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Genesis 1:1 1 Genesis 2:3
Genesis
1:1In the beginning Goda created the heavens
and the earth. 1:2Now the earth was formless
and empty. Darkness was on the surface of
the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the
surface of the waters.
1:3God said, "Let there be light," and there
was light. 1:4God saw the light, and saw that
it was good. God divided the light fromt he
darkness. 1:5God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. There was evening
and there was morning, one day.
1:6God said, "Let there be an expanse in
the middle of the waters, and let it divide the
waters fromthe waters." 1:7God made the
expanse, and divided the waters which were
under the expanse fromthe waters which were
above the expanse; and it was so. 1:8God called
the expanse sky. There was evening and there
was morning, a second day.
1:9God said, "Let the waters under the sky
be gathered together to one place, and let the
dry land appear;" and it was so. 1:10God called
the dry land Earth, and the gathering together
of the waters he called Seas. God saw that
it was good. 1:11God said, "Let the earth put
forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees
bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in
it, on the earth;" and it was so. 1:12The earth
brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after
their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed
in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was
good. 1:13There was evening and there was
morning, a third day.
1:14God said, "Let there be lights in the
expanse of sky to divide the day fromthe night;
and let thembe for signs, and for seasons, and
for days and years; 1:15and let thembe for lights
in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;"
and it was so. 1:16God made the two great
lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night. He also made the
stars. 1:17God set themi n the expanse of sky to
give light to the earth, 1:18and to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the light
fromthe darkness. God saw that it was good.
1:19There was evening and there was morning,
a fourth day.
1:20God said, "Let the waters swarmwi th
swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
1:21God created the large sea creatures, and
every living creature that moves, with which
the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every
winged bird after its kind. God saw that it
was good. 1:22God blessed them, saying, "Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in
the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
1:23There was evening and there was morning,
a fifth day.
1:24God said, "Let the earth bring forth living
creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping
things, and animals of the earth after their
kind;" and it was so. 1:25God made the animals
of the earth after their kind, and the livestock
after their kind, and everything that creeps on
the ground after its kind. God saw that it was
good.
1:26God 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth." 1:27God created
man in his own image. In God's image he
created him; male and female he created them.
1:28God blessed them. God said to them, "Be
fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.
Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the
birds of the sky, and over every living thing that
moves on the earth." 1:29God said, "Behold, I
have given you every herb yielding seed,which
is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree,
which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your
food. 1:30To every animal of the earth, and to
every bird of the sky, and to everything that
creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have
given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
1:31God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. There was
evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
2:1The heavens and the earth were finished,
and all their vast array. 2:2On the seventh day
God finished his workwhich he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day froma ll his work
which he had made. 2:3God blessed the seventh
day, and made it holy, because he rested in it
a1:1 After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew
alphabet) as a grammatical marker.
Genesis 2:4 2 Genesis 3:13
fromal l his work which he had created and
made.
2:4This is the history of the generations of
the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that Yahweh God made the
earth and the heavens. 2:5No plant of the field
was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field
had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not
caused it to rain on the earth. There was not
a man to till the ground, 2:6but a m istwent up
fromthe earth, and watered the whole surface
of the ground. 2:7Yahweh God formed man
fromthe dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul. 2:8Yahweh God planted a garden
eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man
whomhe had formed. 2:9Out of the ground
Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree
of life also in the middle of the garden, and the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 2:10A
river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and fromthe re it was parted, and became four
heads. 2:11The nam e of the first is Pishon: this
is the one which flows through the whole land
of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12and the
gold of that land is good. There is aromatic
resin and the onyx stone. 2:13The nam e of the
second river is Gihon: the same river that flows
through the whole land of Cush. 2:14The name
of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one
which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth
river is the Euphrates. 2:15Yahweh God took
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it. 2:16Yahweh God
commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of
the garden you may freely eat; 2:17but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you
shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat
of it you will surely die."
2:18Yahweh God said, "It is not good that
the man should be alone; I will make him a
helper suitable for him." 2:19Out of the ground
Yahweh God formed every animal of the field,
and every bird of the sky, and brought them
to the man to see what he would call them.
Whatever the man called every living creature,
that was its name. 2:20The man gave names to
all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to
every animal of the field; but for man there was
not found a helper suitable for him. 2:21Yahweh
God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and
he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh in its place. 2:22He made the rib,
which Yahweh God had taken fromthe man,
into a woman, and brought her to the man.
2:23The man said, "This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called
Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and
his mother, and will join with hiswife, and they
will be one flesh. 2:25They were both naked, the
man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than
any animal of the field which Yahweh God
had made. He said to the woman, "Has God
really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the
garden?'"
3:2The woman said to the serpent, "Of the
fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
3:3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall
not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you
die.'"
3:4The serpent said to the woman, "You
won't surely die, 3:5for God knows that in the
day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
3:6When 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 its fruit, and
ate; and she gave some to her husband with
her, and he ate. 3:7The eyes of both of them
were opened, and they knew that they were
naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and
made themselves aprons. 3:8They heard the
voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in
the cool of the day, and the man and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh
God among the trees of the garden.
3:9Yahweh God called to the man, and said
to him, "Where are you?"
3:10The man said, "I heard your voice in the
garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked;
and I hid myself."
3:11God said, "Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten fromthe tree that I
commanded you not to eat from?"
3:12The man said, "The woman whom you
gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree,
and I ate."
3:13Yahweh God said to the woman, "What
is this you have done?"
Genesis 3:14 3 Genesis 4:23
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me,
and I ate."
3:14Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because
you have done this, cursed are you above
all livestock, and above every animal of the
field. On your belly you shall go, and you
shall eat dust all the days of your life. 3:15I will
put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your offspring and her offspring. He
will bruise your head, and you will bruise his
heel."
3:16To the woman he said, "I will greatly
multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you
will bring forth children. Your desire will be
for your husband, and he will rule over you."
3:17To Adamhe said, "Because you have
listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of
the tree, of which I commanded you, saying,
'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for
your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days
of your life. 3:18Thorns also and thistles will it
bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of
the field. 3:19By the sweat of your face will you
eat bread until you return to the ground, for out
of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to
dust you shall return."
3:20The man called his wife Eve, because she
was the mother of all living. 3:21Yahweh God
made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife,
and clothed them.
3:22Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has
become like one of us, knowing good and evil.
Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take
of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
3:23Therefore Yahweh God sent himfort h from
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
which he was taken. 3:24So he drove out the
man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the
garden of Eden, and the flame of a swordwhich
turned every way, to guard the way to the tree
of life.
4:1The m an knew Eve his wife. She conceived,
and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have
gotten a man with Yahweh's help." 4:2Again
she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel
was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller
of the ground. 4:3As time passed, it happened
that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from
the fruit of the ground. 4:4Abel also brought
some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat.
Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, 4:5but
he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain
was very angry, and the expression on his face
fell. 4:6Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you
angry? Why has the expression of your face
fallen? 4:7If you do well, will it not be lifted
up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the
door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule
over it." 4:8Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's
go into the field." It happened when they were
in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his
brother, and killed him.
4:9Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel,
your brother?"
He said, "I don't know. AmI my brother's
keeper?"
4:10Yahweh said, "What have you done? The
voice of your brother's blood cries to m e from
the ground. 4:11Now you are cursed because
of the ground, which has opened its mouth to
receive your brother's blood fromyour hand.
4:12Fromn ow on, when you till the ground, it
won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a
fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
4:13Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is
greater than I can bear. 4:14Behold, you have
driven me out this day from the surface of the
ground. I will be hidden fromy our face, and I
will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.
It will happen that whoever finds me will kill
me."
4:15Yahweh said to him, "Thereforewhoever
slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him
sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain,
lest any finding himsh ould strike him.
4:16Cain went out fromY ahweh's presence,
and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and
gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and
called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch. 4:18To Enoch was born Irad.
Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael
became the father of Methushael. Methushael
became the father of Lamech. 4:19Lamech took
two wives: the name of the one was Adah,
and the name of the other Zillah. 4:20Adah
gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those
who dwell in tents and have livestock. 4:21His
brother's name was Jubal, who was the father
of all who handle the harp and pipe. 4:22Zillah
also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of
every cutting instrument of brass and iron.
Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah. 4:23Lamech
said to his wives,
Genesis 4:24 4 Genesis 6:4
"Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.
You wives of Lamech, listen to my
speech,
for I have slain a man for wounding me,
a young man for bruising me.
4:24If Cain will be avenged seven times,
truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
4:25Adamkn ew his wife again. She gave
birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for
God has appointed me another child instead of
Abel, for Cain killed him." 4:26There was also
born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh.
Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
5:1This is the book of the generations of
Adam. In the day that God created man, he
made him in God's likeness. 5:2He created
them male and female, and blessed them, and
called their name Adam,b in the day when
they were created. 5:3Adamliv ed one hundred
thirty years, and became the father of a son in
his own likeness, after his image, and named
himSe th. 5:4The days of Adamaf ter he
became the father of Seth were eight hundred
years, and he became the father of sons and
daughters. 5:5All the days that Adaml ived
were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
5:6Seth lived one hundred five years, and
became the father of Enosh. 5:7Seth lived after
he became the father of Enosh eight hundred
seven years, and became the father of sons and
daughters. 5:8All the days of Seth were nine
hundred twelve years, then he died.
5:9Enosh lived ninety years, and became
the father of Kenan. 5:10Enosh lived after he
became the father of Kenan, eight hundred
fifteen years, and became the father of sons and
daughters. 5:11All the days of Enosh were nine
hundred five years, then he died.
5:12Kenan lived seventy years, and became
the father of Mahalalel. 5:13Kenan lived after he
became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred
forty years, and became the father of sons and
daughters 5:14and all the days of Kenan were
nine hundred ten years, then he died.
5:15Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became
the father of Jared. 5:16Mahalalel lived after
he became the father of Jared eight hundred
thirty years, and became the father of sons and
daughters. 5:17All the days of Mahalalel were
eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
5:18Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years,
and became the father of Enoch. 5:19Jared
lived after he became the father of Enoch eight
hundred years, and became the father of sons
and daughters. 5:20All the days of Jared were
nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
5:21Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became
the father of Methuselah. 5:22Enoch
walked with God after he became the father of
Methuselah three hundred years, and became
the father of sons and daughters. 5:23All the
days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five
years. 5:24Enoch walked with God, and hewas
not, for God took him.
5:25Methuselah lived one hundred eightyseven
years, and became the father of Lamech.
5:26Methuselah lived after he became the father
of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years,
and became the father of sons and daughters.
5:27All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty-nine years, then he died.
5:28Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two
years, and became the father of a son, 5:29and
he named him Noah, saying, "This same will
comfort us in our work and in the toil of our
hands, because of the ground which Yahweh
has cursed." 5:30Lamech lived after he became
the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five
years, and became the father of sons and
daughters. 5:31All the days of Lamech were
seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he
died.
5:32Noah was five hundred years old, and
Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.
6:1It happened, when men began to multiply
on the surface of the ground, and daughters
were born to them, 6:2that God's sons saw that
men's daughters were beautiful, and they took
for themselves wives of all that they chose.
6:3Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with
man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will
his days be one hundred twenty years." 6:4The
Nephilimw ere in the earth in those days, and
also after that, when God's sons came in to
men's daughters. They bore children to them.
Those were the mighty men who were of old,
men of renown.
b5:2 "Adam" and "Man" are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly
translated either way.
Genesis 6:5 5 Genesis 7:21
6:5Yahweh 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. 6:6Yahweh was sorry that he
had made man on the earth, and it grieved him
in his heart. 6:7Yahweh said, "I will destroy
man whom I have created from the surface of
the ground; man, along with animals, creeping
things, and birds of the sky; for I ams orry that
I have made them." 6:8But Noah found favor in
Yahweh's eyes.
6:9This is the history of the generations of
Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless
among the people of his time. Noah walked
with God. 6:10Noah became the father of three
sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 6:11The earth
was corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence. 6:12God saw the earth,
and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had
corrupted their way on the earth.
6:13God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh
has come before me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them. Behold, I will destroy
themwi th the earth. 6:14Make a ship of gopher
wood. You shall make rooms in the ship,
and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
6:15This is how you shall make it. The length
of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its
breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
6:16You shall make a roof in the ship, and you
shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set
the door of the ship in its side. You shall make
it with lower, second, and third levels. 6:17I,
even I, do bring the flood of waters on this
earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of
life fromun der the sky. Everything that is in
the earth will die. 6:18But I will establish my
covenant with you. You shall come into the
ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons'
wives with you. 6:19Of every living thing of all
flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the
ship, to keep thema live with you. They shall
be male and female. 6:20Of the birds after their
kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two
of every sort shall come to you, to keep them
alive. 6:21Take with you of all food that is eaten,
and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food
for you, and for them." 6:22Thus Noah did.
According to all that God commanded him, so
he did.
7:1Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of
your household into the ship, for I have seen
your righteousness before me in this generation.
7:2You shall take seven pairs of every
clean animal with you, the male and his female.
Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the
male and his female. 7:3Also of the birds of the
sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep
seed alive on the surface of all the earth. 7:4In
seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth
for forty days and forty nights. Every living
thing that I have made, I will destroy from the
surface of the ground."
7:5Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded
him.
7:6Noah was six hundred years oldwhen the
flood of waters came on the earth. 7:7Noah
went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and
his sons' wives, because of the waters of the
flood. 7:8Clean animals, animals that are not
clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the
ground 7:9went by pairs to Noah into the ship,
male and female, as God commanded Noah.
7:10It happened after the seven days, that the
waters of the flood came on the earth. 7:11In the
six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
on the same day all the fountains of the great
deep were burst open, and the sky's windows
were opened. 7:12The rain was on the earth
forty days and forty nights.
7:13In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
wife, and the three wives of his sons with
them, entered into the ship; 7:14they, and every
animal after its kind, all the livestock after their
kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth after its kind, and every bird after its
kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15They went
to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with
the breath of life in them. 7:16Those who went
in, went in male and female of all flesh, as
God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him
in. 7:17The flood was forty days on the earth.
The waters increased, and lifted up the ship,
and it was lifted up above the earth. 7:18The
waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the
earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the
waters. 7:19The waters prevailed exceedingly
on the earth. All the high mountains that were
under the whole sky were covered. 7:20The
waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the
mountains were covered. 7:21All flesh died that
Genesis 7:22 6 Genesis 9:11
moved on the earth, including birds, livestock,
animals, every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth, and every man. 7:22All in whose
nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of
all that was on the dry land, died. 7:23Every
living thing was destroyed that was on the
surface of the ground, including man, livestock,
creeping things, and birds of the sky. They
were destroyed fromthe earth. Only Noah
was left, and those who were with himin the
ship. 7:24The waters prevailed on the earth one
hundred fifty days.
8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals,
and all the livestock that were with himi n the
ship; and God made a wind to pass over the
earth. The waters subsided. 8:2The deep's
fountains and the sky's windows were also
stopped, and the rain fromthe sky was restrained.
8:3The waters receded fromthe earth
continually. After the end of one hundred fifty
days the waters decreased. 8:4The ship rested
in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of
the month, on Ararat's mountains. 8:5The waters
receded continually until the tenth month.
In the tenth month, on the first day of the
month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
8:6It happened at the end of forty days, that
Noah opened the window of the ship which he
had made, 8:7and he sent forth a raven. It went
back and forth, until the waters were dried up
fromthe earth. 8:8He sent forth a dove from
him, to see if the waters were abated from the
surface of the ground, 8:9but the dove found
no place to rest her foot, and she returned to
himi nto the ship; for the waters were on the
surface of the whole earth. He put forth his
hand, and took her, and brought her to himi nto
the ship. 8:10He stayed yet another seven days;
and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
8:11The dove came back to him at evening, and,
behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked
off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated
fromthe earth. 8:12He stayed yet another seven
days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't
return to himany more.
8:13It happened in the six hundred first year,
in the first month, the first day of the month,
the waters were dried up fromthe earth. Noah
removed the covering of the ship, and looked.
He saw that the surface of the ground was
dried. 8:14In the second month, on the twentyseventh
day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:15God spoke to Noah, saying, 8:16"Go out
of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons,
and your sons' wives with you. 8:17Bring forth
with you every living thing that is with you of
all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that
they may breed abundantly in the earth, and
be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
8:18Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife,
and his sons'wiveswith him. 8:19Every animal,
every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever
moves on the earth, after their families, went
out of the ship.
8:20Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took
of every clean animal, and of every clean
bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma.
Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again
curse the ground any more for man's sake,
because the imagination of man's heart is evil
fromh is youth; neither will I ever again strike
everything living, as I have done. 8:22While the
earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and
night shall not cease."
9:1God blessed Noah and his sons, and
said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth. 9:2The fear of you and the
dread of you will be on every animal of the
earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything
that the ground teems with, and all the fish of
the sea are delivered into your hand. 9:3Every
moving thing that lives will be food for you.
As the green herb, I have given everything to
you. 9:4But flesh with its life, its blood, you
shall not eat. 9:5I will surely require your blood
of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will
require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand
of every man's brother, I will require the life of
man. 9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood
will be shed by man, for God made man in his
own image. 9:7Be fruitful and multiply. Bring
forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in
it."
9:8God spoke to Noah and to his sons with
him, saying, 9:9"As for me, behold, I establish
my covenant with you, and with your offspring
after you, 9:10and with every living creature
that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and
every animal of the earth with you, of all that
go out of the ship, even every animal of the
earth. 9:11I will establish my covenant with
Genesis 9:12 7 Genesis 10:30
you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the
waters of the flood, neither will there ever again
be a flood to destroy the earth." 9:12God 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: 9:13I
set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for
a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
9:14It will happen, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the
cloud, 9:15and I will remember my covenant,
which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16The
rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all
flesh that is on the earth." 9:17God said toNoah,
"This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is on
the earth."
9:18The sons of Noah who went forth from
the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is
the father of Canaan. 9:19These three were the
sons of Noah, and fromthe se, the whole earth
was populated.
9:20Noah began to be a farmer, and planted
a vineyard. 9:21He drank of the wine and
got drunk. He was uncovered within his
tent. 9:22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw
the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brothers outside. 9:23Shemand Japheth took
a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders,
went in backwards, and covered the nakedness
of their father. Their faces were backwards,
and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
9:24Noah awoke fromhi s wine, and knew what
his youngest son had done to him. 9:25He said,
"Canaan is cursed.
He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
9:26He said,
"Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant.
9:27May God enlarge Japheth.
Let himd well in the tents of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant."
9:28Noah lived three hundred fifty years
after the flood. 9:29All the days of Noah were
nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
10:1Now this is the history of the generations
of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. Sons were born to themaf ter the flood.
10:2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog,
Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath,
and Togarmah. 10:4The sons of Javan: Elishah,
Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 10:5Of these
were the islands of the nations divided in their
lands, everyone after his language, after their
families, in their nations.
10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put,
and Canaan. 10:7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah,
Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of
Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 10:8Cush became
the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty
one in the earth. 10:9He was a mighty hunter
before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like
Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
10:10The beginning of his kingdomwas Babel,
Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11Out of that land he went forth into Assyria,
and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 10:12and
Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same
is the great city). 10:13Mizraimbe came the
father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
10:14Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the
Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
10:15Canaan became the father of Sidon (his
firstborn), Heth, 10:16the Jebusite, the Amorite,
the Girgashite, 10:17the Hivite, the Arkite, the
Sinite, 10:18the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and
the Hamathite. Afterward the families of
the Canaanites were spread abroad. 10:19The
border of the Canaanites was fromSi don, as
you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward
Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to
Lasha. 10:20These are the sons of Ham, after
their families, after their languages, in their
lands, in their nations.
10:21To Shem, the father of all the children
of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him
also were children born. 10:22The sons of
Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and
Aram. 10:23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul,
Gether, and Mash. 10:24Arpachshad became
the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father
of Eber. 10:25To Eber were born two sons.
The name of the one was Peleg, for in his
days the earth was divided. His brother's
name was Joktan. 10:26Joktan became the father
of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27Hadoram , Uzal, Diklah, 10:28Obal, Abimael,
Sheba, 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.
All these were the sons of Joktan. 10:30Their
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dwelling was fromMesh a, as you go toward
Sephar, the mountain of the east. 10:31These are
the sons of Shem, after their families, after their
languages, in their lands, after their nations.
10:32These are the families of the sons of
Noah, after their generations, in their nations.
Of these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.
11:1The whole earth was of one language
and of one speech. 11:2It happened, as they
traveled east, that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar, and they lived there. 11:3They
said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks,
and burn themt horoughly." They had brick for
stone, and they used tar for mortar. 11:4They
said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a
tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's
make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered
abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
11:5Yahweh came down to see the city and
the tower, which the children of men built.
11:6Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people,
and they have all one language, and this is
what they begin to do. Now nothing will be
withheld fromthe m, which they intend to do.
11:7Come, let's go down, and there confuse
their language, that they may not understand
one another's speech." 11:8So Yahweh scattered
themabro ad from there on the surface
of all the earth. They stopped building the
city. 11:9Therefore its name was called Babel,
because there Yahweh confused the language
of all the earth. Fromthe re, Yahweh scattered
themabro ad on the surface of all the earth.
11:10This is the history of the generations of
Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and
became the father of Arpachshad two years
after the flood. 11:11Shemliv ed five hundred
years after he became the father of Arpachshad,
and became the father of sons and daughters.
11:12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and
became the father of Shelah. 11:13Arpachshad
lived four hundred three years after he became
the father of Shelah, and became the father of
sons and daughters.
11:14Shelah lived thirty years, and became
the father of Eber: 11:15and Shelah lived four
hundred three years after he became the father
of Eber, and became the father of sons and
daughters.
11:16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became
the father of Peleg. 11:17Eber lived four hundred
thirty years after he became the father
of Peleg, and became the father of sons and
daughters.
11:18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the
father of Reu. 11:19Peleg lived two hundred
nine years after he became the father of Reu,
and became the father of sons and daughters.
11:20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became
the father of Serug. 11:21Reu lived two hundred
seven years after he became the father of Serug,
and became the father of sons and daughters.
11:22Serug lived thirty years, and became the
father of Nahor. 11:23Serug lived two hundred
years after he became the father of Nahor, and
became the father of sons and daughters.
11:24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became
the father of Terah. 11:25Nahor lived one
hundred nineteen years after he became the
father of Terah, and became the father of sons
and daughters.
11:26Terah lived seventy years, and became
the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27Now this is the history of the generations
of Terah. Terah became the father of
Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became
the father of Lot. 11:28Haran died before his
father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur
of the Chaldees. 11:29Abramand Nahor took
wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai,
and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran who was also the father of
Iscah. 11:30Sarai was barren. She had no child.
11:31Terah took Abramh is son, Lot the son of
Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughterin-
law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth
fromUr of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
11:32The days of Terah were two hundred five
years. Terah died in Haran.
12:1Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out
of your country, and fromy our relatives, and
fromy our father's house, to the land that I will
show you. 12:2I will make of you a great nation.
I will bless you and make your name great. You
will be a blessing. 12:3I will bless those who
bless you, and I will curse himw ho curses you.
In you will all of the families of the earth be
blessed."
12:4So Abramwe nt, as Yahweh had spoken
to him. Lot went with him. Abram was
seventy-five years old when he departed out of
Haran. 12:5Abramt ook Sarai his wife, Lot his
Genesis 12:6 9 Genesis 14:1
brother's son, all their substance that they had
gathered, and the souls whomthe y had gotten
in Haran, and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they
came. 12:6Abramp assed through the land to
the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The
Canaanite was then in the land.
12:7Yahweh appeared to Abramand said, "I
will give this land to your seedc."
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who
appeared to him. 12:8He left fromt here to the
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched
his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on
the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh
and called on the name of Yahweh. 12:9Abram
traveled, going on still toward the South.
12:10There was a famine in the land. Abram
went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner
there, for the famine was severe in the land.
12:11It happened, when he had come near to
enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See
now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to
look at. 12:12It will happen, when the Egyptians
will see you, that theywill say, 'This is hiswife.'
They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
12:13Please say that you are my sister, that it
may be well with me for your sake, and that
my soul may live because of you."
12:14It happened that when Abramhad
come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the
woman was very beautiful. 12:15The princes of
Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh;
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's
house. 12:16He dealt well with Abramf or her
sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male
servants, female servants, female donkeys, and
camels. 12:17Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and
his house with great plagues because of Sarai,
Abram's wife. 12:18Pharaoh called Abramand
said, "What is this that you have done to me?
Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
12:19Why did you say, 'She is m ysister,' so that
I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see
your wife, take her, and go your way."
12:20Pharaoh commanded men concerning
him, and they brought him on the way with his
wife and all that he had.
13:1Abramwe nt up out of Egypt: he, his
wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the
South. 13:2Abramw as very rich in livestock,
in silver, and in gold. 13:3He went on his
journeys fromthe South even to Bethel, to the
place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Ai, 13:4to the place of the
altar, which he had made there at the first.
There Abramcal led on the name of Yahweh.
13:5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks,
and herds, and tents. 13:6The land was not able
to bear them, that they might live together: for
their substance was great, so that they could
not live together. 13:7Therewas a strife between
the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the
herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite
and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
13:8Abrams aid to Lot, "Please, let there be
no strife between me and you, and between
my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are
relatives. 13:9Isn't the whole land before you?
Please separate yourself fromm e. If you go to
the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if
you go to the right hand, then I will go to the
left."
13:10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the
plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered
everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like
the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. 13:11So Lot
chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot
traveled east, and they separated themselves
the one fromthe other. 13:12Abramliv ed in the
land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of
the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly
wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
13:14Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was
separated fromh im, "Now, lift up your eyes,
and look fromt he place where you are, northward
and southward and eastward and westward,
13:15for all the land which you see, I
will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
13:16I will make your offspring as the dust of
the earth, so that if a man can number the
dust of the earth, then your seed may also be
numbered. 13:17Arise, walk through the land in
its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to
you."
13:18Abram moved his tent, and came and
lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in
Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
14:1It happened in the days of Amraphel,
king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chec12:
7 or, offspring
Genesis 14:2 10 Genesis 15:10
dorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of
Goiim, 14:2that 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). 14:3All these joined together in the
valley of Siddim(t he same is the Salt Sea).
14:4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer,
and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled. 14:5In
the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and
the kings who were with him, and struck the
Rephaimi n Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim
in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
14:6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to
Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 14:7They
returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same
is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the
Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived
in Hazazon Tamar. 14:8The king of Sodom,
and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of
Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king
of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they
set the battle in array against themi n the valley
of Siddim; 14:9against Chedorlaomer king of
Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel
king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four
kings against the five. 14:10Now the valley
of Siddimwas full of tar pits; and the kings
of Sodoma nd Gomorrah fled, and they fell
there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
14:11They took all the goods of Sodoma nd
Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their
way. 14:12They took Lot, Abram's brother's
son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and
departed.
14:13One who had escaped came and told
Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the
oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol,
and brother of Aner; and these were allies of
Abram. 14:14When Abramhe ard that his relative
was taken captive, he led forth his trained
men, born in his house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 14:15He
divided himself against them by night, he and
his servants, and struck them, and pursued
themto Hobah, which is on the left hand of
Damascus. 14:16He brought back all the goods,
and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his
goods, and the women also, and the people.
14:17The king of Sodomw ent out to meet
him, after his return from the slaughter of
Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with
him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the
King's Valley). 14:18Melchizedek king of Salem
brought out bread and wine: and he was priest
of God Most High. 14:19He blessed him, and
said, "Blessed be Abramof God Most High,
possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20and blessed
be God Most High, who has delivered your
enemies into your hand."
Abramg ave hima tenth of all.
14:21The king of Sodomsa id to Abram,
"Give me the people, and take the goods to
yourself."
14:22Abrams aid to the king of Sodom, "I
have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most
High, possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23that
I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor
anything that is yours, lest you should say,
'I have made Abram rich.' 14:24I will accept
nothing fromy ou except that which the young
men have eaten, and the portion of the men
who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.
Let themtak e their portion."
15:1After these things the word of Yahweh
came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't
be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your
exceedingly great reward."
15:2Abramsa id, "Lord Yahweh, what will
you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who
will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
15:3Abramsa id, "Behold, tome you have given
no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is
m y heir."
15:4Behold, the word of Yahweh came to
him, saying, "This man will not be your heir,
but he who will come forth out of your own
body will be your heir." 15:5Yahweh brought
himo utside, and said, "Look now toward the
sky, and count the stars, if you are able to
count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your
seed be." 15:6He believed in Yahweh; and he
reckoned it to himf or righteousness. 15:7He
said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you
out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land
to inherit it."
15:8He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know
that I will inherit it?"
15:9He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three
years old, a female goat three years old, a
ramt hree years old, a turtledove, and a young
pigeon." 15:10He brought himal l of these, and
divided themi n the middle, and laid each half
opposite the other; but he didn't divide the
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birds. 15:11The birds of prey came down on the
carcasses, and Abramd rove themaway.
15:12When the sun was going down, a deep
sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great
darkness fell on him. 15:13He said to Abram,
"Know for sure that your seed will live as
foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will
serve them. Theywill afflict themfour hundred
years. 15:14I will also judge that nation, whom
they will serve. Afterward they will come out
with great wealth, 15:15but you will go to your
fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good
old age. 15:16In the fourth generation they
will come here again, for the iniquity of the
Amorite is not yet full." 15:17It came to pass
that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,
behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch
passed between these pieces. 15:18In that day
Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying,
"To your seed I have given this land, from
the river of Egypt to the great river, the river
Euphrates: 15:19the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the
Kadmonites, 15:20theHittites, the Perizzites, the
Rephaim, 15:21the Amorites, the Canaanites,
the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
16:1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no
children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian,
whose nam e was Hagar. 16:2Sarai said to
Abram , "See now, Yahweh has restrained m e
from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid.
It may be that I will obtain children by her."
Abraml istened to the voice of Sarai. 16:3Sarai,
Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her
handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in
the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram
her husband to be his wife. 16:4He went in to
Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that
she had conceived, her mistress was despised
in her eyes. 16:5Sarai said to Abram, "This
wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into
your bosom, and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh
judge between me and you."
16:6But Abrams aid to Sarai, "Behold, your
maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is
good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with
her, and she fled fromhe r face.
16:7The angel of Yahweh found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the
fountain in the way to Shur. 16:8He said,
"Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come
from? Where are you going?"
She said, "I amfle eing from the face of my
mistress Sarai."
16:9The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return
to your mistress, and submit yourself under her
hands." 16:10The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I
will greatly multiply your seed, that they will
not be numbered for multitude." 16:11The angel
of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with
child, and will bear a son. You shall call his
name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your
affliction. 16:12He will be like a wild donkey
among men. His hand will be against every
man, and every man's hand against him. He
will live opposite all of his brothers."
16:13She called the name of Yahweh who
spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for
she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing
him?" 16:14Therefore the well was called Beer
Lahai Roi.d Behold, it is between Kadesh and
Bered.
16:15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram
called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore,
Ishmael. 16:16Abramw as eighty-six years old
when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
17:1When Abramw as ninety-nine years old,
Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him,
"I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and
be blameless. 17:2I will make my covenant
between me and you, and will multiply you
exceedingly."
17:3Abramf ell on his face. God talked
with him, saying, 17:4"As for me, behold, my
covenant is with you. You will be the father of
a multitude of nations. 17:5Neither will your
name any more be called Abram, but your
name will be Abraham; for I have made you
the father of a multitude of nations. 17:6I will
make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make
nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
17:7I will establish my covenant between me
and you and your seed after you throughout
their generations for an everlasting covenant,
to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
17:8I will give to you, and to your seed after
you, the land where you are traveling, all the
land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I
will be their God."
17:9God said to Abraham, "As for you, you
will keep my covenant, you and your seed after
d16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means "well of the one who lives and sees me."
Genesis 17:10 12 Genesis 18:14
you throughout their generations. 17:10This is
my covenant, which you shall keep, between
me and you and your seed after you. Every
male among you shall be circumcised. 17:11You
shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin.
It will be a token of the covenant between
m e and you. 17:12He who is eight days old
will be circumcised among you, every male
throughout your generations, he who is born
in the house, or bought with money from any
foreigner who is not of your seed. 17:13He who
is born in your house, and he who is bought
with your money, must be circumcised. My
covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant. 17:14The uncircumcised male who is
not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that
soul shall be cut off fromh is people. He has
broken my covenant."
17:15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai
your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but
her name will be Sarah. 17:16Iwill bless her, and
moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, Iwill
bless her, and she will be a mother of nations.
Kings of peoples will come from her."
17:17Then Abrahamfell on his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child
be born to himwho is one hundred years old?
Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
17:18Abrahams aid to God, "Oh that Ishmael
might live before you!"
17:19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife,
will bear you a son. You shall call his name
Isaac.e I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant for his seed after
him. 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you.
Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He
will become the father of twelve princes, and
I will make him a great nation. 17:21But my
covenant I establish with Isaac, whomSar ah
will bear to you at this set time next year."
17:22When he finished talking with him,
God went up fromAbr aham. 17:23Abraham
took Ishmael his son, all who were born in
his house, and all who were bought with
his money; every male among the men of
Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh
of their foreskin in the same day, as God had
said to him. 17:24Abrahamwas ninety-nine
years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin. 17:25Ishmael, his son, was
thirteen years old when he was circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:26In the same
day both Abrahamand Ishmael, his son, were
circumcised. 17:27All the men of his house,
those born in the house, and those bought with
money of a foreigner, were circumcised with
him.
18:1Yahweh appeared to himby the oaks of
Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of
the day. 18:2He lifted up his eyes and looked,
and saw that three men stood opposite him.
When he saw them, he ran to meet them from
the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
18:3and said, "My lord, if now I have found
favor in your sight, please don't go away from
your servant. 18:4Now let a little water be
fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves
under the tree. 18:5I will get a morsel of bread
so you can refresh your heart. After that you
may go your way, now that you have come to
your servant."
They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
18:6Abrahamhur ried into the tent to Sarah,
and said, "Quickly make ready three measures
of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
18:7Abrahamr an to the herd, and fetched a
tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant.
He hurried to dress it. 18:8He took butter, milk,
and the calf which he had dressed, and set it
before them. He stood by them under the tree,
and they ate.
18:9They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your
wife?
He said, "See, in the tent."
18:10He said, "I will certainly return to you
when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah
your wife will have a son."
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was
behind him. 18:11Now Abrahamand Sarah
were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased
to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
18:12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After
I have grown old will I have pleasure, my
lord being old also?"
18:13Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did
Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child,
yet I amold? ' 18:14Is anything too hard for
Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you,
when the season comes round, and Sarah will
have a son."
e17:19 Isaac means "he laughs."
Genesis 18:15 13 Genesis 19:12
18:15Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't
laugh," for she was afraid.
He said, "No, but you did laugh."
18:16The men rose up from there, and looked
toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to
see themo n their way. 18:17Yahweh said, "Will
I hide fromAbrahamwhat I do, 18:18seeing that
Abraham has surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth will be
blessed in him? 18:19For 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 Yahweh, to do righteousness and
justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on
Abrahamthat which he has spoken of him."
18:20Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom
and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is
very grievous, 18:21I will go down now, and see
whether their deeds are as bad as the reports
which have come to me. If not, I will know."
18:22The men turned from there, and went
toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before
Yahweh. 18:23Abrahamd rew near, and said,
"Will you consume the righteous with the
wicked? 18:24What if there are fifty righteous
within the city? Will you consume and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in
it? 18:25Be it far fromyou to do things like that,
to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the
righteous should be like the wicked. May that
be far fromy ou. Shouldn't the Judge of all the
earth do right?"
18:26Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodomfif ty
righteous within the city, then I will spare
all the place for their sake." 18:27Abraham
answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself
to speak to the Lord, who ambu t dust and
ashes. 18:28What if there will lack five of the
fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for
lack of five?"
He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-
five there."
18:29He spoke to himyet again, and said,
"What if there are forty found there?"
He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
18:30He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry,
and I will speak. What if there are thirty found
there?"
He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty
there."
18:31He said, "See now, I have taken it on
myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are
twenty found there?"
He said, "I will not destroy it for the
twenty's sake."
18:32He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry,
and I will speak just once more. What if ten are
found there?"
He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's
sake."
18:33Yahweh went his way, as soon as he
had finished communing with Abraham, and
Abrahamr eturned to his place.
19:1The two angels cam e t o Sodom at
evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw
them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed
himself with his face to the earth, 19:2and he
said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into
your servant's house, stay all night, wash your
feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your
way."
They said, "No, but we will stay in the street
all night."
19:3He urged themg reatly, and they came in
with him, and entered into his house. He made
thema feast, and baked unleavened bread, and
they ate. 19:4But before they lay down, the men
of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the
house, both young and old, all the people from
every quarter. 19:5They called to Lot, and said
to him, "Where are the men who came in to you
this night? Bring themo ut to us, that we may
have sex with them."
19:6Lot went out to themto the door, and
shut the door after him. 19:7He said, "Please,
my brothers, don't act so wickedly. 19:8See
now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let
me bring them out to you, and you may do to
themwhat seems good to you. Only don't do
anything to these men, because they have come
under the shadow of my roof."
19:9They said, "Stand back!" They said,
"This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner,
and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we
deal worse with you, than with them!" They
pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near
to break the door. 19:10But the m en put forth
their hand, and brought Lot into the house to
them, and shut the door. 19:11They struck the
men who were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great, so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.
19:12The men said to Lot, "Do you have
anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons,
Genesis 19:13 14 Genesis 20:6
your daughters, and whoever you have in
the city, bring themout of the place: 19:13for
we will destroy this place, because the outcry
against themhas grown great before Yahweh
that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."
19:14Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-inlaw,
who were pledged to marry his daughters,
and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for
Yahweh will destroy the city."
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be
joking. 19:15When the morning came, then the
angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your
wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest
you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
19:16But he lingered; and the men grabbed his
hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters'
hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they
took himo ut, and set himo utside of the city.
19:17It came to pass, when they had taken them
out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't
look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in
the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be
consumed!"
19:18Lot said to them , "Oh, not so, m ylord.
19:19See now, your servant has found favor
in your sight, and you have magnified your
loving kindness, which you have shown to
me in saving my life. I can't escape to the
mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
19:20See now, this city is near to flee to, and it
is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a
little one?), and my soul will live."
19:21He said to him, "Behold, I have granted
your request concerning this thing also, that I
will not overthrow the city of which you have
spoken. 19:22Hurry, escape there, for I can't do
anything until you get there." Therefore the
name of the city was called Zoar.f
19:23The sun had risen on the earth when
Lot came to Zoar. 19:24Then Yahweh rained
on Sodoma nd on Gomorrah sulfur and fire
fromYahweh out of the sky. 19:25He overthrew
those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of
the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
19:26But his wife looked back frombe hind him,
and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27Abrahamg ot up early in themorning to
the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
19:28He looked toward Sodoma nd Gomorrah,
and toward all the land of the plain, and
looked, and saw that the smoke of the land
went up as the smoke of a furnace.
