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you.' And they did according to the
word of Moses.
10:8 And the Lord spoke unto Aaron, saying:
10:9 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go
into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a statute forever
throughout your generations.
10:10 And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and
between the unclean and the clean;
10:11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the
Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'
10:12 And Moses spoke unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons
that were left: 'Take the meal-offering that remaineth of the offerings of the
Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is most
holy.
10:13 And ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons'
due, of the offerings of the Lord made by fire; for so I am commanded.
10:14 And the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving shall ye eat in a clean
place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for they are given as
thy due, and thy sons' due, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the
children of Israel.
10:15 The thigh of heaving and the breast of waving shall they bring with the
offerings of the fat made by fire, to wave it for a wave-offering before the
Lord; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, as a due for ever; as the
Lord hath commanded.'
10:16 And Moses diligently inquired for the goat of the sin-offering, and,
behold, it was burnt; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons
of Aaron that were left, saying:
10:17 'Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the
sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity
of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
10:18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within; ye
should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.'
10:19 And Aaron spoke unto Moses: 'Behold, this day have they offered their
sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the Lord, and there have befallen
me such things as these; and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it
have been well-pleasing in the sight of the Lord?
10:20 And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.
11:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them:
11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: These are the living things
which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the
cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of
them that only part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud but parteth
not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.
11:5 And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof,
he is unclean unto you.
11:6 And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is
unclean unto you
11:7 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but
cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.
11:8 Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch;
they are unclean unto you.
11:9 These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and
scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them may ye eat.
11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of
all that swarm in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the
waters, they are a detestable thing unto you,
11:11 and they shall be a detestable thing unto you; ye shall not eat of their
flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in detestation.
11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable
thing unto you.
11:13 And these ye shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall not be
eaten, they are a detestable thing: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture,
and the ospray;
11:14 and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds;
11:15 every raven after its kinds;
11:16 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after
its kinds;
11:17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl;
11:18 and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;
11:19 and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
11:20 All winged swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing
unto you.
11:21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours,
which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;
11:22 even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald
locust after its kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper
after its kinds.
11:23 But all winged swarming things, which have four feet, are a detestable
thing unto you.
11:24 And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of
them shall be unclean until even.
11:25 And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even.
11:26 Every beast which parteth the hoof, but is not cloven footed, nor cheweth
the cud, is unclean unto you; every one that to toucheth them shall be unclean.
11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours,
they are unclean unto you; whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until
the even.
11:28 And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even; they are unclean unto you.
11:29 And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things
that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after
its kinds,
11:30 and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the
sand-lizard, and the chameleon.
11:31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that swarm; whosoever
doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
11:32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall
be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack,
whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water,
and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.
11:33 And every earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in
it shall be unclean, and it ye shall break.
11:34 All food therein which may be eaten, that on which water cometh, shall be
unclean; and all drink in every such vessel that may be drunk shall be unclean.
11:35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be
unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are
unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.
11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or a cistern wherein is a gathering of water shall
be clean; but he who toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.
11:37 And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be
sown, it is clean.
11:38 But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall
thereon, it is unclean unto you.
11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carcass
thereof shall be unclean until the even.
11:40 And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even; he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even.
11:41 And every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth is a detestable
thing; it shall not be eaten.
11:42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or
whatsoever hath many feet, even all swarming things that swarm upon the earth,
them ye shall not eat; for they are a detestable thing.
11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that
swarmeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be
defiled thereby.
11:44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy;
for I am holy; neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of swarming
thing that moveth upon the earth.
11:45 For I am the Lord that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God; ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
11:46 This is the law of the beast, and of the fowl, and of every living
creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that swarmeth upon the
earth;
11:47 to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the
living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
12:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
12:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a woman be delivered, and
bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the
impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.
12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
12:4 And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and thirty days;
she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days
of her purification be fulfilled.
12:5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in
her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and
six days.
12:6 And when the days of her purification are fulfilled, for a son, or for a
daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a
young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tent of
meeting, unto the priest.
12:7 And he shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her; and she
shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that
beareth, whether a male or a female.
12:8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: the 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.
13:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a
bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then
he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests.
13:3 And the priest shall look upon the plague in the skin of the flesh; and if
the hair in the plague be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be
deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest
shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
13:4 And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the
appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not
turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days.