19:29It happened, when God destroyed the
cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham,
and sent Lot out of the middle of the
overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in
which Lot lived.
19:30Lotwent up out of Zoar, and lived in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for
he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave
with his two daughters. 19:31The firstborn said
to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is
not a man in the earth to come in to us after the
manner of all the earth. 19:32Come, let's make
our father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
19:33They made their father drink wine that
night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with
her father. He didn't know when she lay down,
nor when she arose. 19:34It came to pass on the
next day, that the firstborn said to the younger,
"Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let
us make him drink wine again, tonight. You
go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve
our father's seed." 19:35They made their father
drink wine that night also. The younger went
and lay with him. He didn't knowwhen she lay
down, nor when she got up. 19:36Thus both of
Lot's daughters were with child by their father.
19:37The firstborn bore a son, and named him
Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this
day. 19:38The younger also bore a son, and
called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of
the children of Ammon to this day.
20:1Abrahamtr aveled fromthere toward the
land of the South, and lived between Kadesh
and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
20:2Abrahams aid about Sarah his wife, "She is
my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and
took Sarah. 20:3But God came to Abimelech in
a dreamo f the night, and said to him, "Behold,
you are a dead man, because of the woman
whomy ou have taken. For she is aman's wife."
20:4Now Abimelech had not come near her.
He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous
nation? 20:5Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?'
She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.'
In the integrity of my heart and the innocence
of my hands have I done this."
20:6God said to himi n the dream, "Yes, I
know that in the integrity of your heart you
f19:22 Zoar means "little."
Genesis 20:7 15 Genesis 21:22
have done this, and I also withheld you from
sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow
you to touch her. 20:7Now therefore, restore the
man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will
pray for you, and you will live. If you don't
restore her, know for sure that you will die,
you, and all who are yours."
20:8Abimelech rose early in the morning,
and called all his servants, and told all these
things in their ear. The men were very scared.
20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said
to him, "What have you done to us? How have
I sinned against you, that you have brought on
me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have
done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
20:10Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did
you see, that you have done this thing?"
20:11Abrahams aid, "Because I thought,
'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They
will kill me for my wife's sake.' 20:12Besides,
she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my
father, but not the daughter of my mother; and
she became my wife. 20:13It happened, when
God caused me to wander from my father's
house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness
which you shall show to me. Everywhere that
we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
20:14Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male
servants and female servants, and gave them to
Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
20:15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before
you. Dwellwhere it pleases you." 20:16To Sarah
he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a
thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a
covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In
front of all you are vindicated."
20:17Abrahamp rayed to God. God healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants,
and they bore children. 20:18For Yahweh
had closed up tight all the wombs of the house
of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's
wife.
21:1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said,
and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
21:2Sarah conceived, and bore Abrahama son
in his old age, at the set time of which God
had spoken to him. 21:3Abrahamc alled his
son who was born to him ,whom Sarah bore
to him, Isaac.g 21:4Abrahamci rcumcised his
son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God
had commanded him. 21:5Abrahamwas one
hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was
born to him. 21:6Sarah said, "God has made
me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with
me." 21:7She said, "Who would have said to
Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children?
For I have borne hima son in his old age."
21:8The child grew, and was weaned. Abrahamm
ade a great feast on the day that Isaac
was weaned. 21:9Sarah saw the son of Hagar
the Egyptian, whoms he had borne to
Abraham, mocking. 21:10Therefore she said to
Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her
son! For the son of this handmaid will not be
heir with my son, Isaac."
21:11The thing was very grievous in Abraham's
sight on account of his son. 21:12God
said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in
your sight because of the boy, and because of
your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you,
listen to her voice. For fromIsaacwill your seed
be called. 21:13I will also make a nation of the
son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."
21:14Abrahamro se up early in themorning, and
took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it
to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave
her the child, and sent her away. She departed,
and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
21:15The water in the bottle was spent, and she
cast the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16She
went and sat down opposite him, a good way
off, about a bowshot away. For she said, "Don't
let me see the death of the child." She sat over
against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
21:17God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the
sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar?
Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice
of the boy where he is. 21:18Get up, lift up the
boy, and hold himin your hand. For Iwillmake
hima great nation."
21:19God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water. She went, filled the bottle with
water, and gave the boy drink. 21:20God was
with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the
wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an
archer. 21:21He lived in the wilderness of Paran.
His mother took a wife for him out of the land
of Egypt.
21:22It happened at that time, that Abimelech
and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to
g21:3 Isaac means "He laughs."
Genesis 21:23 16 Genesis 22:21
Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that
you do. 21:23Now, therefore, swear to me here
by God that you will not deal falsely with me,
nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But
according to the kindness that I have done to
you, you shall do to me, and to the land in
which you have lived as a foreigner."
21:24Abrahamsa id, "I will swear."
21:25Abraham complained to Abimelech
because of awater well,which Abimelech's servants
had violently taken away. 21:26Abimelech
said, "I don't know who has done this thing.
Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it,
until today."
21:27Abrahamto ok sheep and cattle, and
gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a
covenant. 21:28Abrahamset seven ewe lambs
of the flock by themselves. 21:29Abimelech said
to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs
which you have set by themselves mean?"
21:30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe
lambs frommy hand, that it may be awitness to
me, that I have dug this well." 21:31Therefore he
called that place Beersheba,h because they both
swore there. 21:32So they made a covenant at
Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the
captain of his army, and they returned into the
land of the Philistines. 21:33Abrahamp lanted
a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there
on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
21:34Abrahamliv ed as a foreigner in the land of
the Philistines many days.
22:1It happened after these things, that God
tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
He said, "Here I am."
22:2He said, "Now take your son, your only
son, whomyou love, even Isaac, and go into
the land of Moriah. Offer himthe re for a burnt
offering on one of the mountains which I will
tell you of."
22:3Abrahamro se early in the morning, and
saddled his donkey, and took two of his young
men with him, and Isaac his son. He split
the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up,
and went to the place of which God had told
him. 22:4On the third day Abrahaml ifted up
his eyes, and saw the place far off. 22:5Abraham
said to his young men, "Stay here with the
donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will
worship, and come back to you." 22:6Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid
it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the
fire and the knife. They both went together.
22:7Isaac spoke to Abrahamhi s father, and said,
"My father?"
He said, "Here I am, my son."
He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but
where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
22:8Abrahamsa id, "God will provide himself
the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So
they both went together. 22:9They came to the
place which God had told himo f. Abraham
built the altar there, and laid the wood in order,
bound Isaac his son, and laid himo n the altar,
on the wood. 22:10Abrahams tretched forth his
hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
22:11The angel of Yahweh called to himout
of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"
He said, "Here I am."
22:12He said, "Don't lay your hand on the
boy, neither do anything to him. For now I
know that you fear God, seeing you have not
withheld your son, your only son, fromme."
22:13Abrahamlift ed up his eyes, and looked,
and saw that behind himwas a ramcaug ht
in the thicket by his horns. Abrahamwe nt
and took the ram, and offered him up for a
burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14Abraham
called the name of that place Yahweh Will
Providei. As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh's
mountain, it will be provided."
22:15The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham
a second time out of the sky, 22:16and said, "I
have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because
you have done this thing, and have not withheld
your son, your only son, 22:17that I will
bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed
greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the
sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will
possess the gate of his enemies. 22:18In your
seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
because you have obeyed my voice."
22:19So Abrahamre turned to his youngmen,
and they rose up and went together to Beersheba.
Abrahamliv ed at Beersheba.
22:20It happened after these things, that it
was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah,
she also has borne children to your brother
Nahor: 22:21Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother,
h21:31 Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."
i22:14 or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing
Genesis 22:22 17 Genesis 24:11
Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22Chesed, Hazo,
Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 22:23Bethuel became
the father of Rebekah. These eightMilcah
bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 22:24His
concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore
Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
23:1Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven
years. This was the length of Sarah's life.
23:2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is
Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham
came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
23:3Abrahamr ose up from before his dead, and
spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 23:4"I am
a stranger and a foreigner livingwith you. Give
me a possession of a burying-place with you,
that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
23:5The children of Heth answered Abraham,
saying to him, 23:6"Hear us, my lord.
You are a prince of God among us. Bury your
dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will
withhold fromy ou his tomb. Bury your dead."
23:7Abrahamro se up, and bowed himself to
the people of the land, even to the children of
Heth. 23:8He talked 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, 23:9that he may give me the
cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in
the end of his field. For the full price let him
give it to me among you for a possession of a
burying-place."
23:10Now Ephron was sitting in the middle
of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered
Abrahamin the hearing of the children
of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of
his city, saying, 23:11"No, my lord, hear me. I
give you the field, and I give you the cave that
is in it. In the presence of the children of my
people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
23:12Abrahamb owed himself down before
the people of the land. 23:13He spoke to Ephron
in the audience of the people of the land,
saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will
give the price of the field. Take it fromme, and
I will bury my dead there."
23:14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to
him, 23:15"My lord, listen to me. What is a
piece of land worth four hundred shekels of
silver between me and you? Therefore bury
your dead."
23:16Abrahaml istened to Ephron. Abraham
weighed to Ephron the silver which he had
named in the audience of the children of Heth,
four hundred shekels of silver, according to the
current merchants' standard.
23:17So the field of Ephron, which was in
Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,
the cave which was in it, and all the trees that
were in the field, that were in all of its borders,
were deeded 23:18to Abrahamfor a possession
in the presence of the children of Heth, before
all who went in at the gate of his city. 23:19After
this, Abrahambur ied Sarah his wife in the cave
of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that
is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 23:20The
field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to
Abrahamfor a possession of a burying place by
the children of Heth.
24:1Abrahamw as old, and well stricken in
age. Yahweh had blessed Abrahami n all
things. 24:2Abrahams aid to his servant, the
elder of his house, who ruled over all that he
had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
24:3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God
of heaven and the God of the earth, that you
shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters
of the Canaanites, among whom I live. 24:4But
you shall go to my country, and to my relatives,
and take a wife for my son Isaac."
24:5The servant said to him, "What if the
woman isn't willing to follow me to this land?
Must I bring your son again to the land you
came from?"
24:6Abrahams aid to him, "Beware that you
don't bring my son there again. 24:7Yahweh,
the God of heaven, who took me from my
father's house, and fromthe land of my birth,
who spoke to me, andwho swore to me, saying,
'Iwill give this land to your seedj.' Hewill send
his angel before you, and you shall take a wife
for my son from there. 24:8If the woman isn't
willing to follow you, then you shall be clear
fromthis my oath. Only you shall not bring my
son there again."
24:9The servant put his hand under the thigh
of Abrahamhi s master, and swore to himconcerning
this matter. 24:10The servant took ten
camels, of his master's camels, and departed,
having a variety of good things of his master's
with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia,
to the city of Nahor. 24:11He made the camels
j24:7 or, offspring
Genesis 24:12 18 Genesis 24:44
kneel down outside the city by thewell ofwater
at the time of evening, the time that women
go out to draw water. 24:12He said, "Yahweh,
the God of my master Abraham, please give
me success this day, and show kindness to my
master Abraham. 24:13Behold, I ams tanding
by the spring of water. The daughters of the
men of the city are coming out to draw water.
24:14Let it happen, that the young lady to whom
I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that
I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I
will also give your camels a drink,' let her be
the one you have appointed for your servant
Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown
kindness to my master."
24:15It happened, before he had finished
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 on her shoulder. 24:16The young lady
was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither
had any man known her. She went down to the
spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. 24:17The
servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give
me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
24:18She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried,
and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave
himd rink. 24:19When she had done giving
himd rink, she said, "I will also draw for
your camels, until they have done drinking."
24:20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into
the trough, and ran again to the well to draw,
and drew for all his camels.
24:21The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining
silent, to know whether Yahweh had
made his journey prosperous or not. 24:22It
happened, 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, 24:23and said, "Whose
daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room
in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
24:24She said to him, "I am the daughter of
Bethuel the son of Milcah, whoms he bore to
Nahor." 24:25She said moreover to him, "We
have both straw and provender enough, and
roomt o lodge in."
24:26The man bowed his head, and worshiped
Yahweh. 24:27He said, "Blessed be
Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who
has not forsaken his loving kindness and his
truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh
has led me in the way to the house of my
master's relatives."
24:28The young lady ran, and told
her mother's house about these words.
24:29Rebekah had a brother, and his name was
Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
24:30It happened, when he saw the ring, and
the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he
heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying,
"This is what the man said to me," that he
came to the man. Behold, he was standing by
the camels at the spring. 24:31He said, "Come
in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand
outside? For I have prepared the house, and
roomfor the camels."
24:32The man came into the house, and he
unloaded the camels. He gave straw and
provender for the camels, and water to wash
his feet and the feet of the men who were with
him. 24:33Food was set before himto eat, but
he said, "I will not eat until I have told my
message."
He said, "Speak on."
24:34He said, "I amA braham's servant.
24:35Yahweh has blessed my master greatly.
He has become great. He has given him
flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants
and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
24:36Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my
master when she was old. He has given all that
he has to him. 24:37My master made me swear,
saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son
of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
land I live, 24:38but you shall go to my father's
house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for
m y son.' 24:39I said to my master, 'What if the
woman will not follow me?' 24:40He said to
me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send
his angel with you, and prosper your way. You
shall take a wife for my son of my relatives,
and of my father's house. 24:41Then will you
be clear from my oath, when you come to
my relatives. If they don't give her to you,
you shall be clear fromm y oath.' 24:42I cam e
this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the
God of my master Abraham, if now you do
prosper my way which I go 24:43behold, I am
standing by this spring of water. Let it happen,
that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to
whomI will say, "Give me, I pray you, a little
water fromy our pitcher to drink," 24:44and she
will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for
Genesis 24:45 19 Genesis 25:13
your camels," let her be the woman whom
Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'
24:45Before I had done speaking in my heart,
behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher
on her shoulder. She went down to the spring,
and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
24:46She hurried and let down her pitcher from
her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also
give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she
made the camels drink also. 24:47I asked her,
and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said,
'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose,
and the bracelets on her hands. 24:48I bowed
my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed
Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who
had led me in the rightway to take my master's
brother's daughter for his son. 24:49Now if you
will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell
me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right
hand, or to the left."
24:50Then Laban and Bethuel answered,
"The thing proceeds fromY ahweh. We can't
speak to you bad or good. 24:51Behold, Rebekah
is before you. Take her, and go, and let
her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has
spoken."
24:52It happened that when Abraham's servant
heard their words, he bowed himself
down to the earth to Yahweh. 24:53The servant
brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and clothing, and gave themto Rebekah.
He also gave precious things to her brother and
her mother. 24:54They ate and drank, he and
the men who were with him, and stayed all
night. They rose up in the morning, and he
said, "Send me away to my master."
24:55Her brother and her mother said, "Let
the young lady stay with us a few days, at least
ten. After that she will go."
24:56He said to them, "Don't hinder me,
seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send
me away that I may go to my master."
24:57They said, "We will call the young lady,
and ask her." 24:58They called Rebekah, and
said to her, "Will you go with this man?"
She said, "I will go."
24:59They sent away Rebekah, their sister,
with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his
men. 24:60They blessed Rebekah, and said to
her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of
thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed
possess the gate of those who hate them."
24:61Rebekah arose with her ladies. They
rode on the camels, and followed the man.
The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
24:62Isaac came fromthe way of Beer Lahai Roi,
for he lived in the land of the South. 24:63Isaac
went out to meditate in the field at the evening.
He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold,
there were camels coming. 24:64Rebekah lifted
up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
dismounted from the camel. 24:65She said to the
servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the
field to meet us?"
The servant said, "It is my master."
She took her veil, and covered herself.
24:66The servant told Isaac all the things that
he had done. 24:67Isaac brought her into his
mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and
she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was
comforted after his mother's death.
25:1Abrahamt ook another wife, and her
name was Keturah. 25:2She bore himZ imran,
Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
25:3Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and
Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim,
Letushim, and Leummim. 25:4The sons of
Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and
Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
25:5Abrahamg ave all that he had to Isaac,
25:6but to the sons of Abraham's concubines,
Abrahamg ave gifts. He sent themaway from
Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to
the east country. 25:7These are the days of the
years of Abraham's life which he lived: one
hundred seventy-five years. 25:8Abrahamg ave
up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years, and was gathered to his
people. 25:9Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried
himi n the cave of Machpelah, in the field of
Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is
before Mamre, 25:10the field which Abraham
purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham
was buried there with Sarah, his wife. 25:11It
happened after the death of Abrahamthat God
blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai
Roi.
25:12Now this is the history of the
generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom
Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore
to Abraham. 25:13These are the nam e s
of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to the order of their birth: the
Genesis 25:14 20 Genesis 26:16
firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar,
Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14Mishma, Dumah,
Massa, 25:15Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah. 25:16These are the sons of Ishm ael,
and these are their names, by their villages,
and by their encampments: twelve princes,
according to their nations. 25:17These are the
years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirtyseven
years. He gave up the spirit and died,
and was gathered to his people. 25:18They lived
fromHavi lah to Shur that is before Egypt, as
you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all
his relatives.
25:19This is the history of the generations of
Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the
father of Isaac. 25:20Isaac was forty years old
when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel
the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban
the Syrian, to be his wife. 25:21Isaac entreated
Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren.
Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah
his wife conceived. 25:22The children struggled
together within her. She said, "If it be so, why
do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
25:23Yahweh said to her,
Two nations are in your womb.
Two peoples will be separated fromyour body.
The one people will be stronger than the other
people.
The elder will serve the younger.
25:24When her days to be delivered were
fulfilled, behold, therewere twins in herwomb.
25:25The first came out red all over, like a hairy
garment. They named him Esau. 25:26After
that, his brother came out, and his hand had
hold on Esau's heel. Hewas named Jacob. Isaac
was sixty years old when she bore them.
25:27The boys grew. Esau was a skillful
hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet
man, living in tents. 25:28NowIsaac loved Esau,
because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved
Jacob. 25:29Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in
fromthe field, and he was famished. 25:30Esau
said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same
red stew, for I amfa mished." Therefore his
name was called Edom.
25:31Jacob said, "First, sell me your
birthright."
25:32Esau said, "Behold, I amabo ut to die.
What good is the birthright to me?"
25:33Jacob said, "Swear to me first."
He swore to him. He sold his birthright to
Jacob. 25:34Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of
lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his
way. So Esau despised his birthright.
26:1There was a famine in the land, besides
the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
Isaac went to Abimelech king of the
Philistines, to Gerar. 26:2Yahweh appeared to
him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live
in the land I will tell you about. 26:3Sojourn in
this land, and I will be with you, and will bless
you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all
these lands, and I will establish the oath which
I swore to Abrahamy our father. 26:4I will
multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and
will give to your seed all these lands. In your
seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
26:5because Abrahamo beyed my voice, and
kept my requirements,my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws."
26:6Isaac lived in Gerar. 26:7The men of the
place asked himabo ut his wife. He said, "She is
my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife,"
lest, he thought, "the men of the place might
kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful
to look at." 26:8It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah,
his wife. 26:9Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
"Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you
say, 'She is my sister?'"
Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die
because of her.'"
26:10Abimelech said, "What is this you have
done to us? One of the people might easily
have lain with your wife, and you would have
brought guilt on us!"
26:11Abimelech commanded all the people,
saying, "He who touches this man or his wife
will surely be put to death."
26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped
in the same year one hundred times what he
planted. Yahweh blessed him. 26:13The man
grew great, and grew more and more until he
became very great. 26:14He had possessions of
flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household.
The Philistines envied him. 26:15Now
all the wells which his father's servants had
dug in the days of Abrahamhi s father, the
Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
26:16Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for
you are much mightier than we."
Genesis 26:17 21 Genesis 27:17
26:17Isaac departed fromt here, encamped in
the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
26:18Isaac dug again the wells of water,
which they had dug in the days of Abraham
his father. For the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham. He called their
names after the names by which his father had
called them. 26:19Isaac's servants dug in the
valley, and found there a well of springing
water. 26:20The herdsmen of Gerar argued
with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is
ours." He called the name of the well Esek,
because they contended with him. 26:21They
dug another well, and they argued over that,
also. He called its name Sitnah. 26:22He left that
place, and dug another well. They didn't argue
over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said,
"For now Yahweh has made room for us, and
we will be fruitful in the land."
26:23He went up fromt here to Beersheba.
26:24Yahweh appeared to himthe same night,
and said, "I amthe God of Abraham your
father. Don't be afraid, for I amwi th you, and
will bless you, and multiply your seed for my
servant Abraham's sake."
26:25He built an altar there, and called on the
name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there.
There Isaac's servants dug a well.
26:26Then Abimelech went to him from
Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the
captain of his army. 26:27Isaac said to them,
"Why have you come to me, since you hate me,
and have sent me away from you?"
26:28They said, "We sawplainly that Yahweh
was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an
oath between us, even between us and you, and
let us make a covenant with you, 26:29that you
will do us no harm, as we have not touched
you, and as we have done to you nothing but
good, and have sent you away in peace.' You
are now the blessed of Yahweh."
26:30He made them a feast, and they ate
and drank. 26:31They rose up some time in
the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac
sent themaway , and they departed from him
in peace. 26:32It happened the same day, that
Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning
the well which they had dug, and said to
him, "We have found water." 26:33He called
it Shibah.k Therefore the name of the city is
Beershebal to this day.
26:34When Esau was forty years old, he took
as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite,
and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
26:35They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.
27:1It happened, that when Isaac was old,
and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,
he called Esau his elder son, and said to him,
"My son?"
He said to him, "Here I am."
27:2He said, "See now, I amold. I don't know
the day of my death. 27:3Now therefore, please
take your weapons, your quiver and your bow,
and go out to the field, and take me venison.
27:4Make me savory food, such as I love, and
bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul
may bless you before I die."
27:5Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau
his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for
venison, and to bring it. 27:6Rebekah spoke
to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard
your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
27:7'Bring me venison, and make me savory
food, that I may eat, and bless you before
Yahweh before my death.' 27:8Now therefore,
my son, obey my voice according to that which
I command you. 27:9Go now to the flock, and
get me from there two good kids of the goats.
I will make them savory food for your father,
such as he loves. 27:10You shall bring it to your
father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you
before his death."
27:11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am
a smooth man. 27:12What if my father touches
me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and
I would bring a curse on myself, and not a
blessing."
27:13His mother said to him, "Let your curse
be on m e, m y son. Only obey m y voice, and go
get themfor me."
27:14He went, and got them, and brought
them to his mother. His mother made savory
food, such as his father loved. 27:15Rebekah
took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son,
which were with her in the house, and put
themo n Jacob, her younger son. 27:16She put
the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands,
and on the sm ooth of his neck. 27:17She gave
k26:33 Shibah means "oath" or "seven."
l26:33 Beersheba means "well of the oath" or "well of the seven"
Genesis 27:18 22 Genesis 27:44
the savory food and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
27:18He came to his father, and said, "My
father?"
He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
27:19Jacob said to his father, "I amE sau your
firstborn. I have done what you asked me to
do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that
your soul may bless me."
27:20Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you
have found it so quickly, my son?"
He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave
me success."
27:21Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near,
that I may feel you, my son, whether you are
really my son Esau or not."
27:22Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He
felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice,
but the hands are the hands of Esau." 27:23He
didn't recognize him, because his hands were
hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he
blessed him. 27:24He said, "Are you really my
son Esau?"
He said, "I am."
27:25He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will
eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless
you."
He brought it near to him ,and he ate. He
brought himwi ne, and he drank. 27:26His
father Isaac said to him, "Come near now,
and kiss me, my son." 27:27He came near,
and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his
clothing, and blessed him, and said,
"Behold, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which Yahweh
has blessed.
27:28God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of grain and new wine.
27:29Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers.
Let your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
27:30It happened, as soon as Isaac had made
an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just
gone out fromthe presence of Isaac his father,
that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
27:31He also made savory food, and brought it
to his father. He said to his father, "Let my
father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that
your soul may bless me."
27:32Isaac his father said to him, "Who are
you?"
He said, "I amyour son, your firstborn,
Esau."
27:33Isaac trembled violently, and said,
"Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and
brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you
came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be
blessed."
27:34When Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with an exceeding great and
bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even
me also, my father."
27:35He said, "Your brother came with deceit,
and has taken away your blessing."
27:36He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob?
For he has supplanted me these two times. He
took away my birthright. See, now he has taken
away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you
reserved a blessing for me?"
27:37Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have
made him your lord, and all his brothers have I
given to himf or servants. With grain and new
wine have I sustained him. What then will I do
for you, my son?"
27:38Esau said to his father, "Have you but
one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me
also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and
wept.
27:39Isaac his father answered him,
"Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your
dwelling,
and of the dewof the sky from above.
27:40By your sword will you live, and you will
serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you shall shake his yoke fromo ff your
neck."
27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
with which his father blessed him. Esau said in
his heart, "The days of mourning for my father
are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
27:42The words of Esau, her elder son, were
told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob,
her younger son, and said to him, "Behold,
your brother Esau comforts himself about you
by planning to kill you. 27:43Now therefore,
m y son, obey m y voice. Arise, flee to Laban,
my brother, in Haran. 27:44Stay with hima
few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
Genesis 27:45 23 Genesis 29:8
27:45until your brother's anger turn away from
you, and he forgets what you have done to him.
Then I will send, and get you fromt here. Why
should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, "I amwe ary of
my life because of the daughters of Heth. If
Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth,
such as these, of the daughters of the land, what
good will my life do me?"
28:1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and
commanded him, "You shall not take a wife
of the daughters of Canaan. 28:2Arise, go to
Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your
mother's father. Take a wife from there from
the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
28:3May God Alm ighty bless you, and m ake
you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may
be a company of peoples, 28:4and give you the
blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed
with you, that you may inherit the land where
you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
28:5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to
Paddan Aramt o Laban, son of Bethuel the
Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's
mother.
28:6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed
Jacob and sent himaway to Paddan Aram, to
take hima wife from there, and that as he
blessed himhe gave hima command, saying,
"You shall not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan," 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father
and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
28:8Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan
didn't please Isaac, his father. 28:9Esau went
to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that
he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his
wife.
28:10Jacob went out fromBeersh eba, and
went toward Haran. 28:11He came to a certain
place, and stayed there all night, because the
sun had set. He took one of the stones of
the place, and put it under his head, and
lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12He
dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the
earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold,
the angels of God ascending and descending
on it. 28:13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and
said, "I amYahweh, the God of Abraham your
father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon
you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
28:14Your seed will be as the dust of the earth,
and you will spread abroad to the west, and to
the east, and to the north, and to the south. In
you and in your seed will all the families of the
earth be blessed. 28:15Behold, I amwi th you,
and will keep you, wherever you go, and will
bring you again into this land. For I will not
leave you, until I have done that which I have
spoken of to you."
28:16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and
he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and
I didn't know it." 28:17He was afraid, and
said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none
other than God's house, and this is the gate of
heaven."
28:18Jacob 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 on
its top. 28:19He called the name of that place
Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the
first. 28:20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God
will be with me, and will keep me in this way
that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and
clothing to put on, 28:21so that I come again to
my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be
m y God, 28:22then this stone, which I have set
up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that
you will give me I will surely give the tenth to
you."
29:1Then Jacob went on his journey, and
came to the land of the children of the east.
29:2He looked, and behold, a well in the field,
and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there
by it. For out of that well they watered the
flocks. The stone on thewell's mouth was large.
29:3There all the flocks were gathered. They
rolled the stone fromt he well's mouth, and
watered the sheep, and put the stone again on
the well's mouth in its place. 29:4Jacob said to
them, "My relatives, where are you from?"
They said, "We are fromHa ran."
29:5He said to them, "Do you know Laban,
the son of Nahor?"
They said, "We know him."
29:6He said to them, "Is it well with him?"
They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his
daughter, is coming with the sheep."
29:7He said, "Behold, it is still the middle
of the day, not time to gather the livestock
together. Water the sheep, and go and feed
them."
29:8They said, "We can't, until all the flocks
are gathered together, and they roll the stone
Genesis 29:9 24 Genesis 30:12
fromthe well's mouth. Then we water the
sheep."
29:9While he was yet speaking with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she
kept them. 29:10It happened, 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 fromthe well's mouth, and watered the
flock of Laban his mother's brother. 29:11Jacob
kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and
wept. 29:12Jacob told Rachel that he was her
father's brother, and that hewas Rebekah's son.
She ran and told her father.
29:13It happened, when Laban heard the
news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran
to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed
him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told
Laban all these things. 29:14Laban said to him,
Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He
lived with himf or amonth. 29:15Laban said to
Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you
therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what
will your wages be?"
29:16Laban had two daughters. The name
of the elder was Leah, and the name of the
younger was Rachel. 29:17Leah's eyes were
weak, but Rachel was beautiful in forman d
attractive. 29:18Jacob loved Rachel. He said,
"I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your
younger daughter."
29:19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to
you, than that I should give her to another man.
Stay with me."
29:20Jacob served seven years for Rachel.
They seemed to himbut a few days, for the love
he had for her.
29:21Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife,
for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to
her."
29:22Laban gathered together all the men of
the place, and made a feast. 29:23It happened
in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter,
and brought her to him. He went in to
her. 29:24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to
his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 29:25It
happened in the morning that, behold, it was
Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have
done to me? Didn't I servewith you for Rachel?
Why then have you deceived me?"
29:26Laban said, "It is not done so in our
place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
29:27Fulfill the week of this one, and we will
give you the other also for the service which
you will serve with me yet seven other years."
29:28Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week.
He gave himR achel his daughter as wife.
29:29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah,
his handmaid, to be her handmaid. 29:30He
went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel
more than Leah, and servedwith him yet seven
other years.
29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and
he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
29:32Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she
named him Reuben. For she said, "Because
Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now
my husband will love me." 29:33She conceived
again, and bore a son, and said, "Because
Yahweh has heard that I amhate d, he has
therefore given me this son also." She named
himSi meon. 29:34She conceived again, and
bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my
husband be joined to me, because I have borne
himthre e sons." Thereforewas his name called
Levi. 29:35She conceived again, and bore a son.
She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh."
Therefore she named him Judah. Then she
stopped bearing.
30:1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no
children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to
Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
30:2Jacob's anger was kindled against
Rachel, and he said, "AmI in God's place, who
has withheld fromy ou the fruit of the womb?"
30:3She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go
in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and
I also may obtain children by her." 30:4She
gave himB ilhah her handmaid as wife, and
Jacob went in to her. 30:5Bilhah conceived,
and bore Jacob a son. 30:6Rachel said, "God
has judged me, and has also heard my voice,
and has given me a son." Therefore called she
his name Dan. 30:7Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid,
conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
30:8Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have
I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed."
She named him Naphtali.
30:9When Leah saw that she had finished
bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and
gave her to Jacob as a wife. 30:10Zilpah,
Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son. 30:11Leah
said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.
30:12Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a
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second son. 30:13Leah said, "Happy amI, for
the daughters will call me happy." She named
himAs her.
30:14Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest,
and found mandrakes in the field, and
brought themto hismother, Leah. Then Rachel
said to Leah, "Please give me some of your
son's mandrakes."
30:15She said to her, "Is it a small matter that
you have taken away my husband? Would you
take away my son's mandrakes, also?"
Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you
tonight for your son's mandrakes."
30:16Jacob came fromthe field in the evening,
and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You
must come in to me; for I have surely hired you
with my son's mandrakes."
He lay with her that night. 30:17God listened
to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a
fifth son. 30:18Leah said, "God has given me
my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my
husband." She named him Issachar. 30:19Leah
conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
30:20Leah said, "God has endowed me with a
good dowry. Now my husband will live with
me, because I have borne him six sons." She
named him Zebulun. 30:21Afterwards, she bore
a daughter, and named her Dinah.
30:22God remembered Rachel, and God listened
to her, and opened her womb. 30:23She
conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has
taken away my reproach." 30:24She named him
Joseph,m saying, "May Yahweh add another
son to me."
30:25It happened, when Rachel had borne
Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me
away, that I may go to my own place, and to
m y country. 30:26Give me my wives and my
children for whomI have served you, and let
me go; for you know my service with which I
have served you."
30:27Laban said to him, "If now I have found
favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined
that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
30:28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I
will give it."
30:29He said to him, "You know how I have
served you, and how your livestock have fared
with me. 30:30For it was little which you
had before I came, and it has increased to a
multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever
I turned. Now when will I provide for my own
house also?"
30:31He said, "What shall I give you?"
Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything.
If youwill do this thing for me, I will again feed
your flock and keep it. 30:32I will pass through
all your flock today, removing fromthere every
speckled and spotted one, and every black one
among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled
among the goats. This will be my hire. 30:33So
my righteousness will answer for me hereafter,
when you come concerning my hire that is
before you. Every one that is not speckled and
spotted among the goats, and black among the
sheep, that might be with me, will be counted
stolen."
30:34Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be
according to your word."
30:35That day, he removed the male goats
that were streaked and spotted, and all the
female goats that were speckled and spotted,
every one that had white in it, and all the black
ones among the sheep, and gave them into the
hand of his sons. 30:36He set three days' journey
between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the
rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37Jacob took to himself rods of fresh
poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white
streaks in them, and made the white appear
which was in the rods. 30:38He set the rods
which he had peeled opposite the flocks in
the gutters in the watering-troughs where the
flocks came to drink. They conceived when
they came to drink. 30:39The flocks conceived
before the rods, and the flocks brought forth
streaked, speckled, and spotted. 30:40Jacob
separated the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the streaked and all the black in
the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves
apart, and didn't put themi nto Laban's flock.
30:41It happened, whenever the stronger of the
flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before
the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they
might conceive among the rods; 30:42but when
the flock were feeble, he didn't put themin .
So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger
Jacob's. 30:43The man increased exceedingly,
and had large flocks, female servants and male
servants, and camels and donkeys.
m30:24 Joseph means "may he add."
Genesis 31:2 26 Genesis 31:35
31:1He heard the words of Laban's sons,
saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our
father's. Fromthat which was our father's, has
he gotten all this wealth." 31:2Jacob saw the
expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was
not toward himas before. 31:3Yahweh said to
Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and
to your relatives, and I will be with you."
31:4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah
to the field to his flock, 31:5and said to them,
"I see the expression on your father's face,
that it is not toward me as before; but the
God of my father has been with me. 31:6You
know that I have served your father with all
of my strength. 31:7Your father has deceived
me, and changed my wages ten times, but God
didn't allow himt o hurt me. 31:8If he said
this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then
all the flock bore speckled. If he said this,
'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the
flock bore streaked. 31:9Thus God has taken
away your father's livestock, and given them
to me. 31:10It happened during mating season
that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream,
and behold, the male goats which leaped on
the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
31:11The angel of God said to me in the dream,
'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.' 31:12He said,
'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the
male goats which leap on the flock are streaked,
speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that
Laban does to you. 31:13I amt he God of Bethel,
where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed
a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land,
and return to the land of your birth.'"
31:14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is
there yet any portion or inheritance for us in
our father's house? 31:15Aren't we accounted
by himas foreigners? For he has sold us, and
has also quite devoured our money. 31:16For
all the riches which God has taken away from
our father, that is ours and our children's. Now
then, whatever God has said to you, do."
31:17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and
his wives on the camels, 31:18and he took away
all his livestock, and all his possessions which
he had gathered, including the livestock which
he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac
his father, to the land of Canaan. 31:19Now
Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel
stole the teraphimn that were her father's.
31:20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that
he didn't tell himthat he was running away.
31:21So he fled with all that he had. He rose up,
passed over the River, and set his face toward
the mountain of Gilead.
31:22Laban was told on the third day that
Jacob had fled. 31:23He took his relatives
with him, and pursued after him seven days'
journey. He overtook himin the mountain of
Gilead. 31:24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in
a dreamo f the night, and said to him, "Take
heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob
either good or bad."
31:25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now
Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain,
and Laban with his relatives encamped in
the mountain of Gilead. 31:26Laban said to
Jacob, "What have you done, that you have
deceived me, and carried away my daughters
like captives of the sword? 31:27Why did you
flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell
me, that I might have sent you away with
mirth and with songs, with tambourine and
with harp; 31:28and didn't allow me to kiss my
sons and my daughters? Now have you done
foolishly. 31:29It is in the power of my hand to
hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to
me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself
that you don't speak to Jacob either good or
bad.' 31:30Now, you want to be gone, because
you greatly longed for your father's house, but
why have you stolen my gods?"
31:31Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was
afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your
daughters fromme by force.' 31:32Anyone you
find your gods with shall not live. Before our
relatives, discern what is yours with me, and
take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had
stolen them.
31:33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's
tent, and into the tent of the two female
servants; but he didn't find them. He went out
of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
31:34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put
them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them.
Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find
them. 31:35She said to her father, "Don't let my
lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for
n31:19 teraphimw ere household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the
household property.
Genesis 31:36 27 Genesis 32:12
the manner of women is on me." He searched,
but didn't find the teraphim.
31:36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban.
Jacob answered Laban, "What is my
trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly
pursued after me? 31:37Now that you have
felt around in all my stuff, what have you
found of all your household stuff? Set it here
before my relatives and your relatives, that they
may judge between us two. 31:38These twenty
years I have been with you. Your ewes and
your female goats have not cast their young,
and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
31:39That which was torn of animals, I didn't
bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you
required it, whether stolen by day or stolen
by night. 31:40This was my situation: in the
day the drought consumed me, and the frost
by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
31:41These twenty years I have been in your
house. I served you fourteen years for your two
daughters, and six years for your flock, and you
have changed my wages ten times. 31:42Unless
the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and
the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now
you would have sent me away empty. God has
seen my affliction and the labor of my hands,
and rebuked you last night."
31:43Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters
are my daughters, the children are my children,
the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is
mine: and what can I do this day to these my
daughters, or to their children whomthe y have
borne? 31:44Now come, let us make a covenant,
you and I; and let it be for a witness between
m e and you."
31:45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a
pillar. 31:46Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather
stones." They took stones, and made a heap.
They ate there by the heap. 31:47Laban called it
Jegar Sahadutha,o but Jacob called it Galeed.p
31:48Laban said, "This heap is witness between
me and you this day." Therefore it was named
Galeed 31:49and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh
watch between me and you, when we are
absent one fromano ther. 31:50If you afflict my
daughters, or if you take wives besides my
daughters, no man is with us; behold, God
is witness between me and you." 31:51Laban
said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar,
which I have set between me and you. 31:52May
this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a
witness, that I will not pass over this heap to
you, and that you will not pass over this heap
and this pillar to me, for harm. 31:53The God
of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God
of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob
swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. 31:54Jacob
offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called
his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and
stayed all night in the mountain. 31:55Early
in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed
his sons and his daughters, and blessed them.
Laban departed and returned to his place.
32:1Jacob went on his way, and the angels of
God met him. 32:2When he saw them, Jacob
said, "This is God's army." He called the name
of that place Mahanaim.
32:3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to
Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field
of Edom. 32:4He commanded them, saying,
"This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau:
'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have
lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed
until now. 32:5I have cattle, donkeys, flocks,
male servants, and female servants. I have
sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in
your sight.'" 32:6The messengers returned to
Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau.
Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and
four hundred men with him." 32:7Then Jacob
was greatly afraid and was distressed. He
divided the people who were with him, and
the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into
two companies; 32:8and he said, "If Esau comes
to the one company, and strikes it, then the
company which is left will escape." 32:9Jacob
said, "God of my father Abraham, and God
of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me,
'Return to your country, and to your relatives,
and I will do you good,' 32:10I am not worthy
of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of
all the truth, which you have shown to your
servant; for with just my staff I passed over this
Jordan; and nowI have become two companies.
32:11Please deliver me from the hand of my
brother, fromt he hand of Esau: for I fear him,
lest he come and strike me, and the mothers
with the children. 32:12You said, 'I will surely
o31:47 "Jegar Sahadutha" means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.
p31:47 "Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.
Genesis 32:13 28 Genesis 33:13
do you good, and make your seed as the sand
of the sea, which can't be numbered because
there are so many.'"
32:13He lodged there that night, and took
fromthat which he had with him, a present
for Esau, his brother: 32:14two hundred female
goats and twenty male goats, two hundred
ewes and twenty rams, 32:15thirty milk camels
and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty
female donkeys and ten foals. 32:16He delivered
themin to the hands of his servants, every
herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass
over before me, and put a space between herd
and herd." 32:17He commanded the foremost,
saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you,
and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where
are you going? Whose are these before you?'
32:18Then you shall say, 'They are your servant,
Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord,
Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'" 32:19He
commanded also the second, and the third, and
all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how
you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
32:20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold,
your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said,
"I will appease himwi th the present that goes
before me, and afterward I will see his face.
Perhaps he will accept me."
32:21So the present passed over before him,
and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
32:22He rose up that night, and took his
two wives, and his two handmaids, and his
eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the
Jabbok. 32:23He took them, and sent them
over the stream, and sent over that which he
had. 32:24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled
with a man there until the breaking of the day.
32:25When he saw that he didn't prevail against
him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and
the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he
wrestled. 32:26The man said, "Let me go, for the
day breaks."
Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you
bless me."
32:27He said to him, "What is your name?"
He said, "Jacob." 32:28He said, "Your name
will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for
you have fought with God and with men, and
have prevailed."
32:29Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your
name."
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my
name is?" He blessed him there.
32:30Jacob called the name of the place Penielq:
for, he said, "I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved." 32:31The sun rose on
hima s he passed over Peniel, and he limped
because of his thigh. 32:32Therefore the children
of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is
on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because
he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the
sinew of the hip.
33:1Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him
four hundred men. He divided the children
between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
33:2He put the handmaids and their children in
front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel
and Joseph at the rear. 33:3He himself passed
over in front of them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his
brother.
33:4Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell
on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 33:5He
lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, "Who are these with you?"
He said, "The children whomGod has
graciously given your servant." 33:6Then the
handmaids came near with their children, and
they bowed themselves. 33:7Leah also and her
children came near, and bowed themselves.
After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and
they bowed themselves.
33:8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this
company which I met?"
Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my
lord."
33:9Esau said, "I have enough, my brother;
let that which you have be yours."
33:10Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now
found favor in your sight, then receive my
present at my hand, because I have seen your
face, as one sees the face of God, and you
were pleased with me. 33:11Please take the
gift that I brought to you, because God has
dealt graciously with me, and because I have
enough." He urged him, and he took it.
33:12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and
let us go, and I will go before you."
33:13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that
the children are tender, and that the flocks and
q32:30 Peniel means "face of God."
Genesis 33:14 29 Genesis 34:25
herds with me have their young, and if they
overdrive themon e day, all the flocks will die.
33:14Please let my lord pass over before his
servant, and I will lead on gently, according
to the pace of the livestock that are before me
and according to the pace of the children, until
I come to my lord to Seir."
33:15Esau said, "Let me now leave with you
some of the folk who are with me."
He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the
sight of my lord."
33:16So Esau returned that day on his way
to Seir. 33:17Jacob traveled to Succoth, built
himself a house, and made shelters for his
livestock. Therefore the name of the place is
called Succoth.r
33:18Jacob 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. 33:19He bought the parcel of
ground where he had spread his tent, at the
hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,
for one hundred pieces of money. 33:20He
erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe
Israel.s
34:1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whoms he
bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of
the land. 34:2Shechemt he son of Hamor the
Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took
her, lay with her, and humbled her. 34:3His soul
joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he
loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the
young lady. 34:4Shechemspoke to his father,
Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a
wife."
34:5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled
Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his
livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until
they came. 34:6Hamor the father of Shechem
went out to Jacob to talk with him. 34:7The
sons of Jacob came in from the field when they
heard it. The men were grieved, and they were
very angry, because he had done folly in Israel
in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing
ought not to be done. 34:8Hamor talked with
them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem,
longs for your daughter. Please give her to him
as a wife. 34:9Make marriages with us. Give
your daughters to us, and take our daughters
for yourselves. 34:10You shall dwell with us,
and the land will be before you. Live and trade
in it, and get possessions in it."
34:11Shechems aid to her father and to her
brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and
whatever you will tell me I will give. 34:12Ask
me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give
whatever you ask of me, but give me the young
lady as a wife."
34:13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem
and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke,
because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
34:14and said to them, "We can't do this thing,
to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised;
for that is a reproach to us. 34:15Only on this
condition will we consent to you. If you will
be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
34:16then will we give our daughters to
you, and wewill take your daughters to us, and
we will dwell with you, and we will become
one people. 34:17But if you will not listen to us,
to be circumcised, then we will take our sister,t
and we will be gone."
34:18Their words pleased Hamor and
Shechem, Hamor's son. 34:19The young man
didn't wait to do this thing, because he
had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was
honored above all the house of his father.
34:20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to
the gate of their city, and talked with the
men of their city, saying, 34:21"These men are
peaceful with us. Therefore let themliv e in
the land and trade in it. 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. 34:22Only on this condition
will the men consent to us to live with us,
to become one people, if every male among
us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
34:23Won't their livestock and their possessions
and all their animals be ours? Only let us give
our consent to them, and they will dwell with
us."
34:24All who went out of the gate of his city
listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and
every male was circumcised, all who went out
of the gate of his city. 34:25It happened on the
third day, when they were sore, that two of
r33:17 succoth means shelters or booths.
s33:20 El Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God of Israel is mighty."
t34:17 Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"
Genesis 34:26 30 Genesis 35:29
Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers,
each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting
city, and killed all the males. 34:26They
killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the
edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of
Shechem's house, and went away. 34:27Jacob's
sons came on the dead, and plundered the city,
because they had defiled their sister. 34:28They
took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys,
that which was in the city, that which was in
the field, 34:29and all their wealth. They took
captive all their little ones and their wives, and
took as plunder everything that was in the
house. 34:30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You
have troubled me, to make me odious to the
inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites
and the Perizzites. I amf ew in number. They
will gather themselves together against me and
strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my
house."
34:31They said, "Should he deal with our
sister as with a prostitute?"
35:1God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to
Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to
God, who appeared to you when you fled from
the face of Esau your brother."
35:2Then Jacob said to his household, and to
all who were with him, "Put away the foreign
gods that are among you, purify yourselves,
change your garments. 35:3Let us arise, and go
up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God,
who answered me in the day of my distress,
and was with me in the way which I went."
35:4They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods
which were in their hands, and the rings which
were in their ears; and Jacob hid themund er
the oak which was by Shechem. 35:5They
traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities
that were around them, and they didn't pursue
the sons of Jacob. 35:6So Jacob cam e to Luz (that
is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he
and all the people who were with him. 35:7He
built an altar there, and called the place El
Beth El; because there God was revealed to
him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
35:8Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she
was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its
name was called Allon Bacuth.
35:9God appeared to Jacob again, when he
came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
35:10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your
name shall not be Jacob any more, but your
name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
35:11God said to him ,"I am God Alm ighty. Be
fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company
of nations will be fromyou, and kings will
come out of your body. 35:12The land which I
gave to Abrahamand Isaac, I will give it to you,
and to your seed after you will I give the land."
35:13God went up fromh im in the place
where he spoke with him . 35:14Jacob set up a
pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a
pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering
on it, and poured oil on it. 35:15Jacob called the
name of the place where God spoke with him
"Bethel."
35:16They traveled fromBet hel. There
was still some distance to come to Ephrath,
and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
35:17When she was in hard labor, the midwife
said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will
have another son."
35:18It happened, as her soul was departing
(for she died), that she named him Benoni,u but
his father named him Benjamin.v 35:19Rachel
died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the
same is Bethlehem). 35:20Jacob set up a pillar
on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's
grave to this day. 35:21Israel traveled, and
spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 35:22It
happened, while Israel lived 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. 35:23The
sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn),
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid):
Dan and Naphtali. 35:26The sons of Zilpah
(Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These
are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him
in Paddan Aram. 35:27Jacob came to Isaac his
father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is
Hebron), where Abrahamand Isaac lived as
foreigners.
35:28The days of Isaac were one hundred
eighty years. 35:29Isaac gave up the spirit, and
died, and was gathered to his people, old and
u35:18 "Benoni" means "son of my trouble."
v35:18 "Benjamin" means "son of my right hand."
Genesis 36:1 31 Genesis 36:43
full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried
him.
36:1Now this is the history of the generations
of Esau (that is, Edom). 36:2Esau took his
wives fromthe daughters of Canaan: Adah the
daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah
the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon,
the Hivite; 36:3and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter,
sister of Nebaioth. 36:4Adah bore to Esau
Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. 36:5Oholibamah
bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the
sons of Esau, who were born to himi n the
land of Canaan. 36:6Esau took his wives, his
sons, his daughters, and all the members of his
household, with his livestock, all his animals,
and all his possessions, which he had gathered
in the land of Canaan, and went into a land
away fromhi s brother Jacob. 36:7For their
substance was too great for themto dwell
together, and the land of their travels couldn't
bear thembe cause of their livestock. 36:8Esau
lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
36:9This is the history of the generations of
Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill
country of Seir: 36:10these are the names of
Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife
of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the
wife of Esau. 36:11The sons of Eliphaz were
Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
36:12Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's
son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are
the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. 36:13These are
the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath,
Esau's wife. 36:14These were the sons
of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to
Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
36:15These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau:
the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief
Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
36:16chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek:
these are the chiefs who cam e of Eliphaz in
the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
36:17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son:
chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah,
chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of
Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
Basemath, Esau's wife. 36:18These are the sons
of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief
Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who
came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,
Esau's wife. 36:19These are the sons of Esau
(that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
36:20These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the
inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon,
Anah, 36:21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are
the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children
of Seir in the land of Edom. 36:22The children
of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister
was Timna. 36:23These are the children of
Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and
Onam. 36:24These are the children of Zibeon:
Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the
hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the
donkeys of Zibeon his father. 36:25These are
the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah,
the daughter of Anah. 36:26These are the
children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran,
and Cheran. 36:27These are the children of Ezer:
Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 36:28These are the
children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 36:29These
are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief
Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
36:30chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan:
these are the chiefs who came of the Horites,
according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
36:31These are the kings who reigned in the
land of Edom, before any king reigned over
the children of Israel. 36:32Bela, the son of
Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city
was Dinhabah. 36:33Bela died, and Jobab, the
son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
36:34Jobab died, and Hushamo f the land of the
Temanites reigned in his place. 36:35Husham
died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who
struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned
in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
36:36Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah
reigned in his place. 36:37Samlah died, and
Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his
place. 36:38Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son
of Achbor reigned in his place. 36:39Baal Hanan
the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in
his place. The name of his city was Pau. His
wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
36:40These are the names of the chiefs who
came from Esau, according to their families,
after their places, and by their names: chief
Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 36:41chief
Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 36:42chief
Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 36:43chief
Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs
Genesis 37:1 32 Genesis 37:33
of Edom, according to their habitations in the
land of their possession. This is Esau, the father
of the Edomites.
37:1Jacob lived in the land of his father's
travels, in the land of Canaan. 37:2This is the
history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph,
being seventeen years old, was feeding the
flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the
sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives.
Joseph brought an evil report of themt o their
father. 37:3Now 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 colors.
37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him
more than all his brothers, and they hated him,
and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
37:5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it
to his brothers, and they hated himal l themore.
37:6He said to them, "Please hear this dream
which I have dreamed: 37:7for behold, we were
binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my
sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold,
your sheaves came around, and bowed down
to my sheaf."
37:8His brothers said to him, "Will you
indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have
dominion over us?" They hated him all the
more for his dreams and for his words. 37:9He
dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his
brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed
yet another dream: and behold, the sun and
the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
37:10He told it to his father and to his brothers.
His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What
is this dreamthat you have dreamed? Will
I and your mother and your brothers indeed
come to bow ourselves down to you to the
earth?" 37:11His brothers envied him, but his
father kept this saying in mind.
37:12His brothers went to feed their father's
flock in Shechem. 37:13Israel said to Joseph,
"Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in
Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them."
He said to him, "Here I am."
37:14He said to him, "Go now, see whether
it is well with your brothers, and well with the
flock; and bring me word again." So he sent
himo ut of the valley of Hebron, and he came
to Shechem. 37:15A certain man found him, and
behold, hewas wandering in the field. The man
asked him, "What are you looking for?"
37:16He said, "I amlookin g formy brothers.
Tell me, please, where they are feeding the
flock."
37:17The man said, "They have left here, for
I heard thems ay, 'Let us go to Dothan.'"
Joseph went after his brothers, and found
themi n Dothan. 37:18They saw himaf ar off,
and before he cam e near to them ,they conspired
against himt o kill him. 37:19They said
one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
37:20Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and
cast himi nto one of the pits, and we will say,
'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see
what will become of his dreams."
37:21Reuben heard it, and delivered himout
of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his
life." 37:22Reuben said to them, "Shed no
blood. Throw himi nto this pit that is in the
wilderness, but lay no hand on him" that he
might deliver him out of their hand, to restore
himto his father. 37:23It happened, when
Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped
Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that
was on him; 37:24and they took him, and threw
himi nto the pit. The pit was empty. There was
no water in it.
37:25They sat down to eat bread, and they
lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan
of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead,
with their camels bearing spices and balm
and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
37:26Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is
it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
37:27Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites,
and not let our hand be on him; for he is
our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened
to him. 37:28Midianites who were merchants
passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph
out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph
into Egypt.
37:29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw
that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his
clothes. 37:30He returned to his brothers, and
said, "The child is no more; and I, where will
I go?" 37:31They took Joseph's coat, and killed
a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
37:32They took the coat of many colors, and
they brought it to their father, and said, "We
have found this. Examine it, now, whether it
is your son's coat or not."
37:33He recognized it, and said, "It is my
son's coat. An evil animal has devoured
Genesis 37:34 33 Genesis 38:29
him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
37:34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth
on his waist, and mourned for his son many
days. 37:35All his sons and all his daughters
rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be
comforted. He said, "For I will go down to
Sheolw to my son mourning." His father wept
for him. 37:36The Midianites sold himin to
Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the
captain of the guard.
38:1It happened at that time, that Judah went
down fromhi s brothers, and visited a certain
Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 38:2Judah
saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite
whose name was Shua. He took her, and went
in to her. 38:3She conceived, and bore a son; and
he named him Er. 38:4She conceived again, and
bore a son; and she named him Onan. 38:5She
yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah:
and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
38:6Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and
her name was Tamar. 38:7Er, Judah's firstborn,
was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh
killed him. 38:8Judah said to Onan, "Go in to
your brother's wife, and performt he duty of
a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed
to your brother." 38:9Onan knew that the seed
wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he
went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it
on the ground, lest he should give seed to his
brother. 38:10The thing which he did was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed hima lso.
38:11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-inlaw,
"Remain a widow in your father's house,
until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said,
"Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar
went and lived in her father's house.
38:12After many days, Shua's daughter, the
wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and
went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and
his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. 38:13It was
told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-inlaw
is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
38:14She took off of her the garments of her
widowhood, and covered herself with her veil,
and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of
Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she
saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't
given to hima s a wife. 38:15When Judah saw
her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for
she had covered her face. 38:16He turned to her
by theway, and said, "Please come, let me come
in to you," for he didn't know that she was his
daughter-in-law.
She said, "What will you give me, that you
may come in to me?"
38:17He said, "I will send you a kid of the
goats fromthe flock."
She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until
you send it?"
38:18He said, "What pledge will I give you?"
She said, "Your signet and your cord, and
your staff that is in your hand."
He gave themto her, and came in to her, and
she conceived by him. 38:19She arose, and went
away, and put off her veil fromhe r, and put
on the garments of her widowhood. 38:20Judah
sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his
friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge
fromthe woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
38:21Then he asked the men of her place, saying,
"Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaimby
the road?"
They said, "There has been no prostitute
here."
38:22He returned to Judah, and said, "I
haven't found her; and also the men of the
place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
38:23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be
shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you
haven't found her."
38:24It happened about three months later,
that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your
daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and
moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution."
Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be
burnt." 38:25When she was brought forth, she
sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man,
whose these are, I amwi th child." She also said,
"Please discern whose are these the signet,
and the cords, and the staff."
38:26Judah acknowledged them, and said,
"She is more righteous than I, because I didn't
give her to Shelah, my son."
He knew her again no more. 38:27It happened
in the time of her travail, that behold,
twins were in her womb. 38:28When she
travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife
took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand,
saying, "This came out first." 38:29It happened,
w37:35 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Genesis 38:30 34 Genesis 40:8
as he drew back his hand, that behold, his
brother came out, and she said, "Why have
you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore
his name was called Perez.x 38:30Afterward his
brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on
his hand, and his name was called Zerah.y
39:1Joseph was brought down to Egypt.
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain
of the guard, an Egyptian, bought himf rom
the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought
himdow n there. 39:2Yahweh was with Joseph,
and he was a prosperous man. He was in
the house of his master the Egyptian. 39:3His
master saw that Yahweh was with him, and
that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his
hand. 39:4Joseph found favor in his sight. He
ministered to him, and he made him overseer
over his house, and all that he had he put into
his hand. 39:5It happened fromthe time that he
made him overseer in his house, and over all
that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's
house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of
Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house
and in the field. 39:6He left all that he had in
Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with
anything, except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome. 39:7It
happened after these things, that his master's
wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie
with me."
39:8But he refused, and said to his master's
wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what
is with me in the house, and he has put all
that he has into my hand. 39:9He isn't greater
in this house than I, neither has he kept back
anything fromm e but you, because you are his
wife. How then can I do this great wickedness,
and sin against God?"
39:10As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he
didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with
her. 39:11About this time, he went into the
house to do his work, and there were none of
the men of the house inside. 39:12She caught
him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!"
He left his garment in her hand, and ran
outside. 39:13When she saw that he had left
his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
39:14she called to the men of her house, and
spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought
in a Hebrew to us to m ock us. He cam e in
to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud
voice. 39:15It happened, when he heard that I
lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his
garment by me, and ran outside." 39:16She laid
up his garment by her, until his master came
home. 39:17She spoke to himacco rding to these
words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom
you have brought to us, came in to me to mock
me, 39:18and it happened, as I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment by me,
and ran outside."
39:19It happened, when his master heard the
words of his wife, which she spoke to him,
saying, "This is what your servant did to me,"
that his wrath was kindled. 39:20Joseph's master
took him, and put him into the prison, the
place where the king's prisoners were bound,
and he was there in custody. 39:21But Yahweh
was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him,
and gave himfa vor in the sight of the keeper
of the prison. 39:22The keeper of the prison
committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners
who were in the prison. Whatever they did
there, he was responsible for it. 39:23The keeper
of the prison didn't look after anything that was
under his hand, because Yahweh was with him;
and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
40:1It happened after these things, that
the butler of the king of Egypt and his
baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
40:2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers,
the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. 40:3He
put themi n custody in the house of the captain
of the guard, into the prison, the place where
Josephwas bound. 40:4The captain of the guard
assigned themto Joseph, and he took care
of them. They stayed in prison many days.
40:5They both dreamed a dream, each man his
dream, in one night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and
the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound
in the prison. 40:6Joseph came in to them in
the morning, and saw them, and saw that they
were sad. 40:7He asked Pharaoh's officers who
were with himi n custody in hismaster's house,
saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
40:8They said to him, "We have dreamed a
dream, and there is no one who can interpret
it."
x38:29 Perez means "breaking out."
y38:30 Zerah means "scarlet" or "brightness."
Genesis 40:9 35 Genesis 41:21
Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations
belong to God? Please tell it to me."
40:9The chief cupbearer told his dreamt o
Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold,
a vine was in front of me, 40:10and in the
vine were three branches. It was as though it
budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters
brought forth ripe grapes. 40:11Pharaoh's cup
was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and
pressed themi nto Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the
cup into Pharaoh's hand."
40:12Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation:
the three branches are three days.
40:13Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift
up your head, and restore you to your office.
You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the
way you did when you were his cupbearer.
40:14But remember me when it will be wellwith
you, and show kindness, please, to me, and
make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me
out of this house. 40:15For 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."
40:16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation
was good, he said to Joseph, "I also
was in my dream, and behold, three baskets
of white bread were on my head. 40:17In the
uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked
food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate themo ut of
the basket on my head."
40:18Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation.
The three baskets are three days.
40:19Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift
up your head fromo ff you, and will hang you
on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh
fromof f you." 40:20It happened the third day,
which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a
feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the
head of the chief cupbearer and the head of
the chief baker among his servants. 40:21He
restored the chief cupbearer to his position
again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand; 40:22but he hanged the chief baker, as
Joseph had interpreted to them. 40:23Yet the
chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but
forgot him.
41:1It happened at the end of two full years,
that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood
by the river. 41:2Behold, there came up out of
the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they
fed in the marsh grass. 41:3Behold, seven other
cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly
and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the
brink of the river. 41:4The ugly and thin cattle
ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh
awoke. 41:5He slept and dreamed a second
time: and behold, seven heads of grain came
up on one stalk, healthy and good. 41:6Behold,
seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with
the east wind, sprung up after them. 41:7The
thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven
healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and
behold, it was a dream .41:8It happened in the
morning that his spirit was troubled, and he
sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and
wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but
there was no one who could interpret themt o
Pharaoh.
41:9Then the chief cupbearer spoke to
Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
41:10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and
put me in custody in the house of the captain
of the guard, me and the chief baker. 41:11We
dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We
dreamed each man according to the interpretation
of his dream. 41:12There 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 dreamh e interpreted. 41:13It
happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he
restored me to my office, and he hanged him."
41:14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph,
and they brought himhas tily out of the dungeon.
He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh. 41:15Pharaoh said to
Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is
no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said
of you, that when you hear a dreamyou can
interpret it."
41:16Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It
isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer
of peace."
41:17Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream,
behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
41:18and behold, there came up out of the river
seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the
marsh grass, 41:19and behold, seven other cattle
came up after them, poor and very ugly and
thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt
for ugliness. 41:20The thin and ugly cattle ate
up the first seven fat cattle, 41:21and when they
had eaten themu p, it couldn't be known that
Genesis 41:22 36 Genesis 41:55
they had eaten them, but they were still ugly,
as at the beginning. So I awoke. 41:22I saw in
my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain
came up on one stalk, full and good: 41:23and
behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin,
and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after
them. 41:24The thin heads of grain swallowed
up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to
the magicians, but there was no one who could
explain it to me."
41:25Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreamo f
Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has
declared to Pharaoh. 41:26The seven good cattle
are seven years; and the seven good heads
of grain are seven years. The dreamis one.
41:27The seven thin and ugly cattle that came
up after themare seven years, and also the
seven empty heads of grain blasted with the
east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
41:28That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh.
What God is about to do he has shown to
Pharaoh. 41:29Behold, there come seven years
of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
41:30There will arise after themsev en years of
famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in
the land of Egypt. The famine will consume
the land, 41:31and the plenty will not be known
in the land by reason of that famine which
follows; for it will be very grievous. 41:32The
dreamwas doubled to Pharaoh, because the
thing is established by God, and God will
shortly bring it to pass.
41:33"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a
discreet and wise man, and set him over the
land of Egypt. 41:34Let Pharaoh do this, and
let hima ppoint overseers over the land, and
take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's
produce in the seven plenteous years. 41:35Let
themg ather all the food of these good years
that come, and lay up grain under the hand of
Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let themk eep
it. 41:36The food will be for a store to the land
against the seven years of famine, which will
be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish
through the famine."
41:37The thing was good in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
41:38Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find
such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit
of God?" 41:39Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because
God has shown you all of this, there is none
so discreet and wise as you. 41:40You shall be
over my house, and according to your word
will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne
I will be greater than you." 41:41Pharaoh said
to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the
land of Egypt." 41:42Pharaoh took off his signet
ring fromhi s hand, and put it on Joseph's hand,
and arrayed himin robes of fine linen, and put
a gold chain about his neck, 41:43and he made
himto ride in the second chariot which he had.
They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set
himo ver all the land of Egypt. 41:44Pharaoh
said to Joseph, "I amPhar aoh, and without
you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot
in all the land of Egypt." 41:45Pharaoh called
Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave
himAsen ath, the daughter of Potiphera priest
of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land
of Egypt.
41:46Joseph was thirty years old when he
stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph
went out fromthe presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt. 41:47In
the seven plenteous years the earth brought
forth abundantly. 41:48He 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 around every
city, he laid up in the same. 41:49Joseph laid
up grain as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he stopped counting, for it was without
number. 41:50To Joseph were born two sons
before the year of famine came, whomAsenath,
the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore
to him. 41:51Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh,z "For," he said, "God has
made me forget all my toil, and all my father's
house." 41:52The name of the second, he called
Ephraima: "For God has m ade m e fruitful in
the land of my affliction."
41:53The seven years of plenty, that were in
the land of Egypt, came to an end. 41:54The
seven years of famine began to come, just
as Joseph had said. There was famine in
all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there
was bread. 41:55When all the land of Egypt
was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians,
z41:51 "Manasseh" sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."
a41:52 "Ephraim" sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."
Genesis 41:56 37 Genesis 42:34
"Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
41:56The famine was over all the surface of the
earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and
sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe
in the land of Egypt. 41:57All countries came
into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the
famine was severe in all the earth.
42:1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in
Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you
look at one another?" 42:2He said, "Behold, I
have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go
down there, and buy for us fromthe re, so that
we may live, and not die." 42:3Joseph's ten
brothers went down to buy grain fromE gypt.
42:4But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's
brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest
perhaps harmh appen to him." 42:5The sons
of Israel came to buy among those who came,
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
42:6Joseph was the governor over the land. It
was he who sold to all the people of the land.
Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves
down to himwi th their faces to the earth.
42:7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized
them, but acted like a stranger to them, and
spoke roughly with them. He said to them,
"Where did you come from?"
They said, "Fromthe land of Canaan to buy
food."
42:8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they
didn't recognize him. 42:9Joseph remembered
the dreams which he dreamed about them, and
said to them, "You are spies! You have come to
see the nakedness of the land."
42:10They said to him , "No, m ylord, but
your servants have come to buy food. 42:11We
are all one man's sons;we are honest men. Your
servants are not spies."
42:12He said to them, "No, but you have
come to see the nakedness of the land."
42:13They said, "We, your servants, are
twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land
of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day
with our father, and one is no more."
42:14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you,
saying, 'You are spies.' 42:15By this you shall be
tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go
forth fromhe re, unless your youngest brother
comes here. 42:16Send one of you, and let him
get your brother, and you shall be bound, that
your words may be tested, whether there is
truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely you are spies." 42:17He put themal l
together into custody for three days.
42:18Joseph said to themthe third day, "Do
this, and live, for I fear God. 42:19If you are
honest men, then let one of your brothers be
bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain
for the famine of your houses. 42:20Bring your
youngest brother to me; so will your words be
verified, and you won't die."
They did so. 42:21They said one to another,
"We are certainly guilty concerning our brother,
in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he
begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore
this distress has come upon us." 42:22Reuben
answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you,
saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you
wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his
blood is required." 42:23They didn't know
that Joseph understood them; for there was
an interpreter between them. 42:24He turned
himself away from them, and wept. Then
he returned to them, and spoke to them, and
took Simeon from among them, and bound
himbe fore their eyes. 42:25Then Joseph gave
a command to fill their bags with grain, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and to
give themfood for the way. So it was done to
them.
42:26They loaded their donkeys with their
grain, and departed fromthe re. 42:27As one of
themopen ed his sack to give his donkey food
in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold,
it was in the mouth of his sack. 42:28He said to
his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold,
it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them,
and they turned trembling one to another,
saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
42:29They came to Jacob their father, to the land
of Canaan, and told himal l that had happened
to them, saying, 42:30"The man, the lord of the
land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for
spies of the country. 42:31We said to him, 'We
are honest men. We are no spies. 42:32We are
twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no
more, and the youngest is this day with our
father in the land of Canaan.' 42:33The man, the
lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know
that you are honest men: leave one of your
brothers with me, and take grain for the famine
of your houses, and go your way. 42:34Bring
your youngest brother to me. Then I will know
that you are not spies, but that you are honest
Genesis 42:35 38 Genesis 43:26
men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and
you shall trade in the land.'"
42:35It happened as they emptied their sacks,
that behold, every man's bundle of money
was in his sack. When they and their father
saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
42:36Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have
bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no
more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take
Benjamin away. All these things are against
me."
42:37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill
my two sons, if I don't bring him to you.
Entrust himt o my care, and I will bring him
to you again."
42:38He said, "My son shall not go down
with you; for his brother is dead, and he only
is left. If harmhap pens to himal ong the way
in which you go, then you will bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
43:1The famine was severe in the land. 43:2It
happened, when they had eaten up the grain
which they had brought out of Egypt, their
father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little
more food."
43:3Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man
solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see
my face, unless your brother is with you.' 43:4If
you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down
and buy you food, 43:5but if you'll not send
him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us,
'You shall not see my face, unless your brother
is with you.'"
43:6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so
badly, telling the man that you had another
brother?"
43:7They said, "The man asked directly concerning
ourselves, and concerning our relatives,
saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have
you another brother?' We just answered his
questions. Is there any waywe could knowthat
he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
43:8Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the
boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that
we may live, and not die, both we, and you,
and also our little ones. 43:9I'll be collateral for
him. From my hand will you require him. If I
don't bring himto you, and set himbe fore you,
then let me bear the blame forever, 43:10for ifwe
hadn't delayed, surelywewould have returned
a second time by now."
43:11Their father, Israel, said to them, "If
it must be so, then do this. Take from the
choice fruits of the land in your bags, and
carry down a present for the man, a little
balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts,
and almonds; 43:12and take double money in
your hand, and take back the money that was
returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it
was an oversight. 43:13Take your brother also,
get up, and return to the man. 43:14May God
Almighty give you mercy before the man, that
he may release to you your other brother and
Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I
ambe reaved."
43:15The men took that present, and they
took double money in their hand, and Benjamin;
and got up, went down to Egypt, and
stood before Joseph. 43:16When Joseph saw
Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of
his house, "Bring the men into the house, and
butcher an animal, and make ready; for the
men will dine with me at noon."
43:17The man did as Joseph commanded,
and the man brought the men to Joseph's
house. 43:18The men were afraid, because they
were brought to Joseph's house; and they said,
"Because of the money that was returned in our
sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he
may seek occasion against us, attack us, and
seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."
43:19They came near to the steward of Joseph's
house, and they spoke to himat the door of
the house, 43:20and said, "Oh, my lord, we
indeed came down the first time to buy food.
43:21When we came to the lodging place, we
opened our sacks, and behold, every man's
moneywas in the mouth of his sack, our money
in full weight. We have brought it back in our
hand. 43:22We have brought down other money
in our hand to buy food. We don't know who
put our money in our sacks."
43:23He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be
afraid. Your God, and the God of your father,
has given you treasure in your sacks. I received
your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
43:24The man brought the men into Joseph's
house, and gave themwate r, and they washed
their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
43:25They made ready the present for Joseph's
coming at noon, for they heard that they should
eat bread there.
43:26When Joseph came home, they brought
himthe present which was in their hand into
Genesis 43:27 39 Genesis 44:26
the house, and bowed themselves down to
himto the earth. 43:27He asked themo f their
welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old
man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
43:28They said, "Your servant, our father, is
well. He is still alive." They bowed the head,
and did homage. 43:29He lifted up his eyes,
and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's
son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother,
of whomy ou spoke to me?" He said, "God be
gracious to you, my son." 43:30Joseph hurried,
for his heart yearned over his brother; and he
sought a place to weep. He entered into his
room, and wept there. 43:31He washed his face,
and came out. He controlled himself, and said,
"Serve the meal."
43:32They served himby himself, and them
by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with
him, by themselves, because the Egyptians
don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is
an abomination to the Egyptians. 43:33They
sat before him, the firstborn according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his
youth, and the men marveled one with another.
43:34He sent portions to themf rombefore him,
but Benjamin's portion was five times as much
as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry
with him.
44:1He commanded the steward of his house,
saying, "Fill the men's sackswith food, as much
as they can carry, and put every man's money
in his sack's m outh. 44:2Put my cup, the silver
cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with
his grain money." He did according to the
word that Joseph had spoken. 44:3As soon
as the morning was light, the men were sent
away, they and their donkeys. 44:4When they
had gone out of the city, and were not yet far
off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow
after the men. When you overtake them, ask
them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
44:5Isn't this that fromwhi ch my lord drinks,
and by which he indeed divines? You have
done evil in so doing.'" 44:6He overtook them,
and he spoke these words to them.
44:7They said to him, "Why does my lord
speak such words as these? Far be it from
your servants that they should do such a thing!
44:8Behold, the money, which we found in our
sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out
of the land of Canaan. How then should we
steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
44:9With whoever of your servants it be found,
let himdie, and we also will be my lord's
bondservants."
44:10He said, "Now also let it be according to
your words: he with whomit is found will be
my bondservant; and you will be blameless."
44:11Then they hurried, and every man
took his sack down to the ground, and every
man opened his sack. 44:12He searched,
beginning with the eldest, and ending at the
youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's
sack. 44:13Then they tore their clothes, and
every man loaded his donkey, and returned to
the city.
44:14Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's
house, and he was still there. They fell on the
ground before him. 44:15Joseph said to them,
"What deed is this that you have done? Don't
you know that such a man as I can indeed
divine?"
44:16Judah said, "What will we tell my lord?
What will we speak? Or how will we clear
ourselves? God has found out the iniquity
of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's
bondservants, both we, and he also in whose
hand the cup is found."
44:17He said, "Far be it fromme that I should
do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found,
he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go
up in peace to your father."
44:18Then Judah came near to him, and
said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant
speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't
let your anger burn against your servant; for
you are even as Pharaoh. 44:19My lord asked
his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a
brother?' 44:20We said to 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
loves him.' 44:21You said to your servants,
'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes
on him.' 44:22We said to my lord, 'The boy
can't leave his father: for if he should leave his
father, his father would die.' 44:23You said to
your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother
comes down with you, you will see my face no
more.' 44:24It happened when we came up to
your servant my father, we told him the words
of my lord. 44:25Our father said, 'Go again,
buy us a little food.' 44:26We said, 'We can't
go down. If our youngest brother is with us,
Genesis 44:27 40 Genesis 45:27
then we will go down: for we may not see
the man's face, unless our youngest brother is
with us.' 44:27Your servant, my father, said
to us, 'You know that m y wife bore m e two
sons: 44:28and the one went out fromm e, and
I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I
haven't seen hims ince. 44:29If you take this
one also from me, and harm happens to him,
youwill bringdown mygray hairswith sorrow
to Sheol.' 44:30Now therefore when I come to
your servant my father, and the boy is not with
us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's
life; 44:31it will happen, when he sees that the
boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants
will bring down the gray hairs of your servant,
our father, with sorrow to Sheol. 44:32For your
servant became collateral for the boy to my
father, saying, 'If I don't bring himto you,
then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'
44:33Now therefore, please let your servant stay
instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord;
and let the boy go up with his brothers. 44:34For
how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't
with me? lest I see the evil that will come on
my father."
45:1Then Joseph couldn't control himself before
all those who stood before him, and he
cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!"
No one else stoodwith him, while Joseph made
himself known to his brothers. 45:2He wept
aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of
Pharaoh heard. 45:3Joseph said to his brothers,
"I amJ oseph! Doesmy father still live?"
His brothers couldn't answer him; for they
were terrified at his presence. 45:4Joseph said
to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."
They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your
brother, whomyou sold into Egypt. 45:5Now
don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves,
that you sold me here, for God sent me before
you to preserve life. 45:6For these two years
the famine has been in the land, and there are
yet five years, in which there will be neither
plowing nor harvest. 45:7God sent me before
you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth,
and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
45:8So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but
God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh,
lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land
of Egypt. 45:9Hurry, and go up to my father,
and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph
says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt.
Come down to me. Don't wait. 45:10You shall
dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be
near to me, you, your children, your children's
children, your flocks, your herds, and all that
you have. 45:11There I will nourish you; for
there are yet five years of famine; lest you come
to poverty, you, and your household, and all
that you have."' 45:12Behold, your eyes see, and
the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my
mouth that speaks to you. 45:13You shall tell my
father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that
you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my
father down here." 45:14He fell on his brother
Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept
on his neck. 45:15He kissed all his brothers, and
wept on them. After that his brothers talked
with him.
45:16The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's
house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come."
It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
45:17Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers,
'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel
to the land of Canaan. 45:18Take your father
and your households, and come to me, and I
will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and
you will eat the fat of the land.' 45:19Now you
are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of
the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for
your wives, and bring your father, and come.
45:20Also, don't concern yourselves about your
belongings, for the good of all of the land of
Egypt is yours."
45:21The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave
them wagons, according to the commandment
of Pharaoh, and gave themp rovision for the
way. 45:22He gave each one of themchang es
of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three
hundred pieces of silver and five changes of
clothing. 45:23To his father, he sent after this
manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good
things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded
with grain and bread and provision for his
father by the way. 45:24So he sent his brothers
away, and they departed. He said to them, "See
that you don't quarrel on the way."
45:25They went up out of Egypt, and came
into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
45:26They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive,
and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt."
His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.
45:27They told himal l the words of Joseph,
which he had said to them. When he saw the
Genesis 45:28 41 Genesis 47:4
wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the
spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. 45:28Israel
said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive.
I will go and see himb efore I die."
46:1Israel traveled with all that he had, and
came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the
God of his father, Isaac. 46:2God spoke to Israel
in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob,
Jacob!"
He said, "Here I am."
46:3He said, "I amGod, the God of your
father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt,
for there I will make of you a great nation. 46:4I
will go down with you into Egypt. I will also
surely bring you up again. Joseph will close
your eyes."