13:5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day; and, behold, if the
plague stay in its appearance, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then
the priest shall shut him up seven days more.
13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the
plague be dim, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him clean: it is a scab; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
13:7 But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath shown himself
to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
13:8 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.
13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the
priest.
13:10 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if there be a white rising in the
skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the
rising,
13:11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall
pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean.
13:12 And if the leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all
the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his feet, as far as
appeareth to the priest;
13:13 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all
his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague; it is all turned
white: he is clean.
13:14 But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
13:15 And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the
raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.
13:16 But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come unto
the priest;
13:17 and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the plague be turned
into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he
is clean.
13:18 And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot,
reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.
13:20 And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower
than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the
boil.
13:21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs
therein, and it be not lower than the skin, but be dim, then the priest shall
shut him up seven days.
13:22 And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is a plague.
13:23 But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the
scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:24 Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the
quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;
13:25 then the priest shall look upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright
spot be turned white, and the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, it is
leprosy, it hath broken out in the burning; and the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the
bright spot, and it be no lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall
shut him up seven days.
13:27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day; if it spread abroad in
the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of
leprosy.
13:28 And if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread in the skin,
but be dim, it is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him
clean; for it is the scar of the burning.
13:29 And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,
13:30 then the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the appearance
thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it yellow thin hair, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scall, it is leprosy of the head or
of the beard.
13:31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, the
appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and there be no black hair in
it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven
days.
13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold,
if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the
appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin,
13:33 then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest
shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more.
13:34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if
the scall be not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof be not deeper
than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his
clothes, and be clean.
13:35 But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing,
13:36 then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in
the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair: he is unclean.
13:37 But if the scall stay in its appearance, and black hair be grown up
therein; the scall is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him
clean.
13:38 And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even
white bright spots;
13:39 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin
of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the
skin: he is clean.
13:40 And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
13:41 And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is
forehead-bald; yet is he clean.
13:42 But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white
plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
13:43 Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the
plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the
appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
13:44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him
unclean: his plague is in his head.
13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the
hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall
cry: 'Unclean, unclean.'
13:46 All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is
unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.
13:47 And when the plague of leprosy is in a garment, whether it be a woolen
garment, or a linen garment;
13:48 or in the warp, or in the woof, whether they be of linen, or of wool; or
in a skin, or in any thing made of skin.
13:49 If the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in
the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is the plague of leprosy,
and shall be shown unto the priest.
13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the
plague seven days.
13:51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be
spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever
service skin is used for, the plague is a malignant leprosy: it is unclean.
13:52 And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, whether it be of
wool or of linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is; for it is a
malignant leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
13:53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the
garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
13:54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague
is, and he shall shut it up seven days more.
13:55 And the priest shall look, after that the plague is washed; and, behold,
if the plague have not changed its colour, and the plague be not spread, it is
unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is a fret, whether the bareness be
within or without.
13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing
thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of
the warp, or out of the woof.
13:57 And if it appear still in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin, it is breaking out, thou shalt burn that wherein the
plague is with fire.
13:58 And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it
be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be
washed the second time, and shall be clean.
13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or
in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or
to pronounce it unclean.
14:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be
brought unto the priest.
14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look,
and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
14:4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two
living clean birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
14:5 And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water.
14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of
the bird that was killed over the running water.
14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy
seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird
into the open field.
14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his
hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean; and after that he may
come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
14:9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off
his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off;
and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he
shall be clean.
14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one
ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephah of
fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
14:11 And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be
cleansed, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting.
14:12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a
guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before the
Lord.
14:13 And he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the
sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the
sin-offering is the priest's, so is the guilt-offering; it is most holy.
14:14 And the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt-offering, and the
priest shall 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 upon the great toe of his right foot.
14:15 And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of
his own left hand.
14:16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left
hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
14:17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon
the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the
guilt-offering.
14:18 And the rest 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 the Lord.
14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him
that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill
the burnt-offering.
14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the meal-offering upon
the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21 And if he be poor, and his means suffice not, then he shall take one
he-lamb for a guilt-offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a
log of oil;
14:22 and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;
and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering.
14:23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing unto the
priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before the Lord.