46:5Jacob rose up fromBeersh eba, and the
sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their
little ones, and their wives, in the wagons
which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 46:6They
took their livestock, and their goods, which
they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and
came into Egypt Jacob, and all his seed with
him, 46:7his sons, and his sons' sons with him,
his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he
brought all his seed with himi nto Egypt.
46:8These are the names of the children of
Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his
sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 46:9The sons
of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
46:10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad,
Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite
woman. 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari. 46:12The sons of Judah:
Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and
Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of
Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 46:13The sons
of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
46:14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and
Jahleel. 46:15These are the sons of Leah, whom
she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his
daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons
and his daughters were thirty-three. 46:16The
sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon,
Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 46:17The sons of Asher:
Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their
sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whomLa ban
gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore
to Jacob, even sixteen souls. 46:19The sons
of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the
daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to
him. 46:21The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher,
Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim,
Huppim, and Ard. 46:22These are the sons of
Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls
were fourteen. 46:23The son of Dan: Hushim.
46:24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer,
and Shillem. 46:25These are the sons of Bilhah,
whomL aban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and
these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were
seven. 46:26All the souls who came with Jacob
into Egypt, who were his direct descendants,
besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
sixty-six. 46:27The sons of Joseph, who were
born to himi n Egypt, were two souls. All
the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into
Egypt, were seventy.
46:28He sent Judah before himt o Joseph, to
show the way before himto Goshen, and they
came into the land ofGoshen. 46:29Joseph made
ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel,
his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to
him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck
a good while. 46:30Israel said to Joseph, "Now
let me die, since I have seen your face, that you
are still alive."
46:31Joseph said to his brothers, and to his
father's house, "I will go up, and speak with
Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and
my father's house, who were in the land of
Canaan, have come to me. 46:32These men
are shepherds, for they have been keepers of
livestock, and they have brought their flocks,
and their herds, and all that they have.' 46:33It
will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and
will say, 'What is your occupation?' 46:34that
you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers
of livestock fromour youth even until now,
both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell
in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination to the Egyptians."
47:1Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh,
and said, "My father and my brothers, with
their flocks, their herds, and all that they own,
have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold,
they are in the land of Goshen." 47:2From
among his brothers he took five men, and
presented themto Pharaoh. 47:3Pharaoh said
to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"
They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are
shepherds, both we, and our fathers." 47:4They
Genesis 47:5 42 Genesis 47:30
said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as
foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for
your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe
in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please
let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
47:5Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your
father and your brothers have come to you.
47:6The land of Egypt is before you. Make your
father and your brothers dwell in the best of the
land. Let themdw ell in the land of Goshen. If
you know any able men among them, then put
themi n charge ofmy livestock."
47:7Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and
set himbe fore Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed
Pharaoh. 47:8Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How
many are the days of the years of your life?"
47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of
the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred
thirty years. Few and evil have been the days
of the years of my life, and they have not
attained to the days of the years of the life of
my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
47:10Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from
the presence of Pharaoh.
47:11Joseph placed his father and his brothers,
and gave thema possession in the land
of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the
land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
47:12Joseph nourished his father, his brothers,
and all of his father's household, with bread,
according to their families.
47:13There was no bread in all the land; for
the famine was very severe, so that the land of
Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason
of the famine. 47:14Joseph gathered up all the
money that was found in the land of Egypt, and
in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they
bought: and Joseph brought the money into
Pharaoh's house. 47:15When the money was all
spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and
said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in
your presence? For our money fails."
47:16Joseph said, "Give me your livestock;
and I will give you food for your livestock, if
your money is gone."
47:17They brought their livestock to Joseph,
and Joseph gave thembre ad in exchange for
the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds,
and for the donkeys: and he fed themwi th
bread in exchange for all their livestock for that
year. 47:18When that year was ended, they
came to him the second year, and said to him,
"Wewill not hide frommy lord how our money
is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my
lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my
lord, but our bodies, and our lands. 47:19Why
should we die before your eyes, both we and
our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and
we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh.
Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and
that the land won't be desolate."
47:20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt
for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man
his field, because the famine was severe on
them, and the land became Pharaoh's. 47:21As
for the people, he moved them to the cities
fromon e end of the border of Egypt even to
the other end of it. 47:22Only he didn't buy
the land of the priests, for the priests had a
portion fromPhar aoh, and ate their portion
which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they
didn't sell their land. 47:23Then Joseph said to
the people, "Behold, I have bought you and
your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is
seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 47:24It
will happen at the harvests, that you shall give
a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your
own, for seed of the field, for your food, for
themof your households, and for food for your
little ones."
47:25They said, "You have saved our lives!
Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and
we will be Pharaoh's servants."
47:26Joseph made it a statute concerning the
land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should
have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone
didn't become Pharaoh's.
47:27Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in
the land of Goshen; and they got themselves
possessions therein, and were fruitful, and
multiplied exceedingly. 47:28Jacob lived in the
land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of
Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred
forty-seven years. 47:29The tim e drewnear that
Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph,
and said to him, "If now I have found favor
in your sight, please put your hand under
my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me.
Please don't bury me in Egypt, 47:30but when I
sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their burying place."
He said, "I will do as you have said."
Genesis 47:31 43 Genesis 49:7
47:31He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to
him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.
48:1It happened after these things, that someone
said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is
sick." He took with himh is two sons, Manasseh
and Ephraim. 48:2Someone told Jacob,
and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to
you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat
on the bed. 48:3Jacob said to Joseph, "God
Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land
of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4and said to me,
'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply
you, and I will make of you a company
of peoples, and will give this land to your
seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
48:5Now your two sons, who were born to you
in the land of Egypt before I came to you into
Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even
as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. 48:6Your
issue, who you become the father of after them,
will be yours. Theywill be called after the name
of their brothers in their inheritance. 48:7As
for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel
died by me in the land of Canaan in the way,
when there was still some distance to come to
Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
48:8Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who
are these?"
48:9Joseph said to his father, "They are my
sons, whomG od has givenme here."
He said, "Please bring themt o me, and I
will bless them." 48:10Now the eyes of Israel
were dimf or age, so that he couldn't see. He
brought them near to him; and he kissed them,
and embraced them. 48:11Israel said to Joseph,
"I didn't think I would see your face, and
behold, God has let me see your seed also."
48:12Joseph brought themout frombetween his
knees, and he bowed himself with his face to
the earth. 48:13Joseph took thembo th, Ephraim
in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,
and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's
right hand, and brought themne ar to him.
48:14Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid
it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger,
and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding
his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the
firstborn. 48:15He blessed Joseph, and said,
"The God before whomm y fathers Abraham
and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me
all my life long to this day, 48:16the angel who
has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
and let my name be named on them, and the
name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let
them grow into a multitude in the midst of the
earth."
48:17When Joseph saw that his father laid
his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased
him. He held up his father's hand, to
remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's
head. 48:18Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my
father; for this is the firstborn; put your right
hand on his head."
48:19His father refused, and said, "I know,
my son, I know. He also will become a
people, and he also will be great. However, his
younger brother will be greater than he, and
his seed will become a multitude of nations."
48:20He blessed themt hat day, saying, "In you
will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as
Ephraimand as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim
before Manasseh. 48:21Israel said to Joseph,
"Behold, I amdyin g, but God will be with you,
and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
48:22Moreover I have given to you one portion
above your brothers, which I took out of the
hand of the Amorite with my sword and with
m y bow."
49:1Jacob called to his sons, and said:
"Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
that which will happen to you in the days to
come.
49:2Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of
Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.
49:3"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of my strength;
excelling in dignity, and excelling in
power.
49:4Boiling over as water, you shall not excel;
because you went up to your father's bed,
then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
49:5"Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their swords are weapons of violence.
49:6My soul, don't come into their council.
My glory, don't be united to their assembly;
for in their anger they killed men.
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
49:7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
I will divide themin Jacob,
and scatter themi n Israel.
Genesis 49:8 44 Genesis 50:5
49:8"Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the neck of your
enemies.
Your father's sons will bow down before
you.
49:9Judah is a lion's cub.
Fromt he prey,my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
as a lioness.
Who will rouse himup?
49:10The scepter will not depart fromJuda h,
nor the ruler's staff frombe tween his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs.
To himw ill the obedience of the peoples
be.
49:11Binding his foal to the vine,
his donkey's colt to the choice vine;
he has washed his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
49:12His eyes will be red with wine,
his teeth white with milk.
49:13"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
He will be for a haven of ships.
His border will be on Sidon.
49:14"Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the saddlebags.
49:15He saw a resting place, that it was good,
the land, that it was pleasant.
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
49:16"Dan will judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17Dan will be a serpent in the way,
an adder in the path,
That bites the horse's heels,
so that his rider falls backward.
49:18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
49:19"A troop will press on Gad,
but he will press on their heel.
49:20"Asher's food will be rich.
He will yield royal dainties.
49:21"Naphtali is a doe set free,
who bears beautiful fawns.
49:22"Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine by a spring.
His branches run over the wall.
49:23The archers have sorely grieved him,
shot at him, and persecute him:
49:24But his bow remained strong.
The arms of his hands were made strong,
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(fromthe re is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel),
49:25even by the God of your father, who will
help you;
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
49:26The blessings of your father have prevailed
above the blessings of your ancestors,
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of himw ho is
separated fromhi s brothers.
49:27"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the spoil."
49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,
and this is what their father spoke to themand
blessed them. He blessed everyone according
to his blessing. 49:29He instructed them, and
said to them, "I amto be gathered to my people.
Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is
in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30in the
cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which
is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which
Abrahambo ught with the field from Ephron
the Hittite as a burial place. 49:31There they
buried Abrahamand Sarah, his wife. There
they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and
there I buried Leah: 49:32the field and the cave
that is therein, which was purchased fromthe
children of Heth." 49:33When Jacob made an
end of charging his sons, he gathered up his
feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and
was gathered to his people.
50:1Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on
him, and kissed him. 50:2Joseph commanded
his servants, the physicians, to embalm his
father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that
is how many the days it takes to embalm. The
Egyptians wept for himfor seventy days.
50:4When the days of weeping for himw ere
past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh,
saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes,
please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
50:5'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold,
I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have
dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now
therefore, please let me go up and bury my
father, and I will come again.'"
Genesis 50:6 45 Exodus 1:15
50:6Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your
father, just like he made you swear."
50:7Joseph went up to bury his father; and
with himwe nt up all the servants of Pharaoh,
the elders of his house, all the elders of the
land of Egypt, 50:8all the house of Joseph, his
brothers, and his father's house. Only their
little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left
in the land of Goshen. 50:9There went up with
himbo th chariots and horsemen. It was a very
great company. 50:10They cam e to the threshing
floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and
there they lamented with a very great and sore
lamentation. He mourned for his father seven
days. 50:11When the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of
Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning
by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was
called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the
Jordan. 50:12His sons did to himju st as he
commanded them, 50:13for his sons carried him
into the land of Canaan, and buried himi n the
cave of the field ofMachpelah, which Abraham
bought with the field, for a possession of a
burial site, fromE phron the Hittite, before
Mamre. 50:14Joseph returned into Egypt he,
and his brothers, and all that went up with him
to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
50:15When Joseph's brothers saw that their
father was dead, they said, "It may be that
Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us
back for all of the evil which we did to him."
50:16They sent a message to Joseph, saying,
"Your father commanded before he died, saying,
50:17'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please
forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and
their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now,
please forgive the disobedience of the servants
of the God of your father." Joseph wept when
they spoke to him. 50:18His brothers also went
and fell down before his face; and they said,
"Behold, we are your servants." 50:19Joseph
said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the
place of God? 50:20As for you, you meant evil
against me, but God meant it for good, to bring
to pass, as it is this day, to save many people
alive. 50:21Now therefore don't be afraid. I
will nourish you and your little ones." He
comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
50:22Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's
house. Joseph lived one hundred ten
years. 50:23Joseph saw Ephraim's children to
the third generation. The children also of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on
Joseph's knees. 50:24Joseph said to his brothers,
"I amdyin g, but God will surely visit you,
and bring you up out of this land to the land
which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob." 50:25Joseph took an oath of the children
of Israel, saying, "Godwill surely visit you, and
you shall carry up my bones fromhere." 50:26So
Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old,
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a
coffin in Egypt.
Exodus
1:1Now these are the names of the sons of
Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and
his household came with Jacob): 1:2Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 1:3Issachar, Zebulun,
and Benjamin, 1:4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and
Asher. 1:5All the souls who came out of
Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph
was in Egypt already. 1:6Joseph died, as did
all his brothers, and all that generation. 1:7The
children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly
mighty; and the land was filled with
them.
1:8Now there arose a new king over Egypt,
who didn't know Joseph. 1:9He said to his people,
"Behold, the people of the children of Israel
are more and mightier than we. 1:10Come, let
us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply,
and it happen that when any war breaks out,
they also join themselves to our enemies, and
fight against us, and escape out of the land."
1:11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to
afflict themwi th their burdens. They built storage
cities for Pharaoh: Pithomand Raamses.
1:12But the more they afflicted them, the more
they multiplied and the more they spread out.
They were grieved because of the children of
Israel. 1:13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the
children of Israel serve, 1:14and they made their
lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in
brick, and in all manner of service in the field,
all their service, in which they ruthlessly made
themserv e.
1:15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew
midwives, of whom the name of the one was
Exodus 1:16 46 Exodus 3:1
Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
1:16and he said, "When you performthe duty of
a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them
on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall
kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall
live." 1:17But the midwives feared God, and
didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the baby boys alive. 1:18The
king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said
to them, "Why have you done this thing, and
have saved the boys alive?"
1:19The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because
the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian
women; for they are vigorous, and give birth
before the midwife comes to them."
1:20God dealt well with the midwives, and
the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
1:21It happened, because the midwives feared
God, that he gave themfa milies. 1:22Pharaoh
commanded all his people, saying, "You shall
cast every son who is born into the river, and
every daughter you shall save alive."
2:1A man of the house of Levi went and took
a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2:2The woman
conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that
he was a fine child, she hid himthre emonths.
2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took
a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with
tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and
laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. 2:4His
sister stood far off, to see what would be done
to him. 2:5Pharaoh's daughter came down to
bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along
by the riverside. She saw the basket among the
reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. 2:6She
opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the
baby cried. She had compassion on him, and
said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter,
"Should I go and call a nurse for you fromthe
Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child
for you?"
2:8Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."
The maiden went and called the child's
mother. 2:9Pharaoh's daughter said to her,
"Take this child away, and nurse himf or me,
and I will give you your wages."
The woman took the child, and nursed it.
2:10The child grew, and she brought himto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.
She named him Moses,a and said, "Because I
drew himo ut of the water."
2:11It happened in those days, when Moses
had grown up, that he went out to his brothers,
and looked at their burdens. He saw an
Egyptian striking aHebrew, one of his brothers.
2:12He looked this way and that way, and when
he saw that there was no one, he killed the
Egyptian, and hid himi n the sand.
2:13He went out the second day, and behold,
two men of the Hebrews were fighting with
each other. He said to himwho did the wrong,
"Why do you strike your fellow?"
2:14He said, "Who m ade you a prince and a
judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you
killed the Egyptian?"
Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this
thing is known." 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard
this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses
fled fromthe face of Pharaoh, and lived in the
land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters. They came and drew water, and
filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
2:17The shepherds came and drove them away;
but Moses stood up and helped them, and
watered their flock. 2:18When they came to
Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you
have returned so early today?"
2:19They said, "An Egyptian delivered us
out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover
he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
2:20He said to his daughters, "Where is he?
Why is it that you have left the man? Call him,
that he may eat bread."
2:21Moses was content to dwell with the
man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
2:22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,
b for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner
in a foreign land."
2:23It happened in the course of those many
days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children
of Israel sighed because of the bondage,
and they cried, and their cry came up to God
because of the bondage. 2:24God heard their
groaning, and God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25God saw the children of Israel, and God was
concerned about them.
a2:10 "Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".
b2:22 "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."
Exodus 3:2 47 Exodus 4:5
3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of
Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian,
and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness,
and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
3:2The angel of Yahweh appeared to himin a
flam eof fire out of the m idst of a bush. He
looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed. 3:3Moses said,
"I will turn aside now, and see this great sight,
why the bush is not burnt."
3:4When Yahweh saw that he turned aside
to see, God called to himout of themidst of the
bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!"
He said, "Here I am."
3:5He said, "Don't come close. Take your
sandals off of your feet, for the place you are
standing on is holy ground." 3:6Moreover he
said, "I amthe God of your father, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob."
Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look
at God.
3:7Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the
affliction of my people who are in Egypt,
and have heard their cry because of their
taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 3:8I
have come down to deliver them out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring themup
out of that land to a good and large land, to
a land flowing with milk and honey; to the
place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite,
the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3:9Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel
has come to me. Moreover I have seen the
oppression with which the Egyptians oppress
them. 3:10Come now therefore, and I will send
you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my
people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
3:11Moses said to God, "Who amI, that I
should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring
forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"
3:12He said, "Certainly I will be with you.
This will be the token to you, that I have
sent you: when you have brought forth the
people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on
this mountain."
3:13Moses said to God, "Behold, when I
come to the children of Israel, and tell them,
'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;'
and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What
should I tell them?"
3:14God said toMoses, "I AMWHO I AM,"
and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel
this: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 3:15God said
moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children
of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my
name forever, and this is my memorial to all
generations. 3:16Go, and gather the elders of
Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac,
and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I
have surely visited you, and seen that which is
done to you in Egypt; 3:17and I have said, I will
bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the
land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite,
the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a
land flowing with milk and honey."' 3:18They
will listen to your voice, and you shall come,
you and the elders of Israel, to the king of
Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the
God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now
please let us go three days' journey into the
wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh,
our God.' 3:19I know that the king of Egypt
won't give you permission to go, no, not by a
mighty hand. 3:20I will put forth my hand and
strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will
do in its midst, and after that he will let you
go. 3:21I will give this people favor in the sight
of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when
you go, you shall not go empty-handed. 3:22But
every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of
herwho visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels
of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them
on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall
despoil the Egyptians.
4:1Moses answered, "But, behold, they will
not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they
will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"
4:2Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your
hand?"
He said, "A rod."
4:3He said, "Throw it on the ground."
He threw it on the ground, and it became a
snake; and Moses ran away fromi t.
4:4Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your
hand, and take it by the tail."
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 Yahweh, the
God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has
Exodus 4:6 48 Exodus 5:4
appeared to you." 4:6Yahweh said furthermore
to him, "Now put your hand inside your
cloak."
He put his hand inside his cloak, and when
he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as
white as snow.
4:7He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak
again."
He put his hand inside his cloak again, and
when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had
turned again as his other flesh.
4:8"Itwill happen, if theywill neither believe
you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that
they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 4:9It
will happen, if they will not believe even these
two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you
shall take of the water of the river, and pour it
on the dry land. The water which you take out
of the riverwill become blood on the dry land."
4:10Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am
not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you
have spoken to your servant; for I ams low of
speech, and of a slow tongue."
4:11Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's
mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or
seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh? 4:12Now
therefore go, and I will be with your mouth,
and teach you what you shall speak."
4:13He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone
else."
4:14The anger of Yahweh was kindled
against Moses, and he said, "What about
Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he
can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to
meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in
his heart. 4:15You shall speak to him, and put
the words in his mouth. I will be with your
mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach
you what you shall do. 4:16He will be your
spokesman to the people; and it will happen,
that he will be to you a mouth, and you will
be to himas God. 4:17You shall take this rod in
your hand, with which you shall do the signs."
4:18Moses went and returned to Jethro his
father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me
go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt,
and see whether they are still alive."
Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
4:19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go,
return into Egypt; for all the men who sought
your life are dead."
4:20Moses took his wife and his sons, and set
themo n a donkey, and he returned to the land
of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.
4:21Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back
into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all
the wonders which I have put in your hand,
but I will harden his heart and he will not let
the people go. 4:22You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus
says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
4:23and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that
he may serve me;" and you have refused to
let himgo. Behold, I will kill your son, your
firstborn.'"
4:24It happened on the way at a lodging
place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill
him. 4:25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off
the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet;
and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroomof
blood to me."
4:26So he let himal one. Then she said, "You
are a bridegroomof blood," because of the
circumcision.
4:27Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the
wilderness to meet Moses."
He went, and met him on God's mountain,
and kissed him. 4:28Moses told Aaron all the
words of Yahweh with which he had sent him,
and all the signs with which he had instructed
him. 4:29Moses and Aaron went and gathered
together all the elders of the children of Israel.
4:30Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh
had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the
sight of the people. 4:31The people believed,
and when they heard that Yahweh had visited
the children of Israel, and that he had seen
their affliction, then they bowed their heads
and worshiped.
5:1Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and
said to Pharaoh, "This iswhat Yahweh, the God
of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may
hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
5:2Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I
should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I
don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not
let Israel go."
5:3They said, "The God of the Hebrews has
met with us. Please let us go three days'
journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to
Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with
pestilence, or with the sword."
5:4The king of Egypt said to them, "Why
do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people
fromt heir work? Get back to your burdens!"
Exodus 5:5 49 Exodus 6:15
5:5Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the
land are now many, and you make them rest
fromt heir burdens." 5:6The same day Pharaoh
commanded the taskmasters of the people, and
their officers, saying, 5:7"You shall no longer
give the people straw to make brick, as before.
Let themg o and gather straw for themselves.
5:8The number of the bricks, which they made
before, you require fromthe m. You shall not
diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore
they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to
our God.' 5:9Let heavier work be laid on the
men, that they may labor therein; and don't let
themp ay any attention to lying words."
5:10The taskmasters of the people went out,
and their officers, and they spoke to the people,
saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not
give you straw. 5:11Go yourselves, get straw
where you can find it, for nothing of your
work shall be diminished." 5:12So the people
were scattered abroad throughout all the land
of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 5:13The
taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your
work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
5:14The officers of the children of Israel, whom
Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were
beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you
fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today,
in making brick as before?"
5:15Then the officers of the children of Israel
came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do
you deal this way with your servants? 5:16No
straw is given to your servants, and they tell
us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are
beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
5:17But he said, "You are idle! You are idle!
Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to
Yahweh.' 5:18Go therefore now, and work, for
no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall
deliver the same number of bricks!"
5:19The officers of the children of Israel saw
that they were in trouble, when it was said,
"You shall not diminish anything from your
daily quota of bricks!"
5:20They met Moses and Aaron, who stood
in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
5:21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look
at you, and judge, because you have made us
a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword
in their hand to kill us."
5:22Moses returned to Yahweh, and said,
"Lord, why have you brought trouble on this
people? Why is it that you have sent me?
5:23For since I cam e to Pharaoh to speak in your
name, he has brought trouble on this people;
neither have you delivered your people at all."
6:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall
see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong
hand he shall let themg o, and by a strong hand
he shall drive themo ut of his land."
6:2God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I
amY ahweh; 6:3and I appeared to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by
my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
6:4I have also established my covenant with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land
of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
6:5Moreover I have heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, whomthe Egyptians keep in
bondage, and I have rememberedmy covenant.
6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am
Yahweh, and I will bring you out fromun der
the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid
you out of their bondage, and I will redeem
you with an outstretched arm, and with great
judgments: 6:7and I will take you to me for a
people, and I will be to you a God; and you
shall know that I amY ahweh your God, who
brings you out fromu nder the burdens of the
Egyptians. 6:8I will bring you into the land
which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage:
I amYahweh.'"
6:9Moses spoke so to the children of Israel,
but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of
spirit, and for cruel bondage.
6:10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 6:11"Go
in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let
the children of Israel go out of his land."
6:12Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying,
"Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened
to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me,
who amof uncircumcised lips?" 6:13Yahweh
spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them
a command to the children of Israel, and to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt.
6:14These are the heads of their fathers'
houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of
Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi;
these are the families of Reuben. 6:15The sons
of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,
and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of
Exodus 6:16 50 Exodus 7:19
a Canaanite woman; these are the families of
Simeon. 6:16These 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 one hundred thirty-seven
years. 6:17The sons of Gershon: Libni and
Shimei, according to their families. 6:18The sons
of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron,
and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath
were one hundred thirty-three years. 6:19The
sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These
are the families of the Levites according to
their generations. 6:20Amram took Jochebed
his father's sister to himself as wife; and she
bore himAaro n and Moses: and the years of
the life of Amram were a hundred and thirtyseven
years. 6:21The sons of Izhar: Korah, and
Nepheg, and Zichri. 6:22The sons of Uzziel:
Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 6:23Aaron
took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the
sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore
himNad ab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:24The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah,
and Abiasaph; these are the families of the
Korahites. 6:25Eleazar Aaron's son took one
of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she
bore himPhi nehas. These are the heads of the
fathers' houses of the Levites according to their
families. 6:26These are that Aaron and Moses,
to whomYahweh said, "Bring out the children
of Israel fromt he land of Egypt according to
their armies." 6:27These are those who spoke
to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the
children of Israel fromE gypt. These are that
Moses and Aaron.
6:28It happened on the day when Yahweh
spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 6:29that
Yahweh spoke toMoses, saying, "I amYahweh.
Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak
to you."
6:30Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am
of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh
listen to me?"
7:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have
made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your
brother shall be your prophet. 7:2You shall
speak all that I command you; and Aaron your
brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land. 7:3I will
harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs
and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 7:4But
Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay
my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies,
my people the children of Israel, out of the land
of Egypt by great judgments. 7:5The Egyptians
shall know that I amY ahweh, when I stretch
forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the
children of Israel from among them."
7:6Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh
commanded them, so they did. 7:7Moses was
eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years
old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
7:8Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying, 7:9"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying,
'Performa miracle!' then you shall tell
Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before
Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"
7:10Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh,
and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded:
and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh
and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
7:11Then Pharaoh also called for the wise
men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians
of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments.
7:12For they cast down every man his
rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods. 7:13Pharaoh's heart
was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as
Yahweh had spoken.
7:14Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart
is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
7:15Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he
goes out to the water; and you shall stand by
the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which
was turned to a serpent you shall take in your
hand. 7:16You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God
of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying,
"Let my people go, that they may serve me in
the wilderness:" and behold, until now you
haven't listened. 7:17Thus says Yahweh, "In
this you shall know that I amYahweh. Behold,
I will strike with the rod that is in my hand
on the waters which are in the river, and they
shall be turned to blood. 7:18The fish that are in
the river shall die, and the river shall become
foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink
water fromthe river."'" 7:19Yahweh said to
Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch
out your 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.'"
Exodus 7:20 51 Exodus 8:25
7:20Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh
commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and
struck 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. 7:21The fish that
were in the river died; and the river became
foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water
fromt he river; and the blood was throughout
all the land of Egypt. 7:22The magicians of
Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments;
and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and
he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
7:23Pharaoh turned and went into his house,
neither did he lay even this to heart. 7:24All
the Egyptians dug around the river for water
to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water
of the river. 7:25Seven days were fulfilled, after
Yahweh had struck the river.
8:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to
Pharaoh, and tell him, "This is what Yahweh
says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve
me. 8:2If you refuse to let themgo, behold, I
will plague all your borders with frogs: 8:3and
the river shall swarmwi th frogs, which shall
go up and come into your house, and into your
bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the
house of your servants, and on your people,
and into your ovens, and into your kneading
troughs: 8:4and the frogs shall come up both
on you, and on your people, and on all your
servants.'" 8:5Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell
Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod
over the rivers, over the streams, and over the
pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of
Egypt.'" 8:6Aaron stretched out his hand over
the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and
covered the land of Egypt. 8:7The magicians
did in like manner with their enchantments,
and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
8:8Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, that he take
away the frogs fromm e, and fromm y people;
and I will let the people go, that they may
sacrifice to Yahweh."
8:9Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the
honor of setting the time that I should pray
for you, and for your servants, and for your
people, that the frogs be destroyed fromyou
and your houses, and remain in the river only."
8:10He said, "Tomorrow."
He said, "Be it according to your word, that
you may know that there is none like Yahweh
our God. 8:11The frogs shall depart fromy ou,
and fromy our houses, and fromy our servants,
and fromy our people. They shall remain in the
river only."
8:12Moses and Aaron went out from
Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh
concerning the frogs which he had brought
on Pharaoh. 8:13Yahweh did according to the
word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the
houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
8:14They gathered themto gether in heaps, and
the land stank. 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that
there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and
didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
8:16Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron,
'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of
the earth, that it may become lice throughout
all the land of Egypt.'" 8:17They did so; and
Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod,
and struck the dust of the earth, and there
were lice on man, and on animal; all the
dust of the earth became lice throughout all
the land of Egypt. 8:18The magicians tried
with their enchantments to bring forth lice,
but they couldn't. There were lice on man,
and on animal. 8:19Then the magicians said
to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God:" and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't
listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
8:20Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early
in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh;
behold, he comes forth to the water; and tell
him, 'This iswhat Yahweh says, "Let my people
go, that they may serve me. 8:21Else, if you
will not let my people go, behold, I will send
swarms of flies on you, and on your servants,
and on your people, and into your houses: and
the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of
swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon
they are. 8:22I will set apart in that day the
land of Goshen, inwhich my people dwell, that
no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end
you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst
of the earth. 8:23I will put a division between
my people and your people: by tomorrow shall
this sign be."'" 8:24Yahweh 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 corrupted by
reason of the swarms of flies.
8:25Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron,
Exodus 8:26 52 Exodus 9:24
and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the
land!"
8:26Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do
so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the
Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall
we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, and won't they stone us?
8:27We will go three days' journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God,
as he shall command us."
8:28Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that
you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the
wilderness, only you shall not go very far away.
Pray for me."
8:29Moses said, "Behold, I go out fromy ou,
and I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms
of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and fromhi s people, tomorrow; only
don't let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more
in not letting the people go to sacrifice to
Yahweh." 8:30Moses went out fromPhar aoh,
and prayed to Yahweh. 8:31Yahweh did according
to the word of Moses, and he removed
the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and fromh is people. There remained
not one. 8:32Pharaoh hardened his heart this
time also, and he didn't let the people go.
9:1Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to
Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh,
the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people
go, that they may serve me. 9:2For if you refuse
to let themgo, and hold themst ill, 9:3behold,
the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which
are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys,
on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks
with a very grievous pestilence. 9:4Yahweh
will make a distinction between the livestock of
Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and there shall
nothing die of all that belongs to the children
of Israel."'" 9:5Yahweh appointed a set time,
saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing
in the land." 9:6Yahweh did that thing on the
next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died,
but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not
one died. 9:7Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there
was not so much as one of the livestock of the
Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was
stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.
9:8Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron,
"Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace,
and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in
the sight of Pharaoh. 9:9It shall become small
dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a
boil breaking forth with boils on man and on
animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."
9:10They took ashes of the furnace, and stood
before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up
toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking
forth with boils on man and on animal. 9:11The
magicians couldn't stand beforeMoses because
of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians,
and on all the Egyptians. 9:12Yahweh hardened
the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to
them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
9:13Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in
the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and
tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of
the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that
they may serve me. 9:14For this time I will
send all my plagues against your heart, against
your officials, and against your people; that
you may know that there is none like me in all
the earth. 9:15For now I would have put forth
my hand, and struck you and your people with
pestilence, and you would have been cut off
fromthe earth; 9:16but indeed for this cause I
have made you stand: to show you my power,
and that my name may be declared throughout
all the earth; 9:17as you still exalt yourself
against my people, that you won't let them
go. 9:18Behold, tomorrow about this time I will
cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has
not been in Egypt since the day it was founded
even until now. 9:19Now therefore command
that all of your livestock and all that you have
in the field be brought into shelter. Every man
and animal that is found in the field, and isn't
brought home, the hail shall come down on
them, and they shall die."'"
9:20Those who feared the word of Yahweh
among the servants of Pharaoh made their
servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
9:21Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh
left his servants and his livestock in the field.
9:22Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth
your hand toward the sky, that there may be
hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and
on animal, and on every herb of the field,
throughout the land of Egypt."
9:23Moses stretched forth his rod toward the
heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and
lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh
rained hail on the land of Egypt. 9:24So there
was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with
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the hail, such as had not been in all the land
of Egypt since it became a nation. 9:25The hail
struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that
was in the field, both man and animal; and the
hail struck every herb of the field, and broke
every tree of the field. 9:26Only in the land of
Goshen, where the children of Israelwere, there
was no hail.
9:27Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and
Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this
time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people
are wicked. 9:28Pray to Yahweh; for there has
been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I
will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
9:29Moses said to him, "As soon as I have
gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my
hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease,
neither shall there be any more hail; that you
may know that the earth is Yahweh's. 9:30But
as for you and your servants, I know that you
don't yet fear Yahweh God."
9:31The flax and the barley were struck, for
the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in
bloom. 9:32But the wheat and the spelt were not
struck, for they had not grown up. 9:33Moses
went out of the city fromPhar aoh, and spread
abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders
and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured
on the earth. 9:34When 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. 9:35The heart of Pharaoh
was hardened, and he didn't let the children of
Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through
Moses.
10:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to
Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the
heart of his servants, that I may show these my
signs in the midst of them, 10:2and that you
may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your
son's son, what things I have done to Egypt,
and my signs which I have done among them;
that you may know that I am Yahweh."
10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh,
and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the
God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you
refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my
people go, that they may serve me. 10:4Or
else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold,
tomorrowI will bring locusts into your country,
10:5and they shall cover the surface of the earth,
so that one won't be able to see the earth. They
shall eat the residue of that which has escaped,
which remains to you from the hail, and shall
eat every tree which grows for you out of the
field. 10:6Your houses shall be filled, and the
houses of all your servants, and the houses of
all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor
your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
that they were on the earth to this day.'" He
turned, and went out fromPhar aoh.
10:7Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How
long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men
go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God.
Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
10:8Moses and Aaron were brought again
to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve
Yahweh your God; but who are those who will
go?"
10:9Moses said, "We will go with our young
and with our old; with our sons and with
our daughters, with our flocks and with our
herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to
Yahweh."
10:10He said to them, "Yahweh be with you
if I will let you go with your little ones! See,
evil is clearly before your faces. 10:11Not so! Go
now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for
that is what you desire!" They were driven out
fromPhar aoh's presence.
10:12Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out
your hand over the land of Egypt for the
locusts, that they may come up on the land
of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even
all that the hail has left." 10:13Moses stretched
forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all
that day, and all the night; and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
10:14The locusts went up over all the land of
Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt.
They were very grievous. Before themt here
were no such locusts as they, neither after
thems hall be such. 10:15For they covered the
surface of the whole earth, so that the land
was darkened, and they ate every herb of the
land, and all the fruit of the trees which the
hail had left. There remained nothing green,
either tree or herb of the field, through all the
land of Egypt. 10:16Then Pharaoh called for
Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have
sinned against Yahweh your God, and against
you. 10:17Now therefore please forgive my sin
again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he
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may also take away from me this death."
10:18He went out fromPhar aoh, and prayed
to Yahweh. 10:19Yahweh turned an exceeding
strong west wind, which took up the locusts,
and drove themi nto the Red Seac. There
remained not one locust in all the borders of
Egypt. 10:20But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.
10:21Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out
your hand toward the sky, that there may be
darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness
which may be felt." 10:22Moses stretched forth
his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
10:23They didn't see one another, neither did
anyone rise fromhi s place for three days; but
all the children of Israel had light in their
dwellings.
10:24Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go,
serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your
herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go
with you."
10:25Moses said, "You must also give into
our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that
we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. 10:26Our
livestock also shall go with us. There shall not
a hoof be left behind, for of it we must take
to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know
with what we must serve Yahweh, until we
come there."
10:27But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart,
and he wouldn't let themg o. 10:28Pharaoh said
to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see
m y face no m ore; for in the day you see m y face
you shall die!"
10:29Moses said, "You have spoken well. I
will see your face again no more."
11:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague
more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt;
afterwards he will let you go. When he lets
you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
11:2Speak now in the ears of the people, and let
themas k everyman of his neighbor, and every
woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold." 11:3Yahweh gave the people
favor 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.
11:4Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says:
'About midnight I will go out into the midst of
Egypt, 11:5and all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt shall die, fromt he firstborn of Pharaoh
who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn
of the female servant who is behind the mill;
and all the firstborn of livestock. 11:6There
shall be a great cry throughout all the land of
Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be
any more. 11:7But against any of the children
of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its
tongue, against man or animal; that you may
knowthat Yahweh makes a distinction between
the Egyptians and Israel. 11:8All these your
servants shall come down to me, and bow
down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with
all the people who follow you;" and after that I
will go out.'" He went out fromPhar aoh in hot
anger.
11:9Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't
listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied
in the land of Egypt." 11:10Moses and
Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh,
and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he
didn't let the children of Israel go out of his
land.
12:1Yahweh spoke toMoses and Aaron in the
land of Egypt, saying, 12:2"This month shall be
to you the beginning of months. It shall be
the first month of the year to you. 12:3Speak
to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On
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; 12:4and
if the household is too little for a lamb, then
he and his neighbor next to his house shall
take one according to the number of the souls;
according to what everyone can eat you shall
make your count for the lamb. 12:5Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male a year old.
You shall take it fromthe sheep, or from
the goats: 12:6and you shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of the same month; and the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it at evening. 12:7They shall take some
of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts
and on the lintel, on the houses in which they
shall eat it. 12:8They shall eat the flesh in that
night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread.
They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 12:9Don't
eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but
roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and
c10:19 or, Sea of Reeds
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its inner parts. 12:10You shall let nothing of
it remain until the morning; but that which
remains of it until the morning you shall burn
with fire. 12:11This is how you shall eat it: with
your waist girded, your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in
haste: it is Yahweh's Passover. 12:12For I will
go through the land of Egypt in that night, and
will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and animal. Against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
12:13The blood shall be to you for a token on
the houses where you are: and when I see the
blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no
plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike
the land of Egypt. 12:14This day shall be to you
for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast
to Yahweh: throughout your generations you
shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
12:15"'Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread; even the first day you shall put away
yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats
leavened bread fromthe first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
Israel. 12:16In 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, except that which every
man must eat, that only may be done by you.
12:17You shall observe the feast of unleavened
bread; for in this same day have I brought
your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore
you shall observe this day throughout your
generations by an ordinance forever. 12:18In
the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at evening, you shall eat unleavened
bread, until the twenty first day of the month
at evening. 12:19Seven days shall there be no
yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats
that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut
off fromt he congregation of Israel, whether he
be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
12:20You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your
habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of
Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take
lambs according to your families, and kill the
Passover. 12:22You shall take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
and strike the lintel and the two doorposts
with the blood that is in the basin; and none
of you shall go out of the door of his house
until the morning. 12:23For Yahweh will pass
through to strike the Egyptians; and when he
sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two
doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and
will not allow the destroyer to come in to your
houses to strike you. 12:24You shall observe
this thing for an ordinance to you and to your
sons forever. 12:25It shall happen when you
have come to the land which Yahweh will give
you, according as he has promised, that you
shall keep this service. 12:26It will happen,
when your children ask you, 'What do you
mean by this service?' 12:27that you shall say,
'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who
passed over the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and
spared our houses.'"
The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
12:28The children of Israel went and
did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so they did.
12:29It happened at midnight, that Yahweh
struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
fromt he firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his
throne to the firstborn of the captivewho was in
the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.
12:30Pharaoh 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. 12:31He
called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
"Rise up, get out from among my people, both
you and the children of Israel; and go, serve
Yahweh, as you have said! 12:32Take both your
flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be
gone; and bless me also!"
12:33The Egyptians were urgent with the
people, to send themo ut of the land in haste,
for they said, "We are all dead men." 12:34The
people took their dough before itwas leavened,
their kneading troughs being bound up in their
clothes on their shoulders. 12:35The children of
Israel did according to the word of Moses; and
they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and clothing. 12:36Yahweh gave
the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
so that they let themhave what they asked.
They despoiled the Egyptians.
12:37The children of Israel traveled from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand
on foot who were men, besides children.
12:38A mixed multitude went up also with
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them, with flocks, herds, and even very much
livestock. 12:39They baked unleavened cakes
of the dough which they brought forth out of
Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they
were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait,
neither had they prepared for themselves any
food. 12:40Now the time that the children of
Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty
years. 12:41It happened at the end of four
hundred thirty years, even the same day it
happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went
out fromthe land of Egypt. 12:42It is a night
to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing
themo ut from the land of Egypt. This is that
night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the
children of Israel throughout their generations.
12:43Yahweh said toMoses and Aaron, "This
is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall
no foreigner eat of it, 12:44but every man's
servant who is bought for money, when you
have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
12:45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not
eat of it. 12:46In one house shall it be eaten;
you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh
abroad out of the house; neither shall you break
a bone of it. 12:47All the congregation of Israel
shall keep it. 12:48When a stranger shall live as a
foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover
to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and
then let himc ome near and keep it; and he
shall be as one who is born in the land: but no
uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 12:49One
law shall be to himw ho is born at home, and
to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
you." 12:50All the children of Israel did so.
As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so
they did. 12:51It happened the same day, that
Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their armies.
13:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
13:2"Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever
opens the womb among the children of Israel,
both of man and of animal. It is mine."
13:3Moses said to the people, "Remember
this day, in which you came out from Egypt,
out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand Yahweh brought you out fromthi s place.
No leavened bread shall be eaten. 13:4This day
you go forth in the month Abib. 13:5It shall be,
when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he
swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing
with milk and honey, that you shall keep
this service in this month. 13:6Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
day shall be a feast to Yahweh. 13:7Unleavened
bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days;
and no leavened bread shall be seen with you,
neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in
all your borders. 13:8You shall tell your son in
that day, saying, 'It is because of that which
Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of
Egypt.' 13:9It shall be for a sign to you on your
hand, and for a memorial between your eyes,
that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth;
forwith a strong hand Yahweh has brought you
out of Egypt. 13:10You shall therefore keep this
ordinance in its season fromy ear to year.
13:11"It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring
you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore
to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,
13:12that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that
opens the womb, and every firstborn which
you have that comes froman animal. The males
shall be Yahweh's. 13:13Every firstborn of a
donkey you shall redeemwi th a lamb; and if
you will not redeemit , then you shall break its
neck; and you shall redeemal l the firstborn of
man among your sons. 13:14It shall be, when
your son asks you in time to come, saying,
'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By
strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from
Egypt, fromt he house of bondage; 13:15and it
happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us
go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and
the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to
Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males;
but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
13:16It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for
symbols between your eyes: for by strength of
hand Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt."
13:17It happened, when Pharaoh had let the
people go, that God didn't lead themby the
way of the land of the Philistines, although
that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps
the people change their minds when they see
war, and they return to Egypt;" 13:18but God
led the people around by the way of the
wilderness by the Red Sead; and the children
d13:18 or, Sea of Reeds
Exodus 13:19 57 Exodus 14:26
of Israel went up armed out of the land of
Egypt. 13:19Moses took the bones of Joseph
with him, for he had made the children of Israel
swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and
you shall carry up my bones away from here
with you." 13:20They took their journey from
Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge
of the wilderness. 13:21Yahweh went before
themb y day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them
on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to
give theml ight, that theymight go by day and
by night: 13:22the pillar of cloud by day, and the
pillar of fire by night, didn't depart fromb efore
the people.
14:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2"Speak to the children of Israel, that they
turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, before Baal
Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the
sea. 14:3Pharaoh will say of the children of
Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The
wilderness has shut themi n.' 14:4I will harden
Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them;
and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all
his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I
amYahweh." They did so.
14:5It was told the king of Egypt that the
people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh
and of his servants was changed towards the
people, and they said, "What is this we have
done, that we have let Israel go froms erving
us?" 14:6He made ready his chariot, and took
his army with him; 14:7and he took six hundred
chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt,
and captains over all of them. 14:8Yahweh
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. 14:9The Egyptians pursued after them:
all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his
horsemen, and his army; and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before
Baal Zephon.
14:10When Pharaoh drew near, the children
of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the
Egyptians were marching after them; and they
were very afraid. The children of Israel cried
out to Yahweh. 14:11They said to Moses,
"Because there were no graves in Egypt, have
you taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Why have you treated us this way, to bring us
forth out of Egypt? 14:12Isn't this the word that
we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave 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."
14:13Moses said to the people, "Don't be
afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of
Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for
the Egyptians whomy ou have seen today, you
shall never see themag ain. 14:14Yahweh will
fight for you, and you shall be still."
14:15Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you
cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel,
that they go forward. 14:16Lift up your rod,
and stretch out your hand over the sea, and
divide it: and the children of Israel shall
go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
14:17I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians, and they shall go in after them:
and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and
over all his armies, over his chariots, and over
his horsemen. 14:18The Egyptians shall know
that I amY ahweh, when I have gotten myself
honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and
over his horsemen." 14:19The angel of God,
who went before the camp of Israel, moved
and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud
moved from before them, and stood behind
them. 14:20It came between the camp of Egypt
and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud
and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and
the one didn't come near the other all the night.
14:21Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a
strong east wind all the night, and made the sea
dry land, and thewaterswere divided. 14:22The
children of Israel went into the midst of the sea
on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall
to themo n their right hand, and on their left.
14:23The Egyptians pursued, and went in after
themi nto the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's
horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 14:24It
happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh
looked out on the Egyptian army through the
pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the
Egyptian army. 14:25He took off their chariot
wheels, and they drove themhe avily; so that
the Egyptians said, "Let's flee fromthe face of
Israel, for Yahweh fights for themag ainst the
Egyptians!"
14:26Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out
your hand over the sea, that the waters may
come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots,
Exodus 14:27 58 Exodus 15:21
and on their horsemen." 14:27Moses stretched
out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned
to its strength when the morning appeared;
and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea. 14:28The waters returned, and covered the
chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's
army that went in after theminto the sea. There
remained not so much as one of them. 14:29But
the children of Israel walked on dry land in
the midst of the sea, and the waters were a
wall to themo n their right hand, and on their
left. 14:30Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out
of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw
the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 14:31Israel
saw the great work which Yahweh did to the
Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and
they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant
Moses.
15:1Then Moses and the children of Israel
sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
"I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed
gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown
into the sea.
15:2Yah is m y strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father's God, and I will exalt him.
15:3Yahweh is a man of war.
Yahweh is his name.
15:4He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army
into the sea.
His chosen captains are sunk in the Red
Seae.
15:5The deeps cover them.
They went down into the depths like a
stone.
15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in
power.
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the
enemy in pieces.
15:7In the greatness of your excellency, you
overthrow those who rise up against
you.
You send forth your wrath. It consumes
themas stubble.
15:8With the blast of your nostrils, the waters
were piled up.
The floods stood upright as a heap.
The deeps were congealed in the heart of
the sea.
15:9The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will
overtake. I will divide the spoil.
My desire shall be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall
destroy them.'
15:10You blew with your wind.
The sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?
15:12You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them.
15:13"You, in your loving kindness, have led the
people that you have redeemed.
You have guided themi n your strength to
your holy habitation.
15:14The peoples have heard.
They tremble.
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants
of Philistia.
15:15Then the chiefs of Edomw ere dismayed.
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men
of Moab.
All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted
away.
15:16Terror and dread falls on them.
By the greatness of your armthe y are as
still as a stone
until your people pass over, Yahweh,
until the people pass over who you have
purchased.
15:17You shall bring themin , and plant
themi n the mountain of your inheritance,
the place, Yahweh, which you have made
for yourself to dwell in;
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands
have established.
15:18Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."
15:19For the horses of Pharaoh went in with
his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea,
and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea
on them; but the children of Israel walked on
dry land in the midst of the sea. 15:20Miriam
the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a
tambourine in her hand; and all the women
went out after her with tambourines and with
dances. 15:21Miriamans wered them,
e15:4 or, Sea of Reeds
Exodus 15:22 59 Exodus 16:20
"Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the
sea."
15:22Moses led Israel onward fromt he Red
Seaf , and they went out into the wilderness of
Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness,
and found no water. 15:23When they
came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the
waters ofMarah, for they were bitter. Therefore
its name was called Marah.g 15:24The people
murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall
we drink?" 15:25Then he cried to Yahweh.
Yahweh showed hima tree, and he threw it into
the waters, and the waters were made sweet.
There he made a statute and an ordinance for
them, and there he tested them; 15:26and he
said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, and will do that which
is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to
his commandments, and keep all his statutes,
I will put none of the diseases on you, which
I have put on the Egyptians; for I amY ahweh
who heals you."
15:27They came to Elim, where there were
twelve springs of water, and seventy palm
trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
16:1They took their journey fromElim , and
all the congregation of the children of Israel
came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between
Elimand Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the
second month after their departing out of the
land of Egypt. 16:2The whole congregation of
the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and against Aaron in the wilderness; 16:3and
the children of Israel said to them, "We wish
that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in
the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat
pots, whenwe ate our fill of bread, for you have
brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger."
16:4Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I
will rain bread fromt he sky for you, and the
people shall go out and gather a day's portion
every day, that I may test them, whether they
will walk in my law, or not. 16:5It 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."
16:6Moses and Aaron said to all the children
of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that
Yahweh has brought you out fromthe land of
Egypt; 16:7and in the morning, then you shall
see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your
murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we,
that you murmur against us?" 16:8Moses said,
"Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the
evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy
you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings
which you murmur against him. And who
are we? Your murmurings are not against us,
but against Yahweh." 16:9Moses said to Aaron,
"Tell all the congregation of the children of
Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has
heard your murmurings.'" 16:10It happened, as
Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh
appeared in the cloud. 16:11Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, 16:12"I have heard the murmurings
of the children of Israel. Speak to them,
saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in
the morning you shall be filled with bread: and
you shall know that I amYahweh your God.'"
16:13It happened at evening that quail came
up and covered the camp; and in the morning
the dew lay around the camp. 16:14When the
dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface
of the wilderness was a small round thing,
small as the frost on the ground. 16:15When
the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
another, "What is it?" For they didn't know
what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread
which Yahweh has given you to eat." 16:16This
is the thing which Yahweh has commanded:
"Gather of it everyone according to his eating;
an omer a head, according to the number of
your persons, you shall take it, every man for
those who are in his tent." 16:17The children of
Israel did so, and gathered some more, some
less. 16:18When they measured it with an omer,
he who gathered much had nothing over, and
he who gathered little had no lack. They
gathered every man according to his eating.
16:19Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it
until the morning." 16:20Notwithstanding they
didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of
it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
f15:22 or, Sea of Reeds
g15:23 Marah means bitter.
Exodus 16:21 60 Exodus 17:14
16:21They gathered it morning by morning,
everyone according to his eating. When the
sun grew hot, it melted. 16:22It happened
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. 16:23He said to them, "This is that which
Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn
rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that
which you want to bake, and boil that which
you want to boil; and all that remains over lay
up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"
16:24They laid it up until the morning, as
Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither
was there any wormin it. 16:25Moses said, "Eat
that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh.
Today you shall not find it in the field. 16:26Six
days you shall gather it, but on the seventh
day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
16:27It happened on the seventh day, that some
of the people went out to gather, and they
found none. 16:28Yahweh said to Moses, "How
long do you refuse to keep my commandments
and my laws? 16:29Behold, because Yahweh
has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives
you on the sixth day the bread of two days.
Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out
of his place on the seventh day." 16:30So the
people rested on the seventh day.
16:31The house of Israel called its name
Manna,h and it was like coriander seed, white;
and its taste was like wafers with honey.
16:32Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh
has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it
be kept throughout your generations, that they
may see the bread with which I fed you in
the wilderness, when I brought you forth from
the land of Egypt.'" 16:33Moses said to Aaron,
"Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna
in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept
throughout your generations." 16:34As Yahweh
commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before
the Testimony, to be kept. 16:35The children
of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they
came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna
until they came to the borders of the land of
Canaan. 16:36Now an omer is the tenth part of
an ephah.
17:1All the congregation of the children of
Israel traveled fromt he wilderness of Sin, by
their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment,
and encamped in Rephidim; but
there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses,
and said, "Give us water to drink."
Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel
with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
17:3The people were thirsty for water there;
and the people murmured against Moses, and
said, "Why have you brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock
with thirst?"
17:4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What
shall I do with these people? They are almost
ready to stone me."
17:5Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before
the people, and take the elders of Israel with
you, and take the rod in your hand with which
you struck the Nile, and go. 17:6Behold, I will
stand before you there on the rock in Horeb.
You shall strike the rock, and water will come
out of it, that the people may drink." Moses
did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7He called the name of the place Massah,i
and Meribah,j because the children of Israel
quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh,
saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
17:8Then Amalek came and fought with
Israel in Rephidim. 17:9Moses said to Joshua,
"Choose men for us, and go out, fight with
Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of
the hill with God's rod in my hand." 17:10So
Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought
with Amalek; andMoses, Aaron, and Hur went
up to the top of the hill. 17:11It happened, when
Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed;
and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
17:12But Moses' hands were heavy; and
they took a stone, and put it under him, and
he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the
other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
17:13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people
with the edge of the sword. 17:14Yahweh said
to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book,
and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will
utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from
h16:31 "Manna" means "What is it?"
i17:7 Massah means testing.
j17:7 Meribah means quarreling.
Exodus 17:15 61 Exodus 19:2
under the sky." 17:15Moses built an altar, and
called its name Yahweh our Banner.k 17:16He
said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.'"
18:1Now 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 Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
18:2Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah,
Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
18:3and her two sons. The name of one son
was Gershom,l for Moses said, "I have lived
as a foreigner in a foreign land". 18:4The
name of the other was Eliezer,m for he said,
"My father's God was my help and delivered
me from Pharaoh's sword." 18:5Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife
to Moses into the wilderness where he was
encamped, at the Mountain of God. 18:6He
said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have
come to you with your wife, and her two sons
with her. 18:7Moseswent out to meet his fatherin-
law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked
each other of their welfare, and they came into
the tent. 18:8Moses told his father-in-law all
that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the
Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships
that had come on them on the way, and how
Yahweh delivered them. 18:9Jethro rejoiced for
all the goodness which Yahweh had done to
Israel, in that he had delivered themout of
the hand of the Egyptians. 18:10Jethro said,
"Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of
the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the
people fromu nder the hand of the Egyptians.
18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than
all gods because of the thing in which they
dealt arrogantly against them." 18:12Jethro,
Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the
elders of Israel, to eat bread withMoses' fatherin-
law before God.
18:13It happened on the next day, that Moses
sat to judge the people, and the people stood
aroundMoses fromthe morning to the evening.
18:14When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he
did to the people, he said, "What is this thing
that you do for the people? Why do you sit
alone, and all the people stand around you
frommorning to evening?"
18:15Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because
the people come to me to inquire of God.
18:16When they have a matter, they come to me,
and I judge between a man and his neighbor,
and I make them know the statutes of God,
and his laws." 18:17Moses' father-in-law said
to him, "The thing that you do is not good.
18:18You will surely wear away, both you, and
this people that is with you; for the thing is too
heavy for you. You are not able to performi t
yourself alone. 18:19Listen now to my voice. I
will give you counsel, and God be with you.
You represent the people before God, and bring
the causes to God. 18:20You shall teach themthe
statutes and the laws, and shall show themthe
way in which they must walk, and the work
that they must do. 18:21Moreover you shall
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. 18:22Let themju dge the people at all
times. It shall be that every great matter they
shall bring to you, but every small matter they
shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier
for you, and they shall share the load with
you. 18:23If you will do this thing, and God
commands you so, then you will be able to
endure, and all of these people also will go to
their place in peace."
18:24So Moses listened to the voice of his
father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
18:25Moses 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. 18:26They judged the people
at all times. They brought the hard causes
to Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves. 18:27Moses let his father-in-law
depart, and he went his way into his own land.
19:1In the third month after the children of
Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt,
on that same day they came into the wilderness
of Sinai. 19:2When they had departed from
Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of
Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and
k17:15 Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi
l18:3 "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."
m18:4 Eliezer means "God is my helper."
Exodus 19:3 62 Exodus 20:10
there Israel encamped before the mountain.
19:3Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called
to himo ut of the mountain, saying, "This is
what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell
the children of Israel: 19:4'You have seen what
I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you
on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
19:5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my
voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall
be my own possession from among all peoples;
for all the earth is mine; 19:6and you shall be
to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.'
These are the words which you shall speak to
the children of Israel."
19:7Moses came and called for the elders of
the people, and set before thema ll these words
which Yahweh commanded him. 19:8All the
people answered together, and said, "All that
Yahweh has spoken we will do."
Moses reported the words of the people to
Yahweh. 19:9Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I
come to you in a thick cloud, that the people
may hear when I speak with you, and may also
believe you forever." Moses told the words
of the people to Yahweh. 19:10Yahweh said to
Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them
today and tomorrow, and let them wash their
garments, 19:11and be ready against the third
day; for on the third day Yahweh will come
down in the sight of all the people on Mount
Sinai. 19:12You shall set bounds to the people
all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't
go up onto the mountain, or touch its border.
Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely
put to death. 19:13No hand shall touch him,
but he shall surely be stoned or shot through;
whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.'
When the trumpet sounds long, they shall
come up to the mountain."
19:14Moses went down fromthe mountain
to the people, and sanctified the people; and
they washed their clothes. 19:15He said to the
people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have
sexual relations with a woman."
19:16It happened on the third day, when it
was morning, that there were thunders and
lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain,
and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet;
and all the people who were in the camp
trembled. 19:17Moses led the people out of the
camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower
part of the mountain. 19:18Mount Sinai, all it,
smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in
fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke
of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked
greatly. 19:19When the sound of the trumpet
grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and
God answered himby a voice. 19:20Yahweh
came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the
mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of
the mountain, and Moses went up.
19:21Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn
the people, lest they break through to Yahweh
to gaze, and many of them perish. 19:22Let the
priests also,who come near to Yahweh, sanctify
themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."
19:23Moses said to Yahweh, "The people
can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned
us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain,
and sanctify it.'"
19:24Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you
shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the
priests and the people break through to come
up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
19:25So Moses went down to the people, and
told them.
20:1Godn spoke all these words, saying,
20:2"I amY ahweh your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. 20:3You shall have no other gods
before me.
20:4"You shall not make for yourselves an
idol, nor any image of anything that is in the
heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth: 20:5you
shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve
them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, on the third and on the fourth generation
of those who hate me, 20:6and showing
loving kindness to thousands of those who love
me and keep my commandments.
20:7"You shall not take the name of Yahweh
your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him
guiltless who takes his name in vain.
20:8"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy. 20:9You shall labor six days, and do
all your work, 20:10but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not
n20:1 After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew
alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.
Exodus 20:11 63 Exodus 21:20
do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, your male servant, nor your female
servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger
who is within your gates; 20:11for in six days
Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that is in them, and rested the seventh day;
therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and
made it holy.
20:12"Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be long in the land which
Yahweh your God gives you.
20:13"You shall not murder.
20:14"You shall not commit adultery.
20:15"You shall not steal.
20:16"You shall not give false testimony
against your neighbor.
20:17"You shall not covet your neighbor's
house. You shall not covet your neighbor's
wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything
that is your neighbor's."
20:18All the people perceived the thunderings,
the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet,
and the mountain smoking. When the people
saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
20:19They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself,
and we will listen; but don't let God speak
with us, lest we die."
20:20Moses said to the people, "Don't be
afraid, for God has come to test you, and that
his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
20:21The people stayed at a distance, andMoses
drew near to the thick darkness where God
was.
20:22Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what
you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves
have seen that I have talked with you
fromh eaven. 20:23You shall most certainly not
make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods
of gold for yourselves. 20:24You shall make an
altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it
your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,
your sheep and your cattle. In every place
where I recordm ynam eIwill com e to you and
I will bless you. 20:25If you make me an altar
of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for
if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted
it. 20:26Neither shall you go up by steps to my
altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed
to it.'
21:1"Now these are the ordinances which
you shall set before them.
21:2"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall
serve six years and in the seventh he shall go
out free without paying anything. 21:3If he
comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself.
If he is married, then his wife shall go out with
him. 21:4If his master gives him a wife and
she bears hims ons or daughters, the wife and
her children shall be her master's, and he shall
go out by himself. 21:5But if the servant shall
plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and
my children. I will not go out free;' 21:6then
his master shall bring him to God, and shall
bring himto the door or to the doorpost, and
his master shall bore his ear through with an
awl, and he shall serve himfor ever.
21:7"If a man sells his daughter to be a
female servant, she shall not go out as the
male servants do. 21:8If she doesn't please her
master, who has married her to himself, then
he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no
right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he
has dealt deceitfully with her. 21:9If he marries
her to his son, he shall deal with her after the
manner of daughters. 21:10If he takes another
wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food,
her clothing, and her marital rights. 21:11If he
doesn't do these three things for her, she may
go free without paying any money.
21:12"One who strikes a man so that he dies
shall surely be put to death, 21:13but not if it
is unintentional, but God allows it to happen:
then I will appoint you a place where he
shall flee. 21:14If a man schemes and comes
presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him,
you shall take him from my altar, that he may
die.
21:15"Anyone who attacks his father or his
mother shall be surely put to death.
21:16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and
sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall
surely be put to death.
21:17"Anyone who curses his father or his
mother shall surely be put to death.
21:18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other
with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't
die, but is confined to bed; 21:19if he rises again
and walks around with his staff, then he who
struck hims hall be cleared: only he shall pay
for the loss of his time, and shall provide for
his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
21:20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid
with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall
Exodus 21:21 64 Exodus 22:18
surely be punished. 21:21Notwithstanding, if
he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be
punished, for he is his property.
21:22"If men fight and hurt a pregnant
woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and
yet no harmfollow s, he shall be surely fined as
much as the woman's husband demands and
the judges allow. 21:23But if any harmf ollows,
then you must take life for life, 21:24eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25burning for burning, wound for wound,
and bruise for bruise.
21:26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or
his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him
go free for his eye's sake. 21:27If he strikes out
his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's
tooth, he shall let himg o free for his tooth's
sake.
21:28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to
death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its
flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the
bull shall not be held responsible. 21:29But if
the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it
has been testified to its owner, and he has not
kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman,
the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall
also be put to death. 21:30If a ransomis laid on
him, then he shall give for the redemption of
his life whatever is laid on him. 21:31Whether
it has gored a son or has gored a daughter,
according to this judgment it shall be done to
him. 21:32If the bull gores a male servant or
a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall
be given to their master, and the ox shall be
stoned.
21:33"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a
pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey
falls into it, 21:34the owner of the pit shall make
it good. He shall give money to its owner, and
the dead animal shall be his.
21:35"If one man's bull injures another's, so
that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and
divide its price; and they shall also divide the
dead animal. 21:36Or if it is known that the bull
was in the habit of goring in the past, and its
owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull
for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
22:1"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and
kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an
ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 22:2If the thief
is found breaking in, and is struck so that he
dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for
him. 22:3If the sun has risen on him, there shall
be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make
restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall
be sold for his theft. 22:4If the stolen property
is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox,
donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
22:5"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be
eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes
in another man's field, he shall make restitution
fromthe best of his own field, and fromthe best
of his own vineyard.
22:6"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns
so that the shocks of grain, or the standing
grain, or the field are consumed; he who
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
22:7"If a man delivers to his neighbor money
or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's
house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
22:8If the thief isn't found, then the master of
the house shall come near to God, to find out if
he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
22:9For every matter of trespass, whether it be
for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for
any kind of lost thing, about which one says,
'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall
come before God. He whom God condemns
shall pay double to his neighbor.
22:10"If a man delivers to his neighbor a
donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep,
and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no
man seeing it; 22:11the oath of Yahweh shall
be between thembo th, whether he hasn't put
his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its
owner shall accept it, and he shall not make
restitution. 22:12But if it is stolen from him, he
shall make restitution to its owner. 22:13If it is
torn in pieces, let himb ring it for evidence. He
shall not make good that which was torn.
22:14"If a man borrows anything of his
neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner
not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
22:15If its owner is with it, he shall not
make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for
its lease.
22:16"If a man entices a virgin who isn't
pledged to be married, and lies with her, he
shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
22:17If her father utterly refuses to give her
to him, he shall pay money according to the
dowry of virgins.
22:18"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exodus 22:19 65 Exodus 23:23
22:19"Whoever has sex with an animal shall
surely be put to death.
22:20"He who sacrifices to any god, except to
Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
22:21"You shall not wrong an alien, neither
shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in
the land of Egypt.
22:22"You shall not take advantage of any
widow or fatherless child. 22:23If you take
advantage of themat all, and they cry at all
to me, I will surely hear their cry; 22:24and my
wrath will grow hot, and I will kill youwith the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and
your children fatherless.
22:25"If you lend money to any of my people
with youwho is poor, you shall not be to himas
a creditor; neither shall you charge himi nterest.
22:26If you take your neighbor's garment as
collateral, you shall restore it to himb efore
the sun goes down, 22:27for that is his only
covering, it is his garment for his skin. What
would he sleep in? It will happen, when he
cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
22:28"You shall not blaspheme God, nor
curse a ruler of your people.
22:29"You shall not delay to offer fromyour
harvest and fromt he outflow of your presses.
"You shall give the firstborn of your sons to
me. 22:30You shall do likewise with your cattle
and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be
with its mother, then on the eighth day you
shall give it to me.
22:31"You shall be holy men to me, therefore
you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by
animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
23:1"You shall not spread a false report.
Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a
malicious witness. 23:2You shall not follow a
crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in
court to sidewith a multitude to pervert justice;
23:3neither shall you favor a poor man in his
cause.
23:4"If you meet your enemy's ox or his
donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it
back to himag ain. 23:5If you see the donkey
of himw ho hates you fallen down under his
burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help
himwi th it.
23:6"You shall not deny justice to your poor
people in their lawsuits.
23:7"Keep far froma false charge, and don't
kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not
justify the wicked.
23:8"You shall take no bribe, for a bribe
blinds those who have sight and perverts the
words of the righteous.
23:9"You shall not oppress an alien, for you
know the heart of an alien, seeing you were
aliens in the land of Egypt.
23:10"For six years you shall sow your land,
and shall gather in its increase, 23:11but the
seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow,
that the poor of your people may eat; and what
they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In
like manner you shall deal with your vineyard
and with your olive grove.
23:12"Six days you shall do your work, and
on the seventh day you shall rest, that your
ox and your donkey may have rest, and the
son of your handmaid, and the alien may be
refreshed.
23:13"Be careful to do all things that I have
said to you; and don't invoke the name of other
gods, neither let themb e heard out of your
mouth.
23:14"You shall observe a feast to me three
times a year. 23:15You shall observe the feast
of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the
time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you
came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear
before me empty. 23:16And the feast of harvest,
the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in
the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of
the year, when you gather in your labors out of
the field. 23:17Three times in the year all your
males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
23:18"You shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall
the fat of my feast remain all night until the
morning. 23:19The first of the first fruits of
your ground you shall bring into the house of
Yahweh your God.
"You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
23:20"Behold, I send an angel before you, to
keep you by the way, and to bring you into the
place which I have prepared. 23:21Pay attention
to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke
him, for he will not pardon your disobedience,
for my name is in him. 23:22But if you indeed
listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then
I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an
adversary to your adversaries. 23:23For my
angel shall go before you, and bring you in
Exodus 23:24 66 Exodus 25:7
to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the
Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I
will cut themof f. 23:24You shall not bow down
to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their
practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them
and demolish their pillars. 23:25You shall serve
Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread
and your water, and I will take sickness away
fromyour midst. 23:26No one will miscarry
or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the
number of your days. 23:27I will send my terror
before you, and will confuse all the people to
whom you come, and I will make all your
enemies turn their backs to you. 23:28I will
send the hornet before you, which will drive
out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
fromb efore you. 23:29I will not drive them
out frombe fore you in one year, lest the land
become desolate, and the animals of the field
multiply against you. 23:30Little by little I will
drive themo ut frombefore you, until you have
increased and inherit the land. 23:31I will set
your border fromt he Red Seao even to the sea
of the Philistines, and fromt he wilderness to
the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of
the land into your hand, and you shall drive
themout before you. 23:32You shall make
no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
23:33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they
make you sin against me, for if you serve their
gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
24:1He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh,
you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel; and worship from
a distance. 24:2Moses alone shall come near to
Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither
shall the people go up with him."
24:3Moses came and told the people all the
words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and
all the people answered with one voice, and
said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken
will we do."
24:4Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh,
and rose up early in the morning, and built an
altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for
the twelve tribes of Israel. 24:5He sent young
men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle
to Yahweh. 24:6Moses took half of the blood
and put it in basins, and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar. 24:7He took the book of
the covenant and read it in the hearing of the
people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has
spoken will we do, and be obedient."
24:8Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on
the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood
of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with
you concerning all these words."
24:9Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
24:10They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet
was like a paved work of sapphirep stone, like
the skies for clearness. 24:11He didn't lay his
hand on the nobles of the children of Israel.
They saw God, and ate and drank.
24:12Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me
on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give
you the tables of stone with the law and the
commands that I have written, that you may
teach them."
24:13Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant,
and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.
24:14He said to the elders, "Wait here for us,
until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and
Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a
dispute can go to them."
24:15Moses went up on the mountain, and
the cloud covered the mountain. 24:16The glory
of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the
cloud covered it six days. The seventh day
he called to Moses out of the midst of the
cloud. 24:17The appearance of the glory of
Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of
the mountain in the eyes of the children of
Israel. 24:18Moses entered into the midst of
the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and
Moses was on the mountain forty days and
forty nights.
25:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
25:2"Speak to the children of Israel, that they
take an offering for me. From everyone whose
heart makes him willing you shall take my
offering. 25:3This is the offeringwhich you shall
take fromthe m: gold, silver, brass, 25:4blue,
purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, 25:5rams'
skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
25:6oil for the light, spices for the anointing
oil and for the sweet incense, 25:7onyx stones,
and stones to be set for the ephod and for the
o23:31 or, Sea of Reeds
p24:10 or, lapis lazuli
Exodus 25:8 67 Exodus 26:5
breastplate. 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary,
that I may dwell among them. 25:9According to
all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, and
the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you
shall make it.
25:10"They shall make an ark of acacia wood.
Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its
breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half
its height. 25:11You shall overlay it with pure
gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside,
and you shall make a gold molding around
it. 25:12You shall cast four rings of gold for
it, and put themin its four feet. Two rings
shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on
the other side of it. 25:13You shall make poles
of acacia wood, and overlay themw ith gold.
25:14You shall put the poles into the rings on
the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 25:15The
poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They
shall not be taken fromi t. 25:16You shall put
the testimony which I shall give you into the
ark. 25:17You shall make a mercy seat of pure
gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length,
and a cubit and a half its breadth. 25:18You
shall make two cherubim of hammered gold.
You shall make them at the two ends of the
mercy seat. 25:19Make one cherub at the one
end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall
make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece
with the mercy seat. 25:20The cherubimsh all
spread out their wings upward, covering the
mercy seat with their wings, with their faces
toward one another. The faces of the cherubim
shall be toward the mercy seat. 25:21You shall
put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in
the ark you shall put the testimony that I will
give you. 25:22There I will meet with you, and
I will tell you fromabo ve the mercy seat, from
between the two cherubimwhi ch are on the ark
of the testimony, all that I command you for the
children of Israel.
25:23"You shall make a table of acacia wood.
Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its
breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
25:24You shall overlay it with pure gold, and
make a gold molding around it. 25:25You shall
make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You
shall make a golden molding on its rim around
it. 25:26You shall make four rings of gold for it,
and put the rings in the four corners that are on
its four feet. 25:27the rings shall be close to the
rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
25:28You shall make the poles of acacia wood,
and overlay themwi th gold, that the tablemay
be carried with them. 25:29You shall make its
dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to
pour out offerings with. You shall make them
of pure gold. 25:30You shall set bread of the
presence on the table before me always.
25:31"You shall make a lampstand of pure
gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand
be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its
buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with
it. 25:32There shall be six branches going out
of its sides: three branches of the lampstand
out of its one side, and three branches of the
lampstand out of its other side; 25:33three cups
made like almond blossoms in one branch, a
bud and a flower; and three cups made like
almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud
and a flower, so for the six branches going out
of the lampstand; 25:34and in the lampstand
four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds
and its flowers; 25:35and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, and a bud under
two branches of one piece with it, and a bud
under two branches of one piece with it, for
the six branches going out of the lampstand.
25:36Their buds and their branches shall be of
one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of
pure gold. 25:37You shall make its lamps seven,
and they shall light its lamps to give light to
the space in front of it. 25:38Its snuffers and its
snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. 25:39It shall
be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these
accessories. 25:40See that you make them after
their pattern, which has been shown to you on
the mountain.
26:1"Moreover you shall make the tent with
ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The
work of the skillful workman you shall make
them. 26:2The length of each curtain shall
be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of
each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall
have one measure. 26:3Five curtains shall be
coupled together one to another; and the other
five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
26:4You shall make loops of blue on the edge of
the one curtain fromthe edge in the coupling;
and likewise you shall make in the edge of the
curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.
26:5You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain,
and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of
Exodus 26:6 68 Exodus 27:5
the curtain that is in the second coupling. The
loops shall be opposite one to another. 26:6You
shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the
curtains one to another with the clasps: and the
tent shall be a unit.
26:7"You shall make curtains of goats' hair
for a covering over the tent. You shall make
themelev en curtains. 26:8The length of each
curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth
of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains
shall have one measure. 26:9You shall couple
five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
by themselves, and shall double over the sixth
curtain in the forefront of the tent. 26:10You
shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one
curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and
fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is
outmost in the second coupling. 26:11You shall
make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps
into the loops, and couple the tent together,
that it may be one. 26:12The overhanging part
that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half
curtain that remains, shall hang over the back
of the tent. 26:13The cubit on the one side,
and the cubit on the other side, of that which
remains in the length of the curtains of the tent,
shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side
and on that side, to cover it. 26:14You shall make
a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,
and a covering of sea cow hides above.
26:15"You shall make the boards for the tent
of acacia wood, standing up. 26:16Ten cubits
shall be the length of a board, and one and a
half cubits the breadth of each board. 26:17There
shall be two tenons in each board, joined to
one another: thus you shall make for all the
boards of the tent. 26:18You shall make the
boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south
side southward. 26:19You shall 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. 26:20For the second side of the tent,
on the north side, twenty boards, 26:21and their
forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
26:22For the far part of the tent westward you
shall make six boards. 26:23You shall make two
boards for the corners of the tent in the far
part. 26:24They shall be double beneath, and
in like manner they shall be entire to its top to
one ring: thus shall it be for thembo th; they
shall be for the two corners. 26:25There shall be
eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen
sockets; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
26:26"You shall make bars of acacia wood:
five for the boards of the one side of the tent,
26:27and five bars for the boards of the other
side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of
the side of the tent, for the far part westward.
26:28The middle bar in the midst of the boards
shall pass through frome nd to end. 26:29You
shall overlay the boards with gold, and make
their rings of gold for places for the bars: and
you shall overlay the bars with gold. 26:30You
shall set up the tent according to the way that it
was shown to you on the mountain.
26:31"You shall make a veil of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with
cherubim. The work of the skillful workman
shall it be made. 26:32You shall hang it on
four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their
hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
26:33You shall hang up the veil under the clasps,
and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there
within the veil: and the veil shall separate the
holy place fromt hemost holy for you. 26:34You
shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the
testimony in the most holy place. 26:35You shall
set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand
over against the table on the side of the tent
toward the south: and you shall put the table
on the north side.
26:36"You shall make a screen for the door of
the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
26:37You shall make for the screen five pillars of
acacia, and overlay themwith gold: their hooks
shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets
of brass for them.
27:1"You shall make the altar of acacia wood,
five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar
shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three
cubits. 27:2You shall make its horns on its four
corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it;
and you shall overlay it with brass. 27:3You
shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its
shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire
pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
27:4You shall make a grating for it of network
of brass: and on the net you shall make four
bronze rings in its four corners. 27:5You shall
put it under the ledge around the altar beneath,
Exodus 27:6 69 Exodus 28:16
that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
27:6You shall make poles for the altar, poles
of acacia wood, and overlay themw ith brass.
27:7Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the
poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when
carrying it. 27:8You shall make it with hollow
planks. They shall make it as it has been shown
you on the mountain.
27:9"You shall make the court of the tent:
for the south side southward there shall be
hangings for the court of fine twined linen one
hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10and its
pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty,
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets shall be of silver. 27:11Likewise for the
north side in length there shall be hangings
one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of
the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 27:12For
the breadth of the court on the west side shall
be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten,
and their sockets ten. 27:13The breadth of the
court on the east side eastward shall be fifty
cubits. 27:14The hangings for the one side of
the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars
three, and their sockets three. 27:15For the other
side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three. 27:16For
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 embroiderer; their
pillars four, and their sockets four. 27:17All the
pillars of the court around shall be filleted with
silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets
of brass. 27:18The length of the court shall be
one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every
where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined
linen, and their sockets of brass. 27:19All the
instruments of the tent in all its service, and all
its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of
brass.
27:20"You shall command the children of
Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil
beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
continually. 27:21In the Tent ofMeeting, outside
the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron
and his sons shall keep it in order fromev ening
to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute
forever throughout their generations on the
behalf of the children of Israel.
28:1"Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons
with him, near to you from among the children
of Israel, that he may minister to me in the
priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. 28:2You
shall make holy garments for Aaron your
brother, for glory and for beauty. 28:3You shall
speak to allwho arewise-hearted,whomI have
filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make
Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may
minister to me in the priest's office. 28:4These
are the garments which they shall make: a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a
coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and
they shall make holy garments for Aaron your
brother, and his sons, that he may minister to
m e in the priest's office. 28:5They shall take
the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the
scarlet, and the fine linen.