14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the log of
oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the Lord.
14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the priest shall
take of the blood of the guilt-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
upon the great toe of his right foot.
14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.
14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that
is in his left hand seven times before the Lord.
14:28 And 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 upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of
the guilt-offering.
14:29 And the rest 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 the Lord.
14:30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such
as his means suffice for;
14:31 even such as his means suffice for, the one for a sin-offering, and the
other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.
14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means
suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
14:33 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
14:34 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a
possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your
possession;
14:35 then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying:
'There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.'
14:36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest
go in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and
afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.
14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the
walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance
thereof be lower than the wall;
14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and
shut up the house seven days.
14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and,
behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
14:40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the
plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city.
14:41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they
shall pour out the mortar that they scrape off without the city into an unclean
place.
14:42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those
stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that the
stones have been taken out, and after the house hath been scraped, and after it
is plastered;
14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be
spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber
thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of
the city into an unclean place.
14:46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up
shall be unclean until the even.
14:47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth
in the house shall wash his clothes.
14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague hath
not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall
pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop.
14:50 And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running
water.
14:51 And he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the
living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running
water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
14:52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the
running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the
hyssop, and with the scarlet.
14:53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field;
so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.
14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall;
14:55 and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house;
14:56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
14:57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean; this is the law of
leprosy.
15:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying:
15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man hath an
issue out of his flesh, his issue is unclean.
15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with
his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
15:4 Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lieth shall be unclean; and every
thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.
15:5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the even.
15:6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he that hath the issue sat shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:9 And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean.
15:10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until
the even; and he that beareth those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:11 And whomsoever he that hath the issue toucheth, without having rinsed his
hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
15:12 And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be
broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
15:13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall
number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he
shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two young
pigeons, and come before the Lord unto the door of the tent of meeting, and give
them unto the priest.
15:15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin-offering, and the other
for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the
Lord for his issue.
15:16 And if the flow of seed go out from a man, then he shall bathe all his
flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be
washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
15:18 The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe
themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she
shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean
until the even.
15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean;
every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sitteth upon shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:23 And if he be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he
toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
15:24 And if any man lie with her, and her impurity be upon him, he shall be
unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her
impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days
of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she
is unclean.
15:26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as
the bed of her impurity; and every thing whereon she sitteth shall be unclean,
as the uncleanness of her impurity.
15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself
seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two
young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tent of
meeting.
15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a
burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for
the issue of her uncleanness.
15:31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that
they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is in the
midst of them.
15:32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow
of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby;
15:33 and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of them that have an issue,
whether it be a man, or a woman; and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
16:1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they drew near before the Lord, and died;
16:2 and the Lord said unto Moses: 'Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come
not at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the ark-cover which
is upon the ark; that he die not; for I appear in the cloud upon the ark-cover.
16:3 Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a
sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.
16:4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and he shall have the linen breeches
upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen
mitre shall he be attired; they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his
flesh in water, and put them on.
16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two
he-goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering.
16:6 And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for
himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house.
16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at the door
of the tent of meeting.
16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the Lord, and the
other lot for Azazel.
16:9 And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for the Lord, and
offer him for a sin-offering.
16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before
the Lord, to make atonement over him, to send him away for Azazel into the
wilderness.
16:11 And 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 kill
the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself.
16:12 And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before
the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within
the veil.
16:13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud
of the incense may cover the ark-cover that is upon the testimony, that he die
not.
16:14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his
finger upon the ark-cover on the east; and before the ark-cover shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is for the people,
and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the
blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the ark-cover, and before the
ark-cover.
16:16 And he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the
uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions,
even all their sins; and so shall he do for the tent of meeting, that dwelleth
with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
16:17 And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth in to make
atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made atonement for
himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
16:18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make
atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood
of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times,
and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.
16:20 And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent
of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and
confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their
transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the
goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the
wilderness.
16:22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land which is
cut off; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen
garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them
there.
16:24 And he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place and put on his other
vestments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering
of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
16:25 And the fat of the sin-offering shall he make smoke upon the altar.
16:26 And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
16:27 And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering,
whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried
forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their
flesh, and their dung.
16:28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
16:29 And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh month, on the
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