28:6"They shall make the ephod of gold, of
blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of the skillful workman. 28:7It shall
have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends
of it, that it may be joined together. 28:8The
skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is
on him, shall be like its work and of the same
piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen. 28:9You shall take two
onyx stones, and engrave on themthe names
of the children of Israel: 28:10six of their names
on the one stone, and the names of the six that
remain on the other stone, in the order of their
birth. 28:11With the work of an engraver in
stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall
engrave the two stones, according to the names
of the children of Israel: you shall make them
to be enclosed in settings of gold. 28:12You shall
put the two stones on the shoulder straps of
the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the
children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their
names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for
a memorial. 28:13You shall make settings of
gold, 28:14and two chains of pure gold; you
shall make them like cords of braided work:
and you shall put the braided chains on the
settings.
28:15"You shall make a breastplate of judgment,
thework of the skillfulworkman; like the
work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, you shall make it. 28:16It shall be square
Exodus 28:17 70 Exodus 29:3
and folded double; a spanq shall be its length
of it, and a span its breadth. 28:17You shall set
in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a
row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first
row; 28:18and the second rowa turquoise, a sapphirer,
and an emerald; 28:19and the third row
a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 28:20and
the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a
jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their
settings. 28:21The stones shall be according
to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings
of a signet, everyone according to his name,
they shall be for the twelve tribes. 28:22You
shall make on the breastplate chains like cords,
of braided work of pure gold. 28:23You shall
make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and
shall put the two rings on the two ends of the
breastplate. 28:24You shall put the two braided
chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of
the breastplate. 28:25The other two ends of the
two braided chains you shall put on the two
settings, and put themo n the shoulder straps
of the ephod in its forepart. 28:26You shall make
two rings of gold, and you shall put themon
the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge,
which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
28:27You shall make two rings of gold, and shall
put themon the two shoulder straps of the
ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its
coupling, above the skillfully woven band of
the ephod. 28:28They shall bind the breastplate
by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace
of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven
band of the ephod, and that the breastplate
may not swing out from the ephod. 28:29Aaron
shall bear the names of the children of Israel in
the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when
he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial
before Yahweh continually. 28:30You shall put
in the breastplate of judgment the Urimand the
Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart,
when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron
shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel
on his heart before Yahweh continually.
28:31"You shall make the robe of the ephod
all of blue. 28:32It shall have a hole for the
head in its midst: it shall have a binding of
woven work around its hole, as it were the hole
of a coat of mail, that it not be torn. 28:33On
its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue,
and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem ;
and bells of gold between and around them:
28:34a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden
bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the
robe. 28:35It shall be on Aaron to minister: and
its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the
holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes
out, that he not die.
28:36"You shall make a plate of pure gold,
and engrave on it, like the engravings of a
signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.' 28:37You shall
put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on
the sash; on the front of the sash it shall
be. 28:38It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and
Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things,
which the children of Israel shall make holy
in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always
on his forehead, that they may be accepted
before Yahweh. 28:39You shall weave the coat in
checker work of fine linen, and you shall make
a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a
sash, the work of the embroiderer.
28:40"You shall make coats for Aaron's sons,
and you shall make sashes for them and you
shall make headbands for them, for glory and
for beauty. 28:41You shall put themo n Aaron
your brother, and on his sons with him, and
shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and
sanctify them, that they may minister to me
in the priest's office. 28:42You shall make
themlin en breeches to cover the flesh of their
nakedness; fromthe waist even to the thighs
they shall reach: 28:43They shall be on Aaron,
and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of
Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to
minister in the holy place; that they don't bear
iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to
himand to his descendants after him.
29:1"This is the thing that you shall do to
them to make them holy, to minister to me
in the priest's office: take one young bull
and two rams without blemish, 29:2unleavened
bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall
make them of fine wheat flour. 29:3You shall
put themi nto one basket, and bring themi n the
q28:16 A span is the length fromthe tip of the thumb to the tip of the little fingerwhen the hand is stretched
out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.)
r28:18 or, lapis lazuli
Exodus 29:4 71 Exodus 29:36
basket, with the bull and the two rams. 29:4You
shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of
the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash themwi th
water. 29:5You shall take the garments, and
put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod,
the ephod, and the breastplate, and dress him
with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
29:6and you shall set the turban on his head,
and put the holy crown on the turban. 29:7Then
you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on
his head, and anoint him. 29:8You shall bring
his sons, and put coats on them. 29:9You shall
dress themwi th belts, Aaron and his sons, and
bind headbands on them: and they shall have
the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you
shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
29:10"You shall bring the bull before the Tent
of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay
their hands on the head of the bull. 29:11You
shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of
the Tent of Meeting. 29:12You shall take of the
blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the
altar with your finger; and you shall pour out
all the blood at the base of the altar. 29:13You
shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the
cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
29:14But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and
its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the
camp: it is a sin offering.
29:15"You shall also take the one ram; and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
head of the ram. 29:16You shall kill the ram, and
you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around
on the altar. 29:17You shall cut the ramin to its
pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and
put themwi th its pieces, and with its head.
29:18You shall burn the whole ramo n the altar:
it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant
aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
29:19"You shall take the other ram; and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
head of the ram. 29:20Then you shall kill the
ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on
the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip
of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb
of their right hand, and on the big toe of their
right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on
the altar. 29:21You shall take of the blood that
is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and
on his sons, and on the garments of his sons
with him: and he shall be made holy, and his
garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments
with him. 29:22Also you shall take some of the
ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the
innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys,
the fat that is on them, and the right thigh
(for it is a ramof consecration), 29:23and one
loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread
that is before Yahweh. 29:24You shall put all of
this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands,
and shall wave themfor a wave offering before
Yahweh. 29:25You shall take themf rom their
hands, and burn themo n the altar on the burnt
offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it
is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
29:26"You shall take the breast of Aaron's
ramof consecration, and wave it for a wave
offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your
portion. 29:27You shall sanctify the breast of
the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave
offering, which is waved, and which is heaved
up, of the ramo f consecration, even of that
which is for Aaron, and of that which is for
his sons: 29:28and it shall be for Aaron and his
sons as their portion forever fromthe children
of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall
be a wave offering fromthe children of Israel of
the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their
wave offering to Yahweh.
29:29"The holy garments of Aaron shall be
for his sons after him, to be anointed in them,
and to be consecrated in them. 29:30Seven days
shall the son who is priest in his place put them
on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to
minister in the holy place.
29:31"You shall take the ramo f consecration,
and boil its flesh in a holy place. 29:32Aaron
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. 29:33They shall eat those
things with which atonement was made, to
consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger
shall not eat of it, because they are holy. 29:34If
anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of
the bread, remains to the morning, then you
shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not
be eaten, because it is holy.
29:35"You shall do so to Aaron, and to his
sons, according to all that I have commanded
you. You shall consecrate thems even days.
29:36Every day you shall offer the bull of sin
Exodus 29:37 72 Exodus 30:23
offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse
the altar, when you make atonement for it; and
you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. 29:37Seven
days you shall make atonement for the altar,
and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy;
whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
29:38"Now this is that which you shall offer
on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day
continually. 29:39The one lamb you shall offer
in the morning; and the other lamb you shall
offer at evening: 29:40and with the one lamb
a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed
with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and
the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink
offering. 29:41The other lamb you shall offer
at evening, and shall do to it according to the
meal offering of the morning, and according
to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh. 29:42It shall
be a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting
before Yahweh, where I will meet with you,
to speak there to you. 29:43There I will meet
with the children of Israel; and the place shall
be sanctified by my glory. 29:44I will sanctify
the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also
and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me
in the priest's office. 29:45I will dwell among
the children of Israel, and will be their God.
29:46They shall know that I amY ahweh their
God, who brought themf orth out of the land
of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am
Yahweh their God.
30:1"You shall make an altar to burn incense
on. You shall make it of acacia wood. 30:2Its
length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.
It shall be square, and its height shall be two
cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
30:3You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top,
its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall
make a gold molding around it. 30:4You shall
make two golden rings for it under its molding;
on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make
them; and they shall be for places for poles with
which to bear it. 30:5You shall make the poles
of acacia wood, and overlay themw ith gold.
30:6You shall put it before the veil that is by
the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat
that is over the testimony, where I will meet
with you. 30:7Aaron shall burn incense of sweet
spices on it every morning. When he tends
the lamps, he shall burn it. 30:8When Aaron
lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it,
a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout
your generations. 30:9You shall offer no strange
incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal
offering; and you shall pour no drink offering
on it. 30:10Aaron shall make atonement on its
horns once in the year; with the blood of the
sin offering of atonement once in the year he
shall make atonement for it throughout your
generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
30:11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
30:12"When you take a census of the children
of Israel, according to those who are numbered
among them, then each man shall give a
ransomf or his soul to Yahweh, when you
number them; that there be no plague among
them when you number them. 30:13They shall
give this, everyone who passes over to those
who are numbered, half a shekel after the
shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty
gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
30:14Everyone who passes over to those who
are numbered, from twenty years old and
upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
30:15The rich shall not give more, and the
poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,
when they give the offering of Yahweh, to
make atonement for your souls. 30:16You shall
take the atonement money from the children of
Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the
Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for
the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make
atonement for your souls."
30:17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
30:18"You shall also make a basin of brass, and
its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall
put it between the Tent of Meeting and the
altar, and you shall put water in it. 30:19Aaron
and his sons shall wash their hands and their
feet in it. 30:20When they go into the Tent of
Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they
not die; or when they come near to the altar
to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to
Yahweh. 30:21So they shall wash their hands
and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be
a statute forever to them, even to him and to
his descendants throughout their generations."
30:22Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
30:23"Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh,
five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon
half as much, even two hundred and fifty;
and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
Exodus 30:24 73 Exodus 32:4
30:24and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil. 30:25You
shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume
compounded after the art of the perfumer: it
shall be a holy anointing oil. 30:26You shall
use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of
the testimony, 30:27the table and all its articles,
the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of
incense, 30:28the altar of burnt offering with
all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
30:29You shall sanctify them, that they may be
most holy. Whatever touches them shall be
holy. 30:30You shall anoint Aaron and his sons,
and sanctify them, that they may minister to
m e in the priest's office. 30:31You shall speak
to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be
a holy anointing oil to me throughout your
generations. 30:32It shall not be poured on
man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it,
according to its composition: it is holy. It shall
be holy to you. 30:33Whoever compounds any
like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger,
he shall be cut off fromhi s people.'"
30:34Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself
sweet spices, gumre sin, and onycha, and galbanum;
sweet spices with pure frankincense:
of each shall there be an equal weight; 30:35and
you shall make incense of it, a perfume after
the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt,
pure and holy: 30:36and you shall beat some
of it very small, and put some of it before
the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I
will meet with you. It shall be to you most
holy. 30:37The incense which you shall make,
according to its composition you shall not make
for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for
Yahweh. 30:38Whoever shall make any like
that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his
people."
31:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
31:2"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the
son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
31:3and I have filled himwi th the Spirit of
God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner ofworkmanship,
31:4to devise skillful works, to work in gold,
and in silver, and in brass, 31:5and in cutting
of stones for setting, and in carving of wood,
to work in all manner of workmanship. 31:6I,
behold, I have appointed with himOh oliab,
the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and
in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have
put wisdom, that they may make all that I have
commanded you: 31:7the Tent of Meeting, the
ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on
it, all the furniture of the Tent, 31:8the table
and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all
its vessels, the altar of incense, 31:9the altar of
burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin
and its base, 31:10the finely worked garments
the holy garments for Aaron the priest the
garments of his sons to minister in the priest's
office, 31:11the anointing oil, and the incense of
sweet spices for the holy place: according to all
that I have commanded you they shall do."
31:12Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
31:13"Speak also to the children of Israel,
saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my
Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations; that you may
know that I amY ahweh who sanctifies you.
31:14You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it
is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall
surely be put to death; for whoever does any
work therein, that soul shall be cut off from
among his people. 31:15Six days shall work be
done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of
solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does
any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be
put to death. 31:16Therefore the children of
Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the
Sabbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant. 31:17It is a sign between
me and the children of Israel forever; for in six
days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on
the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
31:18He gave to Moses, when he finished
speaking with himo n Mount Sinai, the two
tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written
with God's finger.
32:1When the people saw that Moses delayed
to come down from the mountain, the
people gathered themselves together to Aaron,
and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which
shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man
who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we
don't know what has become of him."
32:2Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden
rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of
your sons, and of your daughters, and bring
themto me."
32:3All the people took off the golden rings
which were in their ears, and brought themto
Aaron. 32:4He received what they handed him,
Exodus 32:5 74 Exodus 32:31
and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and
made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are
your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of
the land of Egypt."
32:5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar
before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and
said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."
32:6They rose up early on the next day,
and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to
drink, and rose up to play.
32:7Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down;
for your people, who you brought up out of
the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the
way which I commanded them. They have
made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped
it, and have sacrificed to it, and said,
'These are your gods, Israel,which brought you
up out of the land of Egypt.'"
32:9Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these
people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked
people. 32:10Now therefore leave me alone, that
my wrath may burn hot against them, and that
I may consume them; and I will make of you a
great nation."
32:11Moses begged Yahweh his God, and
said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot
against your people, that you have brought
forth out of the land of Egypt with great power
and with a mighty hand? 32:12Why should
the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them
forth for evil, to kill themi n the mountains,
and to consume them from the surface of the
earth?' Turn fromy our fierce wrath, and repent
of this evil against your people. 32:13Remember
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to
whomy ou swore by your own self, and said
to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars
of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken
of Iwill give to your seed, and they shall inherit
it forever.'"
32:14Yahweh repented of the evil which he
said he would do to his people.
32:15Moses turned, and went down fromthe
mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony
in his hand; tablets that were written on both
their sides; on the one side and on the other
they were written. 32:16The tablets were the
work of God, and the writing was the writing
of God, engraved on the tables.
32:17When Joshua heard the noise of the
people as they shouted, he said to Moses,
"There is the noise of war in the camp."
32:18He said, "It isn't the voice of those who
shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those
who cry for being overcome; but the noise of
those who sing that I hear." 32:19It happened,
as soon as he came near to the camp, that he
saw the calf and the dancing: andMoses' anger
grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his
hands, and broke thembe neath the mountain.
32:20He took the calf which they had made, and
burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and
scattered it on the water, and made the children
of Israel drink of it.
32:21Moses said to Aaron, "What did these
people do to you, that you have brought a great
sin on them?"
32:22Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my
lord grow hot. You know the people, that they
are set on evil. 32:23For they said to me, 'Make
us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this
Moses, the man who brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, we don't know what has become
of him.' 32:24I said to them, 'Whoever has any
gold, let themtak e it off:' so they gave it tome;
and I threw it into the fire, and out came this
calf."
32:25When Moses saw that the people had
broken loose, (for Aaron had let themloose
for a derision among their enemies), 32:26then
Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said,
"Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!"
All the sons of Levi gathered themselves
together to him. 32:27He said to them, "Thus
says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man
put his sword on his thigh, and go back and
forth fromg ate to gate throughout the camp,
and every man kill his brother, and every man
his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"
32:28The sons of Levi did according to the word
of Moses: and there fell of the people that day
about three thousand men. 32:29Moses said,
"Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes,
every man against his son, and against his
brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing
this day."
32:30It happened on the next day, that Moses
said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin.
Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall
make atonement for your sin."
32:31Moses returned to Yahweh, and said,
"Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and
Exodus 32:32 75 Exodus 34:3
have made themselves gods of gold. 32:32Yet
now, if you will, forgive their sin and if not,
please blot me out of your book which you
have written."
32:33Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my
book. 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place
of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my
angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the
day when I punish, I will punish themf or their
sin." 32:35Yahweh struck the people, because
they made the calf, which Aaron made.
33:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up
fromhe re, you and the people that you have
brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land
of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' 33:2I
will send an angel before you; and I will drive
out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
33:3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for
I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are
a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the
way."
33:4When the people heard this evil news,
they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.
33:5Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children
of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I
were to go up into your midst for one moment,
I would consume you. Therefore now take off
your jewelry fromy ou, that I may know what
to do to you.'"
33:6The children of Israel stripped themselves
of their jewelry fromMoun t Horeb onward.
33:7Now Moses used to take the tent and to
pitch it outside the camp, far away from the
camp, and he called it "The Tent ofMeeting." It
happened that everyone who sought Yahweh
went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was
outside the camp. 33:8It happened that when
Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people
rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door,
and watched Moses, until he had gone into the
Tent. 33:9It happened, whenMoses entered into
the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended,
stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with
Moses. 33:10All the people saw the pillar of
cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all
the people rose up and worshiped, everyone
at their tent door. 33:11Yahweh spoke to Moses
face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He
turned again into the camp, but his servant
Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't
depart out of the Tent.
33:12Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell
me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let
me know whom you will send with me. Yet
you have said, 'I know you by name, and you
have also found favor in my sight.' 33:13Now
therefore, if I have found favor in your sight,
please show me now your ways, that I may
know you, so that I may find favor in your
sight: and consider that this nation is your
people."
33:14He said, "My presencewill gowith you,
and I will give you rest."
33:15He said to him, "If your presence
doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from
here. 33:16For how would people know that
I have found favor in your sight, I and your
people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that
we are separated, I and your people, fromal l
the peoplewho are on the surface of the earth?"
33:17Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this
thing also that you have spoken; for you have
found favor in my sight, and I know you by
name."
33:18He said, "Please show me your glory."
33:19He said, "I will make all my goodness
pass before you, and will proclaimt he name
of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to
whomI will be gracious, and will showmercy
on whomI will show mercy." 33:20He said,
"You cannot see my face, for man may not see
me and live." 33:21Yahweh also said, "Behold,
there is a place by me, and you shall stand on
the rock. 33:22It will happen, while my glory
passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the
rock, and will cover you with my hand until I
have passed by; 33:23then I will take away my
hand, and you will see my back; but my face
shall not be seen."
34:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone
tablets like the first: and I will write on the
tablets the words that were on the first tablets,
which you broke. 34:2Be ready by the morning,
and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai,
and present yourself there to me on the top of
the mountain. 34:3No one shall come up with
you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all
the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds
feed before that mountain."
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34:4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the
first; and Moses rose up early in the morning,
and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had
commanded him, and took in his hand two
stone tablets. 34:5Yahweh descended in the
cloud, and stood with himthe re, and proclaimed
the name of Yahweh. 34:6Yahweh
passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh!
Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness
and truth, 34:7keeping loving kindness for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience
and sin; and that will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, and on the children's children, on the
third and on the fourth generation."
34:8Moses hurried and bowed his head toward
the earth, and worshiped. 34:9He said,
"If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord,
please let the Lord go in the midst of us;
although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your
inheritance."
34:10He said, "Behold, I make a covenant:
before all your people I will do marvels, such
as have not been worked in all the earth, nor
in any nation; and all the people among which
you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for
it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
34:11Observe that which I command you this
day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite,
the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite. 34:12Be careful, lest
you make a covenant with the inhabitants of
the land where you are going, lest it be for a
snare in the midst of you: 34:13but you shall
break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and you shall cut down their
Asherim; 34:14for you shall worship no other
god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is
a jealous God. 34:15Don't make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play
the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to
their gods, and one call you and you eat of his
sacrifice; 34:16and you take of their daughters
to your sons, and their daughters play the
prostitute after their gods, and make your sons
play the prostitute after their gods. 34:17You
shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
34:18"You shall keep the feast of unleavened
bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed
in the month Abib; for in the month
Abib you came out from Egypt. 34:19All that
opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock
that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
34:20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem
with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it,
then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn
of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall
appear before me empty.
34:21"Six days you shall work, but on the
seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time
and in harvest you shall rest. 34:22You shall
observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits
of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the
year's end. 34:23Three times in the year all your
males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the
God of Israel. 34:24For I will drive out nations
before you and enlarge your borders; neither
shall any man desire your land when you go
up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three
times in the year.
34:25"You shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to
the morning. 34:26You shall bring the first of
the first fruits of your ground to the house of
Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young
goat in its mother's milk."
34:27Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these
words: for in accordance with these words
I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel."
34:28He was there with Yahweh forty days
and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor
drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words
of the covenant, the ten commandments.
34:29It happened, when Moses came down
fromM ount Sinai with the two tablets of the
testimony inMoses' hand, when he came down
fromthe mountain, that Moses didn't know
that the skin of his face shone by reason of
his speaking with him. 34:30When Aaron and
all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,
the skin of his face shone; and they were
afraid to come near him. 34:31Moses called
to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of
the congregation returned to him; and Moses
spoke to them. 34:32Afterward all the children
of Israel came near, and he gave them all of
the commandments that Yahweh had spoken
with himo n Mount Sinai. 34:33When Moses
was done speaking with them, he put a veil on
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his face. 34:34But when Moses went in before
Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil
off, until he came out; and he came out, and
spoke to the children of Israel that which he
was commanded. 34:35The children of Israel
saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face
shone: andMoses put the veil on his face again,
until he went in to speak with him.
35:1Moses assembled all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and said to them, "These
are the words which Yahweh has commanded,
that you should do them. 35:2'Six days shall
work be done, but on the seventh day there
shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn
rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it
shall be put to death. 35:3You shall kindle no
fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath
day.'"
35:4Moses spoke to all the congregation of
the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing
which Yahweh commanded, saying, 35:5'Take
fromamong you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever
is of a willing heart, let himb ring it,
Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass, 35:6blue,
purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, 35:7rams'
skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
35:8oil for the light, spices for the anointing
oil and for the sweet incense, 35:9onyx stones,
and stones to be set for the ephod and for the
breastplate.
35:10"'Let every wise-hearted man among
you come, and make all that Yahweh has
commanded: 35:11the tent, its outer covering,
its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars,
and its sockets; 35:12the ark, and its poles, the
mercy seat, the veil of the screen; 35:13the table
with its poles and all its vessels, and the show
bread; 35:14the lampstand also for the light,
with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the
light; 35:15and the altar of incensewith its poles,
the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen
for the door, at the door of the tent; 35:16the
altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass,
it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its
base; 35:17the hangings of the court, its pillars,
their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the
court; 35:18the pins of the tent, the pins of the
court, and their cords; 35:19the finely worked
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.'"
35:20All the congregation of the children of
Israel departed fromt he presence of Moses.
35:21They came, everyone whose heart stirred
himu p, and everyone whomhi s spirit made
willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the
work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its
service, and for the holy garments. 35:22They
came, both men and women, as many as
were willing-hearted, and brought brooches,
earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of
gold; even every man who offered an offering
of gold to Yahweh. 35:23Everyone, with whom
was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen,
goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow
hides, brought them. 35:24Everyone who did
offer an offering of silver and brass brought
Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom
was found acacia wood for any work of the
service, brought it. 35:25All the women who
were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun, the blue, the
purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. 35:26All
the women whose heart stirred them up in
wisdoms pun the goats' hair. 35:27The rulers
brought the onyx stones, and the stones to
be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate;
35:28and the spice, and the oil for the light, for
the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
35:29The children of Israel brought a freewill
offering to Yahweh; every man and woman,
whose heart made them willing to bring for all
thework, which Yahweh had commanded to be
made by Moses.
35:30Moses said to the children of Israel,
"Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah. 35:31He has filled himw ith the
Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in
knowledge, and in all manner ofworkmanship;
35:32and to make skillful works, to work in
gold, in silver, in brass, 35:33in cutting of stones
for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in
all kinds of skillful workmanship. 35:34He has
put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and
Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
Dan. 35:35He has filled themwi th wisdom of
heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of
the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of
the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet,
and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of
those who do any workmanship, and of those
who make skillful works.
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36:1"Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with
every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has
put wisdomand understanding to know how
to work all the work for the service of the
sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has
commanded."
36:2Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and
every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh
had put wisdom, even everyone whose
heart stirred himup to come to the work to do
it: 36:3and they received fromMoses all the offering
which the children of Israel had brought
for the work of the service of the sanctuary,
with which to make it. They brought yet to him
freewill offerings every morning. 36:4All the
wise men, who performed all the work of the
sanctuary, each came fromhis work which they
did. 36:5They spoke to Moses, saying, "The
people bring much more than enough for the
service of the work which Yahweh commanded
to make."
36:6Moses gave commandment, and they
caused it to be proclaimed throughout the
camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman
make anything else for the offering for the
sanctuary." So the people were restrained
fromb ringing. 36:7For the stuff they had was
sufficient for all the work to make it, and too
much.
36:8All the wise-hearted men among those
who did the work made the tent with ten
curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and
scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful
workman, they made them. 36:9The length of
each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the
breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the
curtains had one measure. 36:10He coupled
five curtains to one another, and the other five
curtains he coupled one to another. 36:11He
made loops of blue on the edge of the one
curtain fromthe edge in the coupling. Likewise
he made in the edge of the curtain that was
outmost in the second coupling. 36:12He made
fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty
loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the
second coupling. The loops were opposite one
to another. 36:13He made fifty clasps of gold,
and coupled the curtains one to another with
the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
36:14He made curtains of goats' hair for a
covering over the tent. He made them eleven
curtains. 36:15The length of each curtain was
thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of
each curtain. The eleven curtains had one
measure. 36:16He coupled five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
36:17He made fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and
he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain
which was outmost in the second coupling.
36:18He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the
tent together, that it might be a unit. 36:19He
made a covering for the tent of rams' skins
dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides
above.
36:20He made the boards for the tent of
acacia wood, standing up. 36:21Ten cubits was
the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the
breadth of each board. 36:22Each board had two
tenons, joined one to another. He made all the
boards of the tent this way. 36:23He made the
boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south
side southward. 36:24He 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.
36:25For the second side of the tent, on the north
side, he made twenty boards, 36:26and their
forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
36:27For the far part of the tent westward he
made six boards. 36:28He made two boards for
the corners of the tent in the far part. 36:29They
were double beneath, and in like manner they
were all the way to its top to one ring. He
did thus to both of themi n the two corners.
36:30There were eight boards, and their sockets
of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board
two sockets.
36:31He made bars of acacia wood; five for
the boards of the one side of the tent, 36:32and
five bars for the boards of the other side of
the tent, and five bars for the boards of the
tent for the hinder part westward. 36:33He
made the middle bar to pass through in the
midst of the boards from the one end to the
other. 36:34He overlaid the boards with gold,
and made their rings of gold for places for the
bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
36:35He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet,
and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made
it the work of a skillfulworkman. 36:36He made
four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them
with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast
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four sockets of silver for them. 36:37He made a
screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an
embroiderer; 36:38and the five pillars of it with
their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their
fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of
brass.
37:1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood.
Its length was two and a half cubits, and its
breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a
half its height. 37:2He overlaid itwith pure gold
inside and outside, and made a molding of gold
for it around it. 37:3He cast four rings of gold
for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one
side, and two rings on its other side. 37:4He
made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them
with gold. 37:5He put the poles into the rings
on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 37:6He
made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was
two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half
its breadth. 37:7He made two cherubim of gold.
He made them of beaten work, at the two ends
of the mercy seat; 37:8one cherub at the one
end, and one cherub at the other end. He made
the cherubimo f one piece with the mercy seat
at its two ends. 37:9The cherubims pread out
their wings on high, covering the mercy seat
with their wings, with their faces toward one
another. The faces of the cherubimwe re toward
the mercy seat.
37:10He made the table of acacia wood. Its
length was two cubits, and its breadth was a
cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
37:11He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a
gold molding around it. 37:12He made a border
of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden
molding on its border around it. 37:13He cast
four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the
four corners that were on its four feet. 37:14The
ringswere close by the border, the places for the
poles to carry the table. 37:15He made the poles
of acacia wood, and overlaid themwi th gold,
to carry the table. 37:16He made the vessels
which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons,
its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour
out, of pure gold.
37:17He made the lampstand of pure gold.
He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its
base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its
flowers were of one piece with it. 37:18There
were six branches going out of its sides: three
branches of the lampstand out of its one side,
and three branches of the lampstand out of its
other side: 37:19three cups made like almond
blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower,
and three cups made like almond blossoms in
the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for
the six branches going out of the lampstand.
37:20In the lampstand were four cups made
like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
37:21and a bud under two branches of one piece
with it, and a bud under two branches of one
piece with it, and a bud under two branches
of one piece with it, for the six branches going
out of it. 37:22Their buds and their branches
were of one piece with it. The whole thing was
one beaten work of pure gold. 37:23He made
its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff
dishes, of pure gold. 37:24He made it of a talent
of pure gold, with all its vessels.
37:25He made the altar of incense of acacia
wood. It was square: its length was a cubit,
and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two
cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
37:26He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its
sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold
molding around it. 37:27He made two golden
rings for it under its molding crown, on its
two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles
with which to carry it. 37:28He made the poles
of acacia wood, and overlaid themwi th gold.
37:29He made the holy anointing oil and the
pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the
perfumer.
38:1He made the altar of burnt offering of
acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five
cubits, its breadthwas five cubits, and its height
was three cubits. 38:2He made its horns on its
four corners. Its horns were of one piece with
it, and he overlaid it with brass. 38:3He made
all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels,
the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He
made all its vessels of brass. 38:4He made for
the altar a grating of a network of brass, under
the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway
up. 38:5He cast four rings for the four ends of
brass grating, to be places for the poles. 38:6He
made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid
themwi th brass. 38:7He put the poles into the
rings on the sides of the altar, with which to
carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
38:8He made the basin of brass, and its base
of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering
women who ministered at the door of the Tent
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of Meeting.
38:9He made the court: for the south side
southward the hangings of the court were of
fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; 38:10their
pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty,
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets were of silver. 38:11For the north side one
hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their
sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars,
and their fillets, of silver. 38:12For 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. 38:13For the east side
eastward fifty cubits. 38:14The hangings for
the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars
three, and their sockets three; 38:15and 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. 38:16All the hangings around the court
were of fine twined linen. 38:17The sockets for
the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the
pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the
overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all
the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
38:18The screen for the gate of the court was
the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits
was the length, and the height in the breadth
was five cubits, like to the hangings of the
court. 38:19Their pillars were four, and their
sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and
the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets,
of silver. 38:20All the pins of the tent, and
around the court, were of brass.
38:21This is the amount of material used for
the tent, even the Tent of the Testimony, as they
were counted, according to the commandment
of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by
the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the
priest. 38:22Bezalel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that
Yahweh commanded Moses. 38:23With him
was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman,
and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in
scarlet, and in fine linen.
38:24All the gold that was used for the work
in all the work of the sanctuary, even the
gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents,
and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary. 38:25The silver of those
who were num bered of the congregation was
one hundred talents, and one thousand seven
hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary: 38:26a beka a head, that is,
half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
for everyone who passed over to those who
were numbered, from twenty years old and
upward, for six hundred three thousand five
hundred fifty men. 38:27The one hundred
talents of silver were for casting the sockets of
the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one
hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a
talent for a socket. 38:28Of the one thousand
seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made
hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals,
and made fillets for them. 38:29The brass of the
offering was seventy talents, and two thousand
four hundred shekels. 38:30With this he made
the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the
vessels of the altar, 38:31the sockets around the
court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all
the pins of the tent, and all the pins around the
court.
39:1Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they
made finely worked garments, for ministering
in the holy place, and made the holy garments
for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:2He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen. 39:3They beat the
gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to
work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet,
and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful
workman. 39:4They made shoulder straps for
it, joined together. At the two ends it was
joined together. 39:5The skillfully woven band
that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was
of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of
blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as
Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:6They worked the onyx stones, enclosed
in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings
of a signet, according to the names of
the children of Israel. 39:7He put themon the
shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of
memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
39:8He made the breastplate, the work of a
skillful workman, like the work of the ephod;
of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen. 39:9It was square. They made the
breastplate double. Its length was a span, and
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its breadth a span, being double. 39:10They
set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby,
topaz, and beryl was the first row; 39:11and
the second row, a turquoise, a sapphires, and
an emerald; 39:12and the third row, a jacinth,
an agate, and an amethyst; 39:13and the fourth
row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They
were enclosed in gold settings. 39:14The stones
were according to the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names; like
the engravings of a signet, everyone according
to his name, for the twelve tribes. 39:15They
made on the breastplate chains like cords, of
braided work of pure gold. 39:16They made
two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and
put the two rings on the two ends of the
breastplate. 39:17They put the two braided
chains of gold in the two rings at the ends
of the breastplate. 39:18The other two ends of
the two braided chains they put on the two
settings, and put themo n the shoulder straps
of the ephod, in its front. 39:19They made two
rings of gold, and put themo n the two ends of
the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward
the side of the ephod inward. 39:20They made
two rings of gold, and put themon the two
shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its
front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully
woven band of the ephod. 39:21They bound
the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the
ephodwith a lace of blue, that it might be on the
skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that
the breastplate might not come loose from the
ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:22He made the robe of the ephod of
woven work, all of blue. 39:23The opening of
the robe in its midst was like the opening of a
coat of mail, with a binding around its opening,
that it should not be torn. 39:24They made on
the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue,
purple, scarlet, and twined linen. 39:25They
made bells of pure gold, and put the bells
between the pomegranates around the skirts of
the robe, between the pomegranates; 39:26a bell
and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate,
around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as
Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:27They made the coats of fine linen of
woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
39:28and the turban of fine linen, and the linen
headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches
of fine twined linen, 39:29and the sash of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
39:30They made the plate of the holy crown
of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the
engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO YAHWEH."
39:31They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it
on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
39:32Thus all the work of the tent of the Tent
of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel
did according to all that Yahweh commanded
Moses; so they did. 39:33They brought the
tent to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture,
its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its
sockets, 39:34the covering of rams' skins dyed
red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil
of the screen, 39:35the ark of the testimony
with its poles, the mercy seat, 39:36the table,
all its vessels, the show bread, 39:37the pure
lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be
set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the
light, 39:38the golden altar, the anointing oil, the
sweet incense, the screen for the door of the
Tent, 39:39the bronze altar, its grating of brass,
its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
39:40the hangings of the court, its pillars, its
sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its
cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service
of the tent, for the Tent of Meeting, 39:41the
finely worked 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. 39:42According to all that
Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel did all the work. 39:43Moses saw all the
work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh
had commanded, even so had they done it: and
Moses blessed them.
40:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 40:2"On
the first day of the first month you shall raise
up the tent of the Tent of Meeting. 40:3You
shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and
you shall screen the ark with the veil. 40:4You
shall bring in the table, and set in order the
things that are on it. You shall bring in the
lampstand, and light its lamps. 40:5You shall
set the golden altar for incense before the ark
of the testimony, and put the screen of the door
s39:11 or, lapis lazuli
Exodus 40:6 82 Leviticus 1:8
to the tent. 40:6You shall set the altar of burnt
offering before the door of the tent of the Tent
of Meeting. 40:7You shall set the basin between
the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put
water therein. 40:8You shall set up the court
around it, and hang up the screen of the gate
of the court. 40:9You shall take the anointing
oil, and anoint the tent, and all that is in it,
and shall make it holy, and all its furniture:
and it will be holy. 40:10You shall anoint the
altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and
sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most
holy. 40:11You shall anoint the basin and its
base, and sanctify it. 40:12You shall bring Aaron
and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
and shall wash themwi th water. 40:13You
shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you
shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may
minister to me in the priest's office. 40:14You
shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
40:15You shall anoint them, as you anointed
their father, that they may minister to me in the
priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them
for an everlasting priesthood throughout their
generations." 40:16Moses did so. According to
all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
40:17It happened in the first month in the
second year, on the first day of the month, that
the tent was raised up. 40:18Moses raised up
the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up its
boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its
pillars. 40:19He spread the covering over the
tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it,
as Yahweh commanded Moses. 40:20He took
and put the testimony into the ark, and set
the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat
above on the ark. 40:21He brought the ark into
the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and
screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. 40:22He put the table in
the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tent
northward, outside of the veil. 40:23He set the
bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. 40:24He put the lampstand
in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on
the side of the tent southward. 40:25He lit the
lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. 40:26He put the golden altar in the
Tent of Meeting before the veil; 40:27and he
burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. 40:28He put up the screen
of the door to the tent. 40:29He set the altar of
burnt offering at the door of the tent of the Tent
of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering
and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. 40:30He set the basin between the Tent
ofMeeting and the altar, and put water therein,
with which to wash. 40:31Moses, Aaron, and
his sons washed their hands and their feet
there. 40:32When they went into the Tent of
Meeting, and when they came near to the altar,
they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40:33He raised up the court around the tent and
the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the
court. So Moses finished the work.
40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of
Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the
tent. 40:35Moses wasn't able to enter into the
Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it,
and Yahweh's glory filled the tent. 40:36When
the cloud was taken up fromo ver the tent,
the children of Israel went onward, throughout
all their journeys; 40:37but if the cloud wasn't
taken up, then they didn't travel until the day
that it was taken up. 40:38For the cloud of
Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was
fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the
house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Leviticus
1:1Yahweh called toMoses, and spoke to him
out of the Tent of Meeting, saying, 1:2"Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When
anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh,
you shall offer your offering of the livestock,
fromt he herd and from the flock.
1:3"'If his offering is a burnt offering from
the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish.
He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting,
that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
1:4He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt
offering, and it shall be accepted for himto
make atonement for him. 1:5He shall kill the
bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests,
shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood
around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent
of Meeting. 1:6He shall flay the burnt offering,
and cut it into pieces. 1:7The sons of Aaron the
priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood
in order on the fire; 1:8and Aaron's sons, the
priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the
Leviticus 1:9 83 Leviticus 3:6
fat in order on thewood that is on the fire which
is on the altar; 1:9but its innards and its legs he
shall wash with water. The priest shall burn
the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an
offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh.
1:10"'If his offering is fromthe flock, fromthe
sheep, or fromthe goats, for a burnt offering,
he shall offer a male without blemish. 1:11He
shall kill it on the north side of the altar
before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall
sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 1:12He
shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its
fat. The priest shall lay themin order on the
wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
1:13but the innards and the legs he shall wash
with water. The priest shall offer the whole,
and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering,
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh.
1:14"'If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt
offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering
of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. 1:15The
priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off
its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood
shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
1:16and he shall take away its crop with its filth,
and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in
the place of the ashes. 1:17He shall tear it by its
wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest
shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on
the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made
by fire, of a pleasant arom a to Yahweh.
2:1"'When anyone offers an offering of a
meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be
of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and
put frankincense on it. 2:2He shall bring it to
Aaron's sons, the priests; and he shall take his
handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all
its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its
memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire,
of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 2:3That which
is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and
his sons'. It is a most holy thing of the offerings
of Yahweh made by fire.
2:4"'When you offer an offering of a meal
offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened
cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or
unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 2:5If your
offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it
shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with
oil. 2:6You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil
on it. It is a meal offering. 2:7If your offering is
a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of
fine flour with oil. 2:8You shall bring the meal
offering that is made of these things to Yahweh:
and it shall be presented to the priest, and he
shall bring it to the altar. 2:9The priest shall take
from the meal offering its memorial, and shall
burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of
a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 2:10That which is
left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his
sons'. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire.
2:11"'No meal offering,which you shall offer
to Yahweh, shall be made with yeast; for
you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as
an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 2:12As
an offering of firstfruits you shall offer them
to Yahweh: but they shall not ascend for a
pleasant aroma on the altar. 2:13Every offering
of your meal offering you shall season with
salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the
covenant of your God to be lacking fromy our
meal offering. With all your offerings you shall
offer salt.
2:14"'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits
to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering
of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with
fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. 2:15You shall
put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a
meal offering. 2:16The priest shall burn as its
memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of
its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an
offering made by fire to Yahweh.
3:1"'If his offering is a sacrifice of peace
offerings; if he offers it fromt he herd, whether
male or female, he shall offer it without blemish
before Yahweh. 3:2He shall lay his hand on
the head of his offering, and kill it at the door
of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron's sons, the
priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the
altar. 3:3He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace
offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh;
the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat
that is on the innards, 3:4and the two kidneys,
and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins,
and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he
shall take away. 3:5Aaron's sons shall burn it on
the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the
wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made
by fire, of a pleasant arom a to Yahweh.
3:6"'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace
offerings to Yahweh is fromthe flock; male or
Leviticus 3:7 84 Leviticus 4:23
female, he shall offer it without blemish. 3:7If
he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall
offer it before Yahweh; 3:8and he shall lay his
hand on the head of his offering, and kill it
before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron's sons
shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
3:9He shall offer fromthe sacrifice of peace
offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh;
its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close
to the backbone; and the fat that covers the
inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
3:10and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on
them, which is by the loins, and the cover on
the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
3:11The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the
food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
3:12"'If his offering is a goat, then he shall
offer it before Yahweh: 3:13and he shall lay his
hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of
Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle
its blood around on the altar. 3:14He shall offer
fromi t as his offering, an offeringmade by fire
to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and
all the fat that is on the innards, 3:15and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is
by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with
the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:16The priest
shall burn themo n the altar: it is the food of the
offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all
the fat is Yahweh's.
3:17"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout
your generations in all your dwellings, that
you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
4:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
4:2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the
things which Yahweh has commanded not to
be done, and does any one of them: 4:3if the
anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the
people, then let himo ffer for his sin, which he
has sinned, a young bull without blemish to
Yahweh for a sin offering. 4:4He shall bring
the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting
before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on
the head of the bull, and kill the bull before
Yahweh. 4:5The anointed priest shall take some
of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent
of Meeting. 4:6The priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood
seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of
the sanctuary. 4:7The priest shall put some of
the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet
incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of
Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the
blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt
offering, which is at the door of the Tent of
Meeting. 4:8He shall take all the fat of the bull
of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the
innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
4:9and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on
them, which is by the loins, and the cover on
the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away,
4:10as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of
peace offerings. The priest shall burn themon
the altar of burnt offering. 4:11The bull's skin,
all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs,
its innards, and its dung, 4:12even the whole
bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a
clean place, where the ashes are poured out,
and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes
are poured out it shall be burned.
4:13"'If the whole congregation of Israel sins,
and the thing is hidden fromthe eyes of the
assembly, and they have done any of the things
which Yahweh has commanded not to be done,
and are guilty; 4:14when the sin in which they
have sinned is known, then the assembly shall
offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it
before the Tent ofMeeting. 4:15The elders of the
congregation shall lay their hands on the head
of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be
killed before Yahweh. 4:16The anointed priest
shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of
Meeting: 4:17and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before
Yahweh, before the veil. 4:18He shall put some
of the blood on the horns of the altar which is
before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting;
and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at
the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is
at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 4:19All its fat
he shall take fromi t, and burn it on the altar.
4:20Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did
with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do
with this; and the priest shall make atonement
for them, and they shall be forgiven. 4:21He
shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and
burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin
offering for the assembly.
4:22"'When a ruler sins, and unwittingly
does any one of all the things which Yahweh
his God has commanded not to be done, and
is guilty; 4:23if his sin, in which he has sinned,
is made known to him, he shall bring as his
Leviticus 4:24 85 Leviticus 5:13
offering a goat, a male without blemish. 4:24He
shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and
kill it in the place where they kill the burnt
offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.
4:25The priest shall take some of the blood of
the sin offering with his finger, and put it on
the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall
pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the
altar of burnt offering. 4:26All its fat he shall
burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice
of peace offerings; and the priest shall make
atonement for him concerning his sin, and he
will be forgiven.
4:27"'If anyone of the common people sins
unwittingly, in doing any of the things which
Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and
is guilty; 4:28if his sin, which he has sinned, is
made known to him, then he shall bring for his
offering a goat, a female without blemish, for
his sin which he has sinned. 4:29He shall lay his
hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill
the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
4:30The priest shall take some of its blood with
his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of
burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall
pour out at the base of the altar. 4:31All its fat he
shall take away, like the fat is taken away from
off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the
priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make
atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
4:32"'If he brings a lamb as his offering for
a sin offering, he shall bring a female without
blemish. 4:33He shall lay his hand on the head
of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering
in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
4:34The priest shall take some of the blood of
the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the
horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the
rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base
of the altar. 4:35All its fat he shall take away,
like the fat of the lamb is taken away from
the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest
shall burn themo n the altar, on the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire; and the priest shall make
atonement for him concerning his sin that he
has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
5:1"'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice
of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he
has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then
he shall bear his iniquity.
5:2"'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing,
whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal,
or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the
carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is
hidden fromhi m, and he is unclean, then he
shall be guilty.
5:3"'Or if he touches the uncleanness of man,
whatever his uncleanness is with which he is
unclean, and it is hidden fromhi m; when he
knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
5:4"'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips
to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a
man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is
hidden fromhi m; when he knows of it, then
he shall be guilty of one of these. 5:5It shall
be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall
confess that in which he has sinned: 5:6and
he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh
for his sin which he has sinned, a female from
the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering;
and the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin.
5:7"'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall
bring his trespass offering for that in which
he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering. 5:8He shall bring
themto the priest, who shall first offer the
one which is for the sin offering, and wring
off its head fromi ts neck, but shall not sever
it completely. 5:9He shall sprinkle some of
the blood of the sin offering on 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. 5:10He shall offer the second for
a burnt offering, according to the ordinance;
and the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he
shall be forgiven.
5:11"'But if he can't afford two turtledoves,
or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his
offering for that in which he has sinned, the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin
offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall
he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin
offering. 5:12He shall bring it to the priest, and
the priest shall take his handful of it as the
memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin
offering. 5:13The priest shall make atonement
for himco ncerning his sin that he has sinned
in any of these things, and he will be forgiven;
and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal
Leviticus 5:14 86 Leviticus 6:24
offering.'"
5:14Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 5:15"If
anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly,
in the holy things of Yahweh; then he
shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a
ramw ithout blemish fromthe flock, according
to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
5:16He shall make restitution for that which he
has donewrong in the holy thing, and shall add
a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and
the priest shall make atonement for him with
the ramo f the trespass offering, and he will be
forgiven.
5:17"If anyone sins, and does any of the
things which Yahweh has commanded not to
be done; though he didn't know it, yet he is
guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 5:18He shall
bring a ramw ithout blemish fromof the flock,
according to your estimation, for a trespass
offering, to the priest; and the priest shall
make atonement for him concerning the thing
in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he
will be forgiven. 5:19It is a trespass offering. He
is certainly guilty before Yahweh."
6:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 6:2"If
anyone sins, and commits a trespass against
Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor
in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of
robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, 6:3or
has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely
therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these
things that a man does, sinning therein; 6:4then
it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he
shall restore that which he took by robbery, or
the thing which he has gotten by oppression,
or the deposit which was committed to him,
or the lost thing which he found, 6:5or any
thing aboutwhich he has sworn falsely; he shall
restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth
part more to it. To himto whomi t belongs
he shall give it, in the day of his being found
guilty. 6:6He shall bring his trespass offering to
Yahweh, a ramw ithout blemish fromthe flock,
according to your estimation, for a trespass
offering, to the priest. 6:7The priest shall make
atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will
be forgiven concerning whatever he does to
become guilty."
6:8Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6:9"Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt
offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all
night until the morning; and the fire of the
altar shall be kept burning on it. 6:10The priest
shall put on his linen garment, and he shall
put on his linen breeches upon his body; and
he shall remove the ashes from where the fire
has consumed the burnt offering on the altar,
and he shall put thembe side the altar. 6:11He
shall take off his garments, and put on other
garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp
to a clean place. 6:12The fire on the altar shall
be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and
the priest shall burn wood on it every morning:
and he shall lay the burnt offering in order
upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace
offerings. 6:13Fire shall be kept burning on the
altar continually; it shall not go out.
6:14"'This is the law of the meal offering:
the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh,
before the altar. 6:15He shall take fromthe re his
handful of the fine flour of the meal offering,
and of its oil, and all the frankincense which
is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on
the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial,
to Yahweh. 6:16That which is left of it Aaron
and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without
yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in
the court of the Tent of Meeting 6:17It shall
not be baked with yeast. I have given it as
their portion of my offerings made by fire. It
is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the
trespass offering. 6:18Every male among the
children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion
forever throughout your generations, fromt he
offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever
touches thems hall be holy.'"
6:19Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6:20"This is the offering of Aaron and of his
sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh 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
of it in the evening. 6:21It shall be made with
oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall
bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in
baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
6:22The anointed priest that will be in his place
fromam ong his sons shall offer it. By a statute
forever, it shall be wholly burnt to Yahweh.
6:23Every meal offering of a priest shall be
wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
6:24Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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6:25"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying,
'This is the law of the sin offering: in the
place where the burnt offering is killed, the
sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is
most holy. 6:26The priest who offers it for sin
shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in
the court of the Tent of Meeting. 6:27Whatever
shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there
is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you
shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a
holy place. 6:28But the earthen vessel in which
it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a
bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in
water. 6:29Every male among the priests shall
eat of it: it is most holy. 6:30No sin offering,
of which any of the blood is brought into the
Tent ofMeeting to make atonement in the Holy
Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with
fire.
7:1"'This is the law of the trespass offering.
It is most holy. 7:2In the place where they
kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass
offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around
on the altar. 7:3He shall offer all of its fat: the fat
tail, and the fat that covers the innards, 7:4and
the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them,
which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver,
with the kidneys, shall he take away; 7:5and
the priest shall burn themo n the altar for an
offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass
offering. 7:6Every male among the priests may
eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is
most holy.
7:7"'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass
offering; there is one law for them. The priest
who makes atonement with them shall have
it. 7:8The priest who offers any man's burnt
offering, even the priest shall have for himself
the skin of the burnt offering which he has
offered. 7:9Every meal offering that is baked in
the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and
on the griddle, shall be the priest's who offers it.
7:10Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry,
belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as
another.
7:11"'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.
7:12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he
shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving
unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened
wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed
with oil. 7:13With cakes of leavened bread
he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of
his peace offerings for thanksgiving. 7:14Of
it he shall offer one out of each offering for
a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the
priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace
offerings. 7:15The 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 is a
vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten
on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on
the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:
7:17but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice
on the third day shall be burned with fire. 7:18If
any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not
be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him
who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the
soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
7:19"'The flesh that touches any unclean
thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned
with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is
clean may eat it; 7:20but the soul who eats of
the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that
belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on
him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7:21When anyone touches any unclean thing,
the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal,
or any unclean abomination, and eats some
of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut
off fromh is people.'"
7:22Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
7:23"Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
'You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
7:24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the
fat of that which is torn of animals, may be
used for any other service, but you shall in no
way eat of it. 7:25For whoever eats the fat of the
animal, of which men offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall
be cut off fromh is people. 7:26You shall not eat
any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in
any of your dwellings. 7:27Whoever it is who
eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from
his people.'"
7:28Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
7:29"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'He
who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to
Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out
of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 7:30With
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his own hands he shall bring the offerings
of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the
fat with the breast, that the breast may be
waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.
7:31The priest shall burn the fat on the altar,
but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
7:32The right thigh you shall give to the priest
for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of
your peace offerings. 7:33He among the sons
of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace
offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh
for a portion. 7:34For the waved breast and the
heaved thigh I have taken fromthe children
of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, and have given themto Aaron the
priest and to his sons as their portion forever
fromt he children of Israel.'"
7:35This is the anointing portion of Aaron,
and the anointing portion of his sons, out of
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the
day when he presented themto minister to
Yahweh in the priest's office; 7:36which Yahweh
commanded to be given them of the children of
Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is
their portion forever throughout their generations.
7:37This is the law of the burnt offering,
of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and
of the trespass offering, and of the consecration,
and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; 7:38which
Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in
the day that he commanded the children of
Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the
wilderness of Sinai.
8:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 8:2"Take
Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments,
and the anointing oil, and the bull of
the sin offering, and the two rams, and the
basket of unleavened bread; 8:3and assemble
all the congregation at the door of the Tent of
Meeting."
8:4Moses did as Yahweh commanded him;
and the congregation was assembled at the
door of the Tent of Meeting. 8:5Moses said
to the congregation, "This is the thing which
Yahweh has commanded to be done." 8:6Moses
brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them
with water. 8:7He put the coat on him, tied the
sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put
the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully
woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened
it to himwi th it. 8:8He placed the breastplate
on him; and in the breastplate he put the
Urim and the Thummim. 8:9He set the turban
on his head; and on the turban, in front,
he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as
Yahweh commanded Moses. 8:10Moses took
the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
8:11He sprinkled it on the altar seven times,
and anointed the altar and all its vessels,
and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
8:12He poured some of the anointing oil on
Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify
him. 8:13Moses brought Aaron's sons, and
clothed themwi th coats, and tied sashes on
them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
8:14He brought the bull of the sin offering,
and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on
the head of the bull of the sin offering. 8:15He
killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put
it around on the horns of the altar with his
finger, and purified the altar, and poured out
the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified
it, to make atonement for it. 8:16He took all the
fat that was on the innards, and the cover of
the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat;
and Moses burned it on the altar. 8:17But the
bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he
burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh
commanded Moses. 8:18He presented the ram
of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands on the head of the ram. 8:19He
killed it; andMoses sprinkled the blood around
on the altar. 8:20He cut the ramin to its pieces;
and Moses burned the head, and the pieces,
and the fat. 8:21He washed the innards and the
legs with water; and Moses burned the whole
ramo n the altar. It was a burnt offering for
a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by
fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:22He presented the other ram, the ram of
consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands on the head of the ram. 8:23He killed
it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put
it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the
thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe
of his right foot. 8:24He brought Aaron's sons;
and Moses put some of the blood on the tip
of their right ear, and on the thumb of their
right hand, and on the great toe of their right
foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on
the altar. 8:25He took the fat, and the fat tail,
and all the fat that was on the innards, and the
Leviticus 8:26 89 Leviticus 9:22
cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and
their fat, and the right thigh; 8:26and out of
the basket of unleavened bread, that was before
Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one
cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed
themo n the fat, and on the right thigh. 8:27He
put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons'
hands, and waved themf or a wave offering
before Yahweh. 8:28Moses took themfr om their
hands, and burned themo n the altar on the
burnt offering. They were a consecration for
a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by
fire to Yahweh. 8:29Moses took the breast, and
waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It
was Moses' portion of the ramof consecration,
as Yahweh commanded Moses. 8:30Moses took
some of the anointing oil, and some of the
blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it
on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and
on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified
Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons'
garments with him.
8:31Moses said to 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.' 8:32What
remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall
burn with fire. 8:33You shall not go out fromthe
door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until
the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for
he shall consecrate you seven days. 8:34What
has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded
to do, to make atonement for you.
8:35You shall stay at the door of the Tent of
Meeting day and night seven days, and keep
Yahweh's command, that you don't die: for so
I am commanded." 8:36Aaron and his sons did
all the things which Yahweh commanded by
Moses.
9:1It happened on the eighth day, that Moses
called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of
Israel; 9:2and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf
fromt he herd for a sin offering, and a ram
for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer
themb efore Yahweh. 9:3You shall speak to the
children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for
a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a
year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
9:4and a bull and a ramf or peace offerings, to
sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering
mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to
you.'"
9:5They brought what Moses commanded
before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation
drew near and stood before Yahweh.
9:6Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh
commanded that you should do: and the glory
of Yahweh shall appear to you." 9:7Moses
said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and
offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering,
and make atonement for yourself, and for the
people; and offer the offering of the people,
and make atonement for them; as Yahweh
commanded."
9:8So Aaron drew near to the altar, and
killed the calf of the sin offering, which was
for himself. 9:9The sons of Aaron presented
the blood to him; and he dipped his finger
in the blood, and put it on the horns of the
altar, and poured out the blood at the base of
the altar: 9:10but the fat, and the kidneys, and
the cover fromt he liver of the sin offering, he
burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded
Moses. 9:11The flesh and the skin he burned
with fire outside the camp. 9:12He killed the
burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the
blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on
the altar. 9:13They delivered the burnt offering
to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he
burned themup on the altar. 9:14He washed the
innards and the legs, and burned themo n the
burnt offering on the altar. 9:15He presented the
people's offering, and took the goat of the sin
offering which was for the people, and killed
it, and offered it for sin, like the first. 9:16He
presented the burnt offering, and offered it
according to the ordinance. 9:17He presented
the meal offering, and filled his hand from
there, and burned it upon the altar, besides
the burnt offering of the morning. 9:18He also
killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of
peace offerings, which was for the people: and
Aaron's sons deliveredto him the blood, which
he sprinkled around on the altar, 9:19and the
fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and
that which covers the innards, and the kidneys,
and the cover of the liver: 9:20and they put
the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat
on the altar: 9:21and the breasts and the right
thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before
Yahweh, as Moses commanded. 9:22Aaron
lifted up his hands toward the people, and
blessed them; and he came down from offering
Leviticus 9:23 90 Leviticus 11:6
the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the
peace offerings.
9:23Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of
Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people:
and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the
people. 9:24There came forth fire from before
Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and
the fat upon the altar: and when all the people
saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
10:1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron,
each took his censer, and put fire in it, and
laid incense on it, and offered strange fire
before Yahweh, which he had not commanded
them. 10:2And fire came forth from before
Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died
before Yahweh.
10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what
Yahweh spoke of, saying,
'I will show myself holy to those who come
near me,
and before all the people I will be glori-
fied.'"
Aaron held his peace. 10:4Moses called
Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near,
carry your brothers fromb efore the sanctuary
out of the camp." 10:5So they drew near, and
carried themi n their coats out of the camp, as
Moses had said.
10:6Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and
to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your
heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that
you don't die, and that he not be angry with
all the congregation: but let your brothers,
the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning
which Yahweh has kindled. 10:7You shall not
go out fromt he door of the Tent ofMeeting, lest
you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on
you." They did according to theword of Moses.
10:8Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,
10:9"Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor
your sons with you, when you go into the Tent
of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a
statute forever throughout your generations:
10:10and that you are to make a distinction
between the holy and the common, and
between the unclean and the clean; 10:11and
that you are to teach the children of Israel all
the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them
by Moses."
10:12Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar
and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take
the meal offering that remains of the offerings
of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without
yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
10:13and you shall eat it in a holy place, because
it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for
so I am commanded. 10:14The waved breast
and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean
place, you, and your sons, and your daughters
with you: for they are given as your portion,
and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices
of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
10:15The heaved thigh and the waved breast
they shall bring with the offerings made by fire
of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before
Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons'
with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has
commanded."
10:16Moses diligently inquired about the
goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was
burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and
with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left,
saying, 10:17"Why haven't you eaten the sin
offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it
is most holy, and he has given it you to bear
the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement
for them before Yahweh? 10:18Behold, its
blood was not brought into the inner part of the
sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in
the sanctuary, as I commanded."
10:19Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this
day they have offered their sin offering and
their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such
things as these have happened to me: and if I
had eaten the sin offering today, would it have
been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?"
10:20When Moses heard that, it was pleasing
in his sight.
11:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying to them, 11:2"Speak to the children
of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things
which you may eat among all the animals that
are on the earth. 11:3Whatever parts the hoof,
and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among
the animals, that you may eat.
11:4"'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of
those that chew the cud, or of those who part
the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud
but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to
you. 11:5The coney, because he chews the cud
but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean
to you. 11:6The hare, because she chews the
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cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to
you. 11:7The pig, because he has a split hoof,
and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud,
he is unclean to you. 11:8Of their flesh you shall
not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch;
they are unclean to you.
11:9"'These you may eat of all that are in
the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the
waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you
may eat. 11:10All that don't have fins and scales
in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move
in the waters, and of all the living creatures
that are in the waters, they are an abomination
to you, 11:11and you detest them. You shall
not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their
carcasses. 11:12Whatever has no fins nor scales
in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
11:13"'These you shall detest among the
birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an
abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and
the black vulture, 11:14and the red kite, any
kind of black kite, 11:15any kind of raven,
11:16the horned owl, the screech owl, and the
gull, any kind of hawk, 11:17the little owl, the
cormorant, the great owl, 11:18the white owl,
the desert owl, the osprey, 11:19the stork, any
kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
11:20"'All flying insects that walk on all fours
are an abomination to you. 11:21Yet you may
eat these: of all winged creeping things that go
on all fours, which have legs above their feet,
with which to hop on the earth. 11:22Even of
these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind
of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind
of grasshopper. 11:23But all winged creeping
things which have four feet, are an abomination
to you.
11:24"'By these you will become unclean:
whoever touches the carcass of thems hall be
unclean until the evening. 11:25Whoever carries
any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the evening.
11:26"'Every animal which parts the hoof,
and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is
unclean to you. Everyone who touches them
shall be unclean. 11:27Whatever goes on its
paws, among all animals that go on all fours,
they are unclean to you. Whoever touches
their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
11:28He who carries their carcass shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They
are unclean to you.
11:29"'These are they which are unclean to
you among the creeping things that creep on
the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great
lizard, 11:30the gecko, and the monitor lizard,
the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
11:31These are they which are unclean to you
among all that creep. Whoever touches them
when they are dead, shall be unclean until
the evening. 11:32On whatever any of them
falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean;
whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or
skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which
any work is done, it must be put into water,
and it shall be unclean until the evening; then
it will be clean. 11:33Every earthen vessel, into
which any of themfa lls, all that is in it shall
be unclean, and you shall break it. 11:34All
food which may be eaten, that on which water
comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that
may be drunk in every such vessel shall be
unclean. 11:35Everything whereupon part of
their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether
oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in
pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean
to you. 11:36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern
in which water is a gathered shall be clean:
but that which touches their carcass shall be
unclean. 11:37If part of their carcass falls on any
sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
11:38But if water is put on the seed, and part of
their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
11:39"'If any animal, of which you may eat,
dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean
until the evening. 11:40He who eats of its
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the evening. He also who carries its
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the evening.
11:41"'Every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth is an abomination. It shall not be
eaten. 11:42Whatever goes on its belly, and
whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has
many feet, even all creeping things that creep
on the earth, themy ou shall not eat; for they
are an abomination. 11:43You shall not make
yourselves abominable with any creeping thing
that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves
unclean with them, that you should be defiled
thereby. 11:44For I amY ahweh your God.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for
I amh oly: neither shall you defile yourselves
with any kind of creeping thing that moves on
Leviticus 11:45 92 Leviticus 13:20
the earth. 11:45For I amY ahweh who brought
you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God.
You shall therefore be holy, for I amh oly.
11:46"'This is the law of the animal, and
of the bird, and of every living creature that
moves in the waters, and of every creature that
creeps on the earth, 11:47to make a distinction
between the unclean and the clean, and between
the living thing that may be eaten and
the living thing that may not be eaten.'"
12:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
12:2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a
woman conceives, and bears a male child, then
she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days
of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
12:3In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin
shall be circumcised. 12:4She shall continue in
the blood of purification thirty-three days. She
shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into
the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying
are completed. 12:5But if she bears a female
child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as
in her period; and she shall continue in the
blood of purification sixty-six days.
12:6"'When the days of her purification are
completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall
bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of
Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering,
and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a
sin offering: 12:7and he shall offer it before
Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and
she shall be cleansed fromt he fountain of her
blood.
"'This is the law for her who bears, whether
a male or a female. 12:8If she cannot afford
a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves,
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.'"
13:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying, 13:2"When a man shall have a rising in
his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and
it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of
leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the
priest, or to one of his sons, the priests: 13:3and
the priest shall examine the plague in the skin
of the body: and if the hair in the plague has
turned white, and the appearance of the plague
is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of
leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and
pronounce himun clean. 13:4If the bright spot is
white in the skin of his body, and its appearance
isn't deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn't
turned white, then the priest shall isolate the
infected person for seven days. 13:5The priest
shall examine him on the seventh day, and,
behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and
the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the
priest shall isolate himfor seven more days.
13:6The priest shall examine him again on the
seventh day; and behold, if the plague has
faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce himc lean. It
is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be
clean. 13:7But if the scab spreads on the skin,
after he has shown himself to the priest for his
cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest
again. 13:8The priest shall examine him; and
behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce himu nclean. It is
leprosy.
13:9"When the plague of leprosy is in a man,
then he shall be brought to the priest; 13:10and
the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there
is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned
the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the
rising, 13:11it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of
his body, and the priest shall pronounce him
unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is
unclean.
13:12"If the leprosy breaks out all over the
skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of
the infected person fromh is head even to his
feet, as far as it appears to the priest; 13:13then
the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if
the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall
pronounce himcl ean of the plague. It has all
turned white: he is clean. 13:14But whenever
raw flesh appears in him ,he shall be unclean.
13:15The priest shall examine the raw flesh,
and pronounce himu nclean: the raw flesh is
unclean. It is leprosy. 13:16Or if the raw flesh
turns again, and is changed to white, then he
shall com e to the priest; 13:17and the priest shall
examine him; and, behold, if the plague has
turned white, then the priest shall pronounce
himcl ean of the plague. He is clean.
13:18"When the body has a boil on its skin,
and it has healed, 13:19and 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; 13:20and the priest shall examine it; and
behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin,
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and its hair has turned white, then the priest
shall pronounce himu nclean. It is the plague of
leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. 13:21But
if the priest examines it, and behold, there are
no white hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the
skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him
seven days. 13:22If it spreads in the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce himu nclean. It is a
plague. 13:23But if the bright spot stays in its
place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar fromthe
boil; and the priest shall pronounce himcl ean.
13:24"Or when the body has a burn from
fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the
burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or
white, 13:25then the priest shall examine it; and
behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned
white, and its appearance is deeper than the
skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the
burning, and the priest shall pronounce him
unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 13:26But
if the priest examines it, and behold, there is
no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't
lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest
shall isolate himsev en days. 13:27The priest
shall examine him on the seventh day. If it
has spread in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce himun clean. It is the plague of
leprosy. 13:28If the bright spot stays in its place,
and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is
the swelling fromt he burn, and the priest shall
pronounce himcl ean; for it is the scar fromthe
burn.
13:29"When a man or woman has a plague
on the head or on the beard, 13:30then the priest
shall examine the plague; and behold, if its
appearance is deeper than the skin, and the
hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest
shall pronounce himu nclean: it is an itch, it
is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 13:31If
the priest examines the plague of itching, and
behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the
skin, and there is no black hair in it, then
the priest shall isolate himthe person infected
with itching seven days. 13:32On the seventh
day the priest shall examine the plague; and
behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is
no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of
the itch isn't deeper than the skin, 13:33then he
shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch;
and the priest shall shut himup who has the
itch seven more days. 13:34On the seventh day,
the priest shall examine the itch; and behold,
if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its
appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce himcl ean. He shall
wash his clothes, and be clean. 13:35But if
the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
13:36then the priest shall examine him; and
behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the
priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he
is unclean. 13:37But if in his eyes the itch is
arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the
itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall
pronounce himclea n.
13:38"When a man or a woman has bright
spots in the skin of the body, even white bright
spots; 13:39then the priest shall examine them;
and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of
their body are a dullwhite, it is a harmless rash,
it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
13:40"If a man's hair has fallen fromhis head,
he is bald. He is clean. 13:41If his hair has
fallen off fromthe front part of his head, he
is forehead bald. He is clean. 13:42But if there
is 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. 13:43Then
the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if
the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his
bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the
appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
13:44he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The
priest shall surely pronounce himun clean. His
plague is on his head.
13:45"The leper in whomthe plague is shall
wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head
shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip,
and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' 13:46All the
days in which the plague is in himh e shall be
unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone.
Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.
13:47"The garment also that the plague of
leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment,
or a linen garment; 13:48whether it is in warp,
or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a
skin, or in anything made of skin; 13:49if the
plague is greenish or reddish in the garment,
or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof,
or in anything made of skin; it is the plague
of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
13:50The priest shall examine the plague, and
isolate the plague seven days. 13:51He shall
examine the plague on the seventh day. If
the plague has spread in the garment, either
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in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin,
whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a
destructive mildew. It is unclean. 13:52He shall
burn the garment, whether the warp or the
woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin,
in which the plague is: for it is a destructive
mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
13:53"If the priest examines it, and behold,
the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either
in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of
skin; 13:54then the priest shall command that
they wash the thing in which the plague is, and
he shall isolate it seven more days. 13:55Then
the priest shall examine it, after the plague
is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn't
changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread,
it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It
is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is
inside or outside. 13:56If the priest looks, and
behold, the plague has faded after it is washed,
then he shall tear it out of the garment, or
out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of
the woof: 13:57and if it appears again in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof,
or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You
shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
13:58The garment, either the warp, or the woof,
or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall
wash, if the plague has departed fromthe m,
then it shall be washed the second time, and it
will be clean."
13:59This is the law of the plague of mildew
in a garment of wool or linen, either in the
warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to
pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
14:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2"This shall be the law of the leper in the
day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the
priest, 14:3and the priest shall go forth out of
the camp. The priest shall examine him, and
behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the
leper, 14:4then the priest shall command them
to take for himwho is to be cleansed two living
clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop. 14:5The priest shall command them
to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water. 14:6As for the living bird,
he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip themand
the living bird in the blood of the bird that
was killed over the running water. 14:7He shall
sprinkle on himwho is to be cleansed fromthe
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him
clean, and shall let the living bird go into the
open field.
14:8"He who is to be cleansed shall wash his
clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe
himself in water; and he shall be clean. After
that he shall come into the camp, but shall
dwell outside his tent seven days. 14:9It 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.
He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe
his body in water, then he shall be clean.
14:10"On the eighth day he shall take two
male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb
a year old without blemish, and three tenths
of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 14:11The
priest who cleanses hims hall set the man who
is to be cleansed, and those things, before
Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
14:12"The priest shall take one of the male
lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering,
with the log of oil, and wave themf or a wave
offering before Yahweh. 14:13He shall kill the
male 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 trespass offering. It is m ost
holy. 14:14The priest shall take som e of the
blood of the trespass offering, and the priest
shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him
who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right
foot. 14:15The priest shall take som e of the log
of oil, and pour it into the palmof his own
left hand. 14:16The priest shall dip his right
finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall
sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven
times before Yahweh. 14:17The priest shall put
some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand
on the tip of the right ear of himw ho is to be
cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand,
and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the
blood of the trespass offering. 14:18The rest of
the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put
on the head of himwho is to be cleansed, and
the priest shall make atonement for him before
Yahweh.
14:19"The priest shall offer the sin offering,
and make atonement for him who is to be
cleansed because of his uncleanness: and after
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ward he shall kill the burnt offering; 14:20and
the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the
meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make
atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21"If he is poor, and can't afford so much,
then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass
offering to be waved, to make atonement for
him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour
mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log
of oil; 14:22and two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the
one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt
offering.
14:23"On the eighth day he shall bring them
for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the
Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh. 14:24The priest
shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and
the log of oil, and the priest shallwave themf or
a wave offering before Yahweh. 14:25He shall
kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest
shall take some of the blood of the trespass
offering and put it on the tip of the right ear
of himwho is to be cleansed, and on the thumb
of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right
foot. 14:26The priest shall pour some of the oil
into the palmo f his own left hand; 14:27and the
priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some
of the oil that is in his left hand seven times
before Yahweh. 14:28Then the priest shall put
some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip
of the right ear of himw ho is to be cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand, and on
the big toe of his right foot, on the place of
the blood of the trespass offering. 14:29The rest
of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall
put on the head of himwho is to be cleansed,
to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
14:30He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of
the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,
14:31even such as he is able to afford, the one for
a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,
with the meal offering. The priest shall make
atonement for him who is to be cleansed before
Yahweh."
14:32This is the law for himin whom is the
plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the
sacrifice for his cleansing.
14:33Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying, 14:34"When you have come into the
land of Canaan, which I give to you for a
possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a
house in the land of your possession, 14:35then
he who owns the house shall come and tell the
priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some
sort of plague in the house.' 14:36The priest
shall command that they empty the house,
before the priest goes in to examine the plague,
that all that is in the house not be made unclean:
and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect
the house. 14:37He shall examine the plague;
and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the
house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish,
and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
14:38then the priest shall go out of the house to
the door of the house, and shut up the house
seven days. 14:39The priest shall com e again
on the seventh day, and look. If the plague
has spread in the walls of the house, 14:40then
the priest shall command that they take out
the stones in which is the plague, and cast
themi nto an unclean place outside of the city:
14:41and he shall cause the inside of the house
to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out
the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the
city into an unclean place. 14:42They shall take
other stones, and put themi n the place of those
stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall
plaster the house.
14:43"If the plague comes again, and breaks
out in the house, after he has taken out the
stones, and after he has scraped the house, and
after it was plastered; 14:44then the priest shall
come in and look; and behold, if the plague has
spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew
in the house. It is unclean. 14:45He shall break
down the house, its stones, and its timber, and
all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out
of the city into an unclean place.
14:46"Moreover he who goes into the house
while it is shut up shall be unclean until the
evening. 14:47He who lies down in the house
shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the
house shall wash his clothes.
14:48"If the priest shall come in, and examine
it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the
house, after the house was plastered, then the
priest shall pronounce the house clean, because
the plague is healed. 14:49To cleanse the house
he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop. 14:50He shall kill one of
the birds in an earthen vessel over running
water. 14:51He shall take the cedar wood, and
the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird,
and dip themin the blood of the slain bird,
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and in the running water, and sprinkle the
house seven times. 14:52He shall cleanse the
house with the blood of the bird, and with the
running water, with the living bird, with the
cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the
scarlet; 14:53but he shall let the living bird go
out of the city into the open field. So shall he
make atonement for the house; and it shall be
clean."
14:54This is the law for any plague of leprosy,
and for an itch, 14:55and for the destructive
mildew of a garment, and for a house, 14:56and
for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
14:57to teach when it is unclean, and when it is
clean.
This is the law of leprosy.
15:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying, 15:2"Speak to the children of Israel,
and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge
fromh is body, because of his discharge he is
unclean. 15:3This shall be his uncleanness in
his discharge: whether his body runs with his
discharge, or his body has stopped fromhi s
discharge, it is his uncleanness.
15:4"'Every bed whereon he who has the
discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything
he sits on shall be unclean. 15:5Whoever
touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. 15:6He who sits on anything whereon
the man who has the discharge sat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
15:7"'He who touches the body of himwho
has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening.
15:8"'If he who has the discharge spits on
himwho is clean, then he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
15:9"'Whatever saddle he who has the discharge
rides on shall be unclean. 15:10Whoever
touches anything that was under hims hall be
unclean until the evening. Hewho carries those
things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:11"'Whoever he who has the discharge
touches, without having rinsed his hands in
water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening.
15:12"'The earthen vessel, which he who has
the discharge touches, shall be broken; and
every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
15:13"'When he who has a discharge is
cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count
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"'On the eighth day he shall take two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come
before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, and give themto the priest: 15:15and
the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
The priest shall make atonement for him before
Yahweh for his discharge.
15:16"'If any man has an emission of semen,
then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be
unclean until the evening. 15:17Every garment,
and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be
washed with water, and be unclean until the
evening. 15:18If a man lies with a woman and
there is an emission of semen, they shall both
bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until
the evening.
15:19"'If a woman has a discharge, and her
discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in
her impurity seven days: and whoever touches
her shall be unclean until the evening.
15:20"'Everything that she lies on in her
impurity shall be unclean. Everything also
that she sits on shall be unclean. 15:21Whoever
touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the evening. 15:22Whoever touches anything
that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. 15:23If it is on the bed, or on anything
whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall
be unclean until the evening.
15:24"'If any man lies with her, and her
monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean
seven days; and every bedwhereon he lies shall
be unclean.
15:25"'If a woman has a discharge of her
blood many days not in the time of her period,
or if she has a discharge beyond the time of
her period; all the days of the discharge of
her uncleanness shall be as in the days of
her period: she is unclean. 15:26Every bed
whereon she lies all the days of her discharge
shall be to her as the bed of her period: and
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everything whereon she sits shall be unclean,
as the uncleanness of her period. 15:27Whoever
touches these things shall be unclean, and shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
15:28"'But if she is cleansed of her discharge,
then she shall count to herself seven days, and
after that she shall be clean. 15:29On the eighth
day she shall take two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, and bring themto the priest, to
the door of the Tent of Meeting. 15:30The 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 Yahweh for the
uncleanness of her discharge.
15:31"'Thus you shall separate the children of
Israel fromthe ir uncleanness, so they will not
die in their uncleanness, when they defile my
tabernacle that is in their midst.'"
15:32This is the law of himwho has a discharge,
and of himwho has an emission of
semen, so that he is unclean thereby; 15:33and
of her who has her period, and of a man or
woman who has a discharge, and of him who
lies with her who is unclean.
16:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death
of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near
before Yahweh, and died; 16:2and Yahweh said
toMoses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come
at all times into the Most Holy Place within the
veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark;
lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the
mercy seat.
16:3"Herewith shall Aaron come into the
sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering,
and a ramfor a burnt offering. 16:4He shall
put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have
the linen breeches on his body, and shall put
on the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with
the linen turban. They are the holy garments.
He shall bathe his body in water, and put them
on. 16:5He shall take fromthe congregation of
the children of Israel two male goats for a sin
offering, and one ramf or a burnt offering.
16:6"Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin
offering, which is for himself, and make atonement
for himself and for his house. 16:7He shall
take the two goats, and set thembe fore Yahweh
at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 16:8Aaron
shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for
Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
16:9Aaron shall present the goat on which the
lot fell for Yahweh, and offer himfor a sin
offering. 16:10But the goat, on which the lot
fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive
before Yahweh, to make atonement for him,
to send himaway for the scapegoat into the
wilderness.
16:11"Aaron shall present the bull of the sin
offering, which is for himself, and shall make
atonement for himself and for his house, and
shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for
himself. 16:12He shall take a censer full of coals
of fire fromoff the altar before Yahweh, and two
handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and
bring it within the veil: 16:13and he shall put
the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the
cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat
that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.
16:14He shall take some of the blood of the bull,
and sprinkle itwith his finger on the mercy seat
on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall
sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven
times.
16:15"Then he shall 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 bull, and
sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the
mercy seat: 16:16and he shall make atonement
for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness
of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions, even all their sins; and so he
shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells
with themi n the midst of their uncleanness.
16:17There shall be no one in the Tent ofMeeting
when he enters to make atonement in the
Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made
atonement for himself and for his household,
and for all the assembly of Israel.
16:18"He shall go out to the altar that is
before Yahweh and make atonement for it,
and shall take some of the bull's blood, and
some of the goat's blood, and put it around on
the horns of the altar. 16:19He shall sprinkle
some of the blood on it with his finger seven
times, and cleanse it, and make it holy fromthe
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
16:20"When he has made an end of atoning
for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the
altar, he shall present the live goat. 16:21Aaron
shall lay both his hands on the head of the live
goat, and confess over himal l the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their transgres
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sions, even all their sins; and he shall put them
on the head of the goat, and shall send him
away into the wilderness by the hand of a man
who is in readiness. 16:22The goat shall carry
all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land,
and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
16:23"Aaron shall come into the Tent of
Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments,
which he put on when he went into the Holy
Place, and shall leave themthe re. 16:24Then he
shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and
put on his garments, and come out and offer
his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the
people, and make atonement for himself and
for the people. 16:25The fat of the sin offering
he shall burn on the altar.
16:26"He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat
shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh
in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp. 16:27The bull for the sin offering,
and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood
was brought in to make atonement in the Holy
Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp;
and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and
their dung with fire. 16:28He who burns them
shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the
camp.
16:29"It shall be a statute to you forever: in
the seventh month, on the tenth day of the
month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall
do no manner of work, the native-born, or
the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
you: 16:30for on this day shall atonement be
made for you, to cleanse you; from all your
sins you shall be clean before Yahweh. 16:31It
is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you
shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
16:32The priest, who is anointed and who is
consecrated to be priest in his father's place,
shall make the atonement, and shall put on
the linen garments, even the holy garments.
16:33Then he shall make atonement for the Holy
Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the
Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall
make atonement for the priests and for all the
people of the assembly.
16:34"This shall be an everlasting statute for
you, to make atonement for the children of
Israel once in the year because of all their sins."
It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
17:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
17:2"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to
all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This
is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,
17:3Whatever man there is of the house of Israel,
who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp,
or who kills it outside the camp, 17:4and hasn't
brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the
tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed
to that man. He has shed blood; and that man
shall be cut off fromamong his people. 17:5This
is to the end that the children of Israel may
bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in
the open field, that they may bring them to
Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to
the priest, and sacrifice themf or sacrifices of
peace offerings to Yahweh. 17:6The priest shall
sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the
door of the Tent ofMeeting, and burn the fat for
a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 17:7They shall no
more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols,
after which they play the prostitute. This shall
be a statute forever to themthro ughout their
generations.'
17:8"You shall say to them, 'Any man there
is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who
live as foreigners among them, who offers a
burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9and doesn't bring
it to the door of the Tent ofMeeting, to sacrifice
it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off from his
people.
17:10"'Any man of the house of Israel, or
of the strangers who live as foreigners among
them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my
face against that soul who eats blood, and will
cut himof f from among his people. 17:11For
the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have
given it to you on the altar to make atonement
for your souls: for it is the blood that makes
atonement by reason of the life. 17:12Therefore
I have said to the children of Israel, "No person
among you shall eat blood, neither shall any
strangerwho lives as a foreigner among you eat
blood."
17:13"'Whatever man there is of the children
of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners
among them, who takes in hunting any
animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour
out its blood, and cover it with dust. 17:14For as
to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life:
therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You
shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for
Leviticus 17:15 99 Leviticus 19:2
the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it
shall be cut off."
17:15"'Every person that eats what dies of
itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether
he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the evening: then he shall be
clean. 17:16But if he doesn't wash them, or
bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
18:1Yahweh said to Moses, 18:2"Speak to the
children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am
Yahweh your God. 18:3You shall not do as
they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived:
and you shall not do as they do in the land
of Canaan, where I ambr inging you; neither
shall you walk in their statutes. 18:4You shall do
my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes,
and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.
18:5You shall therefore keepmy statutes and my
ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in
them: I am Yahweh.
18:6"'None of you shall approach anyone
who are his close relatives, to uncover their
nakedness: I amYahweh.
18:7"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of
your father, nor the nakedness of your mother:
she is your mother. You shall not uncover her
nakedness.
18:8"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of
your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
18:9"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your sister, the daughter of your father, or
the daughter of your mother, whether born at
home, or born abroad.
18:10"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's
daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is
your own nakedness.
18:11"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by
your father, since she is your sister.
18:12"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your father's sister: she is your father's near
kinswoman.
18:13"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's
near kinswoman.
18:14"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your father's brother, you shall not approach
his wife: she is your aunt.
18:15"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your daughter-in-law: she is your son'swife.
You shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:16"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your brother's wife: it is your brother's
nakedness.
18:17"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of a woman and her daughter. You shall
not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are
near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18:18"'You shall not take a wife to her sister,
to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while
her sister is yet alive.
18:19"'You shall not approach a woman to
uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure
by her uncleanness.
18:20"'You shall not lie carnally with your
neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
18:21"'You shall not give any of your children
to sacrifice toMolech; neither shall you profane
the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
18:22"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a
woman. That is detestable.
18:23"'You shall not lie with any animal to
defile yourselfwith it; neither shall any woman
give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it
is a perversion.
18:24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these
things: for in all these the nations which I am
casting out before you were defiled. 18:25The
land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity,
and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
18:26You therefore shall keep my statutes and
my ordinances, and shall not do any of these
abominations; neither the native-born, nor the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
18:27(for all these abominations have the men
of the land done, that were before you, and
the land became defiled); 18:28that the land not
vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it
vomited out the nation that was before you.
18:29"'For whoever shall do any of these
abominations, even the souls that do them
shall be cut off froma mong their people.
18:30Therefore you shall keep my requirements,
that you do not practice any of these abominable
customs, which were practiced before
you, and that you do not defile yourselves with
them: I am Yahweh your God.'"
19:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
19:2"Speak to all the congregation of the
Leviticus 19:3 100 Leviticus 19:31
children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be
holy; for I Yahweh your God amh oly.
19:3"'Each one of you shall respect his
mother and his father. You shall keep my
Sabbaths. I amYahweh your God.
19:4"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten
gods for yourselves. I amYahweh your God.
19:5"'When you offer a sacrifice of peace
offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that
you may be accepted. 19:6It shall be eaten the
same day you offer it, and on the next day: and
if anything remains until the third day, it shall
be burned with fire. 19:7If it is eaten at all on
the third day, it is an abomination. It will not
be accepted; 19:8but everyone who eats it shall
bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the
holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut
off fromh is people.
19:9"'When you reap the harvest of your
land, you shall not wholly reap the corners
of your field, neither shall you gather the
gleanings of your harvest. 19:10You shall not
glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather
the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall
leave themfor the poor and for the foreigner.
I amYahweh yourGod.
19:11"'You shall not steal; neither shall you
deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
19:12"'You shall not swear by my name
falsely, and profane the name of your God. I
amYahweh.
19:13"'You shall not oppress your neighbor,
nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant
shall not remain with you all night until the
morning.
19:14"'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a
stumbling block before the blind; but you shall
fear your God. I amYahweh.
19:15"'You shall do no injustice in judgment:
you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show
favoritismto the great; but you shall judge your
neighbor in righteousness.
19:16"'You shall not go up and down as a
slanderer among your people; neither shall you
stand against the lifea of your neighbor. I am
Yahweh.
19:17"'You shall not hate your brother in
your heart. You shall surely rebuke your
neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
19:18"'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear
any grudge against the children of your people;
but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I
amYahweh.
19:19"'You shall keep my statutes.
"'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of
animals.
"'you shall not sow your field with two
kinds of seed;
"'neither shall there come upon on you a
garment made of two kinds of material.
19:20"'If a man lies carnally with a woman
who is a slave girl, pledged to be m arried
to another man, and not ransomed, or given
her freedom; they shall be punished. They
shall not be put to death, because she was not
free. 19:21He shall bring his trespass offering
to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
even a ramfor a trespass offering. 19:22The
priest shall make atonement for him with the
ramo f the trespass offering before Yahweh for
his sin which he has committed: and the sin
which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
19:23"'When you come into the land, and
have planted all kinds of trees for food, then
you shall count their fruit as forbidden.b Three
years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall
not be eaten. 19:24But in the fourth year all its
fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
19:25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that
it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh
your God.
19:26"'You shall not eat any meat with the
blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments,
nor practice sorcery.
19:27"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides
of your heads, neither shall you clip off the
edge of your beard.
19:28"'You shall not make any cuttings in
your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks
on you. I amYahweh.
19:29"'Don't profane your daughter, to make
her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution,
and the land become full of wickedness.
19:30"'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence
my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
19:31"'Don't turn to those who are mediums,
nor to the wizards. Don't seek themo ut, to be
defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.
a19:16 literally, "blood"
b19:23 literally, "uncircumcised"
Leviticus 19:32 101 Leviticus 20:23
19:32"'You shall rise up before the gray head,
and honor the face of an old man, and you shall
fear your God. I amYahweh.
19:33"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with
you in your land, you shall not do himw rong.
19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with
you shall be to you as the native-born among
you, and you shall love himas yourself; for you
lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am
Yahweh your God.
19:35"'You shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or
of quantity. 19:36You shall have just balances,
just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am
Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt. 19:37You shall observe all my
statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them.
I amYahweh.'"
20:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
20:2"Moreover, you shall tell the children of
Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of
the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel,
who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall
surely be put to death. The people of the land
shall stone himwi th stones. 20:3I also will set
my face against that person, and will cut him
off fromamong his people because he has given
of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary,
and to profane my holy name. 20:4If the people
of the land all hide their eyes fromthat person,
when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't
put himto death; 20:5then I will set my face
against that man, and against his family, and
will cut himof f, and all who play the prostitute
after him, to play the prostitute with Molech,
fromamong their people.
20:6"'The person that turns to those who
are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the
prostitute after them, I will even set my face
against that person, and will cut himo ff from
among his people.
20:7"'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be
holy; for I amYahweh your God. 20:8You shall
keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh
who sanctifies you.
20:9"'For everyone who curses his father or
his mother shall surely be put to death: he has
cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall
be upon him.
20:10"'The man who commits adultery with
another man's wife, even he who commits
adultery with his neighbor'swife, the adulterer
and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
20:11The manwho lieswith his father'swife has
uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them
shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be
upon them.
20:12"'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law,
both of thems hall surely be put to death: they
have committed a perversion; their blood shall
be upon them.
20:13"'If a man lies with a male, as with
a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination: they shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon them.
20:14"'If a man takes a wife and her mother,
it is wickedness: they shall be burned with
fire, both he and they; that there may be no
wickedness among you.
20:15"'If a man lies with an animal, he shall
surely be put to death; and you shall kill the
animal.
20:16"'If a woman approaches any animal,
and lies downwith it, you shall kill the woman,
and the animal: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:17"'If a man takes his sister, his father's
daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees
her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it
is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in
the sight of the children of their people: he has
uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear
his iniquity.
20:18"'If a man lieswith a woman having her
monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness;
he has made naked her fountain, and she has
uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both
of thems hall be cut off from among their
people.
20:19"'You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your mother's sister, nor of your father's
sister; for he has made naked his close relative:
they shall bear their iniquity. 20:20If a man
lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered
his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin;
they shall die childless.
20:21"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is
an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's
nakedness; they shall be childless.
20:22"'You shall therefore keep all my
statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them;
that the land, where I ambr inging you to dwell,
may not vomit you out. 20:23You shall not walk
in the customs of the nation, which I amcasting
Leviticus 20:24 102 Leviticus 22:4
out before you: for they did all these things,
and therefore I abhorred them. 20:24But I have
said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I
will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing
with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God,
who has separated you fromthe peoples.
20:25"'You shall therefore make a distinction
between the clean animal and the unclean, and
between the unclean fowl and the clean: and
you shall not make yourselves abominable by
animal, or by bird, or by anything with which
the ground teems, which I have separated from
you as unclean for you. 20:26You shall be holy
to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set
you apart fromt he peoples, that you should be
mine.
20:27"'A man or a woman that is a medium,
or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they
shall stone themwi th stones; their blood shall
be upon them.'"
21:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the
priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead
among his people; 21:2except for his relatives
that are near to him: for his mother, for his
father, for his son, for his daughter, for his
brother, 21:3and for his virgin sister who is
near to him, who has had no husband; for her
he may defile himself. 21:4He shall not defile
himself, being a chief man among his people,
to profane himself.
21:5"'They shall not shave their heads, neither
shall they shave off the corners of their
beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
21:6They shall be holy to their God, and not
profane the name of their God; for they offer
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread
of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
21:7"'They shall not marry a woman who is a
prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry
a woman divorced from her husband: for he
is holy to his God. 21:8You shall sanctify him
therefore; for he offers the bread of your God:
he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who
sanctify you, amho ly.
21:9"'The daughter of any priest, if she
profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she
profanes her father: she shall be burned with
fire.
21:10"'He who is the high priest among his
brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is
poured, and that is consecrated to put on the
garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang
loose, nor tear his clothes; 21:11neither shall
he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
for his father, or for his mother; 21:12neither
shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane
the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am
Yahweh.
21:13"'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
21:14A widow, or one divorced, or a wom an
who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he
shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people
shall he take as a wife. 21:15He shall not profane
his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh
who sanctifies him.'"
21:16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
21:17"Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed
throughout their generations who has a
blemish, may approach to offer the bread of
his God. 21:18For whatever man he is that has
a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man,
or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any
deformity, 21:19or a man who has an injured
foot, or an injured hand, 21:20or hunchbacked,
or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his
eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has
damaged testicles; 21:21no man of the seed of
Aaron the priest,who has a blemish, shall come
near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire. Since has a blemish, he shall not come near
to offer the bread of his God. 21:22He shall eat
the bread of his God, both of the most holy,
and of the holy. 21:23He shall not come near
to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because
he has a blemish; that he may not profane my
sanctuaries, for I amY ahweh who sanctifies
them.'"
21:24So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his
sons, and to all the children of Israel.
22:1Yahweh spoke toMoses, saying, 22:2"Tell
Aaron and his sons to separate themselves
fromthe holy things of the children of Israel,
which they make holy to me, and that they not
profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
22:3"Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed
throughout your generations approaches the
holy things, which the children of Israel make
holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on
him, that soul shall be cut off from before me.
I amYahweh.
22:4"'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a
leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of
Leviticus 22:5 103 Leviticus 23:5
the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever
touches anything that is unclean by the dead,
or a man whose seed goes from him; 22:5or
whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby
he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he
may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness
he has; 22:6the person that touches any such
shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not
eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body
in water. 22:7When the sun is down, he shall
be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy
things, because it is his bread. 22:8That which
dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not
eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
22:9"'They shall therefore follow my requirements,
lest they bear sin for it, and die therein,
if they profane it. I amY ahweh who sanctifies
them.
22:10"'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing:
a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired
servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 22:11But
if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money,
he shall eat of it; and such as are born in
his house, they shall eat of his bread. 22:12If
a priest's daughter is married to an outsider,
she shall not eat of the heave offering of the
holy things. 22:13But if a priest's daughter is
a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and
has returned to her father's house, as in her
youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but
no stranger shall eat any of it.
22:14"'If a man eats something holy unwittingly,
then he shall add the fifth part of its
value to it, and shall give the holy thing to
the priest. 22:15The priests shall not profane
the holy things of the children of Israel, which
they offer to Yahweh, 22:16and so cause themto
bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they
eat their holy things: for I amY ahweh who
sanctifies them.'"
22:17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
22:18"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and
to all the children of Israel, and say to them,
'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the
foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering,
whether it be any of their vows, or any of
their freewill offerings, which they offer to
Yahweh for a burnt offering; 22:19that you may
be accepted, you shall offer a male without
blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the
goats. 22:20But whatever has a blemish, that
you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable
for you. 22:21Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace
offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for
a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it
shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no
blemish therein. 22:22Blind, injured, maimed,
having a wart, festering, or having a running
sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor
make an offering by fire of them on the altar
to Yahweh. 22:23Either a bull or a lamb that
has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that
you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a
vow it shall not be accepted. 22:24That which
has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or
cut, you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall
you do thus in your land. 22:25Neither shall
you offer the bread of your God fromthe hand
of a foreigner of any of these; because their
corruption is in them. There is a blemish in
them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"
22:26Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
22:27"When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born,
then it shall remain seven days with its mother;
and fromthe eighth day and thenceforth it shall
be accepted for the offering of an offering made
by fire to Yahweh. 22:28Whether it is a cow or
ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in
one day.
22:29"When you sacrifice a sacrifice of
thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it
so that you may be accepted. 22:30It shall be
eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of
it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
22:31"Therefore you shall keep my commandments,
and do them. I am Yahweh.
22:32You shall not profane my holy name, but I
will be made holy among the children of Israel.
I amY ahweh who makes you holy, 22:33who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God. I amYahweh."
23:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
23:2"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
them, 'The set feasts of Yahweh, which you
shall proclaimto be holy convocations, even
these are my set feasts.
23:3"'Six days shall work be done: but on the
seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy
convocation; you shall do no manner of work.
It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
23:4"'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even
holy convocations, which you shall proclaimi n
their appointed season. 23:5In the first month,
on the fourteenth day of the month in the
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evening, is Yahweh's Passover. 23:6On the
fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread. 23:7In the first day
you shall have a holy convocation. You shall
do no regular work. 23:8But you shall offer an
offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In
the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall
do no regular work.'"
23:9Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
23:10"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
them, 'When you have come into the land
which I give to you, and shall reap its the
harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the
first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 23:11and
he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be
accepted for you. On the next day after the
Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 23:12On the day
when youwave the sheaf, you shall offer a male
lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt
offering to Yahweh. 23:13The meal offeringwith
it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine
flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire
to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink
offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part
of a hin. 23:14You shall eat neither bread, nor
roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same
day, until you have brought the offering of your
God. This is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
23:15"'You shall count fromthe next day after
the Sabbath, fromthe day that you brought
the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths
shall be completed: 23:16even to the next day
after the seventh Sabbath you shall number
fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal
offering to Yahweh. 23:17You shall bring out of
your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave
offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah
of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast,
for first fruits to Yahweh. 23:18You shall present
with the bread seven lambs without blemish a
year old, one young bull, and two rams. They
shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their
meal offering, and their drink offerings, even
an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to
Yahweh. 23:19You shall offer one male goat for
a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old
for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 23:20The priest
shallwave themwi th the bread of the first fruits
for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the
two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for
the priest. 23:21You shall make proclamation on
the same day: there shall be a holy convocation
to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a
statute forever in all your dwellings throughout
your generations.
23:22"'When you reap the harvest of your
land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners
of your field, neither shall you gather the
gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them
for the poor, and for the foreigner. I amYahweh
your God.'"
23:23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
23:24"Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
'In the seventh month, on the first day of
the month, shall be a solemn rest to you,
a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy
convocation. 23:25You shall do no regularwork;
and you shall offer an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.'"
23:26Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
23:27"However on the tenth day of this seventh
month is the day of atonement: it shall be a
holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict
yourselves; and you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh. 23:28You shall do no
manner of work in that same day; for it is a
day of atonement, to make atonement for you
before Yahweh your God. 23:29For whoever it
is who shall not deny himself in that same day;
shall be cut off fromh is people. 23:30Whoever
it is who does any manner of work in that same
day, that person I will destroy fromam ong
his people. 23:31You shall do no manner of
work: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. 23:32It shall
be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you
shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the
month at evening, from evening to evening,
you shall keep your Sabbath."
23:33Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
23:34"Speak to the children of Israel, and
say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh
month is the feast of tents for seven days to
Yahweh. 23:35On the first day shall be a holy
convocation: you shall do no regular work.
23:36Seven days you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day
shall be a holy convocation to you; and you
shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular
work.
23:37"'These are the appointed feasts of Yah
Leviticus 23:38 105 Leviticus 25:5
weh, which you shall proclaimto be holy
convocations, to offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each
on its own day; 23:38besides the Sabbaths of
Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides
all your vows, and besides all your freewill
offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
23:39"'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh
month, when you have gathered in the fruits
of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh
seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn
rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn
rest. 23:40You shall take on the first day the fruit
of goodly trees, branches of palmtre es, and
boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook;
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God
seven days. 23:41You shall keep it a feast to
Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute
forever throughout your generations; you shall
keep it in the seventh month. 23:42You shall
dwell in booths seven days. All who are nativeborn
in Israel shall dwell in booths, 23:43that
your generations may know that I made the
children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I
brought themo ut of the land of Egypt. I am
Yahweh your God.'"
23:44Moses declared to the children of Israel
the appointed feasts of Yahweh.
24:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
24:2"Command the children of Israel, that they
bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light,
to cause a lamp to burn continually. 24:3Outside
of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of
Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from
evening to morning before Yahweh continually:
it shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations. 24:4He shall keep in order the
lamps on the pure gold lampstand before
Yahweh continually.
24:5"You shall take fine flour, and bake
twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah
shall be in one cake. 24:6You shall set them
in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold
table before Yahweh. 24:7You shall put pure
frankincense on each row, that it may be to the
bread for a memorial, even an offering made
by fire to Yahweh. 24:8Every Sabbath day he
shall set it in order before Yahweh continually.
It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an
everlasting covenant. 24:9It shall be for Aaron
and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy
place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings
of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
24:10The son of an Israelite woman, whose
father was an Egyptian, went out among the
children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite
woman and a man of Israel strove together in
the camp. 24:11The son of the Israelite woman
blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they
brought him to Moses. His mother's name was
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe
of Dan. 24:12They put himin custody, until the
will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
24:13Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
24:14"Bring out of the camp him who cursed;
and let all who heard himl ay their hands on
his head, and let all the congregation stone
him. 24:15You shall speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall
bear his sin. 24:16He who blasphemes the name
of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all
the congregation shall certainly stone him: the
foreigner as well as the native-born, when he
blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
24:17"'He who strikes any man mortally shall
surely be put to death. 24:18He who strikes an
animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
24:19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has
done, so shall it be done to him: 24:20fracture
for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he
has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
24:21He who kills an animal shall make it good;
and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
24:22You shall have one kind of law, for the
foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am
Yahweh your God.'"
24:23Moses spoke to the children of Israel;
and they brought forth himwho had cursed out
of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The
children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
25:1Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
25:2"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
them, 'When you come into the land which I
give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to
Yahweh. 25:3Six years you shall sow your field,
and six years you shall prune your vineyard,
and gather in its fruits; 25:4but in the seventh
year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest
for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall
not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
25:5What grows of itself in your harvest you
shall not reap, and the grapes of your un
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dressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be
a year of solemn rest for the land. 25:6The
Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you;
for yourself, for your servant, for your maid,
for your hired servant, and for your stranger,
who lives as a foreigner with you. 25:7For your
livestock also, and for the animals that are in
your land, shall all its increase be for food.
25:8"'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of
years, seven times seven years; and there shall
be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years,
even forty-nine years. 25:9Then you shall sound
the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the
seventh month. On the Day of Atonement
you shall sound the trumpet throughout all
your land. 25:10You shall make the fiftieth year
holy, and proclaimlib erty throughout the land
to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to
you; and each of you shall return to his own
property, and each of you shall return to his
family. 25:11That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee
to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap
that which grows of itself, nor gather fromthe
undressed vines. 25:12For it is a jubilee; it shall
be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out
of the field.
25:13"'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall
return to his property.
25:14"'If you sell anything to your neighbor,
or buy fromyour neighbor, you shall notwrong
one another. 25:15According to the number of
years after the Jubilee you shall buy fromy our
neighbor. According to the number of years of
the crops he shall sell to you. 25:16According
to the length of the years you shall increase
its price, and according to the shortness of the
years you shall diminish its price; for he is
selling the number of the crops to you. 25:17You
shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear
your God: for I amYahweh your God.
25:18"'Therefore you shall do my statutes,
and keep my ordinances and do them; and you
shall dwell in the land in safety. 25:19The land
shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill,
and dwell therein in safety. 25:20If you said,
"What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold,
we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"
25:21then I will command my blessing on you in
the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for
the three years. 25:22You shall sow the eighth
year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until
the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall
eat the old store.
25:23"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity,
for the land is mine; for you are strangers
and live as foreigners with me. 25:24In all
the land of your possession you shall grant a
redemption for the land.
25:25"'If your brother becomes poor, and
sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman
who is next to himsh all come, and redeem that
which his brother has sold. 25:26If a man has
no one to redeemit , and he becomes prosperous
and finds sufficient means to redeem it;
25:27then let himre ckon the years since its sale,
and restore the surplus to the man to whom
he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
25:28But if he isn't able to get it back for himself,
then what he has sold shall remain in the hand
of himwho has bought it until the Year of
Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released,
and he shall return to his property.
25:29"'If a man sells a dwelling house in a
walled city, then he may redeem it within a
whole year after it has been sold. For a full
year he shall have the right of redemption.
25:30If it isn't redeemed within the space of a
full year, then the house that is in the walled
city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him
who bought it, throughout his generations. It
shall not be released in the Jubilee. 25:31But
the houses of the villages which have no wall
around thems hall be reckoned with the fields
of the country: they may be redeemed, and
they shall be released in the Jubilee.
25:32"'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites,
the houses in the cities of their possession,
the Levites may redeem at any time. 25:33The
Levites may redeem the house that was sold,
and the city of his possession, and it shall be
released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the
cities of the Levites are their possession among
the children of Israel. 25:34But the field of the
suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is
their perpetual possession.
25:35"'If your brother has become poor, and
his hand can't support himam ong you; then
you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a
sojourner he shall live with you. 25:36Take no
interest fromh im or profit, but fear your God;
that your brother may live among you. 25:37You
shall not lend himy our money at interest, nor
give himyou r food for profit. 25:38I amYahweh
your God, who brought you forth out of the
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land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan,
and to be your God.
25:39"'If your brother has grown poor among
you, and sells himself to you; you shall not
make him to serve as a slave. 25:40As a hired
servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
you; he shall serve with you until the Year of
Jubilee: 25:41then he shall go out fromy ou, he
and his children with him, and shall return to
his own family, and to the possession of his
fathers. 25:42For they are my servants, whom
I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They
shall not be sold as slaves. 25:43You shall not
rule over himwi th harshness, but shall fear
your God.
25:44"'As for your male and your female
slaves, whomy ou may have; of the nations
that are around you, fromthe m you may
buy male and female slaves. 25:45Moreover
of the children of the strangers who sojourn
among you, of them you may buy, and of
their families who are with you, which they
have conceived in your land; and they will
be your property. 25:46You may make them
an inheritance for your children after you, to
hold for a possession; of themm ay you take
your slaves forever: but over your brothers the
children of Israel you shall not rule, one over
another, with harshness.
25:47"'If a stranger or sojourner with you
becomes rich, and your brother beside him has
grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger
or foreigner living among you, or to a member
of the stranger's family; 25:48after he is sold he
may be redeemed. One of his brothers may
redeemh im; 25:49or his uncle, or his uncle's
son, may redeem him, or any who is a close
relative to him of his family may redeem him;
or if he has grown rich, he may redeemhimself.
25:50He shall reckon with himw ho bought him
fromthe year that he sold himself to him to
the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale
shall be according to the number of years;
according to the time of a hired servant shall he
be with him. 25:51If there are yet many years,
according to themhe shall give back the price
of his redemption out of the money that he was
bought for. 25:52If there remain but a few years
to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with
him; according to his years of service he shall
give back the price of his redemption. 25:53As
a servant hired year by year shall he be with
him: he shall not rule with harshness over him
in your sight. 25:54If he isn't redeemed by these
means, then he shall be released in the Year of
Jubilee, he, and his children with him. 25:55For
to me the children of Israel are servants; they
are my servants whom I brought forth out of
the land of Egypt. I amYahweh your God.
26:1"'You shall make for yourselves no idols,
neither shall you raise up an engraved image
or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured
stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am
Yahweh your God.
26:2"'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have
reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
26:3"'If you walk in my statutes, and keep
my commandments, and do them; 26:4then I
will give you your rains in their season, and the
land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the
field shall yield their fruit. 26:5Your threshing
shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall
reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your
bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
26:6"'I will give peace in the land, and you
shall lie down, and no one will make you
afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of
the land, neither shall the sword go through
your land. 26:7You shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you by the sword.
26:8Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a
hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and
your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
26:9"'I will have respect for you, and make
you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish
my covenant with you. 26:10You shall eat
old store long kept, and you shall move out
the old because of the new. 26:11I will set my
tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.
26:12I will walk among you, and will be your
God, and you will be my people. 26:13I am
Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out
of the land of Egypt, that you should not be
their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your
yoke, and made you go upright.
26:14"'But if you will not listen to me, and
will not do all these commandments; 26:15and
if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul
abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do
all my commandments, but break my covenant;
26:16I also will do this to you: I will appoint
terror over you, even consumption and fever,
that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul
to pine away; and you will sow your seed in
Leviticus 26:17 108 Leviticus 27:2
vain, for your enemies will eat it. 26:17I will
set my face against you, and you will be struck
before your enemies. Those who hate you will
rule over you; and you will flee when no one
pursues you.
26:18"'If you in spite of these things will not
listen to me, then Iwill chastise you seven times
more for your sins. 26:19I will break the pride of
your power, and I will make your sky like iron,
and your soil like brass; 26:20and your strength
will be spent in vain; for your landwon't yield
its increase, neither will the trees of the land
yield their fruit.
26:21"'If you walk contrary to me, and won't
listen to me, then I will bring seven times more
plagues on you according to your sins. 26:22I
will send the wild animals among you, which
will rob you of your children, destroy your
livestock, and make you few in number; and
your roads will become desolate.
26:23"'If by these things you won't be reformed
to me, but will walk contrary to me;
26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and
I will strike you, even I, seven times for your
sins. 26:25I will bring a sword upon you, that
will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
and you will be gathered together within your
cities: and I will send the pestilence among
you; and you will be delivered into the hand
of the enemy. 26:26When I break your staff
of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in
one oven, and they shall deliver your bread
again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be
satisfied.
26:27"'If you in spite of this won't listen to
me, but walk contrary to me; 26:28then I will
walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will
chastise you seven times for your sins. 26:29You
will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will
eat the flesh of your daughters. 26:30I will
destroy your high places, and cut down your
incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon
the bodies of your idols; and my soul will
abhor you. 26:31I will lay your cities waste, and
will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and
I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance
of your offerings. 26:32I will bring the land
into desolation; and your enemies that dwell
therein will be astonished at it. 26:33I will
scatter you among the nations, and I will draw
out the sword after you: and your land will be
a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
26:34Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as
long as it lies desolate and you are in your
enemies' land. Even then the land will rest
and enjoy its sabbaths. 26:35As long as it lies
desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which
it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived
on it.
26:36"'As for those of you who are left, I will
send a faintness into their hearts in the lands
of their enemies: and the sound of a driven
leaf will put themto flight; and they shall flee,
as one flees fromthe sword; and they will fall
when no one pursues. 26:37They will stumble
over one another, as it were before the sword,
when no one pursues: and you will have no
power to stand before your enemies. 26:38You
will perish among the nations, and the land of
your enemieswill eat you up. 26:39Those of you
who are left will pine away in their iniquity in
your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities
of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
26:40"'If they confess their iniquity, and the
iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which
they trespassed against me, and also that,
because they walked contrary to me, 26:41I
also walked contrary to them, and brought
themi nto the land of their enemies: if then
their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they
then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
26:42then I will remember my covenant with
Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and
also my covenant with Abraham; and I will
remember the land. 26:43The land also will be
left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it
lies desolate without them: and they will accept
the punishment of their iniquity; because, even
because they rejected my ordinances, and their
soul abhorred my statutes. 26:44Yet for all that,
when they are in the land of their enemies,
I will not reject them, neither will I abhor
them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my
covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their
God; 26:45but I will for their sake remember the
covenant of their ancestors, whomI brought
forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of
the nations, that I might be their God. I am
Yahweh.'"
26:46These are the statutes, ordinances and
laws, which Yahweh made between him and
the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
27:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
27:2"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to
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them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons
shall be for Yahweh by your valuation. 27:3Your
valuation shall be of a male from twenty years
old even to sixty years old, even your valuation
shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of
the sanctuary. 27:4If it is a female, then your
valuation shall be thirty shekels. 27:5If the
person is fromfi ve years old even to twenty
years old, then your valuation shall be for
a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten
shekels. 27:6If the person is froma month old
even to five years old, then your valuation shall
be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a
female your valuation shall be three shekels
of silver. 27:7If the person is fromsixt y years
old and upward; if it is a male, then your
valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a
female ten shekels. 27:8But if he is poorer than
your valuation, then he shall be set before the
priest, and the priest shall value him; according
to the ability of himw ho vowed shall the priest
value him.
27:9"'If it is an animal, of which men offer
an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives
of such to Yahweh becomes holy. 27:10He shall
not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or
a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change
animal for animal, then both it and that for
which it is changed shall be holy. 27:11If it is any
unclean animal, ofwhich they do not offer as an
offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal
before the priest; 27:12and the priest shall value
it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest
values it, so shall it be. 27:13But if he will indeed
redeemi t, then he shall add the fifth part of it
to its valuation.
27:14"'When a man dedicates his house to be
holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate
it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest
shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. 27:15If he
who dedicates it will redeemh is house, then
he shall add the fifth part of the money of your
valuation to it, and it shall be his.
27:16"'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of
the field of his possession, then your valuation
shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing
of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty
shekels of silver. 27:17If he dedicates his field
fromt he Year of Jubilee, according to your
valuation it shall stand. 27:18But if he dedicates
his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall
reckon to himthe money according to the years
that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an
abatement shall be made from your valuation.
27:19If he who dedicated the field will indeed
redeemi t, then he shall add the fifth part of
the money of your valuation to it, and it shall
remain his. 27:20If he will not redeemt he field,
or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall
not be redeemed any more; 27:21but the field,
when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to
Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned
by the priests.
27:22"'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field
which he has bought, which is not of the field of
his possession, 27:23then the priest shall reckon
to himthe worth of your valuation up to the
Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation
on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. 27:24In
the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to
himfr om whom it was bought, even to him
to whomt he possession of the land belongs.
27:25All your valuations shall be according to
the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to
the shekel.
27:26"'Only the firstborn among animals,
which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man
may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it
is Yahweh's. 27:27If it is an unclean animal,
then he shall buy it back according to your
valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of
it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to your valuation.
27:28"'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing,
that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he
has, whether of man or animal, or of the field
of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed:
every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
27:29"'No one devoted,who shall be devoted
from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall
surely be put to death.
27:30"'All the tithe of the land, whether of the
seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is
Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh. 27:31If a man
redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a
fifth part to it. 27:32All the tithe of the herds or
the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the
tenth shall be holy to Yahweh. 27:33He shall not
search whether it is good or bad, neither shall
he change it: and if he changes it at all, then
both it and that for which it is changed shall be
holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"
27:34These are the commandments which
Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of
Numbers 1:1 110 Numbers 1:35
Israel on Mount Sinai.
Numbers
1:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness
of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first
day of the second month, in the second year
after they had come out of the land of Egypt,
saying, 1:2"Take a census of all the congregation
of the children of Israel, by their families, by
their fathers' houses, according to the number
of the names, every male, one by one; 1:3from
twenty years old and upward, all who are able
to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall
number them by their divisions. 1:4With you
there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone
head of his fathers' house. 1:5These are the
names of the men who shall stand with you:
Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
1:6Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
1:7Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
1:8Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
1:9Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
1:10Of the children of Joseph:
Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
1:11Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
1:12Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
1:13Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
1:14Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
1:15Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."
1:16These are those who were called of the
congregation, the princes of the tribes of their
fathers; they were the heads of the thousands
of Israel. 1:17Moses and Aaron took these men
who are mentioned by name. 1:18They assembled
all the congregation together on the first
day of the second month; and they declared
their ancestry by their families, by their fathers'
houses, according to the number of the names,
fromtwe nty years old and upward, one by
one. 1:19As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he
numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn,
their generations, by their families, by their
fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, one by one, every male from twenty
years old and upward, all who were able to
go out to war; 1:21those who were numbered
of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six
thousand five hundred.
1:22Of the children of Simeon, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
those who were numbered of it, according to
the number of the names, one by one, every
male from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war; 1:23those who
were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon,
were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
1:24Of the children of Gad, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go out to war; 1:25those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were
forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
1:26Of the children of Judah, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go out to war; 1:27those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were
sixty-four thousand six hundred.
1:28Of the children of Issachar, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go out to war; 1:29those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were
fifty-four thousand four hundred.
1:30Of the children of Zebulun, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go out to war; 1:31those who were numbered
of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were
fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 1:32Of the
children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim,
their generations, by their families, by their
fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war; 1:33those
who were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
1:34Of the children of Manasseh, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers'
houses, according to the number of the names,
fromtwe nty years old and upward, all who
were able to go out to war; 1:35those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh,
were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Numbers 1:36 111 Numbers 2:14
1:36Of the children of Benjamin, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers'
houses, according to the number of the names,
fromtwe nty years old and upward, all who
were able to go out to war; 1:37those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin,
were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
1:38Of the children of Dan, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go forth to war; 1:39those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
1:40Of the children of Asher, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go forth to war; 1:41those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were
forty-one thousand five hundred.
1:42Of the children of Naphtali, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go forth to war; 1:43those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali,
were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
1:44These are those who were numbered,
whomM oses and Aaron numbered, and the
princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were
each one for his fathers' house. 1:45So all those
who were numbered of the children of Israel
by their fathers' houses, fromtwe nty years
old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war in Israel; 1:46even all those who were
numbered were six hundred three thousand
five hundred fifty. 1:47But the Levites after
the tribe of their fathers were not numbered
among them. 1:48For Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, 1:49"Only the tribe of Levi you shall
not number, neither shall you take a census
of themam ong the children of Israel; 1:50but
appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the
Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and
over all that belongs to it. They shall carry
the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they
shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
1:51When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites
shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is
to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The
stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
1:52The children of Israel shall pitch their tents,
every man by his own camp, and every man by
his own standard, according to their divisions.
1:53But the Levites shall encamp around the
Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be
no wrath on the congregation of the children of
Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for
the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
1:54